Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies [recurso electrónico] $c

This book equips readers to understand a complex range of healthcare products that are used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions affecting humans. The first part of the book presents medical technologies such as medical information retrieval, tissue engineering techniques, 3D medical imaging, nanotechnology innovations in medicine, medical wireless sensor networks, and knowledge mining techniques in medicine. The second half of the book focuses on healthcare technologies including prediction hospital readmission risk, modeling e-health framework, personal Web in healthcare, security issues for medical records, and personalized services in healthcare. The contributors are leading world researchers who share their innovations, making this handbook the definitive resource on these topics. Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies is intended for a wide audience including academicians, designers, developers, researchers and advanced-level students. It is also valuable for business managers, entrepreneurs, and investors within the medical and healthcare industries.?? Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Mobile Medical and Healthcare Applications....Pages 3-15 Medical Information Retrieval Enhanced with User’s Query Expanded with Tag-Neighbors....Pages 17-40 Medical Technology Breakthroughs in Tissue Engineering....Pages 41-78 Innovations in 3D Interventional X-ray Imaging....Pages 79-119 Automated Classification of Echo-Cardiography Images Using Texture Analysis Methods....Pages 121-143 Innovative Soft Computing Methodologies for Evaluating Risk Factors of Atherosclerosis....Pages 145-180 Nanotechnology and Its Application in Medicine....Pages 181-205 Anomaly Detection Scheme for Medical Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 207-222 Predicting the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy Using Knowledge Mining....Pages 223-244 Cloud Computing Approach to Novel Medical Interface Design....Pages 245-265 Tissue Engineering Triangle and its Development....Pages 267-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Brief Overview of Various Healthcare Tools, Methods, Framework and Standards....Pages 285-295 Predicting Hospital Readmission Risk for COPD Using EHR Information....Pages 297-308 Modeling Personalized and Context-Aware Multimedia e-Health Framework....Pages 309-335 Personal Web in Healthcare....Pages 337-353 Secure Mobile Framework for Monitoring Medical Sensor Data....Pages 355-369 Virtual Doctor: A WBAN Based Architecture for Healthcare Service....Pages 371-399 Security of the Electronic Medical Record....Pages 401-416 Towards Personalized Services in the Healthcare Domain....Pages 417-433 Sensor Infrastructures for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 435-452 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Improving Safety in Medical Devices from Concept to Retirement....Pages 453-480 Wearable and Implantable Technologies for Cardiovascular Health Informatics....Pages 481-502 Integration of Various Health Record Systems....Pages 503-528 Back Matter....Pages 529-534 This book equips readers to understand a complex range of healthcare products that are used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions affecting humans. The first part of the book presents medical technologies such as medical information retrieval, tissue engineering techniques, 3D medical imaging, nanotechnology innovations in medicine, medical wireless sensor networks, and knowledge mining techniques in medicine. The second half of the book focuses on healthcare technologies including prediction hospital readmission risk, modeling e-health framework, personal Web in healthcare, security issues for medical records, and personalized services in healthcare. The contributors are leading world researchers who share their innovations. Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies is intended for a wide audience including academicians, designers, developers, researchers and advanced-level students. It is also valuable for business managers, entrepreneurs, and investors within the medical and healthcare industries .