Pervasive Healthcare Computing - EMR/EHR, Wireless and Health Monitoring

Pervasive Healthcare Computing List of Contents

Chapter 1 Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Solutions

1.1 Healthcare System in US

1.2 Costs and Complexity of Payments

1.3 Limited Number of Healthcare Professionals

1.4 Technological & Other Inefficiencies in Healthcare

1.5 Patients-related Challenges

1.6 Cost of Medications & Poor Adherence

1.7 Medical Errors & Quality of Care

1.8 Healthcare Billing and Fraud

1.9 Improvements with Technologies in Healthcare

1.10 Rest of the Book

Chapter 2: E-Health and IT in Healthcare

2.1 E-health

2.2 EMR and EHR

2.3 Issues in EMR/EHR 2.3.1 The Major Challenges to National EHR

2.4 Telemedicine

2.5 Future of IT in Healthcare

Chapter 3: Pervasive Computing and Healthcare

3.1 Pervasive Computing

3.2 Pervasive Healthcare

3.3 Pervasive Healthcare Requirements

3.4 Open Issues and Challenges

Chapter 4: Wireless and Mobile Technologies

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Commercial Cellular/3G Networks

4.3 Wireless LANs

4.4 Satellites

4.5 Sensors

4.6 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

4.7 Bluetooth

4.8 ZigBee

4.9 Fixed Wireless and WiMAX

4.10 The Overall Picture

4.11 Conclusions and the Future

Chapter 5 Wireless Health Monitoring: Requirements and Examples

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Monitoring Environments

5.3 General Monitoring Requirements

5.4 Vital Signs and Medical Parameters

5.5 Specific Vital Signs

5.6 An Example of Monitoring Scenario and Requirements

5.7 Sleep Apnea Monitoring

5.8 Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring

5.9 Wireless Stress Monitoring

5.10 Stray Prevention Monitoring

5.11 Some More Types of Monitoring

5.12 Conclusions and Future

Chapter 6 Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art and Implementations

6.1 State-of-the Art in Wireless Health Monitoring

6.2 Evolution of WHM

6.3 A High-level Framework for WHM

6.4 An Implementation

6.5 The Future of WHM

Chapter 7 Medical Decision Making

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Requirements and Functions of Healthcare Professionals

7.3 The Role of Healthcare Professionals’ Devices

7.4 An Example of Medical Decision Making

7.5 What to Do When Something Goes Wrong

7.6 Cognitive Load

7.7 Alert Monitoring and Management System

7.8 The Future of Medical Decision Making in WHM

Chapter 8: Health Monitoring using Infrastructure-oriented Wireless Networks

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Networking Requirements of Wireless Health Monitoring

8.3. Advantages of Cellular/3G for Health Monitoring

8.4 Limitations of Cellular/3G for WHM

8.5 Advantages of W-LANs in Health Monitoring

8.6 Limitations of W-LANs for WHM

8.7 Comparison of Cellular/3G and Wireless LANs

8.8 Reliability for Wireless Health Monitoring

8.9 Other Networking Considerations

8.10 Future

Chapter 9: Ad Hoc Networks for Health Monitoring

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Challenges for Wireless Health Monitoring

9.3 Existing Ad Hoc Networks

9.4 Monitoring Protocols

9.5 Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

9.6 Reliability of Ad Hoc Network Monitoring

9.7 Future

Chapter 10 Using Incentives in Wireless Health Monitoring

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Overcoming the Non-cooperation of Routers

10.3 Incentives for Co-operation of Devices

10.4 Steps in Obtaining Co-operation

10.5 Protocols and Operations

10.6 The Decision Making Protocols

10.7 Strategies for Nodes

10.8 Challenges in the Implementation of Incentives

10.9 Conclusions and Future Research

Chapter 11: Context-awareness in Healthcare

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Context and Context Awareness

11.3 Context in Healthcare

11.4. Context in Health Monitoring

11.5 Integration of Context Information and Details

11.6 From Context-awareness to Health-Awareness

11.7 Summary and Future

Chapter 12 Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability

12. 1 Introduction

12.2 Challenges in Mental Health Monitoring

12.3 Examples of MHM

12.4 Monitoring of Medication Compliance and Addiction

12.5 Disability Monitoring and Verification

12.6 Conclusions and Future