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Pervasive Healthcare Computing List of Contents
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Chapter 1 Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Solutions
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1.1 Healthcare System in US
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1.2 Costs and Complexity of Payments
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1.3 Limited Number of Healthcare Professionals
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1.4 Technological & Other Inefficiencies in Healthcare
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1.5 Patients-related Challenges
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1.6 Cost of Medications & Poor Adherence
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1.7 Medical Errors & Quality of Care
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1.8 Healthcare Billing and Fraud
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1.9 Improvements with Technologies in Healthcare
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1.10 Rest of the Book
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Chapter 2: E-Health and IT in Healthcare
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2.1 E-health
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2.2 EMR and EHR
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2.3 Issues in EMR/EHR 2.3.1 The Major Challenges to National EHR
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2.4 Telemedicine
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2.5 Future of IT in Healthcare
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Chapter 3: Pervasive Computing and Healthcare
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3.1 Pervasive Computing
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3.2 Pervasive Healthcare
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3.3 Pervasive Healthcare Requirements
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3.4 Open Issues and Challenges
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Chapter 4: Wireless and Mobile Technologies
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4.1 Introduction
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4.2 The Commercial Cellular/3G Networks
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4.3 Wireless LANs
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4.4 Satellites
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4.5 Sensors
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4.6 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
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4.7 Bluetooth
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4.8 ZigBee
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4.9 Fixed Wireless and WiMAX
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4.10 The Overall Picture
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4.11 Conclusions and the Future
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Chapter 5 Wireless Health Monitoring: Requirements and Examples
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5.1 Introduction
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5.2 The Monitoring Environments
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5.3 General Monitoring Requirements
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5.4 Vital Signs and Medical Parameters
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5.5 Specific Vital Signs
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5.6 An Example of Monitoring Scenario and Requirements
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5.7 Sleep Apnea Monitoring
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5.8 Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring
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5.9 Wireless Stress Monitoring
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5.10 Stray Prevention Monitoring
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5.11 Some More Types of Monitoring
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5.12 Conclusions and Future
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Chapter 6 Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art and Implementations
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6.1 State-of-the Art in Wireless Health Monitoring
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6.2 Evolution of WHM
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6.3 A High-level Framework for WHM
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6.4 An Implementation
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6.5 The Future of WHM
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Chapter 7 Medical Decision Making
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7.1 Introduction
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7.2 Requirements and Functions of Healthcare Professionals
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7.3 The Role of Healthcare Professionals’ Devices
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7.4 An Example of Medical Decision Making
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7.5 What to Do When Something Goes Wrong
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7.6 Cognitive Load
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7.7 Alert Monitoring and Management System
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7.8 The Future of Medical Decision Making in WHM
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Chapter 8: Health Monitoring using Infrastructure-oriented Wireless Networks
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8.1 Introduction
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8.2 Networking Requirements of Wireless Health Monitoring
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8.3. Advantages of Cellular/3G for Health Monitoring
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8.4 Limitations of Cellular/3G for WHM
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8.5 Advantages of W-LANs in Health Monitoring
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8.6 Limitations of W-LANs for WHM
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8.7 Comparison of Cellular/3G and Wireless LANs
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8.8 Reliability for Wireless Health Monitoring
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8.9 Other Networking Considerations
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8.10 Future
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Chapter 9: Ad Hoc Networks for Health Monitoring
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9.1 Introduction
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9.2 Challenges for Wireless Health Monitoring
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9.3 Existing Ad Hoc Networks
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9.4 Monitoring Protocols
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9.5 Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
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9.6 Reliability of Ad Hoc Network Monitoring
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9.7 Future
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Chapter 10 Using Incentives in Wireless Health Monitoring
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10.1 Introduction
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10.2 Overcoming the Non-cooperation of Routers
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10.3 Incentives for Co-operation of Devices
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10.4 Steps in Obtaining Co-operation
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10.5 Protocols and Operations
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10.6 The Decision Making Protocols
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10.7 Strategies for Nodes
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10.8 Challenges in the Implementation of Incentives
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10.9 Conclusions and Future Research
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Chapter 11: Context-awareness in Healthcare
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11.1 Introduction
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11.2 Context and Context Awareness
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11.3 Context in Healthcare
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11.4. Context in Health Monitoring
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11.5 Integration of Context Information and Details
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11.6 From Context-awareness to Health-Awareness
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11.7 Summary and Future
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Chapter 12 Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability
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12. 1 Introduction
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12.2 Challenges in Mental Health Monitoring
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12.3 Examples of MHM
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12.4 Monitoring of Medication Compliance and Addiction
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12.5 Disability Monitoring and Verification
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12.6 Conclusions and Future
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