Electronic healthcare : First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008 : revised selected papers

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. Front Matter....Pages - Continuous Monitoring of Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias....Pages 1-8 An Evaluation Framework for EU Research and Development e-Health Projects’ Systems....Pages 9-16 Health@Home – An e-Service Model for Disease Prevention and Healthcare in the Home....Pages 17-24 Agent-Based Simulation of Emergency Departments with Patient Diversion....Pages 25-37 Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX....Pages 38-49 Data Management in an Intelligent Environment for Cognitive Disabled and Elderly People....Pages 50-57 3P: Personalized Pregnancy Prediction in IVF Treatment Process....Pages 58-65 Bridging the Self-care Deficit Gap: Remote Patient Monitoring and the Hospital-at-Home....Pages 66-73 Cognitive Network Infrastructures and Virtualization Platforms in Support of Healthcare Applications....Pages 74-81 Device Data Protection in Mobile Healthcare Applications....Pages 82-89 Persuasive Mobile Health Applications....Pages 90-97 Teledermatology Helps Doctors and Hospitals to Serve Their Clients....Pages 98-105 AXARM: An Extensible Remote Assistance and Monitoring Tool for ND Telerehabilitation....Pages 106-113 A Group Decision Support System for Staging of Cancer....Pages 114-121 A Trust Framework of Ubiquitous Healthcare with Advanced Petri Net Model....Pages 122-129 PPEPR for Enterprise Healthcare Integration....Pages 130-137 VirtualECare: Intelligent Assisted Living....Pages 138-144 Privacy and Access Control for IHE-Based Systems....Pages 145-153 An Avatar-Based Italian Sign Language Visualization System....Pages 154-160 Web Based Personal Nutrition Management Tool....Pages 161-166 Event-Based Data Dissemination Control in Healthcare....Pages 167-174 Decision Support Systems: Improving Levels of Care and Lowering Costs in Anticoagulation Therapy....Pages 175-178 NHS Blood Tracking Pilot: City University Evaluation Project....Pages 179-181 eHealth and Global Health: Investments Opportunities and Challenges for Industry in Developing Countries....Pages 182-185 Web-Based Architecture to Enable Compute-Intensive CAD Tools and Multi-user Synchronization in Teleradiology....Pages 186-190 Research Challenges in Future Health Care Systems....Pages 191-194 Aligning Technology with the Organisation Using Focus and User Groups....Pages 195-199 Diabetes City: How Urban Game Design Strategies Can Help Diabetics....Pages 200-204 Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients....Pages 205-207 Induction for Radiology Patients....Pages 208-220 Back Matter....Pages - 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