Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems

Title Page
......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 6
Contents
by Volume......Page 16
Foreword......Page 32
Preface......Page 33
Acknowledgment......Page 37
About the Editors......Page 38
3D and 4D Medical Image Registration
Combined with Image Segmentation and
Visualization......Page 40
The ABC Approach and the Feminization of
HIV/AIDS in the Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 49
Acoustic Feature Analysis for Hypernasality
Detection in Children......Page 55
Adoption of ICT in an Australian Rural
Division of General Practice......Page 62
Advances and Trends in Tissue Engineering
of Heart Valves......Page 69
Advances in Bone Tissue Engineering to
Increase the Feasibility of Engineered
Implants......Page 77
Agent-Based Patient Scheduling......Page 85
Analytics: Unpacking AIDS Policy in the Black
Community......Page 93
Application of Wireless Data Grids for
Health Informatics......Page 100
Applications of Data Mining in the
Healthcare Industry......Page 107
Applying Cross Approximate Entropy to Blood
Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate from
Nocturnal Oximetry in Screening for
Obstructive Sleep Apnea......Page 113
Applying Independent Component Analysis
to the Artifact Detection Problem in
Magnetoencephalogram Background
Recordings......Page 123
Applying Social Network Analysis in a
Healthcare Setting......Page 132
Applying the Quality Loss Function in
Healthcare......Page 141
Appreciation Level and Organizational
Performance......Page 147
Arrhythmia Detection and Classification Using
Wavelet and ICA......Page 154
Assessing the Information Content of
Microarray Time Series......Page 161
ATM Networks: Basic Ideas and Health......Page 169
Automatic Quantification of P-Wave
Morphological Features......Page 173
Balancing the Capacity in Health Care......Page 180
Biomedical Data Warehouses......Page 188
Biomedical Signal Compression......Page 196
Biosensors......Page 206
Blood Pressure Estimation with Considering
of Stroke Volume Effect......Page 212
Bone Strength Assessment Based on CT
Images Using a Network Spring Model for
Radiation Therapy Patients......Page 220
The Canadian Health Record Interoperability
Infrastructure......Page 227
Challenges with Adoption of Electronic
Medical Record Systems......Page 233
Challenges, Systems, and Applications of
Wireless and Mobile Telemedicine......Page 240
Classification of Waste in Hospitals......Page 249
Clinical Decision Making by Emergency Room
Physicians and Residents......Page 256
A Collaborative Approach for Online
Dementia Care Training......Page 263
Combining Technology with Tradition to
Effect Superior Pain Management Strategies......Page 270
A Comparison of Lossless Image Compression
Algorithms for Colour Retina Images......Page 277
Comparison of Step Length Estimators from
Wearable Accelerometer Devices......Page 283
A Complex Non-Contact Bio-Instrumental
System......Page 290
Computational Intelligence and Sensor
Networks for Biomedical Systems......Page 300
Computational Methods for the Early
Detection of Diabetes......Page 313
Computer Analysis of Coronary Doppler
Flow Velocit......Page 320
Costs and New Technologies in Healthcare
Delivery......Page 329
Cost-Sensitive Classification for Medical
Diagnosis......Page 336
Creating and Marketing a Dental Supply
Online Store......Page 342
Creating Patient-Centered E-Health......Page 357
Critical Issues in Assessing Sustainability and
Feasibility of E-Health......Page 364
Critical Role of Bionanotechnology in
Healthcare and Society......Page 370
Critical Success Factors for Delivering
M-Health Excellence......Page 378
Current Issues and Future Trends of Clinical
Decision Support Systems (CDSS)......Page 391
Current Source Design for Electrical
Bioimpedance Spectroscopy......Page 398
The Current State of Bionanotechnology......Page 407
Dealing with the Primacy of Knowledge in an
In-Patient Mental Health Setting......Page 414
A Decision Based Support System Based on
GIS Technology......Page 422
Decision Support Systems for
Cardiovascular Diseases Based on
Data Mining and Fuzzy Modelling......Page 430
Definition and Measurement of the
Technology Readiness Concept......Page 439
The Detection of Abnormal Breathing Activity
by Vision Analysis in Application to Diagnosis
of Obstructive Sleep Apnea......Page 455
Detection of Gait Patterns in Challenging
Environments......Page 464
Developing Medical IT Systems that Save
Lives and Significantly Reduce Hospital
Healthcare Costs......Page 473
Development of Walking Pattern Evaluation
System for Hypogravity Simulati......Page 479
Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Health
Informatics in Osteoporosis......Page 485
Diet Monitoring Software......Page 491
Distributed Medical Image and Volume
Registration......Page 504
Echocardiographic Image Sequence
Compression Based On Spatial Active
Appearance Model......Page 511
Electrical Bioimpedance Cerebral Monitoring......Page 519
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy as a
Powerful Analytical Tool for Monitoring
Microbiological Growth on Medical Implants......Page 526
Electrocutaneous Stimulation of Skin
Mechanoreceptors for Tactile Studies with
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging......Page 536
Electronic Test Management Systems and
Hospital Pathology Laboratory Services......Page 544
Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place......Page 552
Enhanced Rheoencephalography......Page 558
EONS an Online Synaptic Modeling Platform......Page 566
Ethical Decision-Making in Biomedical
Engineering Research......Page 573
European General Practitioners’ Usage of
E-Health Services......Page 580
Evaluation of External Cardiac Massage
Performance During Hypogravity Simulation......Page 590
An Exploration of Demographic
Inconsistencies in Healthcare
Information Environments......Page 600
Exploring Information Security Risks in
Healthcare Systems......Page 612
Fast and Robust Fuzzy C-Means Algorithms
for Automated Brain MR Image Segmentation......Page 617
Feature Selection in Pathology Detection
Using Hybrid Multidimensional Analysis......Page 626
An f-MRI Study of an Adaptable EMG
Prosthetic Hand with Biofeedback......Page 633
Fractal Dimension of the EEG in Alzheimer’s
Disease......Page 642
A Framework for Information Processing
in the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea......Page 649
Functional Characteristics and Supporting
Methods for Maintaining Independent Life
of the Elders......Page 657
Generating Simulated DT-MRI Dataset......Page 662
Guided Interactive Diagnostic Assistance......Page 670
Haptic Rendering for Laparoscopic Surgery
Simulation and Related Studies......Page 675
Health Systems Simulation......Page 685
Healthcare Information Systems and the
Semantic Web......Page 695
Healthcare Training for the Greek
Municipalities’ Citizens in the Program of
“Home Help” with the Medical Educational
Web Sites......Page 701
Heterogeneous Quality Information in
Healthcare Marketplace......Page 709
A Historical Overview of Health Disparities
and the Potential of E-Health Solutions......Page 717
How Can Human Technology Improve the
Scheduling of Unplanned Surgical Cases?......Page 725
Impact of RFID Technology on Health Care
Organizations......Page 734
Implementing RFID Technology in Hospital
Environments......Page 744
Improving Consumer Health Literacy with
Information Technology......Page 750
Incremental Neural Network Training for
Medical Diagnosis......Page 759
Information Systems Resource Contribution in
Strategic Alliance by Small Healthcare Centers......Page 771
Information Technology in Brain Intensive
Therapy......Page 779
Innovative Piezoelectric Extracorporeal
Lithotripter......Page 784
Insulin Metabolism Models for Children with
Type 1 Diabetes......Page 793
Integrating Medication and Health Monitoring
Systems......Page 802
Integration of Clinical and Genomic Data for
Decision Support in Cancer......Page 807
An Intelligent Wearable Platform for Real Time
Pilot’s Health Telemonitoring......Page 816
Interactive Video Game-Based Tool for
Dynamic Rehabilitation Movements......Page 824
Issues, Claims, and Concerns of Different
Stakeholders of Healthcare Systems......Page 831
IT-Based Virtual Medical Centres and
Structures......Page 842
IT-Standards and Standardization Approaches
in Healthcare......Page 852
Judging the Value of Mobile Healthcare
Solutions for Improving Outpatient Adherence......Page 860
Managing Operating Room Cost in Cardiac
Surgery with Three Process Interventions......Page 869
Managing Paramedic Knowledge for
Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction......Page 877
Mapping Information of Operating Theatre
Waiting List Process......Page 883
Master-Slave Robotic System for Therapeutic
Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures......Page 899
Medical Privacy and the National Health
Information Network Initiative......Page 905
Medical Search Engines......Page 912
Minimal Invasive Surgery and Therapy
(MIS and MIT) in Hirschsprung’s Patients......Page 921
A Mobile Computing Framework for Passive
RFID Detection System in Health Care......Page 929
A Model for the Discussion of Medical
Tourism......Page 945
A Model to Evaluate the Flow of an Emergency
Department......Page 954
Modification of Arruda’s Accessory
Pathway Localization Method to Improve the
Performance of WPW Syndrome Interventions......Page 960
Modified Beamspace Method for the Spatial
Filtering of Magnetoencephalographic Data......Page 970
Monitoring and Controlling of Healthcare
Information Systems (HIS)......Page 980
MRI Induced Heating on Pacemaker Leads......Page 989
Multi-Dimensional Modeling in the Health
Industry......Page 997
Myoelectric Control of Prosthetic Devices for
Rehabilitation......Page 1004
Nanorobotics: Applications in
Bionanotechnology......Page 1011
Networks of Action for Anti Retroviral
Treatment Information Systems......Page 1016
New Ensemble Learning Approaches for
Microarray Data Classifi......Page 1021
New Perspectives in Rheoencephalography......Page 1029
A Non-Invasive Approach to the Bionic Eye......Page 1037
A Novel Blind Wavelet Base Watermarking of
ECG Signals on Medical Images Using EZW
Algorithm......Page 1043
A Novel Radiotherapy Technique......Page 1055
Online Nurse Education......Page 1063
Optimization of Medical Supervision,
Management, and Reimbursement of
Contemporary Homecare......Page 1071
PACS Contribution to Hospital Strategy via
Improved Workflow......Page 1080
Parallel Architectures for MEDLINE Search......Page 1087
Patients and Physicians Faced to New
Healthcare Technologies......Page 1095
Patients on Weaning Trials Classified with
Neural Networks and Feature Selection......Page 1100
Planning and Control and the Use of
Information Technology in Mental Healthcare
Organizations......Page 1107
Populomics, an Emerging E-Health Response
to Comtemporary Healthcare Realities......Page 1113
Prevalence of Bullwhip Effect in Hospitals......Page 1116
Process Level Benefits of an Electronic Medical
Records System......Page 1124
Production Management in the Elderly Care
Services......Page 1132
Programming Body Sensor Networks......Page 1140
A Prospective Observational Study of the
Determinants of Current Cataract Surgical
Selection......Page 1150
Prospects for Development of Shock Wave
Therapy......Page 1164
Reducing Patient Delays in a Day Surgery Unit
of a Hospital......Page 1169
Reforming Nursing with Information Systems
and Technology......Page 1176
Regularity Analysis of the Magnetoencephalogram
Background Activity in Alzheimer’s Disease
Patients Using Auto Mutual Information......Page 1185
A Rehabilitative Eye Tracking-Based Brain-
Computer Interface for the Completely
Locked-In Patient......Page 1192
Relationship Between Performance Error and
Human Information Processing......Page 1200
Relationship Management Competence and
Organizational Performance......Page 1207
The Relevance of Computer-Aided-Diagnosis
Systems in Microscopy Applications to
Medicine and Biology......Page 1214
Restructuring a Military Medical Department
Research Center......Page 1222
RFID as the Critical Factor for Superior
Healthcare Delivery......Page 1230
RFID Tagging of Pharmaceuticals......Page 1238
Robust Blood-Glucose Control of Type I
Diabetes Patients Under Intensive Care Using
Mathematica......Page 1249
The Role of Government and Its Influence on
Nursing Systems by Means of the Definition of
Nursing Minimum Data Sets (NMDS)......Page 1259
A Role-Based Agent-Oriented Approach to
Medical Device Integration......Page 1269
Security-Aware Service Specification for
Healthcare Information Systems......Page 1275
Similarity Metrics for Medical Image
Registration......Page 1280
Source Localization of Subtopographic Brain
Maps for Event Related Potentials (ERP)......Page 1286
Spatial Heart Simulation and Adaptive Wave
Propagation......Page 1292
Spatial Heart Simulation and Analysis Using
Unified Neural Network......Page 1300
Strategic Fit in the Healthcare IDS......Page 1308
Support Vector Machine Classification Applied
on Weaning Trials Patients......Page 1316
Support Vector Machines in Neuroscience......Page 1322
Technology Adoption, Expectancy Value and
Prediction Mod......Page 1333
Telemedicine and Information Technology
for Disaster Medical Scenarios......Page 1342
A Theoretical Model of Observed Health
Benefits of PACS Implementation......Page 1350
Theory Driven Organizational Metrics......Page 1356
Time-Frequency Analysis for EGM Rhythm
Classification......Page 1363
Ultrasound Guided Noninvasive Measurement
of Central Venous Pressure......Page 1370
Using Object Oriented Technologies to Build
Collaborative Applications in Healthcare and
Medical Information Systems......Page 1377
VEMH: Virtual Euro-Mediterranean
Hospital for Evidence-Based Medicine in the
Euro-Mediterranean Region......Page 1388
Visual Methods for Analyzing Human Health
Data......Page 1396
In Vivo Near Infrared Techniques for Protein
Drug Development......Page 1404
Volumetric Analysis and Modeling of the
Heart Using Active Appearance Model......Page 1413
Weakness of Modern Hospitals......Page 1422
Wearable Kinesthetic System for Joint Knee
Flexion-Extension Monitoring in Gait Analysis......Page 1429
Web-Enabled System Design for Managing
Clinical Information......Page 1437
Wireless Sensor Network to Support Home
Care in Telemedicine Applications......Page 1446
Workflow Management Systems for Healthcare
Processes......Page 1451
Index......Page 1456