Pervasive Healthcare Computing

Emr/Ehr, Wireless and Health Monitoring

By: Upkar Varshney

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Hardcover | 11 May 2009

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Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile telemedicine.

Pervasive Healthcare Computing includes the treatment of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

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"Improving the technology involved in building healthcare systems remains a critical challenge in providing healthcare ... . Varshney carefully delineates in this book the need for improving the technology associated with providing healthcare. ... Overall, this is a very well-written book. Varshney has acquired a large amount of information to explain the topics discussed, and presents it with a reasonable level of detail." (Varadraj Gurupur, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)

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List of Contents
Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Solutions	p. 1
Healthcare System in US	p. 1
Costs and Complexity of Payments	p. 2
Limited Number of Healthcare Professionals	p. 3
Technological & Other Inefficiencies in Healthcare	p. 5
Patients-related Challenges	p. 6
Cost of Medications & Poor Adherence	p. 7
Medical Errors & Quality of Care	p. 8
Healthcare Billing and Fraud	p. 8
Improvements with Technologies in Healthcare	p. 9
Rest of the Book	p. 13
E-Health and IT in Healthcare	p. 17
E-health	p. 17
EMR and EHR	p. 22
Issues in EMR/EHR	p. 28
Telemedicine	p. 33
Future of IT in Healthcare	p. 36
Pervasive Computing and Healthcare	p. 39
Pervasive Computing	p. 39
Pervasive Healthcare	p. 48
Pervasive Healthcare Requirements	p. 58
Open Issues and Challenges	p. 59
Wireless and Mobile Technologies	p. 63
Introduction	p. 64
The Commercial Cellular/3G Networks	p. 65
Wireless LANs	p. 72
Satellites	p. 76
Sensors	p. 79
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)	p. 81
Bluetooth	p. 82
ZigBee	p. 84
Fixed Wireless and WiMax	p. 84
The Overall Picture	p. 85
Conclusions and the Future	p. 86
Wireless Health Monitoring: Requirements and Examples	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
The Monitoring Environments	p. 90
General Monitoring Requirements	p. 92
Vital Signs and Medical Parameters	p. 97
Specific Vital Signs	p. 101
An Example of Monitoring Scenario and Requirements	p. 108
Sleep Apnea Monitoring	p. 111
Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring	p. 112
Wireless Stress Monitoring	p. 113
Stray Prevention Monitoring	p. 114
Some More Types of Monitoring	p. 114
Conclusions and Future	p. 115
Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art and Implementations	p. 119
State-of-the Art in Wireless Health Monitoring	p. 119
Evolution of WHM	p. 134
A High-level Framework for WHM	p. 136
An Implementation	p. 139
The Future of WHM	p. 143
Medical Decision Making	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
Requirements and Functions of Healthcare Professionals	p. 149
The Role of Healthcare Professionals' Devices	p. 154
An Example of Medical Decision Making	p. 156
What to Do When Something Goes Wrong	p. 158
Cognitive Load	p. 159
Alert Monitoring and Management System	p. 160
The Future of Medical Decision Making in WHM	p. 162
Health Monitoring using Infrastructure-oriented Wireless Networks	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
Networking Requirements of Wireless Health Monitoring	p. 167
Advantages of Cellular/3G for Health Monitoring	p. 171
Limitations of Cellular/3G for WHM	p. 174
Advantages of W-LANs in Health Monitoring	p. 176
Limitations of W-LANs for WHM	p. 178
Comparison of Cellular/3G and Wireless LANs	p. 181
Reliability for Wireless Health Monitoring	p. 182
Other Networking Considerations	p. 184
Future	p. 185
Ad Hoc Networks for Health Monitoring	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
Challenges for Wireless Health Monitoring	p. 193
Existing Ad Hoc Networks	p. 195
Monitoring Protocols	p. 197
Routing in Ad Hoc Networks	p. 198
Reliability of Ad Hoc Network Monitoring	p. 206
Future	p. 208
Using Incentives in Wireless Health Monitoring	p. 211
Introduction	p. 211
Overcoming the Non-cooperation of Routers	p. 213
Incentives for Co-operation of Devices	p. 216
Steps in Obtaining Co-operation	p. 218
Protocols and Operations	p. 221
The Decision Making Protocols	p. 223
Strategies for Nodes	p. 225
Challenges in the Implementation of Incentives	p. 226
Conclusions and Future Research	p. 228
Context-awareness in Healthcare	p. 231
Introduction	p. 231
Context and Context Awareness	p. 232
Context in Healthcare	p. 238
Context in Health Monitoring	p. 242
Integration of Context Information and Details	p. 246
From Context-awareness to Health-Awareness	p. 254
Summary and Future	p. 255
Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability	p. 259
Introduction	p. 259
Challenges in Mental Health Monitoring	p. 263
Examples of MHM	p. 264
Monitoring of Medication Compliance and Addiction	p. 270
Disability Monitoring and Verification	p. 277
Conclusions and Future	p. 280
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