Browsing by Author "Vintimilla Tapia, Paul Esteban"

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Development of a mobile application for the integral care and attention of elderly people
(Springer, 2020) Vintimilla Tapia, Paul Esteban; Bravo Torres, Jack Fernando; Tamariz Ordoñez, Pablo Esteban; Abad Salinas, Yulissa Raquel; Serrano Paredes, Karina De lourdes; Pacheco Sarmiento, Jenny Alexandra; Salazar Montesdeoca, Sandra Cecilia
In recent years, the number of people reaching stages of ageing has increased considerably, reflecting a serious public problem. It is not enough to reach long ages, but to guarantee the integral care and attention of each individual. Thus, taking into consideration the difficulties faced by the elderly, States implement social security programs that seek to support their development. Ecuador follows this trend and presents proposals that address a number of fundamental rights, which are considered priority health care services. Although the measures implemented maintain the health, this reality changes when moving from an urban to a rural scenario. This is justified by the fact that in Ecuador, specialists who care for the elderly constantly change their location and, therefore, their patients, rather than maintaining a non-standardized data record on paper, causing inefficiency and waste of time. For these reasons, this article explains a proposal for a mobile application that seeks to standardize and digitalize the collection of medical data from the elderly in rural areas in order to increase the efficiency of current medical processes. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Ecuadorian mass media on Twitter during the 30-S
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Cevallos Ludeña, Cinthya Maria; Bravo Torres, Jack Fernando; Vintimilla Tapia, Paul Esteban; Ordoñez Morales, Esteban Fernando; Leon Paredes, Gabriel Alejandro; Gallegos Segovia, Pablo Leonidas
Internet and the massive deployment of mobile and wireless communication systems and devices are generating new digital environments that are drastically changing the way in which social ideas and debates are produced, accessed and disseminated. Online social networks are becoming the virtual public spheres by which the social and political events of this network society are being debated. Given this new digital and technological context, many researchers are questioning the processes of dissemination of the information generated into these virtual social structures and the validity of the traditional models of media influence in these environments. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical analysis of the dissemination of information on Twitter produced by two large Ecuadorian newspapers: 'El Universo' (private newspaper) and 'El Telégrafo' (public newspaper) during events of police insubordination on 30th September 2010. The results show that, given the restrictions imposed that day by the Ecuadorian government on the news broadcast from the private media, Twitter became on a space of diffusion and access of citizens to alternative views. In addition, it was observed that the information emitted during the 30-S by these newspapers, presented a structure of diffusion in multiple stages and multiple directions. © 2019 IEEE.