Mobile health solutions for biomedical applications

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Olla, Phillip., Tan, Joseph K. H.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Series: Advances in healthcare information systems and informatics (AHISI) series.
• Subjects: Telecommunication in medicine.; Mobile communication systems.; Wireless communication systems.; Cell phones.; Medical technology.; Telemedicine.; Ambulatory Monitoring.; Cellular Phone.; Computers, Handheld.; Medical Records Systems, Computerized.; User-Computer Interface.; Clinical decision support system; Context aware systems; Framework for mobile healthcare; Managing mobile healthcare knowledge; Mobile health applications and technologies; Mobile nutrition tracking applications; Mobile personal health records; Patient consent in pervasive healthcare applications; Patient monitoring and wearable devices; Patient monitoring in diverse environments; Virtual electronic patient record
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Healthcare systems are now experiencing a variety of challenges with the integration of mobile and ubiquitous technology. This book provides an international perspective on the benefits of mobile health technology and describes examples and applications implemented in global healthcare. This book pr...

Table of Contents:

• Evaluation of two mobile nutrition tracking applications for chronically ill populations with low literacy skills / Katie A. Siek ... [et al.]
• Accessing an existing virtual electronic patient record with a secure wireless architecture / Ana Ferreira ... [et al.]
• Personal health records systems go mobile: defining evaluation concepts / Phillip Olla, Joseph Tan
• Medical information representation framework for mobile healthcare / Ing Widya ... [et al.]
• A distributed approach of a clinical decision support system based on cooperation / Daniel Ruiz-Fernández, Antonio Soriano-Payá
• Managing mobile healthcare knowledge: physicians' perceptions on knowledge creation and reuse / Teppo Räisänen ... [et al.]
• Patient monitoring in diverse environments / Yousef Jasemian
• Monitoring hospital patients using ambient displays / Monica Tentori, Daniela Segura, Jesus Favela
• Towards easy-to-use, safe, and secure wireless medical body sensor networks / Javier Espina ... [et al.]
• Sensing of vital signs and transmission using wireless networks / Yousef Jasemian
• Towards wearable physiological monitoring on a mobile phone / Nuria Oliver, Fernando Flores-Mangas, Rodrigo de Oliveria
• A framework for capturing patient consent in pervasive healthcare applications / Giovanni Russello, Changyu Dong, Naranker Dualy
• Technology enablers for context-aware healthcare applications / Filipe Meneses, Adriano Moreira
• Modeling spatiotemporal developments in spatial health systems / Bjorn Gottfried
• Context-aware task distribution for enhanced M-health application performance / Hailiang Mei ... [et al.].