The E-Medicine, E-Health, M-Health, Telemedicine, and Telehealth Handbook provides extensive coverage of modern telecommunication in the medical industry, from sensors on and within the body to electronic medical records and beyond.
Telehealth and Mobile Health is the second volume of this handbook. Featuring chapters written by leading experts and researchers in their respective fields, this volume:
- Discusses telesurgery, medical robotics, and image guidance as well as telenursing and remote patient care
- Describes the implementation of networks, data management, record management, and effective personnel training
- Explains how the use of new technologies brings many business, management, and service opportunities
- Provides examples of scientific advancements such as brain-controlled bionic human arms and hands
- Incorporates clinical applications throughout for practical reference
The E-Medicine, E-Health, M-Health, Telemedicine, and Telehealth Handbook
bridges the gap between scientists, engineers, and medical professionals by creating synergy in the related fields of biomedical engineering, information and communication technology, business, and healthcare.MEDICAL ROBOTICS, TELESURGERY, AND IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY
Medical Robotics
Giancarlo Ferrigno, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Elena De Momi, Emilia Ambrosini, and Elisa Beretta
Modern Devices for Telesurgery
Florian Gosselin
Microsurgery Systems
Leonardo S. Mattos, Diego Pardo, Emidio Olivieri, Giacinto Barresi, Jesus Ortiz, Loris Fichera, Nikhil Deshpande, and Veronica Penza
Image-Guided Microsurgery
Tom Williamson, Marco Caversaccio, Stefan Weber, and Brett Bell
TELENURSING, PERSONALIZED CARE, PATIENT CARE, AND EEMERGENCY SYSTEMS
eHealth and Telenursing
Sinclair Wynchank and Nathanael Sabbah
mHealth: Intelligent Closed-Loop Solutions for Personalized Healthcare
Carmen C. Y. Poon and Kevin K. F. Hung
Patient Care Sensing and Monitoring Systems
Akihiro Kajiwara and Ryohei Nakamura
Mobile Health Sleep Technologies
Anda Baharav
Cardiovascular Disease Management via Electronic Health
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Ioannis Andreadis, Vasileios Kolias, and Konstantina S. Nikita
mHealth eEmergency Systems
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Andreas Panayides, and Panayiotis Constantinides
NETWORKS AND DATABASES, INFORMATICS, RECORD MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Global and Local Health Information, Databases, and Networks
Kostas Giokas, Yiannis Makris, Anna Paidi, Marios Prasinos, Dimitra Iliopoulou, and Dimitris Koutsouris
Electronic Medical Records: Management and Implementation
Liping Liu
Public Health Informatics in Australia and around the World
Kathleen Gray and Fernando Martin Sanchez
Ubiquitous Personal Health Records for Remote Regions
Lee H. Seldon, Jacey-Lynn Minoi, Mahmud Ahsan, and Ali Abdulwahab A. Al-Habsi
Education and Training for Supporting General Practitioners in the Use of Clinical Telehealth: A Needs Analysis
Sisira Edirippulige, Nigel R. Armfield, Liam Caffery, and Anthony C. Smith
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES, AND WEB APPLICATIONS
Delivering eHealthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
Deborah A. Helman, Eric J. Addeo, N. Iwan Santoso, David W. Walters, and Guy Helman
Mobile Healthcare User Interface Design Application Strategies
Ann L. Fruhling, Sharmila Raman, and Scott McGrath
Epidemic Tracking and Disease Monitoring in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Pakistan
Hammad Qureshi, Arshad Ali, Shamila Keyani, and Ahmad Atif Mumtaz
mHealth and Web Applications
Javier Pindter-Medina
Investigation and Assessment of Effectiveness of Knowledge Brokering on Web 2.0 in Health Sector in Quebec, Canada
Moktar Lamari and Saliha Ziam
EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES: VIRTUAL SYSTEMS, IMAGE PROCESSING, BIOKINEMATICS, MEASUREMENTS, AND VLSI
Virtual Doctor Systems for Medical Practices
Hamido Fujita and Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Synthetic Biometrics in Biomedical Systems
Kenneth Lai, Steven Samoil, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, and Adrian Stoica
Performance Analysis of Transform-Based Medical Image-Compression Methods for Telemedicine
Sujitha Juliet and Elijah Blessing Rajsingh
Tracking the Position and Orientation of Ultrasound Probe for Image-Guided Surgical Procedures
Basem F. Yousef
Biokinematics for Mobility: Theory, Sensors, and Wireless Measurements
Atila Yilmaz and Tuna Orhanli
Biopotentials and Electrophysiology Measurements
Nitish V. Thakor
Sensor Signal Conditioning for Biomedical Instrumentation
Tomas E. Ward
Sensor-Based Human Activity-Recognition Techniques
Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, and Sungyoung Lee
Very Large-Scale Integration Bioinstrumentation Circuit Design and Nanopore Applications
Jungsuk Kim and William B. Dunbar
Wireless Electrical Impedance Tomography: LabVIEW-Based Automatic Electrode Switching
Tushar Kanti Bera
Biography
Halit Eren received his B.Eng, M.Eng, and Ph.D degrees from the University of Sheffield, UK, and MBA from Curtin University. He has worked as an instrumentation engineer, and held positions of assistant professorship at Hacettepe University and the Middle East Technical University; associate professorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University; visiting professorship at the University of Wisconsin; and visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield. Dr. Eren has been conducting research and teaching at Curtin University for more than 30 years. He currently holds an adjunct senior research fellowship at the university. Widely published, Dr. Eren is a senior member of the IEEE.
John G. Webster received his BEE from Cornell University, and his MSEE and a Ph.D from the University of Rochester. Dr. Webster is currently professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Previously, he was a highly cited researcher at King Abdulaziz University. Widely published, Dr. Webster is a fellow of the IEEE, ISA, AIMBE, BMES, and IOP. He has been a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section, and the recipient of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Career Achievement Award.