Book description
This book brings together a broad range of topics demonstrating how information and wireless technologies can be used in healthcare
In this book, the authors focus on how medical information can be reliably transmitted through wireless communication networks. It explains how they can be optimized to carry medical information in various situations by utilizing readily available traditional wireless local area network (WLAN) and broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. In addition, the authors discuss consumer healthcare technology, which is becoming more popular as reduction in manufacturing cost of electronics products makes healthcare products more affordable to the general public. Finally, the book explores topics such as communication networks and services, patient monitoring, information processing, system deployment, data security and privacy, information technology in alternative medicine, multimedia and health informatics, and caring for the community.
Key Features:
Focuses on the transmission of medical information over wireless communication networks, and addresses topics such as communication networks and services, patient monitoring, information processing, system deployment, data security and privacy, and many others
Provides an in-depth introduction to the various factors that need to be considered for supporting healthcare services with information technology
Covers advancements in topics such as RFID in healthcare
Discusses medical signal processing as well as ECG and signal processing techniques
This book will be of interest to advanced students and professors in biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, and information engineering. Medical and IT professionals involved in specifying new facilities, healthcare practitioners in telemedicine, researchers in wireless communications and information technology, and network administrators will also find this book insightful.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Communication Networks and Services
- 3: Wireless Technology in Patient Monitoring
- 4: Technologies in Medical Information Processing
- 5: Wireless Telemedicine System Deployment
- 6: Technologies for Safeguarding Medical Data and Privacy
- 7: Information Technology in Alternative Medicine
- 8: Caring for the Community
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9: Future Trends in Healthcare Technology
- 9.1 Prognostics in Telemedicine
- 9.2 The Aging Population: Home Care for the Elderly
- 9.3 Clothing Technology and Healthcare
- 9.4 Haptic Sensing for Practitioners
- 9.5 The Future of Telemedicine and Information Technology for Everyone: From Newborn to Becoming a Medical Professional all the Way Through to Retirement
- References
- Appendix: Key Features of Major Wireless Network Types
- Index
Product information
- Title: Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470745694
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