Table Of ContentTELEHEALTH
AND
MOBILE HEALTH
THE E-MEDICINE, E-HEALTH, M-HEALTH, TELEMEDICINE, AND TELEHEALTH HANDBOOK
VOLUME II
TELEHEALTH
AND
MOBILE HEALTH
Edited by
Halit Eren
John G. Webster
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Contents
Preface ..............................................................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................xiii
Editors .............................................................................................................................................xv
Contributors ................................................................................................................................xvii
Section I Medical Robotics, Telesurgery, and Image-Guided Surgery
1. Medical Robotics ....................................................................................................................3
Giancarlo Ferrigno, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Elena De Momi, Emilia Ambrosini,
and Elisa Beretta
2. Modern Devices for Telesurgery .......................................................................................37
Florian Gosselin
3. Microsurgery Systems .........................................................................................................61
Leonardo S. Mattos, Diego Pardo, Emidio Olivieri, Giacinto Barresi, Jesus Ortiz,
Loris Fichera, Nikhil Deshpande, and Veronica Penza
4. Image-Guided Microsurgery .............................................................................................91
Tom Williamson, Marco Caversaccio, Stefan Weber, and Brett Bell
Section II Telenursing, Personalized Care, Patient Care,
and eEmergency Systems
5. eHealth and Telenursing ...................................................................................................119
Sinclair Wynchank and Nathanael Sabbah
6. mHealth: Intelligent Closed-Loop Solutions for Personalized Healthcare ...........145
Carmen C. Y. Poon and Kevin K. F. Hung
7. Patient Care Sensing and Monitoring Systems ............................................................161
Akihiro Kajiwara and Ryohei Nakamura
8. Mobile Health Sleep Technologies .................................................................................173
Anda Baharav
9. Cardiovascular Disease Management via Electronic Health ....................................187
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Ioannis Andreadis, Vasileios Kolias,
and Konstantina S. Nikita
10. mHealth eEmergency Systems .........................................................................................203
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Andreas Panayides, and Panayiotis Constantinides
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Section III Networks and Databases, Informatics, Record
Management, Education, and Training
11. Global and Local Health Information, Databases, and Networks ...........................233
Kostas Giokas, Yiannis Makris, Anna Paidi, Marios Prasinos, Dimitra Iliopoulou,
and Dimitris Koutsouris
12. Electronic Medical Records: Management and Implementation .............................251
Liping Liu
13. Public Health Informatics in Australia and around the World ................................277
Kathleen Gray and Fernando Martin Sanchez
14. Ubiquitous Personal Health Records for Remote Regions ........................................299
H. Lee Seldon, Jacey-Lynn Minoi, Mahmud Ahsan, and Ali Abdulwahab A. Al-Habsi
15. Education and Training for Supporting General Practitioners
in the Use of Clinical Telehealth: A Needs Analysis ..................................................319
Sisira Edirippulige, Nigel R. Armfield, Liam Caffery, and Anthony C. Smith
Section IV Business Opportunities, Management
and Services, and Web Applications
16. Delivering eHealthcare: Opportunities and Challenges ...........................................331
Deborah A. Helman, Eric J. Addeo, N. Iwan Santoso, David W. Walters, and Guy T. Helman
17. Mobile Healthcare User Interface Design Application Strategies ...........................363
Ann L. Fruhling, Sharmila Raman, and Scott McGrath
18. Epidemic Tracking and Disease Monitoring in Rural Areas:
A Case Study in Pakistan ..................................................................................................383
Hammad Qureshi, Arshad Ali, Shamila Keyani, and Atif Mumtaz
19. mHealth and Web Applications ......................................................................................395
Javier Pindter-Medina
20. Investigation and Assessment of Effectiveness of Knowledge Brokering
on Web 2.0 in Health Sector in Quebec, Canada ..........................................................417
Moktar Lamari and Saliha Ziam
Section V Examples of Integrating Technologies:
Virtual Systems, Image Processing,
Biokinematics, Measurements, and VLSI
21. Virtual Doctor Systems for Medical Practices ..............................................................435
Hamido Fujita and Enrique Herrera-Viedma
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22. Synthetic Biometrics in Biomedical Systems ................................................................467
Kenneth Lai, Steven Samoil, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, and Adrian Stoica
23. Performance Analysis of Transform-Based Medical Image-Compression
Methods for Telemedicine ................................................................................................487
Sujitha Juliet and Elijah Blessing Rajsingh
24. Tracking the Position and Orientation of Ultrasound Probe
for Image- Guided Surgical Procedures .........................................................................511
Basem F. Yousef
25. Biokinematics for Mobility: Theory, Sensors, and Wireless Measurements .........525
Atila Yilmaz and Tuna Orhanli
26. Biopotentials and Electrophysiology Measurements .................................................555
Nitish V. Thakor
27. Sensor Signal Conditioning for Biomedical Instrumentation ..................................575
Tomas E. Ward
28. Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Techniques ...........................................605
Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, and Sungyoung Lee
29. Very Large-Scale Integration Bioinstrumentation Circuit Design
and Nanopore Applications ..............................................................................................621
Jungsuk Kim and William B. Dunbar
30. Wireless Electrical Impedance Tomography: LabVIEW-Based Automatic
Electrode Switching ...........................................................................................................639
Tushar Kanti Bera
Index .............................................................................................................................................667
Preface
Introduction
The purpose of the Telehealth and Mobile Health handbook is to provide a reference that
is both concise and useful for biomedical engineers in universities and medical device
industries, scientists, designers, managers, research personnel, and students, as well as
healthcare personnel, such as physicians, nurses, and technicians, who use technology
over a distance. The handbook covers an extensive range of topics that comprise the sub-
ject of distance communication, from sensors on and within the body to electronic medi-
cal records. It serves the reference needs of a broad group of users—from advanced high
school science students to healthcare and university professionals.
Recent development in digital technologies is paving the way for ever-increasing use
of information technology and data-driven systems in medical and healthcare practices.
Hence, this handbook describes how information and communication technologies, the
Internet, wireless technologies and wireless networks, databases, and telemetry permit
the transmission of information and control of information both within a medical cen-
ter and between medical centers. Recent developments in sensors, wearable computing,
and ubiquitous communications have provided medical experts and users with frame-
works for gathering physiological data on a real-time basis over extended periods of time.
Wearable sensor-based systems can transform the future of healthcare by enabling proac-
tive personal health management and unobtrusive monitoring of a patient’s health con-
dition. Wireless body area networks permit a comfortable tank top with sensors to use
wireless local area networks (e.g., Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) to continuously transmit to other
systems such as smartphones, and then from any location, such as home, away from home,
on the streets, or a nursing home, to a medical center for analysis of cardiac arrhythmias
and ventilation. For example, a simple remotely located base unit can continually collect
and locally integrate many incoming signals such as electrocardiography, oxygen satura-
tion, heart rate, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, and respiration, and provide
the information required for detecting any possible emergency cases for the patients. The
medical center can then accommodate all complementary and bulky systems, including
telemedicine-enabled equipment such as intensive care units, intelligent analyzers, and
automatic recorders plus a professionally managed database system supported by a pro-
fessional service provider.
Today’s technology allows clinical processes to be conducted at a distance; hence, it is
an enabler, but in itself, the technology is not telemedicine. Telemedicine can be thought
of as the tasks that the clinician carries out (such as observing, consulting, interpreting,
and providing opinions), assisted by information and communication technologies, in cir-
cumstances where there is distance between the patient and the provider. Put succinctly,
modern telemedicine is simply medicine at a distance.
This handbook also intends to bridge the gap between scientists, engineers, and medi-
cal professionals by creating synergy in the related fields of biomedical engineering,
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