Transformation Of Healthcare With Information Technologies (studies In Health Technology And Informatics)

The accession of new EU member states demands considerable effort on their part, aimed at developing common policies and strategies. Over the last two years we have tried to encourage the community of medical informatics professionals and researchers from Central and Eastern European countries to undertake these challenges and join European activities in the field of e-health. We are aware of the fact that only common standards and procedures will enable full integration of this region with the main stream of Information Society developments, currently accelerating all over Europe. This book also reports on the results of cooperation between researchers and centres representing both new EU entrants and those countries, that have been part of the Community for a long time. The European Commission has consistently fostered the strategy of e-health development over the past decades. Yet, the economic transformation underway in Central and Eastern European countries does not favour rapid development in this domain. Healthcare systems all over the region are being transformed in search of more effective mechanisms of financing. One of the main motivations for publishing this book is to exchange ideas and share experience which can speed up e-health services development in Central and Eastern countries. Transfer of knowledge and technology is surely one of the key mechanisms through which these new EU member states can integrate themselves with the Community. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences Title page......Page 1 Preface......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 E-Health Strategies......Page 11 Value-Driven Management in e-Healthcare......Page 13 Technical Aspects of Portal Technology Application for E-health Systems......Page 22 Medical Information Asymmetry in the Cyberworld of Manuel Castells......Page 31 Web-Based Health Services and Clinical Decision Support......Page 37 Accessibility of Public Web Sites - the InHand Case Study......Page 48 Establishing an Internet-Based Paediatric Cancer Registration and Communication System for the Hungarian Paediatric Oncology Network......Page 54 Telemedical Database of Hodgkin's Disease......Page 61 Telemedicine Implementations......Page 69 New Developments in Digital Pathology: from Telepathology to Virtual Pathology Laboratory......Page 71 New Trends in Diabetes Management: Mobile Telemedicine Closed-Loop System......Page 80 Migration Aspects of Telemedical Software Architectures......Page 90 The Impact of Teleconsultations at a Referential Centre on the Management of Pulmonary Patients......Page 102 Web Access to Data in a Mobile ECG Monitoring System......Page 110 Remote Continuous Cardiac Arrhythmias Detection and Monitoring......Page 122 Cardiological Telemonitoring in Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine......Page 131 Development of Methods for Monitoring of Electrocardiograms, Impedance Cardiograms and Seismocardiograms......Page 141 Electronic Healthcare Record and Decision Support......Page 153 Relationships between Healthcare and Research Records......Page 155 Integrating Electronic Guidelines into the Diagnostic Cycle......Page 166 Presentation of Medical Guidelines on a Computer......Page 176 Caseview: Building the Reference Set......Page 182 Caseview_HUN: Easy DRG Overview......Page 192 Universal Electronic Health Record MUDR......Page 200 MUDRLite - Health Record Tailored to Your Particular Needs......Page 212 Access Control Mechanisms for Distributed Healthcare Environments......Page 220 The Performance of Information Technology in a Cardiovascular System......Page 232 Diagnosis and Improvement of Oral Development of Polish Children with an Impaired Hearing System......Page 241 Artificial Neural Network in Pharmacoeconomics......Page 251 Visualisation of Medical Data......Page 261 Navigation Systems Based on Registration of Endoscopic and CT-derived Virtual Images for Bronchofiberoscopic Procedures......Page 263 Segmentation of Human Brain MR Images Using Rule-Based Fuzzy Logic Inference......Page 274 Developing Multimedia Software and Virtual Reality Worlds and their Use in Rehabilitation and Psychology......Page 283 Methods of Bronchial Tree Reconstruction and Camera Distortion Corrections for Virtual Endoscopic Environments......Page 295 MEDIM - Software System for Content-Based Visual Retrieval Study in Databases with Medical Images......Page 306 Telelearning Standards and their Application in Medical Education......Page 318 PRO-ACCESS - Lessons Learned......Page 327 Beyond Wishful Thinking; Medical Community Presence on the Web and Challenges of Pervasive Healthcare......Page 329 Implementing the HL7v3 Standard in Croatian Primary Healthcare Domain......Page 335 Development of Teleconsultations Systems for e-Health......Page 347 Author Index......Page 359