User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Fundamental Concepts and Theories

Chapter 1

The User Driven Learning Environment (pages 1-13)

Rakesh Biswas, Joachim Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin

This chapter is an introduction to user driven learning that initially dwells on features that are unchanged such as the role of collaborative social interactions in human learning and certain aspects that are evolving and helping...

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Chapter 2

Information Technology and Resistance to Public Sector Reforms: A Case Study in Kenya (pages 14-33)

Roberta Bernardi

The objective of the chapter is to discuss how Information Technology can mitigate constraints to policy implementations stemming from a highly contested context. Main recommendations have been drawn by discussing main challenges met...

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Chapter 3

Electronic Health Record: Adoption, Considerations and Future Direction (pages 34-56)

Janine R. A. Kamath, Amerett L. Donahoe-Anshus

Over the last two decades there has been considerable deliberation, experience, and research in the arena of Health Information Technology (HIT), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and more recently...

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Chapter 4

The Promises and Challenges of Health Information Technology (pages 57-76)

Brian Gugerty, Michael J. Maranda

This chapter explores the application of Information Technology to healthcare in the United States. Recent developments and trends in healthcare information technology (HIT) are presented and discussed. Widespread adoption of HIT...

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Chapter 5

Patient Centered Medicine and Technology Adaptation (pages 77-98)

Brett Harnett

In many locations throughout the world, the optimal process is non-existent or has broken down; the United States is no exception as explained from a national, (Sarfaty, 2010) as well as an international perspective by Zwar (2010)....

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Chapter 6

Technology as a Bridge between Health Care Systems and Older Adults (pages 99-119)

Daniel Morrow, Jessie Chin

The authors explore the role of technology in supporting collaboration between health care providers and older adults. They focus on two technologies that help link patients to their providers by giving them access to health...

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Chapter 7

The Health Informatics Professional (pages 120-141)

Keith Lui

Health informatics (HI) is an increasingly important discipline to healthcare. HI is the scientific field concerned with improving how information in healthcare is captured, used, and managed. Developments in HI have streamlined and...

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Chapter 8

Supporting Family-Based Care for Aged Patients with Chronic Illness (pages 142-157)

Lemai Nguyen

Family carers play an important role in care for aged patients with chronic illness, particularly in home and community settings. The information needs of these family carers and their patients are poorly understood and current...

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Chapter 9

Human-Centered Design for Health Information Technology: A Qualitative Approach (pages 158-179)

Charlotte Tang, Sheelagh Carpendale

This chapter presents issues that may arise in human-centered research in health care environments. The authors first discuss why human-centered approach is increasingly employed to study and to design health care technology. They...

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Chapter 10

Online Health Communities and Health Literacy: Applying a Framework for Understanding Domains of Health Literacy (pages 180-196)

Erin Willis, Ye Wang, Shelly Rodgers

The purpose of the chapter is to define health literacy and e-health literacy in the context of online health communities (OHCs). The chapter has three sections. The first section defines and discusses features of OHCs. The second...

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Chapter 11

E-Health and Digital Inclusion (pages 197-210)

Lorna Gibson, David Sloan, Wendy Moncur

In this chapter, we describe in detail the opportunities e-health can offer in the context of digital inclusion by reducing social exclusion and enhancing quality of life through thoughtful technology intervention. We highlight the...

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Chapter 12

ICTS and Their Role in Health Promotion: A Preliminary Situation Analysis in Selected Botswana Rural Communities (pages 211-224)

Motshedisi B. Sabone, Keitshokile D. Mogobe, Tiny G. Sabone

This chapter presents findings of mini-survey that utilized an exploratory descriptive design to examine the accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and utility of ICTs with specific reference to health promotion for selected...

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Chapter 13

Information Security Standards for Health Information Systems: The Implementer’s Approach (pages 225-257)

Evangelos Kotsonis, Stelios Eliakis

Current developments in the field of integrated treatment show the need for IS security approaches within the healthcare domain. Health information systems are called to meet unique demands to remain operational in the face of...

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Tools and Technologies

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Chapter 14

RFID Applications in E-Healthcare (pages 259-287)

Mohamed K. Watfa, Manprabhjot Kaur, Rashida Firoz Daruwala

Pervasive healthcare is the ultimate goal of all healthcare facilities and e-healthcare is the most talked about medical assistance these days. Healthcare organizations are exploiting RFID to maximize use of tools and equipment, keep...

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Chapter 15

Generating Indicators for Diagnosis of Fault Levels by Integrating Information from Two or More Sensors (pages 288-309)

Xiaomin Zhao, Ming J Zuo, Ramin Moghaddass

Diagnosis of fault levels is an important task in fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. Two or more sensors are usually involved in a condition monitoring system to fully capture the health information on a machine. Generating an...

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Chapter 16

E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability (pages 310-325)

Åsa Smedberg

There are e-health communities of many different kinds available on the Internet today. Some e-health communities are for people who need to change their established bad, or unhealthy, habits such as the ones for people suffering...

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Chapter 17

A Centralized Real-Time E-Healthcare System for Remote Detection and Prediction of Epileptic Seizures (pages 326-356)

Dung V. Pham, Malka N. Halgamuge, Thas Nirmalathas, Bill Moran

Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurological disorders, affecting about 60 million people worldwide. There are currently about 220,000 Epilepsy patients in Australia, a significant proportion of whom are elderly and live...

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Chapter 18

Overview of the ISO/IEEE11073 Family of Standards and their Applications to Health Monitoring (pages 357-381)

J. Escayola, J.D. Trigo, I. Martínez, M. Martínez-Espronceda, A. Aragüés, D. Sancho, S. Led, L. Serrano, J. García

Traditional fields in health delivery such as chronic diseases or independent aging are evolving to novel healthcare applications like intra-hospital ecosystems and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Furthermore, emerging trends...

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Chapter 19

Electronic Health Record Implementation in the United States Healthcare Industry: Making the Process of Change Manageable (pages 382-395)

Michelle Lee D’Abundo

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act (2009) was legislation passed focused on improving health care delivery and patient care in America through the development of health information...

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Chapter 20

e-Health Technologies in Home Care Nursing: Recent Survey Results and Subsequent Ethical Issues (pages 396-420)

Hartmut Remmers, Manfred Hülsken-Giesler

The innovative impact of advancing e-Health technologies is more frequently being discussed in nursing science. Nurses play an important role in collecting data and giving support to other users, especially in home care. Since issues...

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Chapter 21

Advanced Video Distribution for Wireless E-Healthcare Systems (pages 421-446)

Anna Zvikhachevskaya, Lyudmila Mihaylova

This chapter is dedicated to the investigation of IEEE 802.16, a technology that would allow efficient, reliable and affordable healthcare. More specifically, the chapter presents not only an overview of the telemedicine services and...

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Chapter 22

Cyber Physical Security Solutions for Pervasive Health Monitoring Systems (pages 447-465)

Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Sidharth Nabar, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Radha Poovendran

With a rapidly aging population, the healthcare community will soon face severe medical personnel shortage and rising costs. Pervasive Health Monitoring Systems (PHMS) can help alleviate this situation. PHMS provides continuous...

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Chapter 23

Using Biometrics to Secure Patient Health Information (pages 466-479)

Dennis Backherms

The crime of identity theft has proven to be one of the most costly crimes in American history. Identity theft has become so prevalent in our society today that many laws have been passed, and new bills introduced, to try and combat...

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Chapter 24

Mapping Input Technology to Ability (pages 480-501)

Ainara Garzo, Stefan P. Carmien, Xabier Madina

Accessibility is a critical aspect of health care system design, particularly E-health systems. Ability to access services may change as ones abilities vary, by situation as in the use of a cell phone while driving, by condition, as...

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Chapter 25

A Simple Web-Based Image Database System for Facilitating Medical Care in Dermatological Clinics (pages 502-513)

Takeshi Toda, PaoMin Chen, Shinya Ozaki, Kazunobu Fujita, Naoko Ideguchi

In Japan, electronic health record systems are gradually becoming popular at large hospitals, but are not yet frequently implemented in clinics. This is due to both prohibitive costs and a lack of interest in checking electronic...

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Chapter 26

Grid for Post Operative Care through Wireless Sensor Networks (pages 514-531)

N.P Chowdhry, Adnan Ashraf, B.S Chowdhry, A.K Baloch, A.W Ansari, H. De Meer

To address the solution for problems of e-health systems, the various new algorithms are developed. Today, the parallel and distributed programming concepts have motivated the doctors and technology experts for the development of...

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Frameworks and Methodologies

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Chapter 27

Identifying the Essential Design Requirements for Usable E-Health Communities in Mobile Devices (pages 533-552)

Ricardo Mendoza-González, Miguel Vargas Martin, Laura C. Rodríguez-Martínez

We believe that well-designed and usable user interface is critical, as the adequate use and the effectiveness of any application usually depend on it, especially when a specific system is oriented to play a key role into the process...

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Chapter 28

User Diversity as a Challenge for the Integration of Medical Technology into Future Smart Home Environments (pages 553-582)

Wiktoria Wilkowska, Martina Ziefle

Facing the growing aging population in many countries of the world, healthcare-related technologies become increasingly important, representing a possible solution to the soaring overstrained health care systems and dwindling number...

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Chapter 29

“Developed in the South”: An Evolutionary and Prototyping Approach to Developing Scalable and Sustainable Health Information Systems (pages 583-607)

Vincent Shaw, Jorn Braa

The expansion of ICT across Africa is influenced by many factors including political imperatives, donor priorities, private sector and NGO needs, and economic interests and as a result takes place in a haphazard and largely...

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Chapter 30

End-User Participation in Health IT Development: The EUPHIT Method (pages 608-629)

Anna Marie Balling Høstgaard

Despite there being extensive cumulative knowledge and many experiences about factors that contribute to health Information Technology (HIT) success, lessons are yet to be learned as many HIT developments still face a number of...

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Chapter 31

Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts in Pervasive Environments (pages 630-654)

Nirmalya Roy, Sajal K. Das, Christine Julien

Pervasive computing applications envision sensor rich computing and networking environments that can capture various types of contexts of inhabitants of the environment, such as their locations, activities, vital signs, and...

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Chapter 32

Developing Community Ontologies in User Driven Healthcare (pages 655-672)

Jane Fitzpatrick, Willie Ako

In developing equitable health systems, the World Health Organisation (2005) advocates strengthening the repository of social science research to inform policy decisions affecting health care. The players include the patient, family...

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Chapter 33

Ubiquitous Information Therapy Service through Social Networking Libraries: An Operational Web 2.0 Service Model (pages 673-688)

Vahideh Zarea Gavgani

This chapter introduces a model for Information Therapy service through social networks. It discusses how health care providers including physicians, medical specialist and residents can prescribe reliable, evidence based health...

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Chapter 34

Design and Implementation of Mobile-Based Technology in Strengthening Health Information System: Aligning mHealth Solutions to Infrastructures (pages 689-713)

Saptarshi Purkayastha

In the context of developing countries, there is a mounting interest in the field of mHealth. This surge in interest can be traced to the evolution of several interrelated trends (VW Consulting, 2009). However, with numerous attempts...

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Chapter 35

Health Information Exchange for Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Healthcare Delivery (pages 714-736)

Jing Shi, Sudhindra Upadhyaya, Ergin Erdem

In healthcare industry, providers, patients, and all other stakeholders must have the right information at the right time for achieving efficient and cost effective services. Exchange of information between the heterogeneous system...

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Chapter 36

The Protocols of Privileged Information Handling in an E-Health Context: Australia (pages 737-759)

Juanita Fernando

Health authorities need to review the privacy and security of real-life work contexts before pioneering new, privileged information handling protocols as a foundation of a new national e-health scheme.

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Chapter 37

European E-Health Framework: Towards More “Patient-Friendly” Healthcare Services? (pages 760-775)

Korinna Zoi Karamagkioli, Evika Karamagioli

European health systems are under mounting pressure to respond to the challenges of population ageing, citizens’ rising expectations, migration, and mobility of patients and health professionals. New technologies have the potential...

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Chapter 38

E-Health Business Models Prototyping by Incremental Design (pages 776-790)

Josep Ma. Monguet, Eduardo Huerta, Joaquín Fernández, Marco Ferruzca, Susana Badillo

Internet and IT (Information technologies) among other innovative drivers push companies to update their business models, and design stands out as an emergent issue strongly connected with innovation, which, in turn, is the main...

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Chapter 39

A Strategic Approach to e-Health Interoperability Using e-Government Frameworks (pages 791-807)

Thanos Papadopoulos, Spyros Angelopoulos, Fotis Kitsios

E-government projects have a breadth of impact that extends far beyond their respective context. However, current e-Government methodologies and models used are only tailored to specific requirements. Despite the use of...

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Chapter 40

Developing a Competitive City through Healthy Decision-Making (pages 808-822)

Ori Gudes, Elizabeth Kendall, Tan Yigitcanlar, Jung Hoon Han, Virendra Pathak

This chapter investigates the challenges and opportunities associated with planning for a competitive city. The chapter is based on the assumption that a healthy city is a fundamental prerequisite for a competitive city. Thus, it is...

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Cases and Applications

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Chapter 41

Key Health Information Systems Outsourcing Issues from Six Hospital Cases (pages 824-837)

Chad Lin, Yu-An Huang, Chien-Fa Li, Geoffrey Jalleh

Traditionally, little attention has been paid by hospitals to the key issues in the health information systems (HIS) outsourcing decision-making process. This is important given that the HIS outsourcing can play a key role in...

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Chapter 42

An E-Health System for Promoting Wellbeing in the Elderly: The Butler System (pages 838-852)

Cristina Botella, Rosa M. Baños, Ernestina Etchemendy, Diana Castilla, Azucena García-Palacios, Mariano Alcañiz

The disproportionate increase in the world’s aged population, especially in developed countries, is one of the biggest challenges for developing health and social development policies. Developed countries are starting to include...

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Chapter 43

Australian Patient Organizations: Using Digital Technologies to Engage Health Citizen Communities in Health Policy (pages 853-869)

Anni Dugdale

Three citizen health organizations in Australia are examined for how they are consuming information and communication technologies. In particular, how they are actively domesticating and taming the internet as part of their everyday...

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Chapter 44

Rural E-Health Infrastructure Development (pages 870-900)

Ali Zalzala, Stanley Chia, Laura Zalzala, Subrat Sahu, Suresh Vaghasiya, Ali Karimi

The following sections describe the implementation of a healthcare records system in rural areas of India’s Gujarat State. The system reduces the risk of misidentification of patients and allows for accessing the records of patients...

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Chapter 45

An Overview of E-Health Development in Australia (pages 901-917)

Say Yen Teoh, Mohini Singh, Josephine Chong

This chapter is a discussion of e-health development in Australia. The Australian government has been very proactive in e-government and applications of e-government such as e-health in the last five years. E-health is an important...

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Chapter 46

Brazilian Occupational Therapy Perspective about Digital Games as an Inclusive Resource to Disabled People in Schools (pages 918-937)

Suzana Rocha Siqueira, Eliane Cristina de Freitas Rocha, Marcelo Souza Nery

This chapter aims at contributing to serious games studies taking into consideration two aspects: “as a tool of social change” and as “applications of serious games: in health care and e-health, education, and other fields.” There...

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Chapter 47

E-Health Knowledge Management by Australian University Students (pages 938-953)

Wayne Usher, Lay San Too

This study is the first research project to investigate Australian university students’ e-health knowledge management trends. An online survey was developed (http://www.limesurvey.org) to collect both quantitative and qualitative...

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Chapter 48

An Exploration of the Experiences of Migrant Women: Implications for Policy Development of Effective User Driven Health Care Delivery Systems (pages 954-967)

Jane Fitzpatrick

Women across the world migrate for a wide range of reasons. Some gravitate to urban centres in their own countries seeking safety, education, health care, and employment opportunities. Others travel across national boundaries seeking...

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Chapter 49

The Development of the English National Health Information Infrastructure (pages 968-991)

Panos Constantinides

This chapter draws on a secondary analysis of publicly available data on the development of the English National Program for IT (NPfIT). This analysis focuses on the multilevel context, action arena, and outcomes in the NPfIT case...

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Chapter 50

The Development of a Regional Health Information Infrastructure in Greece (pages 992-1017)

Panos Constantinides

This chapter draws on empirical research carried out during the years 2003-2006 on the development of a regional health information infrastructure in Greece. Using the theoretical framework, this chapter examines the multilevel...

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Chapter 51

Case Studies in Customization of E-Health Services (pages 1018-1036)

Dimitris K. Kardaras, Bill Karakostas

This chapter discusses existing service customization projects in the health sector. It first defines e-health and compiles a list of personal health management applications that range from those that provide access to electronic...

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Chapter 52

From Idea to Use: Lessons Learned From a Participatory ICT Healthcare Case Study (pages 1037-1053)

Henrik Enquist

The objective of the case study presented here was to develop and investigate the use of a novel e-health technology called the Memory Stone. This personal device was intended to be used for storing information and enabling...

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Chapter 53

Patients with a Spinal Cord Injury Inform and Co-Construct Services at a Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Unit (pages 1054-1072)

Susan Sliedrecht, Elmarie Kotzé

This chapter reports on a qualitative research project which explored patients’ experiences of counselling and which provided the impetus for changes to be incorporated in the rehabilitation and health care provided at a spinal cord...

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Chapter 54

Stomodeum to Proctodeum: Email Narratives on Clinical Problem Solving in Gastroenterology (pages 1073-1091)

Paramartha Bhattacharya, Amar Puri Asanga, Rakesh Biswas

This chapter contains physician and patient perspectives of their gastrointestinal system problem solving experiences beginning from one anatomical end, stomodeum and continuing toward the other end proctodeum of the gastrointestinal...

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Issues and Challenges

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Chapter 55

Conceiving Community Knowledge Records as e-Governance Concerns in Wired Healthcare Provision (pages 1093-1111)

Kam Hou VAT

This article investigates the potential of community knowledge records (CKRs) in the electronic transformation for healthcare provision in Macau. Of specific interest is the electronic governance (e-governance) context to examine the...

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Chapter 56

Identity Management and Audit Trail Support for Privacy Protection in E-Health Networks (pages 1112-1125)

Liam Peyton, Jun Hu

E-health networks can enable integrated healthcare services and data interoperability in the form of electronic health records accessible via Internet technology. Efficiency and quality of care can be improved for example by...

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Chapter 57

Evaluation Considerations for E-Health Systems (pages 1126-1140)

Anastasia N. Kastania

E-health evaluation, which involves different dimensions, has increased. In traditional healthcare, quality dimensions exist but these are not sufficiently exploited for e-health. Reliability is often examined regarding technology...

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Chapter 58

Privacy and Security in e-Health Applications (pages 1141-1166)

Milan Petkovic, Luan Ibraimi

The introduction of e-Health and extramural applications in the personal healthcare domain has raised serious concerns about security and privacy of health data. Novel digital technologies require other security approaches in...

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Chapter 59

Foundations of Trust for E-Health (pages 1167-1193)

Cynthia L. Corritore, Beverly Kracher, Susan Wiedenbeck, Robert Marble

Trust has always been an important element of healthcare. As healthcare evolves into ehealth, a question arises: What will the nature of trust be in ehealth? In this chapter the authors provide the reader with a foundation for...

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Chapter 60

Legal Issues in E-Healthcare Systems (pages 1194-1219)

Jawahitha Sarabdeen

E-healthcare systems through electronic medical records (EMRs), electronic prescribing and decision support systems endeavour to reduce the cost and errors in healthcare, while facilitating easy access to it. However the adoption of...

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Chapter 61

Representing Organizational Conservation of Information: A Review of Telemedicine and E-Health in Georgia (pages 1220-1235)

Max E. Stachura, Joseph Wood, Fjorentina Angjellari-Dajci, James Grayson, Elena V. Astapova, Hui-Lien Tung, Donald A. Sofge, W.F. Lawless

The authors review a model of the conservation of information (COI) applied to organizations. Following this review, the authors briefly review the mathematics in support of this model and its implications for the development of...

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Chapter 62

Implementation Issues on a National Electronic Health Record Network (pages 1236-1251)

John McGaha

The United States congress and the past several administrations have dedicated considerable funding for incentives focused on accelerating the adoption by the healthcare industry of Health Information Technology (HIT) solutions. The...

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Chapter 63

Caught in the Web: The Internet and the Demise of Medical Privacy (pages 1252-1272)

Keith A. Bauer

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of...

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Chapter 64

Interprofessional Care and Health Care Complexity: Factors Shaping Human Resources Effectiveness in Health Information Management (pages 1273-1302)

Kerry Johnson, Jayshiro Tashiro

Health care systems are complex and often approach a deterministic chaos in the number and types of interactions that occur among health care providers and patients, as well as among the providers themselves. Such complexity may be...

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Chapter 65

Reframing Dichotomies: Human Experiential Design of Healthcare Technologies (pages 1303-1331)

Kei Hoshi

The aim of this chapter is to propose a new way to meaningfully bridge the dichotomy between technological and human concerns in the context of E-health systems. We see ‘Design’ as having the responsibility to ensure that humans can...

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Chapter 66

Ethical Guidelines for the Quality Assessment of Healthcare (pages 1332-1347)

Amit Chattopadhyay, Khushdeep Malhotra, Sharmila Chatterjee

One of the keystone concepts of healthcare improvement is the belief that informed choices will lead to enhanced quality of life and healthcare. Medical Ethics, or Bioethics, is the study of moral issues in the fields of medical...

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Chapter 67

Unlearning and Relearning in Online Health Education (pages 1348-1363)

Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari

This chapter discusses the role of integrating medical education with medical practice through online collaborative learning among the various stakeholders involved with healthcare education and practice. It elaborates the discussion...

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Chapter 68

The Concept of Interoperability for AAL Systems (pages 1364-1385)

Lamprini T. Kolovou, Dimitrios K. Lymberopoulos

e-Health considers the healthcare environment as an electronic workspace where different Medical Information Systems (MIS) supports the automation of information processing, the exchange of medical and administrative data and the...

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Emerging Trends

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Chapter 69

Privacy Considerations for Electronic Health Records (pages 1387-1402)

Mary Kuehler, Nakeisha Schimke, John Hale

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are a powerful tool for healthcare providers and patients. Both groups benefit from unified, easily accessible record management; however, EHR systems also bring new threats to patient privacy....

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Chapter 70

Secure Exchange of Electronic Health Records (pages 1403-1424)

Alejandro Enrique Flores, Khin Than Win, Willy Susilo

Protecting the confidentiality of a patient’s information in a shared care environment could become a complex task. Correct identification of users, assigning of access permissions, and resolution of conflict rise as main points of...

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Chapter 71

A Medical Data Trustworthiness Assessment Model (pages 1425-1445)

Bandar Alhaqbani, Colin Fidge

Electronic Health Record systems are being introduced to overcome the limitations associated with paper-based and isolated Electronic Medical Record systems. This is accomplished by aggregating medical data and consolidating them in...

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Chapter 72

Usability Engineering and E-Health (pages 1446-1468)

David Haniff

The chapter presents case studies of e-health applications that the author has been involved in such as a paramedic application that presented treatment information to the paramedic. Furthermore, a review of e-health applications to...

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Chapter 73

Dynamic Stress Management: Self-Help through Holistic System Design (pages 1469-1486)

Åsa Smedberg, Hélène Sandmark

Different kinds of applications for self-help are available on the Internet today. Some aim to intervene with users’ life patterns such as negative stress exposure. It is not always an easy task to manage stressful life situations...

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Chapter 74

Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Lead to Healthcare Rationing? (pages 1487-1507)

Mary Brown

The Affordable Healthcare for America Bill that was signed into law in March 2010 includes support for activities that come under the heading of ‘comparative effectiveness’ research. The bill attempts to accelerate the conversion to...

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Chapter 75

Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Safety, Ownership and Privacy Issues (pages 1508-1522)

Anastasius Moumtzoglou

The collaborative nature of Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0 and its emphasis on personalized health care clearly outlines it with respect to e-health and Web 2.0. The Semantic Web uses the notion that the meaning of a concept relates to...

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Chapter 76

Potential of WEB Based Learning in Managing for the Sustained Success of a Healthcare Organization Based on IMPROHEALTH® Project (pages 1523-1540)

Kristina Zgodavová, Aleš Bourek

This paper discusses managing healthcare organization for sustained success through the use of IMPROHEALTH® project WEB based learning. The paper describes functions and properties of the IMPROHEALTH® portal, as well as services...

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Chapter 77

The Evolving Role of Pharmacoinformatics in Targeting Drug-Related Problems in Clinical Oncology Practice (pages 1541-1588)

Kevin Yi-Lwern Yap

The rapid growth of the internet and the World Wide Web has led to the development of pharmacoinformatics technologies to assist oncology healthcare professionals in delivering optimum pharmaceutical care and health-related outcomes....

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Chapter 78

Emerging Trends in User-Driven Healthcare: Negotiating Disclosure in Online Health Community Organizations (pages 1589-1606)

Handan Victan

The purpose of this chapter is to explore transformations in market roles and relations that reflect collaborative, connective and communal characteristics among healthcare market actors, in light of technological advances and...

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Chapter 79

The Emerging Hispanic Use of Online Health Information in the United States: Cultural Convergence or Dissociation? (pages 1607-1621)

Nicole St. Germaine-McDaniel

As health-information websites become more popular, healthcare corporations have worked quickly to create Spanish-language sites to reach the Spanish-speaking population. However, changes have to be made in order to effectively adapt...

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Chapter 80

E-Discovery and Health Care IT: An Investigation (pages 1622-1635)

Vasupradha Vasudevan, H.R. Rao

The increase in electronic health records has introduced an increase risk of litigation related to collection, storage and exchange of health information. This chapter explores the issues associated with activities involving legal...

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Chapter 81

The Nationwide Health Information Network: A Biometric Approach to Prevent Medical Identity Theft (pages 1636-1649)

Omotunde Adeyemo

The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) promises many benefits, but may be prone to a new phenomenon in healthcare fraud now rapidly drawing attention and commonly referred to as medical identity theft. As the medical...

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