Handbook Of Research On Informatics In Healthcare And Biomedicine Informatics In Healthcare And Biomedicine Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine is the single authoritative reference source for information on the newest trends and breakthroughs in computer applications applied to healthcare and biomedicine. Innovative technologies in health information systems, medicine, health services, and other areas in biomedicine are explored. The comprehensive chapters contained in this handbook of research have been written by 99 international experts from the field of healthcare and IT. More than 900 references to existing publications and a wide-ranging compendium of over 450 key terms and definitions have been included to provide readers with the ultimate research tool. cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 2 Preface......Page 7 Contributors......Page 10 01 Electronic Health Records.pdf......Page 15 02 Security in Health Information Systems.pdf......Page 23 03 Decelopment of a Health Information System in a Post-Communist Country.pdf......Page 30 04 Computerized Systems Validation in the Pharmaceutical Industry.pdf......Page 37 05 Chronic Disease Registers in Primary Healthcare.pdf......Page 49 06 Standardization in Health and Medical Informatics.pdf......Page 57 07 Basic Principles and Benefits of Various Classification Systems in Health.pdf......Page 64 08 Virtual Reality in Medicine.pdf......Page 71 09 Modelling and Simulation of Biological Systems.pdf......Page 80 10 Virtual Reality Simulation in Human Applied Kinetics and Ergo Physiology.pdf......Page 86 11 Care2x in Medical Informatics Education.pdf......Page 92 12 An Object-Oriented Approach to Manage E-Learning Content Using Learning Objects.pdf......Page 100 13 Motivating Healthcare Students in Using ICTs.pdf......Page 110 14 The user Agent Architecture and E-Learning in Healthcare and Social Care.pdf......Page 116 15 E-Learning in Healthcare and Social Care.pdf......Page 123 16 Potential Benefits and Challenges of Computer-Based Learning in Health.pdf......Page 130 17 Brain Mapping in Functional Neurosurgery.pdf......Page 137 18 ECG Diagnosis Using Decision Support Systems.pdf......Page 145 19 Information Processing in Clinical Decision Making.pdf......Page 156 20 Data Mining Techniques and Medical Decision Making for Urological Dysfunction.pdf......Page 163 21 Spline Fitting.pdf......Page 175 22 Parameter Estimation.pdf......Page 181 23 The Method of Least Squares.pdf......Page 190 24 The Data-Information-Knowledge Model.pdf......Page 194 25 Goals and Benefits of Knowledge Management in Healthcare.pdf......Page 201 26 Knowledge Management in Medicine.pdf......Page 209 27 Knowledge Management in Telemedicine.pdf......Page 218 28 Use of Telemedicine Systems and Devices for Patient Monitoring.pdf......Page 228 29 Current Telehealth Applications in Telemedicine.pdf......Page 235 30 Mobile Telemonitoring Insights.pdf......Page 241 31 Telepathology and Digital Pathology.pdf......Page 247 32 Collaborative Environments for the Health Monitoring of Chronically Ill Children.pdf......Page 253 33 Electronic Submission of New Drugs in Europe.pdf......Page 262 34 Semantic Web Services for Healthcare.pdf......Page 269 35 Imaging Technologies and their Applications in Biomedicine and Bioengineering.pdf......Page 277 36 Medical ImageCompression Using Integer Wavelet Transformations.pdf......Page 283 37 Three Dimensional Medical Images.pdf......Page 293 38 Imaging th Human Brain with Magnetoencephalography.pdf......Page 300 39 Region of Interest Coding in Medical Images.pdf......Page 309 40 Imaging the Human Brain with Functional CT Imaging.pdf......Page 320 41 Nonlinear Signal Processing Techniques Applied to EEG Measurements.pdf......Page 329 42 Medical and Biomedical Devices for Clinical Use.pdf......Page 343 43 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Biomedicine.pdf......Page 350 44 Comparative Genomics and Structure Prediction in Dental Research.pdf......Page 356 45 Genomic Databanks for Biomedical Informatics.pdf......Page 361 46 Basic Principles and Applicatins of Micrarrays in Medicine.pdf......Page 371 47 System Patters of the Human Organism and their Heredity.pdf......Page 379 48 Evaluation Methods for Biomedical Technology.pdf......Page 387 49 Ergonomic User Interface Desgin in Computerized Medical Equipment.pdf......Page 393 50 Safety Issues in Computerized Medical Equipment.pdf......Page 399 51 Alarm Design in Computerized Medical Equipment.pdf......Page 406 52 Organizational Factors in Health Informatics.pdf......Page 412 53 Measurement of Cost and Economic Efficiency in Healthcare.pdf......Page 421 54 Understanding Telemedicine with Innovative Systems.pdf......Page 427 55 A Capacity Building Approach to Health Literacy through ICTs.pdf......Page 433

The Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine is the single authoritative reference source for information on the newest trends and breakthroughs in computer applications applied to healthcare and biomedicine. Innovative technologies in health information systems, medicine, health services, and other areas in biomedicine are explored. The comprehensive chapters contained in this handbook of research have been written by international experts from the field of healthcare and IT. Hundreds of references to additional publications and a wide-ranging compendium of key terms and definitions have been included to provide readers with the ultimate research tool.

About the Author:
Dr. Athina Lazakidou currently works at the University of Piraeus, Greece as a teaching assistant, and at the Hellenic Army Academy, Greece as a lecturer in informatics. Prior to that, she worked as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2000-2002). She did her undergraduate studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), and received her BSc in Computer Science in 1996. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is also an internationally known expert in the field of computer applications in healthcare and biomedicine, with four books and numerous papers to her credit. Her research interests include: health informatics, e-learning in medicine, software engineering, graphical user interfaces, (bio)medical databases, clinical decision support systems, hospital andclinical information systems, electronic medical record systems, telematics, and other applications in medicine.

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'This collection describes and analyzes recent breakthroughs in healthcare and biomedicine providing comprehensive coverage and definitions of important issues, concepts, new trends and advanced technologies'--Provided by publisher.