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Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (3 Volumes)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2, ISBN13: 9781609605612, ISBN10: 1609605616, EISBN13: 9781609605629
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Modern technological advances in medicine are not restricted to treatments, but rather have revolutionized the entire application of healthcare from finding a doctor to executing a treatment.

Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications provides an exhaustive chronicling of these changes through the compiled research of hundreds of scholars. This multi-volume book delves into the many applications of information technology ranging from digitizing patient records to high-performance computing, to medical imaging and diagnostic technologies. Technological advancements have begun turning potential breakthroughs into established applications across the field of healthcare, as demonstrated by these volumes. The importance of healthcare cannot be overstated, making this work vital to everyone involved in creating the future of medicine.

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1.
Eddy M.M. Adang (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Proven cost-effectiveness of innovative technologies is more and more a necessary condition for implementation in clinical practice. But proven cost-effectiveness it... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stefane Kabene (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Melody Wolfe (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
The integration of technology into health care has created both advantages and disadvantages for patients, providers, and healthcare systems alike. This chapter exam... Sample PDF | More details...
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Francesco Paolucci (The Australian National University, Australia), Henry Ergas (Concept Economics, Australia), Terry Hannan (Australian College of Health Informatics, Australia), Jos Aarts (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Health care is complex and there are few sectors that can compare to it in complexity and in the need for almost instantaneous information management and access to k... Sample PDF | More details...
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David Wiljer (University Health Network, Canada), Sara Urowitz (University Health Network, Canada), Erin Jones (University Health Network, Canada)
We have long passed through the information age into an information perfusion in health care, and new strategies for managing it are emerging. The ubiquity of health... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anastasius Moumtzoglou (Hellenic Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare and P. & A. Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Greece)
E-health has widely revolutionized medicine, creating subspecialties that include medical image technology, computer aided surgery, and minimal invasive intervention... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nina Godson (Coventry University, UK), Adrian Bromage (Coventry University, UK)
The use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and smartphones (combined mobile telephone and PDA) in Nurse Education is a relatively new development, in its infancy.... Sample PDF | More details...
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D. Chon Abraham (College of William and Mary, USA)
Much of healthcare improvement via technology initiatives address gaining physician by-in (Reinertsen, 2005) and does not adequately address engaging nurses, despite... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anastasia N. Kastania (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece & Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece)
The electronic healthcare in the modern society has the possibility of converting the practice of delivery of health care. Currently, chaos of information is charact... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yousuf J. Ahmad (Mercy Health Partners, USA), Vijay V. Raghavan (Northern Kentucky University, USA), William Benjamin Martz Jr. (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) can provide an impetus to a greater degree of overall adoption of Information Technology (IT) in many healthcare organiza... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kendall Ho (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Because of the rapid growth of health evidence and knowledge generated through research, and growing complexity of the health system, clinical care gaps increasingly... Sample PDF | More details...
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Aviv Shachak (University of Toronto, Canada), Shmuel Reis (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
The implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) holds the promise to improve patient safety and quality of care, as well as opening new ways to educate patien... Sample PDF | More details...
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Asen Atanasov (Medical University Hospital “St. George”, Bulgaria)
This chapter is a brief survey on some e-medicine resources and international definitions focused on the three main subjects of the healthcare quality – the patient,... Sample PDF | More details...
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E-Medical Education (pages 190-209)
D. John Doyle (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA)
The World Wide Web has made available a large variety of medical information and education resources only dreamed of two decades ago. This review discusses a number... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nursing Home (pages 210-249)
Shuyan Xie (The University of Alabama, USA), Yang Xiao (The University of Alabama, USA), Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
A nursing home is an entity that provides skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services to people with illnesses, injuries or functional disabilities, but most fa... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)
This chapter introduces the use of mobile medical informatics as a means for improving clinical practice in Sudan. It argues that mobile medical informatics, combine... Sample PDF | More details...
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M. Ghiassi (Santa Clara University, USA), C. Spera (Zipidy, Inc., USA)
This chapter presents a web-enabled, intelligent agent-based information system model to support on-demand and mass customized markets. The authors present a distrib... Sample PDF | More details...
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Udantha R. Abeyratne (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common sleep disorders. It is characterized by repetitive obstruction of the upper airways during sleep. The frequen... Sample PDF | More details...
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Markos G. Tsipouras (University of Ioannina, Greece), Dimitrios I. Fotiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece, Biomedical Research Institute-FORTH, Greece, & Michaelideion Cardiology Center, Greece), Lambros K. Michalis (University of Ioannina, Greece & Michaelideion)
In this chapter, the field of computer-aided diagnosis of cardiacdiac arrhythmias is reviewed, methodologies are presented, and current trends are discussed. Cardiac... Sample PDF | More details...
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George M. Spyrou (Academy of Athens, Greece), Panos A. Ligomenides (Academy of Athens, Greece)
In this chapter the authors report about their experiences in designing, implementing, prototyping and evaluating a system for computer aided risk estimation of brea... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gloria Díaz (National University of Colombia, Colombia), Antoine Manzanera (ENSTA-ParisTech, France)
Visual examination of blood and bone marrow smears is an important tool for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of clinical patients. The interest of computer aided... Sample PDF | More details...
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Michele Piana (Universita’ di Verona, Italy)
Biomedical imaging represents a practical and conceptual revolution in the applied sciences of the last thirty years. Two basic ingredients permitted such a breakthr... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maria Papadogiorgaki (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), Vasileios Mezaris (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), Yiannis Chatzizisis (Aristotle University o)
Images have constituted an essential data source in medicine in the last decades. Medical images derived from diagnostic technologies (e.g., X-ray, ultrasound, compu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Francisco J. Nóvoa (University of A Coruña, Spain), Alberto Curra (University of A Coruña, Spain), M. Gloria López (University of A Coruña, Spain), Virginia Mato (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Heart-related pathologies are among the most frequent health problems in western society. Symptoms that point towards cardiovascular diseases are usually diagnosed w... Sample PDF | More details...
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Farhang Sahba (Medical Imaging Analyst, Canada)
Ultrasound imaging now has widespread clinical use. It involves exposing a part of the body to highfrequency sound waves in order to generate images of the inside of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luan Ibraimi (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Qiang Tang (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Pieter Hartel (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Willem Jonker (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Commercial Web-based Personal-Health Record (PHR) systems can help patients to share their personal health records (PHRs) anytime from anywhere. PHRs are very sensit... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yorgos Goletsis (University of Ioannina, Greece), Themis P. Exarchos (University of Ioannina, Greece), Nikolaos Giannakeas (University of Ioannina, Greece), Markos G. Tsipouras (University of Ioannina, Greece), Dimitrios I. Fotiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece, and Michaelideion Cardiology Center, Greece & Biomedical Research Institute, Greece)
In this article, we address decision support for cancer by exploiting clinical data and identifying mutations on tumour suppressor genes. The goal is to perform data... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tero Aittokallio (University of Turku, Finland)
This chapter provides an overview of the computational approaches developed for exploring the modular organization of protein interaction networks. A special emphasi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Elaine Byrne (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Roy D. Johnson (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
In 2005, the clinical director of the Batho Pele clinic1 in the Gauteng province in South Africa requested the assistance of the Department of Informatics at the Uni... Sample PDF | More details...
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Peter Jones (NHS Community Mental Health Nursing Older Adults, UK)
This chapter explores the potential of a conceptual framework – Hodges’ model – both as a socio-technical structure and means to explore such structures of relevance... Sample PDF | More details...
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Arun Kumar Wadhwani (MITS, India), Sulochana Wadhwani (MITS, India)
The information extracted from the EMG recordings is of great clinical importance and is used for the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders and to study... Sample PDF | More details...
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Frank-M. Schleif (University of Leipzig, Germany), Thomas Villmann (University of Leipzig, Germany), Barbara Hammer (Technical University of Clausthal, Germany)
Bioinformatics has become an important tool to support clinical and biological research and the analysis of functional data, is a common task in bioinformatics (Schl... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ivan Chorbev (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia), Boban Joksimoski (European University, Republic of Macedonia)
This chapter presents an overview of an integrated system for eMedicine that the authors propose and implement in the Republic of Macedonia. The system contains adva... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mahendran Maliapen (University of Sydney, Australia, National University of Singapore, Singapore and UCLAN, UK), Alan Gillies (UCLAN, UK)
This paper uses simulation modelling techniques and presents summarized model outputs using the balanced scorecard approach. The simulation models have been formulat... Sample PDF | More details...
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Elizabeth M. Borycki (University of Victoria, Canada), Andre W. Kushniruk (University of Victoria, Canada)
Health information systems, and in particular ubiquitous computing devices (UCD), promise to revolutionize healthcare. However, before this can be widely achieved UC... Sample PDF | More details...
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A. Janß (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), W. Lauer (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), F. Chuembou Pekam (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), K. Radermacher (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Studies concerning critical incidents with technical equipment in the medical/clinical context have found out, that in most of the cases non-ergonomic and non-reliab... Sample PDF | More details...
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Paola Di Giacomo (University of Udine, Italy)
E-health is a priority of the European i2010 initiative, which aims to provide safe and interoperable information systems for patients and health professionals throu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Benjamin I. Rapoport (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & Harvard Medical School, USA), Rahul Sarpeshkar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Algorithmically and energetically efficient computational architectures that operate in real time are essential for clinically useful neural prosthetic devices. Such... Sample PDF | More details...
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Avatars and Diagnosis (pages 620-632)
Claudia L. McDonald (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA)
Medical education faces a host of obstacles in coming decades requiring that it rethink the way it delivers medical curricula, especially with regard to critical thi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rafael Capilla (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Alfonso del Río (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Miguel Ángel Valero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), José Antonio Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
This chapter deals with the conceptualization, design and implementation of an m-health solution to support ubiquitous, integrated and continuous health care in hosp... Sample PDF | More details...
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Thomas D. Parsons (University of Southern California, USA)
Virtual Standardized Patients (VSPs) are advanced conversational virtual human agents that have been applied to training of clinicians. These interactive agents port... Sample PDF | More details...
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Elif Derya Übeyli (TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Turkey)
This chapter develops an integrated view of telemedicine and biotelemetry applications. The objective of the chapter is coherent with the objective of the book, whic... Sample PDF | More details...
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John Ribera (Utah State University, USA)
The incorporation of telehealth into the daily clinical practice of audiologists in the United States is in its early stages of development. Some initial research ha... Sample PDF | More details...
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Juan Carlos González Moreno (University of Vigo, Spain), Loxo Lueiro Astray (University of Vigo, Spain), Rubén Romero González (University of Vigo, Spain), Cesar Parguiñas Portas (University of Vigo, Spain), Castor Sánchez Chao (University of Vigo, Spain)
In recent years, the incessant development of new communication technologies has provided a better way for accessing information and also a lot of useful opportuniti... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yousef Jasemian (Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark)
People living with chronic medical conditions, or with conditions requiring short term monitoring, need regular and individualized care to maintain their normal life... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rajasvaran Logeswaran (Multimedia University, Malaysia)
Automatic detection of tumors in the bile ducts of the liver is very difficult as often, in the defacto noninvasive diagnostic images using magnetic resonance cholan... Sample PDF | More details...
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Xiu Ying Wang (BMIT Research Group at The University of Sydney, Australia), Dagan Feng (BMIT Research Group, The University of Sydney, Australia)
The rapid advance and innovation in medical imaging techniques offer significant improvement in healthcare services, as well as provide new challenges in medical kno... Sample PDF | More details...
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Neha Khetrapal (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
This chapter deals with the issue of treating disorders with the help of virtual reality (VR) technology. To this end, it highlights the concept of transdiagnostic p... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mario Tesconi (University of Pisa, Italy), Enzo Pasquale Scilingo (University of Pisa, Italy), Pierluigi Barba (University of Pisa, Italy), Danilo De Rossi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Posture and motion of body segments are the result of a mutual interaction of several physiological systems such as nervous, muscle-skeletal, and sensorial. Patients... Sample PDF | More details...
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Wiebren Zijlstra (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands), Clemens Becker (Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für medizinische Forschung, Germany), Klaus Pfeiffer (Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für medizinische Forschung, Germany)
Monitoring the performance of daily life mobility related activities, such as rising from a chair, standing and walking may be used to support healthcare services. T... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bryan Houliston (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Hospitals are traditionally slow to adopt new information systems (IS). However, health care funders and regulators are demanding greater use of IS as part of the so... Sample PDF | More details...
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Pablo Arias (University of A Coruña, Spain), Nelson Espinosa (University of A Coruña, Spain), Javier Cudeiro (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a stimulation technique introduced to clinical practise by Anthony Baker in 1985. TMS has become very valuable either for... Sample PDF | More details...
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Andriani Daskalaki (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany)
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) involves administration of a photosensitizer (PS) either systemically or locally, followed by illumination of the lesion with visible ligh... Sample PDF | More details...
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Amira Djebbari (National Research Council Canada, Canada), Aedín C. Culhane (Harvard School of Public Health, USA), Alice J. Armstrong (The George Washington University, USA), John Quackenbush (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
Biological systems can be viewed as information management systems, with a basic instruction set stored in each cell’s DNA as “genes.” For most genes, their informat... Sample PDF | More details...
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Guang Li (National Institutes of Health, USA), Deborah Citrin (National Cancer Institute, USA), Robert W. Miller (National Cancer Institute, USA), Kevin Camphausen (National Cancer Institute, USA), Boris Mueller (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Borys Mychalczak (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Yulin Song (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
Image registration, segmentation, and visualization are three major components of medical image processing. Three-dimensional (3D) digital medical images are three d... Sample PDF | More details...
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Robert B. Kerstein (Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, USA)
Computerized Occlusal Analysis technology records, and quickly displays for clinical interpretation, tooth contact timing sequences of .003 second increments, and ea... Sample PDF | More details...
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Vikram Aggarwal (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Yoonju Cho (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Aniruddha Chatterjee (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Dickson Cheung (Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, USA)
Central venous pressure (CVP) is a measure of the mean pressure within the thoracic vena cava, which is the largest vein in the body and responsible for returning bl... Sample PDF | More details...
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Demetrios J. Halazonetis (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Cephalometric analysis has been a routine diagnostic procedure in Orthodontics for more than 60 years, traditionally employing the measurement of angles and distance... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marios Neofytou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Constantinos Pattichis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Vasilios Tanos (Aretaeion Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus), Marios Pattichis (University of New Mexico, USA), Eftyvoulos Kyriacou (Frederick University, Cyprus)
The objective of this chapter is to propose a quantitative hysteroscopy imaging analysis system in gynaecological cancer and to provide the current situation about e... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rami N. Khushaba (University of Technology, Australia), Adel A. Al-Jumaily (University of Technology, Australia)
Bio-signals patterns analysis problems have enjoyed a rapid increase in popularity in the past few years. The electromyography (EMG) signal, also referred to as the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Med-on-@ix (pages 974-994)
In-Sik Na (University Hospital Aachen, Germany), Max Skorning (University Hospital Aachen, Germany), Arnd T. May (University Hospital Aachen, Germany), Marie-Thérèse Schneiders (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Michael Protogerakis (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Stefan Beckers (University Hospital Aachen, Germany,), Harold Fischermann (University Hospital Aachen, Germany), Nadja Frenzel (University Hospital Aachen, Germany), Tadeusz Brodziak (P3 Communications GmbH, Germany), Rolf Rossaint (University Hospital Aachen, Germany)
The aim of the project Med-on-@ix is to increase the quality of care for emergency patients by the operationalisation of rescue processes. The currently available te... Sample PDF | More details...
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DISMON (pages 995-1007)
Ángel M. Lagares-Lemos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Miguel Lagares-Lemos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Ángel García-Crespo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Information technology and, more precisely, the internet represent challenges and opportunities for medicine. Technology-driven medicine has changed how practitioner... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jesús Bernardino Alonso Hernández (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain), Patricia Henríquez Rodríguez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
It is possible to implement help systems for diagnosis oriented to the evaluation of the fonator system using speech signal, by means of techniques based on expert s... Sample PDF | More details...
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William Claster (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan), Nader Ghotbi (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan), Subana Shanmuganathan (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
There is a treasure trove of hidden information in the textual and narrative data of medical records that can be deciphered by text-mining techniques. The informatio... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rakesh Biswas (Manipal University, Malaysia), Joachim Sturmberg (Monash University, Australia), Carmel M. Martin (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada), A. U. Jai Ganesh (Sri Sathya Sai Information Technology Center, India), Shashikiran Umakanth (Manipal University, Malaysia), Edwin Wen Huo Lee (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
This chapter discusses the role of e-health in creating persistent clinical encounters to extend the scope of health care beyond its conventional boundaries utilizin... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tanja Bratan (Brunel University, UK), Malcolm Clarke (Brunel University, UK), Joanna Fursse (Brunel University, UK), Russell Jones (Chorleywood Health Centre, UK)
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing great reform. Driven by a demand for higher quality health care provision, information and communication technol... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anton V. Vladzymyrskyy (Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine and eHealth Development & Donetsk R&D Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ukraine)
This chapter introduces usage of telemedicine consultations in daily clinical practice. Author has describe process of teleconsultation, sample schemes of systems, p... Sample PDF | More details...
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Julia Adler-Milstein (Harvard University, USA), Ariel Linden (Linden Consulting Group and Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
This chapter describes the broad array of information technologies currently used in programs that manage individuals with chronic diseases and discusses evaluation... Sample PDF | More details...
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V. G. Stamatopoulos (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece & Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Greece), G. E. Karagiannis (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, UK), B. R. M. Manning (University of Westminster, UK)
Concern has been expressed over the lack of evidence of the effective transfer of new research findings, guidelines and protocols into front-line clinical use. This... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christian Nøhr (Aalborg University, Denmark), Niels Boye (Aalborg University, Denmark)
The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) to the clinical setting has led healthcare professionals, policy makers, and administrators to believe that heal... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kenric W. Hammond (VA Puget Sound Health Care System, USA), Charlene R. Weir (George W. Allen VA Medical Center, USA), Efthimis N. Efthimiadis (University of Washington, USA)
Computerized patient care documentation (CPD) is a vital part of a Patient Care Information System (PCIS). Studying CPD in a well-established PCIS is useful because... Sample PDF | More details...
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Salvatore Parise (Babson College, USA)
The people-to-people relationships where knowledge work actually gets performed in organizations are called social networks, and they may be in complete contradictio... Sample PDF | More details...
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Olufemi T. Oladapo (Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria)
This chapter introduces the partograph as an essential tool of labour management. It describes the concept of the partograph from its historical perspective and high... Sample PDF | More details...
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The MOBEL Project (pages 1171-1190)
Inger Dybdahl Sorby (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Line Melby (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Yngve Dahl (Telenor Research and Innovation, Norway), Gry Seland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,)
This chapter presents results and experiences from the MOBEL (MOBile ELectronic patient record) project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)... Sample PDF | More details...
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Álvaro Orozco-Gutiérrez (Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia), Edilson Delgado-Trejos (Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano ITM, Colombia), Hans Carmona-Villada (Instituto de Epilepsia y Parkinson del Eje Cafetero – Neurocentro, Colombia), Germán Castellanos-Domínguez (Universidad Nacional de Co)
This chapter deals with processing and communication techniques for Parkinson’s disease treatment applications. First, the authors summarize the background of physio... Sample PDF | More details...
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Malcolm Battin (National Women’s Health, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand), David Knight (Mater Mother’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia), Carl Kuschel (The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia)
Neonatal care is an extremely data-intensive activity. Physiological monitoring equipment is used extensively along with web-based information tools and knowledge so... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marcial García Rojo (Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Spain), Christel Daniel (Université René Descartes, France)
In anatomic pathology, digital pathology integrates information management systems to manage both digital images and text-based information. Digital pathology allows... Sample PDF | More details...
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Asunción Albert (University of Valencia, Spain), Antonio J. Serrano (University of Valencia, Spain), Emilio Soria (University of Valencia, Spain), Nicolás Victor Jiménez (University of Valencia, Spain)
In this chapter, authors develop a system for prevention and detection of congestive heart failure and fibrillation. Due to its narrow therapeutic range more than 10... Sample PDF | More details...
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Manuel Prado-Velasco (University of Seville, Spain), Carlos Fernández-Peruchena (University of Seville, Spain)
Persistent Developmental Stuttering affects 1-2% of the world adult population. Its etiology is still unknown, although modern neuroimaging techniques have shown a n... Sample PDF | More details...
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Raymond White (Sunderland University, UK), Robert Noble (The Robert Gordon University, UK)
Gait analysis is a special investigation that can assist clinical staff in the decision making process regarding treatment options for patients with walking difficul... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dongqing Chen (University of Louisville, USA), Aly A. Farag (University of Louisville, USA), Robert L. Falk (Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare, USA), Gerald W. Dryden (University of Louisville, USA)
Colorectal cancer includes cancer of the colon, rectum, anus and appendix. Since it is largely preventable, it is extremely important to detect and treat the colorec... Sample PDF | More details...
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Francisco M. Couto (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Mário J. Silva (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Vivian Lee (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Emily Dimmer (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Evelyn Camon (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Rolf Apweiler (European Bioinf)
Molecular Biology research projects produced vast amounts of data, part of which has been preserved in a variety of public databases. However, a large portion of the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Antheunis Versluis (University of Minnesota, USA), Daranee Tantbirojn (Universtiy of Minnesota, USA)
Residual stress due to polymerization shrinkage of restorative dental materials has been associated with a number of clinical symptoms, ranging from post-operative s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Abey Kuruvilla (University of Wisconsin Parkside, USA), Suraj M. Alexander (University of Louisville, USA)
The high utilization level of emergency departments in hospitals across the United States has resulted in the serious and persistent problem of ambulance diversion.... Sample PDF | More details...
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Candace J. Gibson (University of Western Ontario, Canada), H. Dominic Covvey (University of Waterloo, Canada)
The introduction and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care, particularly the electronic health record (EHR), may be seriously hamper... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dean Yergens (University of Manitoba and University of Calgary, Canada), Julie Hiner (University of Calgary, Canada), Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada)
Developing countries are faced with many problems and issues related to healthcare service delivery. Many factors contribute to this, such as a lack of adequate medi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sofi Bergkvist (ACCESS Health Initiative, India), Hanna Pernefeldt (ACCESS Health Initiative, India)
The primary care delivery model developed by the Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI) in India, integrates innovative technical solutions and process-orie... Sample PDF | More details...
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Evelyn H. Thrasher (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA), Terry A. Byrd (Auburn University, USA)
Interorganizational networks are defined as “clusters of organizations that make decisions jointly and integrate their efforts to produce a product or service” (Alte... Sample PDF | More details...
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Adi V. Gundlapalli (University of Utah School of Medicine, USA), Jonathan H. Reid (University of Utah School of Medicine, USA), Jan Root (Utah Health Information Network, USA), Wu Xu (Utah Department of Health, USA)
A fundamental premise of continuity in patient care and safety suggests timely sharing of health information among different providers at the point of care and after... Sample PDF | More details...
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James G. Anderson (Purdue University, USA)
Data-sharing systems—where healthcare providers jointly implement a common reporting system to promote voluntary reporting, information sharing, and learning—are eme... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maureen Farrell (University of Ballarat, Australia)
The use of mobile technologies in nursing education is rapidly increasing. Handheld computers are the most frequently used of these technologies as they can provide... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gareth Parry (Horsmans Place Partnership, UK)
Women’s health in primary care is a large part of the generalist’s practice. Information technology (IT) is now an integral part of the generalist’s office, often mo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yukiko Inoue (University of Guam, Guam)
Census 2000 figures indicate that more than 19% of the U.S. population aged five and older are people with disabilities (Goddard, 2004). Technology has the great pot... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jeffrey Soar (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
This chapter explores ageing, chronic disease, technology and social change. Healthcare has been transformed through medical technology but there is much still to be... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rajinder Koul (Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center, USA), James Dembowski (Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center USA)
The purpose of this chapter is to review research conducted over the past two decades on the perception of synthetic speech by individuals with intellectual, languag... Sample PDF | More details...
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Telepractice (pages 1566-1580)
Thomas W. Miller (University of Connecticut, USA), Jennifer A. Wood (VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System, USA)
Telehealth is viewed as the removal of time and distance barriers in the provision of health care and patient education to underserved populations. Examined is a twe... Sample PDF | More details...
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Emma Parry (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
The seamless electronic health record is often hailed as the holy grail of health informatics. What is an electronic health record? This question is answered and con... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tom Quinn (Coventry University, UK), Raj K. Bali (Coventry University, UK), Dale Katherine (Worcestershire Royal Hospital, UK), Pete Gregory (Coventry University, UK)
The objective of this paper is to examine the efficacy of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm in the context of UK paramedics’ assessment and treatment of patient... Sample PDF | More details...
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Operationalizing the Science (pages 1600-1622)
Joseph L. Kannry (Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA)
Healthcare IT (HIT) has failed to live up to its promise in the United States. HIT solutions and decisions need to be evidence based and standardized. Interventional... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jean M. Roberts (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
This chapter is designed to outline the current situation and challenges to successful deployment of technologies to support clinical activities. It utilises action... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kenneth L. Miller (Youngstown State University, USA), Susan M. Miller (Kent State University, USA)
Supervision is both a special case of instruction and a critical aspect of professional development. The ongoing development of web-based infrastructures and communi... Sample PDF | More details...
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James R. Stefurak (University of South Alabama, USA), Daniel W. Surry (University of South Alabama, USA), Richard L. Hayes (University of South Alabama, USA)
As communication technology is increasingly applied to the training and supervision of mental health professionals, a more robust analysis of how such approaches fun... Sample PDF | More details...
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B. Spyropoulos (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), M. Botsivaly (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), A. Tzavaras (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), K. Koutsourakis (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
Adapting medical and managerial decision-making (Spyropoulos, 2006a) in the modern home care environment is a cardinal prerequisite, in order to ensure, first, an ec... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kalyan Sunder Pasupathy (University of Missouri, USA)
Healthcare organizations are struggling to provide safe and high quality care while reducing costs. Abundant data on various aspects of the care delivery process (bo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nilmini Wickramasinghe (RMIT University, Australia)
The need to transform the U.S. healthcare system became clear during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was not an unexpected disaster nor was it an excepti... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luca Anselma (Università di Torino, Torino, Italy), Alessio Bottrighi (Università del Piemonte Orientale , Alessandria, Italy), Gianpaolo Molino (AOU San Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy), Stefania Montani (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy), Paolo Terenziani (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy), Mauro Torchio (AOU San Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy)
Knowledge-based clinical decision making is one of the most challenging activities of physicians. Clinical Practice Guidelines are commonly recognized as a useful to... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tillal Eldabi (Brunel University, UK), Robert D. Macredie (Brunel University, UK), Ray J. Paul (Brunel University, UK)
This chapter reports on the use of simulation in supporting decision-making about what data to collect in a randomized clinical trial (RCT). We show how simulation a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Janna Anneke Fitzgerald (University of Western Sydney, Australia), Martin Lum (Department of Human Services, Australia), Ann Dadich (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Human technology in health care includes managerial knowledge required to marshal a health care workforce, operate hospitals and equipment, obtain and administer fun... Sample PDF | More details...
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TACMIS (pages 1770-1781)
M. Cassim (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan)
TACMIS is an inclusive solution to the management of health care and medical information and its design is based on a detailed process analysis of patient journeys a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Daniel Ruiz-Fernandez (University of Alicante, Spain), Antonio Soriano-Paya (University of Alicante, Spain)
The incorporation of computer engineering into medicine has meant significant improvements in the diagnosis-related tasks. This chapter presents an architecture for... Sample PDF | More details...
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E. Vance Wilson (The University of Toledo, USA)
E-health use is increasing worldwide, but no current e-health paradigm fulfills the complete range of users’ needs for Web-enabled healthcare services. Moreover, a n... Sample PDF | More details...
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Steven Walczak (University of Colorado at Denver, USA), Bradley B. Brimhall (Tricore Reference Laboratory, USA), Jerry B. Lefkowitz (Weill Cornell College of Medicine, USA)
Patients face a multitude of diseases, trauma, and related medical problems that are difficult and costly to diagnose with respect to direct costs, including pulmona... Sample PDF | More details...
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eHealth and Ethics (pages 1831-1842)
Diane Whitehouse (The Castlegate Consultancy, Malton, UK), Penny Duquenoy (Middlesex University, London, UK)
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is increasing rapidly in many spheres of contemporary life in Europe. The ethical use of ICT in all areas... Sample PDF | More details...
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Elizabeth A. Krupinski (University of Arizona, USA), Nina Antoniotti (Marshfield Clinic Telehealth Network, USA), Anne Burdick (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA)
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was established in 1993 to promote access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Terry Kaan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
In the decades since its independence in 1965, the transformation of Singapore’s economy and its transition to a relatively developed economy has also in like manner... Sample PDF | More details...
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Morgan Price (University of Victoria, Canada, and University of British Columbia, Canada)
The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with an overview of several models and theories from the general HCI literature, highlighting models at three le... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maartje H.J. Swennen (University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) is a tool that aims to bring science and medicine together by enabling doctors to integrate the latest best evidence with their clinica... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rania Shibl (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia), Kay Fielden (UNITEC New Zealand, New Zealand), Andy Bissett (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Den Pain (Massey University, New Zealand)
Our study of the use of clinical decision support systems by general practitioners in New Zealand reveals the pervasive nature of the issue of trust. “Trust” was a t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stefane M Kabene (Institute of Management. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique (EHESP), France), Raymond W. Leduc (University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada), Candace J Gibson (University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada)
Traditionally, patient information has been recorded on paper and stored in file folders at healthcare facilities and within physicians’ offices. The implementation... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nola M. Ries (University of Alberta, Canada, and University of Victoria, Canada)
This chapter discusses key legal issues raised by the contemporary trend to managing and sharing patient information via electronic health records (EHR). Concepts of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Joachim Jean-Jules (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Alain O. Villeneuve (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
With increased use of telehealth to provide healthcare services, bringing telehealth technology out of experimental settings into real life settings, it is imperativ... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rakesh Biswas (Manipal University, Malaysia), Carmel M. Martin (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada), Joachim Sturmberg (Monash University, Australia), Kamalika Mukherji (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK), Edwin Wen Huo Lee (Intel Innovation Center, Malaysia), Shashikiran Umakanth (Manipal)
The chapter starts from the premise that illness and healthcare are predominantly social phenomena that shape the perspectives of key stakeholders of healthcare. It... Sample PDF | More details...
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Wanda Sneed (Tarleton State University, USA)
Nursing informaticists can be leaders in promoting prevention of illness and diseases in the 21st century. Developing an infrastructure for application of preventive... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dimitra Petroudi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Nikolaos Giannakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
A hospital information system (HIS), variously also called clinical information system (CIS), is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bettina Staudinger (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), Herwig Ostermann (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), Roland Staudinger (University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria)
The management of the information technology in a virtual medical service centre is subject to different requirements than the IT-management of a hospital resembling... Sample PDF | More details...
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Shirley Ann Becker (Florida Institute of Technology, USA), Frank Webbe (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Similar to other nations, the United States faces a critical challenge in dealing with an aging population that has unprecedented life expectancies. Emerging technol... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jeongeun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
This chapter presents the overview of the current status and developmental stages of the PSIS technology and consensus around the patient safety issues as they emerg... Sample PDF | More details...
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Patrice Renaud (University of Quebec in Outaouais / Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal, Canada), Sylvain Chartier (University of Ottawa, Canada), Paul Fedoroff (University of Ottawa, Canada), John Bradford (University of Ottawa, Canada), Joanne L. Rouleau (University of Montreal, Canad)
This chapter presents research that is laying a foundation for new simulation applications that promise learning-oriented treatments for mental health conditions. Af... Sample PDF | More details...
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Amparo C. Villablanca (University of California at Davis, USA), Hassan Baxi (University of California at Davis, USA), Kent Anderson (University of California at Davis, USA)
This chapter discusses critical success factors in the design, implementation, and utility of a new construct and interface for data transfer with broad applicabilit... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christos V. Bourantas (Michailideion Cardiology Center, Greece & University of Hull, UK), Katerina Naka (Michailideion Cardiology Center, Greece), Dimitrios Fotiadis (Michailideion Cardiology Center, Greece), Lampros Michalis (Michailideion Cardiology Center, Greece)
Intracoronary Ultrasound (ICUS) imaging is an intravascular catheter-based technique which provides real-time, high resolution, cross-sectional images of coronary ar... Sample PDF | More details...
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Pulse!! (pages 2126-2142)
Claudia L. McDonald (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA), Jan Cannon-Bowers (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA), Clint Bowers (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA)
Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab is designed to transfer and further develop state-of-the-art game design and technology to create subject matter for teachi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ferenc Pongracz (Albadent Inc., Hungary)
Intraoperative transfer of the implant and prosthesis planning in dentistry is facilitated by drilling templates or active, image-guided navigation. Minimum invasion... Sample PDF | More details...
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Carmel M. Martin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Rakesh Biswas (People’s College of Medical Sciences, India), Joachim P. Sturmberg (Monash University and the University of Newcastle, Australia), David Topps (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada), Rachel Ellaway (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada), Kevin Smith (National Digital Research Centre, Ireland)
This chapter articulates key considerations for the translation of the concept of the Patient Journey Record Systems (PaJR) into real world systems. The key concept... Sample PDF | More details...
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Carrison K.S. Tong (Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China), Eric T.T. Wong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
For the past 100 years, film has been almost the exclusive medium for capturing, storing, and displaying radiographic images. Film is a fixed medium with usually onl... Sample PDF | More details...
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Holly Llobet (Cabrini Medical Center, USA), Paul Llobet (Cabrini Medical Center, USA), Michelle LaBrunda (Cabrini Medical Center, USA)
A technological explosion has been revolutionizing imaging technology of the heart and lungs over the last decade. These advances have been transforming the health c... Sample PDF | More details...
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Zhiqiang Zhang (Sichuan University, China), Bo Gao (Sichuan University, China), Guojie Liao (Sichuan University, China), Ling Mu (West China Hospital, China), Wei Wei (West China Hospital, China)
In this chapter, the transesophageal oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring system was proposed based on the early experiments, to provide a new program of SpO2 acquisi... Sample PDF | More details...
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