GramHealth

Publications

Journal

  1. Paul P, Bouh MM, Shah MV, Hossain F, Ahmed A. “Investigating Sibilant Fricative Representation in Bangla Telemedicine Speech: A Cost-Aware Sampling Rate Optimization Study”. [Journal/Conference Not Found], 2026.

  2. Yasuoka J, Takeshita Y, Okada S, Prodhan MDRA, Shibanuma A, Nanishi K, Sato Y, Hossain MZ, Aman M, Karim F, Razia S, Rezwana R, Rahman MM, Jahan N, Nakashima N, Islam R, Kikuchi K. “Oral health care during pregnancy to prevent preterm birth and low birth weight: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial”. Trials 27, 35, 2025.12.

  3. Nesnawy S, Islam R, Nishikitani M, Ahmed A, Kikuchi K, Aboelmaged A, Nakashima N. “Digital Health Technologies in Low-Income Countries: Bridging Gaps in Personalized Preventive Care Through Telemedicine, Electronic Health Records, and AI-Driven Nursing Informatics”. Proceedings of Int’l Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES), Vol. 11, pp 913-920, 2025.10.

  4. Islam RM, Ahmed A, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Lasimbang, HB, Lazuardi L, Shah F, Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic for Digital Health: Current Practices and Opportunities”. Proceedings of MED-INFO 2025.08, Taiwan, 2025.

  5. Islam RM, Tou S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Islam R, Ahmed, Ashir, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “An evaluation of the commonly used portable medical sensors performance in comparison to clinical test results for telehealth systems”. Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, V5, 2024.03. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100147

  6. Hossain F, Islam R, Osugi T, Shah F, Mine T, Nakashima N, Ahmed A. “Concept of Micro Healthcare Entrepreneurship (MHE) to facilitate Universal Health Coverage (UHC): Prospects and Challenges”. Journal of Sustainability, 2024.03. DOI: 10.3390/su16062268

  7. Yokota F, Anai A, Lazuardi L, Majid N, Wulandari H, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Ikeda S, Ahmed A, Islam RM, Nakashima N. “Mask-Wearing Behavior Among Individuals Newly Diagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes: Insights From Community Health Screenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia”. Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement (Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat), Vol. 10, No. 1, pp 30-37, 2024.03.

  8. Islam R, Tou S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Ikeda S, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of Portable Medical Devices - A Comparative Study of Blood Glucose Sensors and Cholesterol Sensors”. Japan Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol 43, Supplement, pp 521-526, 2023.11.

  9. Islam R, Tou S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Islam R, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of the Commonly-used Portable Cholesterol Sensors for Telehealth Services in the Unreached Communities”. Ebook: MEDINFO 2023: The Future Is Accessible, International Medical Informatics (IMIA) and IOS Press, 2023. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI230977

  10. Wulandari H, Lazuardi L, Majid N, Yokota F, Sanjaya GY, Dewi TS, Meliala A, Islam R, Nakashima N. “Potential Improvement in a Portable Health Clinic for Community Health Service to Control Non-Communicable Diseases in Indonesia”. Open Access: Applied Sciences 2023 (Medical Intelligence with Interoperability and Standard (APAMI 2022)), Volume 13, Issue 3, 1623. Doi: 10.3390/app13031623

  11. Pang N, Lasimbang HB, Hijazi MHA, Hamild MNB, Dris MAB, Shoesmith W, Islam RM, Nakashima N, Yokota F. “HUMS Ohidas Toolkit, the PHC, and HUMS Tanya Pakar: A multi-level, vertically integrated digital health Promotion, Primary Prevention and telemedicine provision programme”, Azerbaijan Medical Journal, Volume 62, Issue 07, pp 3053-3062, 2022.09.

  12. Rahman MJ, Rahman MM, Matsuyama R, Tsunematsu M, Islam R, Ahmed A, Banu B, Hossain SM, Sarker MHR, Monjur F, Roshid MM, Islam MR, Kakehashi M. “Feasibility and acceptability of telepathology system among the rural communities of Bangladesh: A pilot study”, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Vol 11, Issue 6, pp 2613-2619, 2022.06.

  13. Kikuchi K, Islam R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Izukura R, Jahan N, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Sultana N, Nessa M, Nasir M, Ahmed A, Kato K, Morokuma S, Nakashima N. Telehealth Care for Mothers and Infants to Improve the Continuum of Care: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study, JMIR Research Protocols, Vol. 11, Iss. 12, (e41586), 2022.

  14. Islam R, Yokota F, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R, Rahman MM, Chowdhury MR, Ahmed A, Nakashima N. “Portable health clinic COVID-19 system for remote patient follow-up ensuring clinical safety”. Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2 (2022). Doi: 10.1016/j.cmpbup.2022.100061

  15. Kikuchi K, Islam R, Nishikitani M, Sato Y, Izukura R, Yokota F, Khan Jahan NK, Nessa M, Ahmed A, Morokuma S, Nakashima N. “Women’s health status before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural Bangladesh: A prospective longitudinal study”. PLoS ONE 17(5): (2022). Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266141

  16. Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R, Nishikitani M, Kato K, Morokuma S, Nessa M, Nohara Y, Yokota F, Ahmed A, Islam RM, Nakashima N. “Portable health clinic for sustainable care of mothers and newborns in rural Bangladesh”. Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 207 (2021). Doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106156.

  17. Chowdhury R, Yokota F, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Tasneem R, Kikuchi K, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nohara Y, Nakashima N. “Monitoring seasonal differences in non-communicable disease outcomes using telemedicine and health checkups in Bangladesh”. [Journal/Conference Not Found], 2021.
  18. Yokota F, Biyani M, Islam R, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Izukura R, Nohara Y, Nakashima N. “Co-design, Co-production, and Co-evaluation Processes for a Mobile Health Check-Up Research Project in Jaipur, India: A Case Study of the Portable Health Clinic, 2016–2020”. Decision Science for Future Earth: Theory and Practice, 2021.
  19. Sun X, Yokota F, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Nakashima N. “The history, applications of telemedicine and prospects for COVID-19 triage”. [Journal/Conference Not Found], 2021.

  20. Sampa MB, Hossain MN, Hoque MR, Islam R, Islam RM, Yokota F, Nishikitani M, Ahmed A. “Blood Uric Acid Prediction Model through Machine Learning Approaches”. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 8(10):e18331. 2020.

  21. Sampa MB, Hoque MR, Islam R, Nishikitani M, Nakashima N, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Rahman MM, Shah F, Ahmed A. “Redesigning Portable Health Clinic Platform as a Remote Healthcare System to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic Situation in Unreached Communities”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17,4709. 2020.

  22. Hasan M, Yokota F, Islam R, Hisazumi K, Fukuda A, Ahmed A. “A Predictive Model for Height Tracking in an Adult Male Population in Bangladesh to Reduce Input Errors”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17,1806;2020. doi:10.3390/ijerph17051806.

  23. Sampa MB, Hossain MN, Hoque MR, Islam R, Yokota F, Nishikitani M, Fukuda A, Ahmed A. “Influence of factors on the adoption and use of ICT-based eHealth technology by urban corporate people”. Journal of Service Science and Management. 13:1-19.2020.

  24. Ahmed A, Hasan M, Sampa MB, Hossein KM, Nohara Y, Nakashima N. “Portable health clinic: Concept, design, implementation and challenges”. [Journal/Conference Not Found], 2020.

  25. Hossain N, Sampa MB, Yokota F, Fukuda A and Ahmed A. “Factors Affecting Rural Patients’ Primary Compliance with e-Prescription: A Developing Country Perspective”, Telemedicine and e-Health, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 391-398, 2019.

  26. Hasan M, Islam R, Yokota F, Nishikitani M, Fukuda A and Ahmed A. “Growth Characteristics of Age and Gender-based Anthropometric Data from Human Assisted Remote Healthcare System”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.10(3):615-619.2019.

  27. Hossain N, Okajima H, Kitaoka H, Yokota F and Ahmed A. “eHealth Consumer Behavior”. Behavior Engineering and Applications, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76430-6_6

  28. Islam R, Nohara Y, Rahman MJ, Sultana N, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic: An Advanced Tele-Healthcare System for Unreached Communities”, Ebook: MEDINFO 2019: Health & Wellbeing e-Network for All, Volume 264, 416-419, 2019.08.

  29. Yokota F, Biyani M, Islam R, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Nohara Y, Nakashima N. “Lessons learned from co-design and co-production in a portable health clinic research project in Jaipur District, India (2016-2018)”. Sustainability. 10 (11): 4148. 2018.

  30. Hossain N, Yokota F, Sultana N, Ahmed A. “Factors Influencing Rural End-Users’ Acceptance of e-Health in Developing Countries: A study on Portable Health Clinic in Bangladesh”, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2018.0039

  31. Yokota F, Ahmed A, Islam R, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Nohara Y, Okajima H, Kitaoka H, Nakashima N. “The relationship and risk factors associated with hypertension, diabetes, and proteinuria among adults from Bheramara Upazila, Bangladesh: Findings from Portable Health Clinic Data, 2013-2016”. International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences. 7 (2): 1-12. 2018.

  32. Furukawa Y, Yokota F, Islam R, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Ahmed A, Nakashima N. “School-based educational intervention to improve children’s oral health-related behaviors in rural Bangladesh”. South East Asia Journal of Public Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/seajph.v7i2.38853, 7(2):27-33, 2018.11.

  33. Kikuchi K, Yasuoka J, Nanishi K, Ahmed A, Nohara Y, Nishikitani M, Yokota F, Mizutani T, Nakashima N. “Postnatal care could be the key to improving the continuum of care in maternal and child health in Ratanakiri, Cambodia”. PLoS One, e0198829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198829. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29889894, 11;13(6), 2018.06.

  34. Hu M, Nohara Y, Wakata Y, Ahmed A, Nakashima N, Nakamura M. “Machine Learning Based Prediction of Non-Communicable Diseases to Improving Intervention Program in Bangladesh”. European Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 14(4), 20-28, 2018.06.

  35. Kikuchi K, Ayer R, Okawa S, Nishikitani M, Yokota F, Jimba M, Nakashima N. “Interventions integrating non-communicable disease prevention and reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: A systematic review”. BioScience Trends, 12(2):116-125, 2018.04.

  36. Hossain N, Yokota F, Sultana N, Ahmed A. “Factors Influencing Rural End-Users’ Acceptance of e-Health in Developing Countries: A study on Portable Health Clinic in Bangladesh”, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2018.0039

  37. Hossain N, Yokota F, Fukuda A, Ahmed A. “Predicting rural patients use of eHealth through supervised machine learning algorithms: A study on Portable Health Clinic in Bangladesh (Preprint)”. [Journal/Conference Not Found], 2018.

  38. Hu M, Nohara Y, Nakamura M and Nakashima N. “Prediction and Factor Extraction of Drug Function by Analyzing Medical Records in Developing Countries”. Ebook: MED-INFO2017: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 978-1-61499-830-3-403, 403-407, 2018.01.

  39. Hossain N; Okajima H, Kitaoka H, Ahmed A. “Consumer acceptance of eHealth among rural inhabitants in developing countries (A Study on Portable Health Clinic in Bangladesh)”. Procedia Computer Science, 2017.
  40. Ahmed A, Nakashima N, Osugi T. “PHC (ポータブル・ヘルス・クリニック) システムの地域適応性検証のための調査研究”. 電気通信普及財団研究調査助成報告書 (Web), 2017 Technical Report.
  41. Hu M, Sugimoto M, Hargrave AR, Nohara Y, Moriyama M, Ahmed A, Shimizu S, Nakashima N. “Mobile Healthcare System for Health Checkups and Telemedicine in Post-Disaster Situations”, Ebook: MED-INFO2015: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 216:79-83, 2015.08.

  42. Nohara Y, Kai E, Ghosh P, Islam R, Ahmed A, Kuroda M, Inoue S, Hiramatsu T, Kimura M, Shimizu S, Kobayashi K, Baba Y, Kashima H, Tsuda K, Sugiyama M, Blondel M, Ueda N, Kitsuregawa M, Nakashima N. “Health Checkup and Telemedical Intervention Program for Preventive Medicine in Developing Countries: Verification Study”, Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol. 17, No.1 (2015), 2015.01.

  43. Ahmed A, Hargrave AR, Nohara Y, Kai E, Ripon ZH, Nakashima N. “Targeting morbidity in unreached communities using Portable Health Clinic System”, IEICE Trans. Special Issue on Information and Communication Technology for Medical and Healthcare Applications, No.3, pp.540-545 (2014), E97-B, 2014.

  44. Kuroda M, Fukahori M. “Affordable M2M enabled e-health using standard BAN technology”. 2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference (HIC), 2014.

  45. Nohara Y, Nakashima N, Ahmed A, Kuroda M, Inoue S, Ghosh P, Islam RM, Hiramatsu  T. “Portable Health Clinic Packages for Base of Pyramid”. MEDINFO 2013 Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, 2013.

      

Conference Proceedings

  1. Islam R. “Portable Health Clinics (PHC) - An Innovative Telehealth System for Sustainable Healthcare Services in the Developing World”. 13th Sylhet University of Science & Technology (SUST) Annual Conference, November 11-13, 2025, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

  2. Islam R, Kikuchi K, Lasimbank HB, Okayasu T, Musa O, Tomimatsu S, Nakashima N. “Facing Realities in Maternal and Child Health Care: Solutions for Developing Nations”. Special Session, 7th Int’l Conf on Healthcare, SDGs and Social Business, October 2-4, 2025, Hiroshima, Japan.

  3. Islam R. “Accuracy and Reliability Studies of the Portable Medical Devices for Telehealth Services”. 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), Aug 20-22, Yokohama, Japan.

  4. Islam R, To S, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “Deploying Portable Medical Sensors in Resource-Limited Countries: Telehealth Quality and Implementation Challenges”. Med-Info 2025, Aug 9-13, Taipei, Taiwan.

  5. Islam R. “Listening from Japanese Professors on the Healthcare Innovation for the Developing Countries”. Special Seminar, Jagannath University, Aug 31, 2025, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  6. Islam R. “Innovating Telehealth for Underserved Communities: The Impact and Limitations of Portable Medical Sensors”. 60th Asia Pacific Advanced Network Meeting (APAN60), Jul 28 – Oct 1, 2025, Hong Kong.

  7. Islam R. “Portable Health Clinic - An Affordable, Usable and Sustainable Telehealth System for Unreached  Communities”. ADB 1st INclusive, Sustainable, Prosperous and REsilient

    (INSPIRE) Health Forum, Jul 7-11, 2025, Manila, Philippines.

  8. Islam R, To S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Ikeda S, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of Portable Medical Devices: A Comparative Study of Hemoglobin and Uric Acid Sensors”. 44th Joint Conference .on Medical Informatics (JCMI-2024), November 21-24, 2024, Fukuoka, Japan.
  9. Jahan N, Kikuchi K, Yuandong H, Lazuardi L, Lasimbang HB, Carraway TS, Islam R, Nakashima N. “PHC activities in different countries: The current status and challenges”. Special Panel Session, Q-AOS Asia Week 2024, November 8, 2024, Fukuoka, Japan
  10. Islam R. “Performance Evaluation of the Commonly-used Portable Uric Acid Sensors in Comparison to Japanese Clinical Test Results”. 13th Biennial Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI-2024), October 1-2, 2024, Manila, Philippines.
  11. Islam R, To S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Jahan N, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M and Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of Commonly Used Portable Hemoglobin Sensors in Comparison to Clinical Test Results”. 34th Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE-2024), Aug 25-29, 2024, Athens, Greece. doi:10.3233/SHTI240436
  12. Kikuchi K, Lasimbang HB, Kodaira Y, Okayasu T, Kudo K, Islam R, Nakashima N. “Innovation Approaches in Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Around the Developing World”. Panel Session, SocialTech Summit 2024, 7th Int’l Conference on Healthcare, SDGs and Social Business, April 18-20, Hiroshima, Japan
  13. Islam R, Tou S, Sato Y, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “ポータブル医療機器の性能評価に関する研究： 血糖値測定機器の比較研究”. 8th Annual Conference of the Japanese Human Data Society of Diabetes and Related Diseases, 2023.12
  14. Islam R, Tou S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Ikeda S, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M, Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of Portable Medical Devices - A Comparative Study of Blood Glucose Sensors and Cholesterol Sensors”. Japan Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol 43, Supplement, pp 521-526, 2023.11
  15. Islam R, Tou S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Islam R, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M and Nakashima N. “Performance Evaluation of the Commonly-used Portable Cholesterol Sensors for Telehealth Services in the Unreached Communities”. Ebook: MEDINFO 2023: The Future Is Accessible, International Medical Informatics (IMIA) and IOS Press, 2023. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI230977
  16. Islam R, To S, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Yokota F, Ikeda S, Chowdhury R, Ahmed A, Miyazaki M and Nakashima N. "Establishing an Evaluation Platform of Portable Medical Sensors for Telehealth Systems", APAMI2022, Taiwan, 2022.10
  17. Islam R, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R, Nishikitani M, Jahan N, Nessa M, Yokota F, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic System for Maternal and Child Health Care in COVID-19 Pandemic Situation”. ICIMTH-2022, Greece, 2022.07
  18. Islam R, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Nishikitani M, Izukura R, Sato Y, Rahman M, Sultana N, Nessa M , Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Standardization of Personal Health Records in the Portable Health Clinic System”. The Int`l Medical Informatics CONGRESS (MED-INFO2021), One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press (2022). doi:10.3233/SHTI220053
  19. Islam R, Kikuchi K, Sato Y , Izukura R , Jahan N, Sultana N , Nessa M, Yokota F , Nishikitani M, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Maternal and Child Healthcare Service by Portable Health Clinic System Using a Triage Protocol”. Nurses and Midwives in the Digital Age. International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) & IOS Press (2021). Doi: 10.3233/SHTI210684
  20. Maruf RI, Rahman M, Sultana N, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R, Nishikitani M, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “COVID-19 System in Portable Health Clinic for Patient Follow-up Ensuring Clinical Safety of Both Patients and Health Workers”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020), 98, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  21. Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R, Nishikitani M, Kato K, Morokuma S, Nessa M, Nohara Y, Yokota F, Ahmed A, Maruf RI and Nakasima N. “Portable Health Clinic for Sustainable Care of Mothers and Newborns in Rural Bangladesh”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020), Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  22. Yokota F, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Maruf RI, Izukura R, Chowdhury R, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Nohara Y and Nakashima N. “Comparisons of Anthropometric Indices for Predicting Type 2 Diabetes Among Participants in Telemedicine and Health Checkups in Bangladesh”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020), 138-143, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  23. Pang N, Lasimbang HB, Hijazi MHA, Hamild MNB, Dris MAB, Shoesmith W, Yokota F, Maruf RI and Nakashima N. “OHIDAS Toolkit, the PHC, and Tanya Pakar: A Multi-level, Vertically Integrated Digital Health Promotion, Primary Prevention and Telemedicine Provision Programme”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020) Proceedings, 120-124, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  24. Tabassum S, Sampa MB, Maruf RI, Yokota F, Nakashima N and Ahmed A. “An Analysis on Remote Healthcare Data for Future Health Risk Prediction to Reduce Health Management Cost”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020), 115-119, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  25. Nishikitani M, Nohara Y, Maruf RI, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Ahmed A, Sultana N and Nakashima N. “Effects of Renal Dysfunction on the Improvement of Anemia in Bangladesh: An Epidemiological Analysis of Health Checkup Data with ICT Intervention”. The Int’l Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2020) Proceedings, 144-148, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2020.11
  26. Islam R, Nohara Y, Rahman MJ, Sultana N, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic: An Advanced Tele-Healthcare System for Unreached Communities”. The Int`l Medical Informatics CONGRESS (MED-INFO2019), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 616-619, 2019.08
  27. Hoque R, Sorwar G, Ahmed A and Islam R. “Development of Mobile Based In-Home Patient Monitoring System for the Management of Chronic Disease of Indigenous Communities in a Developing Country”. Springer, Cham, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21935-2_27
  28. Islam R, Nohara Y, Sultana N, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic- For Reaching the Unreached Communities with a Telemedicine System”. The 3rd World Congress on Public Health and Health Care Management, Dubai, UAE, 2019.04
  29. Islam R, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. "The Portable Health Clinic: An Innovative Tele-healthcare System for Unreached Communities". The 7th Annual Congress: Primary Healthcare, Nursing & Neonetal Screening, Vancouver, Canada, 2018.07
  30. Islam R, Rahman MJ, Ahmed A and Nakashima N. "GramHealth: Tele-Pathology System for PHC Telemedicine Service". The 4th Digital Pathology CONGRESS: ASIA, Tokyo, 2018.05
  31. Hu M, Nohara Y, Nakamura M and Nakashima N. “Prediction and Factor Extraction of Drug Function by Analyzing Medical Records in Developing Countries”. The Int’l Medical Informatics CONGRESS (MED-INFO2017). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 978-1-61499-830-3-403, 403-407, 2018.01
  32. Khan TR, Hossein KM, Islam R, Fukuda A and Ahmed A. “Measurement of Illness and Wellness Score of Non-Communicable Disease Patients”. The IEEE TENCON. Penang, Malaysia, 2017.11
  33. Hasan M, Wang J, Hossain I, Islam R and Ahmed A. “Errors in Remote Healthcare Data and a Suitable Algorithm to Detect Them: A Case Study of Portable Health Clinic, Bangladesh”. The 1st International Conference on Healthcare, SDGs and Social Business, pp. 17-18, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.02
  34. Sheikh A, Ahmed A and Islam R. “Improving the Performance of the Tele-healthcare System by Detecting and Fixing Medical Errors”. The 1st Conference on HealthCare, SDG & Social Business Proceeding, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.02
  35. Yokota F, Ahmed A, Kikuchi K, Nishikitani M, Islam R and Nakashima N. ”Diabetes, obesity, and hypertension in Bheramara Kushtia District, Bangladesh - Results from Portable Health Clinic Data, 2013-2016“. Social Business Academia Conference 2016 Proceeding, Paris, France, 2016.11
  36. Baba Y, Kashima H, Nohara Y, Kai E, Ghosh PP, Islam R, Ahmed A, Kuroda M, Inoue S, Hiramatsu T, Kimura M, Shimizu S, Kobayashi K, Tsuda K, Sugiyama M, Blondel M, Ueda N, Kitsuregawa M and Nakashima N. “Predictive Approaches for Low-Cost Preventive Medicine Program in Developing Countries”. KDD'15, 10.1145/2783258.2788587, 1681-1690, 2015.08
  37. Hu M, Sugimoto M, Hargrave AR, Nohara Y, Moriyama M, Ahmed A, Shimizu S and Nakashima N. “Health Checkup and Telemedicine System in Post-Disaster Situations”. Japanese Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 11(2):135-138, 2015.05
  38. Hargrave AR, Ahmed A, Nakashima N and Ghosh PP. “Telehealth for Low Resource Unreached Communities”. Third International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers(JEC-ECC2015), 1-2, 2015.03
  39. Hargrave AR, Nakajima H, Ahmed A, Obayashi K, Nakashima N, Kuwabara M, Islam R and Shiga T. “Investigation into Blood Pressure Variability in Japan and Bangladesh by ICT based Healthcare Systems”. The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2014), 1027-1032, 2014.11
  40. Kuroda M, Akaoka Y, Koga Y, Nohara Y, Nakashima N,Ghosh PP, Maruf RI, Ahmed A. “Reverse standardization from public e-health service”. Proceedings of the 2014 ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Living in a Converged World - Impossible Without Standards? 135-142, 2014.06
  41. Kai E, Hargrave AR, Inoue S, Nohara Y, Islam R, Nakashima N and Ahmed A. “Empowering the healthcare worker using the Portable Health Clinic”. The 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications 2014, 10.1109/AINA.2014.108, 759-764, 2014.05
  42. Ahmed A, Hargrave AR, Nohara Y, Kai E, Ripon ZH and Nakashima N. “Targeting Morbidity in Unreached Communities Using Portable Health Clinic System”. IEICE Trans Commun , 10.1587/transcom.E97.13.540, E97-B, (3):540-545, 2014.03
  43. Ghose PP, Islam R, Nakashima N, Nohara Y, Ahmed A and Shimizu S. “Effectiveness of Preventive Healthcare through Telemedicine in Bangladesh. The 18th ISfTeH International Conference”, Japan, 2013.10
  44. Nohara Y, Nakashima N, Ahmed A, Kuroda M, Inoue S, Ghosh PP, Islam R, Hiramatsu T, Kobayashi K, Inoguchi T and Kitsuregawa M. “Portable Health Clinic Packages for BoP”. World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, 1268 , 2013.08
  45. Ahmed A, Inoue S, Kai E, Nakashima N and Yasunobu N. “Portable Health Clinic: A pervasive way to serve the unreached community for preventive healthcare”. Springer LNCS, 8028,265-274, 2013.07
  46. Nakashima N, Hiramatsu T, Ghosh PP, Islam R, Kobayashi K, Inoguchi T.　“Evaluation of "Portable Health Clinic" with BAN standard for 10K subjects in Bangladesh”.　35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 1672-1675, Japan, 2013.07
  47. Ahmed A, Osugi T, Islam R and Nakashima N. “Evolution of remote health-consultancy over mobile phone”. The 2013 IEICE General Conference, Japan, 2013.03
  48. Nakashima N, Nohara Y, Ahmed A, Kuroda M, Inoue S, Ghosh PP, Islam R, Hiramatsu T, Kobayashi K, Inoguchi T and Kitsuregawa M. “An Affordable, Usable and Sustainable Preventive Healthcare System for Unreached People in Bangladesh”. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics , 1051, 2013.01
  49. Sampa, Masuda Begum; Hossain, Md Nazmul; Hoque, Rakibul; Islam, Rafiqul; Yokota, Fumihiko; Nishikitani, Mariko; Fukuda, Akira; Ahmed, Ashir. “A framework of longitudinal study to understand determinants of actual use of the portable health clinic system”. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019.
  50. Rabbani, K Siddique-e; Al Amin, Abdullah; Tarafdar, Zihad; Yousuf, Md Abu; Bodiuzzaman, AKM; Khan, Ahmad Imtiaz; Chowdhury, Papia; Hussain, Kamrul; Sufian, Shahed Md Abu; Ahmad, Maruf. “Dhaka University Telemedicine Programme, targeting healthcare-deprived rural population of Bangladesh and other low resource countries”. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019.
  51. Yokota, Fumihiko; Ahmed, Ashir. “Differences in Relationships and Risk Factors Associated with Hypertension, Diabetes, and Proteinuria Among Urban and Rural Adults in Bangladesh: -Findings from Portable Health Clinic Research Project 2013–2018”. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019.
  52. Islam, Rafiqul; Kikuchi, Kimiyo; Sato, Yoko; Izukura, Rieko; Yokota, Fumihiko; Nishikitani, Mariko; Tasneem, Raisa; Sultana, Nazneen; Ahmed, Ashir; Nakashima, Naoki. “Personal Health Record (PHR) system in portable health clinic”. Digital Personalized Health and Medicine: Proceedings of MIE 2020, 2020.
  53. Imamura, Yosuke; Abedin, Nuren; Sixian, Luo; Tabassum, Shaira; Ahmed, Ashir. “Missing value imputation for remote healthcare data: a case study of portable health clinic system”. 2021 9th International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computations (JAC-ECC), 2021.

Books

    Book Chapters

    1. Islam R, Ahmed A, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nishikitani M, Nohara Y and Nakashima N. “e-Health and Telemedicine”. The Bangladesh Story. Chapter IX.5. Springer. 2021
    2. Islam R, Ahmed A, Yokota F, Kikuchi K, Nishikitani M, Izukura R, Sato Y, Nohara Y and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic as a Telemedicine System with Appropriate Technologies for Unreached Communities”. Global Telehealth 2021 eBook, doi: 10.3233/SHTI210028.
    3. Yokota F, Biyani M, Islam R, Ahmed A, Nishikitani M, Kikuchi K, Izukura R, Nohara Y and Nakashima N. “Co-design, co-production, and co-evaluation processes for a mobile health check-up research project in Jaipur India: Case study of the Portable Health Clinic, 2016-2020. Decision Science for Future Earth: Theory and Practice”. Chapter 3, Springer. ISBN:9789811586316. 2021
    4. Ahmed A, Hasan M, Sampa MB, Hossein KM, Nohara Y and Nakashima N. “Portable Health Clinic: Concept, Design, Implementation and Challenges”. Healthcare Technologies Series 24. Chapter 7. IET Book.ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-047-0, pp 103-121, 2020.10
    5. Islam R, Kikuchi K, Sato Y, Izukura R and Nishikitani M. “Modular expansion of PHC in Bangladesh”. Healthcare Technologies Series 24. Chapter 8. IET Book.ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-047-0, pp 123-143, 2020.10
    6. Yokota F, Biyani M, Hu Y, Kikuchi K, Shah F, Yasuoka J, Nanishi K, Alcoba R and Noureen A. “PHC and Case Studies of Remote Healthcare Services in Asian Countries”. Healthcare Technologies Series 24. Chapter 9. IET Book.ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-047-0, pp 145-163, 2020.10
    7. Nakashima N, Hu Y, Islam R and Ahmed A. “Personal health record in Japan, China, and Bangladesh”. Healthcare Technologies Series 24. Chapter 10. IET Book.ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-047-0, pp 165-177, 2020.10
    8. Ahmed A, Hargrave AR, Nohara Y, Islam R, Ghosh PP, Nakashima N and Hiroto Y. “Portable Health Clinic: A Telehealthcare System for Unreached Communities”. Smart Sensors and Systems, pp. 447-467, 2015.01
    9. Ahmed, Ashir; Rebeiro-Hargrave, Andrew; Islam, Rafiqul; Inoue, Sozo; Nakashima, Naoki. “Applicability of portable health clinic to ageing society”. International Conference on Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions, 2014.
    10. Ahmed, Ashir; Rebeiro-Hargrave, Andrew; Nohara, Yasunobu; Maruf, Rafiqul Islam; Ghosh, Partha Pratim; Nakashima, Naoki; Yasuura, Hiroto. “Portable health clinic: A telehealthcare system for unreached communities”. Smart sensors and systems, 2015.

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