Grid Technologies for E-Health: Applications for Telemedicine Services and Delivery

Grid Technologies for E-Health: Applications for Telemedicine Services and Delivery

Ekaterine Kldiashvili

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 280

ISBN13: 9781616920104|ISBN10: 1616920106|EISBN13: 9781616920111|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923754

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-010-4

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Grid computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovative applications as well as an establishment for the creation of e-health networks.

Grid Technologies for E-Health: Applications for Telemedicine Services and Delivery examines innovations to further improve medical management using grid computing. A defining collection of field advancements, this publication discusses the significance of automation and IT resources in healthcare technology previously infeasible due to computing and data-integration constraints.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Application of Virtual Organization Technology for eHealth (pages 1-17)

Ekaterine Kldiashvili

Several years ago any talk related to the Internet would have to be proceeded by an explanation of what it is and how it works. At present information and communication technologies became the essential part of our life and practical...

Chapter 2

Grid Technology: E-Learning in Telemedicine and Organizational Collaboration (pages 18-35)

I. H. Monrad Aas

The present chapter is about telemedicine, but not about software and hardware. It is about humanware. Telemedicine’s greatest problem is not to make the technology work. It is organizations and humans in organizations who will...

Chapter 3

Health and Health Care Grid Services and Delivery Integrating eHealth and Telemedicine (pages 36-64)

Thomas Clark

Health Grids offer new solutions and alternatives to existing models for the delivery of Healthcare Services to diverse Populations across dissimilar Geographical and Political Regions. Incorporating new medical science, legal...

Chapter 4

The Teams of Leaders (Tol) Concept: The Grid, the Mesh, and the People in the World of Information and Knowledge-Based Global Healthcare (pages 65-104)

Dag von Lubitz

The revolution in computer, information, and telecommunication sciences facilitated revolution in “the way we do business.” Despite the wealth of new actionable information and actionable knowledge that this revolution created in...

Chapter 5

Grid Architecture and Components in Diagnostic Pathology (pages 105-116)

Gloria Bueno García, Marcial García Rojo, Roberto González Morales, Oscar Déniz Suárez, Jesús García González

The Grid vision has been described as a world in which computational power (resources, services, data) is as readily available as different utilities. They are available to users by means of computational, data, application...

Chapter 6

Grid Technology in Telepatology and Personalised Treatment (pages 117-128)

O. Ferrer-Roca, F Marcan, ME. Vidal, Roberto Fernández-Baíllo, E. Ruckhaus, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina, X. Santos, E Iglesias

Histopathology requires automation, quality control and global collaborative tools. Usually the PIMS (Pathology information management system) automates samples, images and reports and progressively incorporates the PI (Pathology...

Chapter 7

Gridifying Neuroscientific Pipelines: A SOA Recipe and Experience from the neuGRID Project (pages 129-151)

David Manset

In recent times, innovative new e-Infrastructures have materialized all around the globe to address the compelling and unavoidably increasing demand on computing power and storage capacity. All fields of science have entered an era...

Chapter 8

Computational Grids: An Introduction to Potential Biomedical Uses and Future Prospects in oncology; Neuro-Oncology applications as a model for cancer sub-specialties (pages 152-163)

Ribhi Hazin, Ibrahim Qaddoumi, Francisco Pedrosa

A network of interconnected computers, or “computational grids,” can facilitate the ability of users to complete complex computational tasks that would be virtually impossible with a single computer. By leveraging the computational...

Chapter 9

Grid for Post Operative Care through Wireless Sensor Networks (pages 164-181)

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...

Chapter 10

Data Security in Electronic Health Records (pages 182-194)

Stefane M Kabene, Raymond W. Leduc, Candace J Gibson

Traditionally, patient information has been recorded on paper and stored in file folders at healthcare facilities and within physicians’ offices. The implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), the lifetime record of an...

Chapter 11

A Secure Teleradiology Grid (pages 195-204)

Robert Rudowski, Michal Dzierzak, Bartosz Kaczynski

A modern secure teleradiology grid consists of several important parts. The first part is to ensure the highest security of storing the medical data. At present time the old fashioned storage solutions are replaced by Grid Storage...

Chapter 12

Tele-Audiology in the United States: Past, Present, and Future (pages 205-214)

John Ribera

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 has been conducted in order to validate the use of telehealth...

Chapter 13

Global Health Network Supercourse and Cancer Epidemiology: Free Cancer Epidemiology Resources on the Internet (pages 215-223)

Faina Linkov, Elizabeth Radke, Mita Lovalekar, Ronald LaPorte

There have been even fewer scientific studies examining the translation of prevention research into the classroom. In order to improve global cancer education, global cancer educators need access to good educational lectures and...

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