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Pervasive Health Knowledge Management

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Editors:
  1. Rajeev Bali

    1. , Coventry University, Health Design and Technology Institute (, COVENTRY West Midlands, United Kingdom

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  2. Indrit Troshani

    1. The University of Adelaide Business Scho, Adelaide, Australia

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  3. Steve Goldberg

    1. Thornhill, Canada

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  4. Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    1. , RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

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  • Introduction to emerging research in pervasive healthcare
  • Focuses on application of pervasive computing for chronic disease management, particularly diabetes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
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  2. Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM?

    1. Introduction

      • Indrit Troshani, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 3-5

    2. Pervasive Computing and Healthcare

      • Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 7-13

    3. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare

      • Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 15-26

    4. Regulating Pervasive e-Health Services

      • Indrit Troshani, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 27-41

    5. e-Health Complexity and Actor–Network Theory

      • Indrit Troshani
      Pages 43-55

    6. e-Health Trends

      • Indrit Troshani, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 57-66

  4. KM and Pervasive Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Making Sense of Pervasive Healthcare: The Role of Knowledge Management

      • Rajeev K. Bali
      Pages 69-71

    3. Managing Knowledge in Crisis Scenarios: The Use of Pervasive Technologies

      • Rajeev K. Bali, Vikraman Baskaran, Aapo Immonen, Alan C. Richards, Ian M. Marshall, Raouf NG. Naguib
      Pages 73-80

    4. The Analysis and Design of a Pervasive Health Record: Perspectives From Malaysia

      • Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Rajeev K. Bali, Raouf NG Naguib, Ian M. Marshall
      Pages 81-101

    5. Quality Analysis of Sensors Data for Personal Health Records on Mobile Devices

      • John Puentes, Julien Montagner, Laurent Lecornu, Jaakko Lähteenmäki
      Pages 103-133

    6. Smartphone Application Design and Knowledge Management for People with Dementia

      • Nicola Armstrong, Christopher Nugent, George Moore, Dewar D. Finlay
      Pages 135-153

  5. The INET Solution and Diabetes Self-Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Critical Perspectives on a Possible Solution

      • Steve Goldberg, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 157-159

    3. A Pervasive Technology Solution for Supporting Diabetes Self-Care

      • Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani, Steve Goldberg
      Pages 161-171

    4. Achieving m-health Excellence

      • Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Steve Goldberg
      Pages 173-194

    5. Using Wireless to Monitor Chronic Disease Patients in Urban Poor Regions

      • Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Steve Goldberg
      Pages 195-208

    6. An Examination of the Business and IT Aspects of Wireless-Enabled Healthcare Solutions

      • Suresh Chalasani, Steve Goldberg, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
      Pages 209-220
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Keywords

About this book

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to a variety of pressures on healthcare systems, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for healthcare services, independent of time and place. Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare. This book proposes to define the emerging area of pervasive health and introduce key management principles, most especially knowledge management, its tools, techniques and technologies. In addition, the book takes a socio-technical, patient-centric approach which serves to emphasize the importance of a key triumvirate in healthcare management namely, the focus on people, process and technology. Last but not least the book discusses in detail a specific example of pervasive health, namely the potential use of a wireless technology solution in the monitoring of diabetic patients.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Coventry University, Health Design and Technology Institute (, COVENTRY West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Rajeev Bali

  • The University of Adelaide Business Scho, Adelaide, Australia

    Indrit Troshani

  • Thornhill, Canada

    Steve Goldberg

  • , RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

About the editors

Dr Rajeev K. Bali is a Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management at Coventry University. His main research interests lie in clinical and healthcare knowledge management (from both technical and organisational perspectives). He founded and leads the Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KARMAH) research subgroup (working under BIOCORE). He is well published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has been invited internationally to deliver presentations and speeches. He serves on various editorial boards and conference committees and is the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations as well as the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.

Mr Steve Goldberg In 1998 INET International Inc. was founded by Steve Goldberg. As INET’s President he leads the firm in data collection for international research studies, wireless healthcare programs and INET Mini-conferences. Mr. Goldberg started his 21-year information technology career at Systemhouse Ltd.  At Crowntek, he formed an executive collaboration to develop a $30 million IT services business. During his tenure at Cybermation, he transformed the organization from supporting mainframe applications to client/server applications. Prior to INET, at Compugen he successfully built a high-performance team to meet government and corporate e-business needs.  

Dr Indrit Troshani is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide Business School. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Edith Cowan University (Western Australia), an MSc in Computer-based Information Systems (Sunderland, UK), and a BBA (Hons) from Malaysia. His research interests and contributions include adoption and diffusion of mobile services andapplications in healthcare and network innovations in Business-to-Business (B2B) settings. Dr Indrit Troshani has been doing research in the area of m-commerce and e-business since he joined the University of Adelaide Business School in July 2003.

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, who currently holds the Epworth Chair Health Information Management was appointed in Dec 2009 as a Professor to RMIT University’s School of Business IT and Logistics after being a professor in the US for 15 years.   She researches and teaches in several areas within information systems including knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce, and organizational impacts of technology with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery.   Professor Wickramasinghe is well published with more than 200 referred scholarly articles, several books and an encyclopedia. She has collaborated with many large organizations such as NASA and GE as well as leading healthcare organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Kaiser and NorthWestern Memorial Hospital. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australia. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pervasive Health Knowledge Management

  • Editors: Rajeev Bali, Indrit Troshani, Steve Goldberg, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  • Series Title: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4514-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4513-5Published: 06 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8782-2Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4514-2Published: 06 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5946

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5954

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 378

  • Topics: Health Informatics

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