Smart healthcare applications and services [electronic resource] : developments and practices / Carsten Rocker and Martina Ziefle, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts ([316] p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781609601829 (ebook)
- Home care services
- Medical informatics
- Medical telematics
- Medical technology
- Telemedicine -- instrumentation
- Independent Living
- Monitoring, Ambulatory -- instrumentation
- Patient Compliance
- Adaptive and tangible user interfaces for e-health systems
- Ambient assisted living environments
- Handheld devices and mobile computing in e-health systems
- Human aspects of future and emerging healthcare technologies
- Model-based design of e-health systems
- Privacy, security, and trust in e-health applications
- Social and societal implications of e-health applications
- Software infrastructures and architectures for implementing e-health applications
- Technologies and devices for smart healthcare systems
- Usability of healthcare information systems
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- RA645.3 .S55 2011e
- W83.1
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
1. Wireless networking credibility, device interoperability & other important issues to take into consideration for the deployment of a homecare service provision model / Konstantinos Perakis, Dimitris Koutsouris -- 2. Sensor networks in pervasive healthcare computing / Zhilbert Tafa -- 3. Next generation body area networks and smart environments for healthcare / Paul Fergus ... et al. -- 4. From idea to use : lessons learned from a participatory ICT healthcare case study / Henrik Enquist -- 5. Smart lifelogging technology for episodic memory support / Matthew L. Lee, Anind K. Dey -- 6. Resolving and mediating ambiguous contexts in pervasive environments / Nirmalya Roy, Sajal K. Das, Christine Julien -- 7. Supporting the ubiquitous doctor / Carlos Ferraz, Juliana Diniz -- 8. mVital : a standards compliant vital sign monitor / Yusuf Ozturk, Jayesh Sharma -- 9. A highly-interactive and user-friendly PHR application for the provision of homecare services / Vasso Koufi, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos -- 10. The portal monitor : a privacy-aware event-driven system for elder care / John F. Duncan, L. Jean Camp, William R. Hazlewood --
11. Interactivating rehabilitation through active multimodal feedback and guidance / Bert Bongers, Stuart Smith -- 12. Mapping input technology to ability / Ainara Garzo, Stefan P. Carmien, Xabier Madina -- 13. Restoring balance : replacing the vestibular sense with wearable vibrotactile feedback / Maria Jlia S. Benini ... et al. -- 14. A home-based system to support delivery of health and social care / Kenneth J. Turner.
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Provides an in-depth introduction into medical, social, psychological, and technical aspects of smart healthcare applications as well as their consequences for the design, use and acceptance of future systems.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Feb. 12, 2011).