Description: Information and communication technologies can provide new paradigms in healthcare provision. In particular, new Pervasive Healthcare technologies can revolutionise the dynamics of healthcare, enabling people to remain at home for longer with lower costs to health and welfare organisations. This book reveals how pervasive healthcare technologies have been designed in conjunction with users and carers. It explores the application of novel methods and technologies, encompassing the research, design and evaluation of a new set of pervasive healthcare solutions.

Description: This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the demand for improved access and quality of service, and modern information technologies are helping to process and manage the growing wealth of data involved. Web-based applications offer a sharp increase in data access and management, and they are at the forefront of the broad field of medical informatics.

Description: Medical Imaging Informatics provides an overview of this growing discipline, which stems from an intersection of biomedical informatics, medical imaging, computer science and medicine. Supporting two complementary views, this volume explores the fundamental technologies and algorithms that comprise this field, as well as the application of medical imaging informatics to subsequently improve healthcare research. Clearly written in a four part structure, this introduction follows natural healthcare processes, illustrating the roles of data collection and standardization, context extraction and modeling, and medical decision making tools and applications.

Description: The wide readership of this book by individuals, government officials, scientists and medical specialists is due to concern about the possible hazards of natural and man-made sources of radiation. This publication presents the consequences of exposures to radiation by the use of radiobiological research and results of epidemiological studies. It also summarizes and evaluates sources of human radiation exposures, discusses principal features of radiation risk perception and gives a brief summary and indication of perspectives. Volume 1 comprises the main text of the 2006 report to the General Assembly and 2 scientific annexes: Annex A - Epidemiological studies of radiation and cancer; and Annex B - Epidemiological evaluation of cardiovascular disease and other non-cancer diseases following radiation exposure.

Description: The modeling of healthcare components and systems in order to develop a complete understanding of component interactions is one of the more challenging simulation and modeling problems for software agent systems.

Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling: Applications for System Improvement provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings used by medical professionals in the implementation of multi-agent systems. This "Premier Reference Source" disseminates understanding on the strategic role of systems modeling in healthcare, a valuable resource to academicians, researchers, and field practitioners.

Description: This book presents innovative, media-based methods of health communication for health care professionals, public health officials, and communication experts. As a media-based text, Health Communication demonstrates the extent to which modern, digital technology can serve as the most practical and efficient form of distributing health-related information.

Description: The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. This book, inspired by a Stanford University training program developed to introduce health professionals to computer applications in modern medical care, fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine, and meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field.

Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century, eHealth 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. Organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic and mobile health the eHealth conference provides a forum to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of telecare into the 21st century. The 21 revised full papers and eight revised short papers presented together with one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations at the conference.

Description: Healthcare offices are busy places and healthcare professionals are busy people. Between constantly ringing phones and patients coming in and out, who has time to learn about Microsoft Office? Our helpful, step-by-step guide, Microsoft Office 2003 for Healthcare, is designed to be easy-to-read and single-task oriented for quick reference. Explore how you can use Microsoft Office 2003 to create patient charts, billing procedures and more. Also included is a troubleshooting guide to help you quickly solve problem, so you can maximize the time you spend delivering healthcare and minimize the time you have to spend on administrative duties.

Description: In the healthcare field, there is limited literature published on the subject of global deployment, diffusion, adoption, use, and impact of information communication technologies in the context of health informatics and electronic healthcare applications. Due to a lack of such literature, those involved in healthcare spend a great deal of time searching and gathering information from various sources.

The Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies for the first time brings to the healthcare community a comprehensive resource elucidating the adoption and usage of health informatics. Gathering an in-depth collection of research articles and case studies from leading experts worldwide, this handbook of research provides a global understanding of the advances in health informatics and electronic applications in healthcare delivery and management.