Overview
- 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Improving the technology involved in building healthcare systems remains a critical challenge in providing healthcare … . Varshney carefully delineates in this book the need for improving the technology associated with providing healthcare. … Overall, this is a very well-written book. Varshney has acquired a large amount of information to explain the topics discussed, and presents it with a reasonable level of detail." (Varadraj Gurupur, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pervasive Healthcare Computing
Book Subtitle: EMR/EHR, Wireless and Health Monitoring
Authors: Upkar Varshney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0215-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0214-6Published: 11 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5496-1Published: 05 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0215-3Published: 21 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Hardware, Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Input/Output and Data Communications, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Health Informatics