M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems (Hardcover, 2006)

Preface.- Introduction to Mobile M-Health Systems: Ubiquitous M-Health Systems and the Convergence towards 4G Mobile Technologies.- The Efficacy of the M-Health Paradigm: Incorporating Technological, Organizational and Managerial Perspectives.- Wireless Intelligent Sensors.- Wireless Technologies for Healthcare Applications.- Wireless Communication Technologies for Mobile Healthcare Applications: Experiences and Evaluations of Security Related Issues.- Secure Mobile Health Systems: Principles and Solutions.- Computational and Wireless Modeling for Collaborative Virtual Medical Teams.- Smart Mobile Applications for Health Professionals: Section Overview.- The Memo Project: An Accompanying Measure for Medical Mobile Devices.- Medical Natural Language Processing Enhancing Drug Ordering and Coding.- Mobi-Dev: Mobile Devices for Healthcare Applications.- Wardinhand.- DOCMEM-Mobile Access to Electronic Health Records.- Smartie: Smart Medical Applications Repository of Tools for Informed Expert Decision.- Telemedicine as a New Possibility to Improve Health Care Delivery.- Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services Based on Body Area Networks.- Mobihealth: Mobile Services for Health Professionals.- DITIS: A Collaborative Virtual Medical Team for Home Healthcare of Cancer Patients.- Future Challenges and Recommendations.- Signal, Image and Video Compression for M-Health Application: Section Overview.- Biosignals and Compression Standards.- Resilient ECG Wavelet Coding for Wireless Real-Time Telecardiology Applications.- The JPEG2000 Image Compression Standard in Health Systems.- Compression of Volumetric Date in Mobile Health Systems.- An Overview of Digital Video Compression for Mobile Health Systems.- Future Challenges and Recommendations.- Emergency Health Care Systems and Services: Section Overview.- ECG Telecare: Past, Present, and Future.- Medical Aspects of Prehospital Cardiac Telecare.- An Emergency Telemedicine System Based on Wireless Communication Technology: A Case Study.- Application of Mobile Communication Techniques for Emergency Telemedicine.- Future Challenges and Recommendations.- Echography Systems and Services: Section Overview.- Mobile Tele-Echography Systems: Teleinvivo - A Case Study.- A Tele-Operated Robotic System for Mobile Tele-Echography: The Otelo Project.- User Interface Environment and Image Communication in Mobile Tele-Echography.- Object-Based Ultrasound Video Processing for Wireless Transmission in Cardiology.- Future Challenges and Recommendations.- Remote and Home Monitoring: Section Overview.- Civilian Telemedicine in Remote and Extreme Environments.- Telematic Requirements for Emergency and Disaster Response Derived from Enterprise Models.- Telematic Support for Disaster Situations.- Remote Monitoring for Healthcare and for Safety in Extreme Environments.- Chronic Patient's Management: the COPD Example.- A Mobile Telemedicine Workspace for Diabetes Management.- Mobile Management and Prescription of Medication.- Future Challenges and Recommendations.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.