Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications

Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications

Phillip Olla, Joseph Tan

Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 366

ISBN13: 9781605663326|ISBN10: 1605663328|EISBN13: 9781605663333|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925260

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-332-6

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Healthcare systems are now experiencing a variety of challenges with the integration of mobile and ubiquitous technology.

Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications provides an international perspective on the benefits of mobile health technology and describes different examples and applications implemented in global healthcare. This book presents research on the emergence of pervasive computing and health care systems that provide quality patient care services.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Mobile Health Applications and Technologies

Chapter 1

Evaluation of Two Mobile Nutrition Tracking Applications for Chronically Ill Populations with Low Literacy Skills (pages 1-23)

Katie A Siek, Kay H Connelly, Beenish Chaudry, Desiree Lambert, Janet L. Welch

In this chapter, the authors discuss two case studies that compare and contrast the use of barcode scanning, voice recording, and patient self reporting as a means to monitor the nutritional intake of a chronically ill population. In...

Chapter 2

Accessing an Existing Virtual Electronic Patient Record with a Secure Wireles Architecture (pages 24-44)

Ana Ferreira, Luis Barreto, Pedro Brandao, Ricardo Correia

Virtual electronic patient records (VEPR) enable the integration and sharing of healthcare information within large and heterogeneous organizations by aggregating known data elements about patients from different information systems...

Chapter 3

Personal Health Records Systems Go Mobile: Defining Evaluation Components (pages 45-70)

Phillip Olla, Joseph Tan

This chapter provides an overview of mobile personal health record (MPHR) systems. A Mobile personal health record is an eclectic application through which patients can access, manage, and share their health information from a mobile...

Chapter 4

Medical Information Representation Framework for Mobile Healthcare (pages 71-91)

Ing Widya, HaiLiang Mei, Bert-Jan Beijnum, Jacqueline Wijsman, Hermie Hermens

In mobile healthcare, medical information are often expressed in different formats due to the local policies and regulations and the heterogeneity of the applications, systems, and the adopted Information and communication...

Chapter 5

A Distributed Approach of a Clinical Decision Support System Based on Cooperation (pages 92-110)

Daniel Ruiz-Fernandez, Antonio Soriano-Paya

The incorporation of computer engineering into medicine has meant significant improvements in the diagnosis-related tasks. This chapter presents an architecture for diagnosis support based on the collaboration among different...

Chapter 6

Managing Mobile Healthcare Knowledge: Physicians' Perceptions on Knowledge Creation and Reuse (pages 111-127)

Teppo Räisänen, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Katja Leiviskä, Matti Seppänen, Markku Kallio

Incorporating healthcare information systems into clinical settings has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve the quality of work in general by improving medical decision making and by saving time. This chapter aims to...

Patient Monitoring and Wearable Devices

Chapter 7

Patient Monitoring in Diverse Environments (pages 129-142)

Yousef Jasemian

Recording of physiological vital signs in patients’ real-life environment could be especially useful in management of chronic disorders; for example for heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, anorexia nervosa, chronic pain, or severe...

Chapter 8

Monitoring Hospital Patients Using Ambient Displays (pages 143-158)

Monica Tentori, Daniela Segura, Jesus Favela

Hospital work is characterized by intense mobility, a frequent switching between tasks, and the need to collaborate and coordinate activities among specialists. These working conditions impose important demands on hospital staff...

Chapter 9

Towards Easy-to-Use, Safe, and Secure Wireless Medical Body Sensor Networks (pages 159-179)

Javier Espina, Heribert Baldus, Thomas Falck, Oscar Garcia, Karin Klabunde

Wireless body sensor networks (BSNs) are an indispensable building stone for any pervasive healthcare system. Although suitable wireless technologies are available and standardization dedicated to BSN communication has been...

Chapter 10

Sensing of Vital Signs and Transmission Using Wireless Networks (pages 180-207)

Yousef Jasemian

People living with chronic medical conditions, or with conditions requiring short term monitoring, need regular and individualized care to maintain their normal lifestyles. Mobile healthcare is a solution for providing patients’...

Chapter 11

Towards Wearable Physiological Monitoring on a Mobile Phone (pages 208-243)

Nuria Oliver, Fernando Flores-Mangas, Rodrigo de Oliveira

In this chapter, we present our experience in using mobile phones as a platform for real-time physiological monitoring and analysis. In particular, we describe in detail the TripleBeat system, a research prototype that assists...

Context Aware Systems

Chapter 12

A Framework for Capturing Patient Consent in Pervasive Healthcare Applications (pages 245-259)

Giovanni Russello, Changyu Dong, Naranker Dualy

In this chapter, the authors describe a new framework for pervasive healthcare applications where the patient’s consent has a pivotal role. In their framework, patients are able to control the disclosure of their medical data. The...

Chapter 13

Technology Enablers for Context-Aware Healthcare Applications (pages 260-269)

Filipe Meneses, Adriano Moreira

The increasing availability of mobile devices and wireless networks, and the tendency for them to become ubiquitous in our dally lives, creates a favourable technological environment for the emergence of new, simple, and added-value...

Chapter 14

Modeling Spatiotemporal Developments in Spatial Health Systems (pages 270-284)

Bjorn Gottfried

This chapter introduces spatial health systems, identifies fundamental properties of these systems, and details for specific applications the methods to be applied in order to show how problems are solved in this field. On the one...

Chapter 15

Context-Aware Task Distribution for Enhanced M-health Application Performance (pages 285-307)

Hailiang Mei, Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Ing Widya, Val Jones, Hermie Hermens

Building context-aware mobile healthcare systems has become increasingly important with the emergence of new medical sensor technologies, the fast adoption of advanced mobile systems, and improved quality of care required by today’s...

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