Digital advances in medicine, e-health, and communication technologies

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Rodrigues, Joel, 1972-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.
• Subjects: Medical informatics.; Body area networks (Electronics); Telecommunication in medicine.; Medical Informatics.; Telemedicine > methods.; Biomedical and biosensors engineering; E-health; Health and healthcare applications; Information and knowledge managements tools; Medical communications; Mobile applications; Wireless sensor networks
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book explores the developments and trends in medical informatics and their approaches toward telemedicine and e-health applications"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• A comprehensive overview of wireless body area networks (WBAN) / Nourchene Bradai, Lamia Chaari, Lotfi Kamoun
• An advanced and secure Symbian-based mobile approach for body sensor networks interaction / Orlando R. E. Pereira, João M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
• Pervasive computing support in the transition towards personalised health systems / Martín Serrano ... [et al.]
• Study of zero velocity update for both low- and high-speed human activities / R. Zhang, M. Loschonsky, L.M. Reindl
• Applications of policy based agents in wireless body sensor mesh networks for patient health monitoring / Kevin Miller, Suresh Sankaranarayanan
• Acquisition of multiple physiological parameters during physical exercise / Virginie Felizardo ... [et al.]
• QoS concepts and architecture over wireless body area networks for healthcare applications / Lamia Chaari, Lotfi Kamoun
• Improving supervised classification of activities of daily living using prior knowledge / Anthony Fleury, Norbert Noury, Michel Vacher
• Development of audio sensing technology for ambient assisted living: applications and challenges / Michel Vacher ... [et al.]
• On the use of Home Node Bs for emergency telemedicine applications in various indoor environments / Edward Mutafungwa ... [et al.]
• Modeling emergency and telemedicine health support system: a service oriented architecture approach using cloud computing / Weider D. Yu, Radhika Bhagwat
• Discrete portable measuring device for monitoring noninvasive intraocular pressure with a nano-structured sensing contact lens prototype / Ana Moya ... [et al.]
• A prototype agent based model and machine learning hybrid system for healthcare decision support / Marek Laskowski
• Proposed framework for the deployment of telemedicine centers in rural Bangladesh / Raqibul Mostafa ... [et al.]
• Affordable system for rapid detection and mitigation of emerging diseases / Nuwan Waidyanatha ... [et al.]
• Malaria parasite detection: automated method using microscope color Image / Anant R. Koppar, Venugopalachar Sridhar
• A tool for automatic Hammersmith infant neurological examination / Debi Prosad Dogra ... [et al.]
• Evaluating the IEEE 802.15.6 2.4GHz WBAN proposal on medical multi-parameter monitoring under WiFi/Bluetooth interference / Yufei Wang, Qixin Wang
• Expected communications technology to track avian influenza and related the statement of appeal by ITU-D SG2 Q14 / Isao Nakajima ... [et al.]
• Design considerations for delivering e-learning to surgical trainees / Jane Coughlan, Willem-Paul Brinkman
• Research essay: the ethics of e-health / Christopher C. Hood, Sarah Bougourd.