Electronic Healthcare: First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, September 8-9, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes of the Institute ... and Telecommunications Engineering)

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 8 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations at the conference. The papers cover various topics such as data mining for personalized healthcare services, healthcare supply chain management and implementing the electronic health record, diagnostics and intelligent real-time monitoring, human factors, policies, regulations and standards, interoperability solutions, security, privacy, trust and risk management, as well as novel telecare products. This volume is the first in the LNICST series that aims at serving the scientific community at large by deploying digital age access and use of information tools by putting knowledge in the service of digital economy and quality of life. Table of Contents......Page 8 Continuous Monitoring of Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias......Page 11 An Evaluation Framework for EU Research and Development e-Health Projects' Systems......Page 19 Health@Home – An e-Service Model for Disease Prevention and Healthcare in the Home......Page 27 Agent-Based Simulation of Emergency Departments with Patient Diversion......Page 35 Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX......Page 48 Data Management in an Intelligent Environment for Cognitive Disabled and Elderly People......Page 60 3P: Personalized Pregnancy Prediction in IVF Treatment Process......Page 68 Bridging the Self-care Deficit Gap: Remote Patient Monitoring and the Hospital-at-Home......Page 76 Cognitive Network Infrastructures and Virtualization Platforms in Support of Healthcare Applications......Page 84 Device Data Protection in Mobile Healthcare Applications......Page 92 Persuasive Mobile Health Applications......Page 100 Teledermatology Helps Doctors and Hospitals to Serve Their Clients......Page 108 AXARM: An Extensible Remote Assistance and Monitoring Tool for ND Telerehabilitation......Page 116 A Group Decision Support System for Staging of Cancer......Page 124 A Trust Framework of Ubiquitous Healthcare with Advanced Petri Net Model......Page 132 PPEPR for Enterprise Healthcare Integration......Page 140 VirtualECare: Intelligent Assisted Living......Page 148 Privacy and Access Control for IHE-Based Systems......Page 155 An Avatar-Based Italian Sign Language Visualization System......Page 164 Web Based Personal Nutrition Management Tool......Page 171 Event-Based Data Dissemination Control in Healthcare......Page 177 Decision Support Systems: Improving Levels of Care and Lowering Costs in Anticoagulation Therapy......Page 185 NHS Blood Tracking Pilot: City University Evaluation Project......Page 189 eHealth and Global Health: Investments Opportunities and Challenges for Industry in Developing Countries......Page 192 Web-Based Architecture to Enable Compute-Intensive CAD Tools and Multi-user Synchronization in Teleradiology......Page 196 Research Challenges in Future Health Care Systems......Page 201 Aligning Technology with the Organisation Using Focus and User Groups......Page 205 Diabetes City: How Urban Game Design Strategies Can Help Diabetics......Page 210 Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients......Page 215 Induction for Radiology Patients......Page 218 R......Page 231 Z......Page 232 eHealth 2008, the First International Conference on Electronic healthcare for the twenty-first century, was held in City University, London, during September 8–9, 2008. The conference was organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic and mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the - vancement of electronic healthcare into the twenty-first century. The conference had a huge success with a large number of paper submissions. Ninety-seven papers were submitted, of which 32 were selected for presentation. Each paper was carefully reviewed blindly by a minimum of three referees from the resp- tive field. A special thanks should go to the Technical Program Committee for their hard and efficient work in the review process. In addition to the submitted contributions, the conference included a business pres- tation track with 12 invited talks by key people in the world of eHealth. The business presentation track was chaired by Sir Jonathan Michael (Deputy Director, BT Health). The success of this conference is to be credited to the contribution of many people. Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century, eHealth 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. This book covers various topics such as data mining for personalized healthcare services and healthcare supply chain management