Telehealth Systems: Considering Knowledge Management and ICT Issues

Telehealth Systems: Considering Knowledge Management and ICT Issues
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Release: 2001
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In this paper we examine the factors necessary for telehealth implementations in healthcare organizations. We focus on the transfer of medical information using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The paper identifies current applications of telehealth and telemedicine. It contends that we are using such applications in a static manner, whilst futuristic systems would be dynamic in nature and would support the transfer of context-based information. This could make web-based multimedia patient administration systems the norm for healthcare institutions. Such a scenario is likely to lead to a situation where healthcare institutions would be flooded with large amounts of clinical data. The introduction of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm would enable healthcare institutions to face the challenge of transforming large amounts of medical data into relevant clinical information. A KM solution would allow healthcare institutions to give clinical data context, so as to allow knowledge derivation for more effective clinical diagnoses. It would also provide a mechanism for the effective transfer of the acquired knowledge so as to aid telecare workers, as and when required.

M-Health

M-Health
Author: Robert Istepanian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2007-01-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387265597

M-health can be defined as the ‘emerging mobile communications and network technologies for healthcare systems.' This book paves the path toward understanding the future of m-health technologies and services and also introducing the impact of mobility on existing e-health and commercial telemedical systems. M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems presents a new and forward-looking source of information that explores the present and future trends in the applications of current and emerging wireless communication and network technologies for different healthcare scenaria. It also provides a discovery path on the synergies between the 2.5G and 3G systems and other relevant computing and information technologies and how they prescribe the way for the next generation of m-health services. The book contains 47 chapters, arranged in five thematic sections: Introduction to Mobile M-health Systems, Smart Mobile Applications for Health Professionals, Signal, Image, and Video Compression for M-health Applications, Emergency Health Care Systems and Services, Echography Systems and Services, and Remote and Home Monitoring. This book is intended for all those working in the field of information technologies in biomedicine, as well as for people working in future applications of wireless communications and wireless telemedical systems. It provides different levels of material to researchers, computing engineers, and medical practitioners interested in emerging e-health systems. This book will be a useful reference for all the readers in this important and growing field of research, and will contribute to the roadmap of future m-health systems and improve the development of effective healthcare delivery systems.

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Author: Murray E. Jennex
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 3442
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599049341

Provides comprehensive, in-depth coverage of all issues related to knowledge management, including conceptual, methodological, technical, and managerial issues. Presents the opportunities, future challenges, and emerging trends related to this subject.

Pervasive Health Knowledge Management

Pervasive Health Knowledge Management
Author: Rajeev Bali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461445140

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to a variety of pressures on healthcare systems, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for healthcare services, independent of time and place. Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare. This book proposes to define the emerging area of pervasive health and introduce key management principles, most especially knowledge management, its tools, techniques and technologies. In addition, the book takes a socio-technical, patient-centric approach which serves to emphasize the importance of a key triumvirate in healthcare management namely, the focus on people, process and technology. Last but not least the book discusses in detail a specific example of pervasive health, namely the potential use of a wireless technology solution in the monitoring of diabetic patients.

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Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 7289
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Clinical Knowledge Management

Clinical Knowledge Management
Author: Rajeev K. Bali
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1591403022

"This book establishes a convergence in thinking between knowledge management and knowledge engineering healthcare applications"--Provided by publisher.

The Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology for Organizational Resilience

The Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology for Organizational Resilience
Author: Brian Donnellan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2006-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387344101

This volume contains the edited proceedings of the Working Conference on the Transfer and Diffusion of IT for Organizational Resilience, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 (Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology), and held in Galway, Ireland in June of 2006. The material contained in this book represents current thinking on the topic of resilience by academics and leading practitioners.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
Author: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Publisher: IGI Global Snippet
Total Pages: 4292
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781605660264

"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.