Pervasive Healthcare Computing

This book is presents the latest research into Pervasive Healthcare Computing. It sets out the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare, and covers emerging challenges of IT in healthcare.

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile telemedicine.

Pervasive Healthcare Computing includes the treatment of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

Introduces healthcare IT challenges and requirements (patient-oriented, system-oriented, and healthcare professionals-oriented) Presents a state-of-the-art overview of all available and emerging wireless and mobile technologies Covers emerging challenges of IT in healthcare such as context-awareness, reliability, adaptiveness, scalability of wireless health monitoring systems, suitability, and personalization

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Pervasive Healthcare Computing

Upkar Varshney

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare monitoring), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, and transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include pervasive health monitoring, intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile telemedicine.

Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring fills the need for a research-oriented book on the wide array of emerging healthcare applications and services, including the treatment of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare. This book is written primarily for university faculty and graduate students in the field of healthcare technologies, and industry professionals involved in healthcare IT research, design, and development.

Inhalt
Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Solutions.- E-Health and IT in Healthcare.- Pervasive Computing and Healthcare.- Wireless and Mobile Technologies.- Wireless Health Monitoring: Requirements and Examples.- Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art.- Medical Decision Making.- Health Monitoring using Infrastructure-oriented.- Ad Hoc Networks for Health Monitoring.- Using Incentives in Wireless Health Monitoring.- Context-awareness in Healthcare.- Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability.