Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing
healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing
restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage
and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at
the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which
mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the
vision of pervasive healthcare. This vision includes prevention,
healthcare maintenance and checkups, short-term monitoring (home
healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized
healthcare monitoring, and incidence detection and management,
emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive
healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management
system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile
telemedicine. Pervasive Healthcare Computing includes the treatment
of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they
will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.
From the reviews: "Improving the technology involved in building healthcare systems remains a critical challenge in providing healthcare ... . Varshney carefully delineates in this book the need for improving the technology associated with providing healthcare. ... Overall, this is a very well-written book. Varshney has acquired a large amount of information to explain the topics discussed, and presents it with a reasonable level of detail." (Varadraj Gurupur, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)
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1;Pervasive Healthcare Computing List of Contents;7 2;Chapter 1 Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Solutions;10 2.1;1.1 Healthcare System in US;10 2.2;1.2 Costs and Complexity of Payments;11 2.3;1.3 Limited Number of Healthcare Professionals;12 2.4;1.4 Technological & Other Inefficiencies in Healthcare;14 2.5;1.5 Patients-related Challenges;15 2.6;1.6 Cost of Medications & Poor Adherence;16 2.7;1.7 Medical Errors & Quality of Care;17 2.8;1.8 Healthcare Billing and Fraud;18 2.9;1.9 Improvements with Technologies in Healthcare;18 2.10;1.10 Rest of the Book;22 3;Chapter 2: E-Health and IT in Healthcare;26 3.1;2.1 E-health;26 3.2;2.2 EMR and EHR;31 3.3;2.3 Issues in EMR/EHR 2.3.1 The Major Challenges to National EHR;37 3.4;2.4 Telemedicine;42 3.5;2.5 Future of IT in Healthcare;45 4;Chapter 3: Pervasive Computing and Healthcare;48 4.1;3.1 Pervasive Computing;48 4.2;3.2 Pervasive Healthcare;57 4.3;3.3 Pervasive Healthcare Requirements;67 4.4;3.4 Open Issues and Challenges;68 5;Chapter 4: Wireless and Mobile Technologies;72 5.1;4.1 Introduction;73 5.2;4.2 The Commercial Cellular/3G Networks;74 5.3;4.3 Wireless LANs;81 5.4;4.4 Satellites;85 5.5;4.5 Sensors;88 5.6;4.6 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID);90 5.7;4.7 Bluetooth;91 5.8;4.8 ZigBee;93 5.9;4.9 Fixed Wireless and WiMAX;93 5.10;4.10 The Overall Picture;94 5.11;4.11 Conclusions and the Future;95 6;Chapter 5 Wireless Health Monitoring: Requirements and Examples;97 6.1;5.1 Introduction;97 6.2;5.2 The Monitoring Environments;98 6.3;5.3 General Monitoring Requirements;100 6.4;5.4 Vital Signs and Medical Parameters;105 6.5;5.5 Specific Vital Signs;109 6.6;5.6 An Example of Monitoring Scenario and Requirements;116 6.7;5.7 Sleep Apnea Monitoring;119 6.8;5.8 Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring;120 6.9;5.9 Wireless Stress Monitoring;121 6.10;5.10 Stray Prevention Monitoring;122 6.11;5.11 Some More Types of Monitoring;122 6.12;5.12 Conclusions and Future;123 7;Chapter 6 Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art and Implementations;127 7.1;6.1 State-of-the Art in Wireless Health Monitoring;127 7.2;6.2 Evolution of WHM;142 7.3;6.3 A High-level Framework for WHM;144 7.4;6.4 An Implementation;147 7.5;6.5 The Future of WHM;151 8;Chapter 7 Medical Decision Making;155 8.1;7.1 Introduction;155 8.2;7.2 Requirements and Functions of Healthcare Professionals;157 8.3;7.3 The Role of Healthcare Professionals Devices;162 8.4;7.4 An Example of Medical Decision Making;164 8.5;7.5 What to Do When Something Goes Wrong;166 8.6;7.6 Cognitive Load;167 8.7;7.7 Alert Monitoring and Management System;168 8.8;7.8 The Future of Medical Decision Making in WHM;170 9;Chapter 8: Health Monitoring using Infrastructure-oriented Wireless Networks;172 9.1;8.1 Introduction;172 9.2;8.2 Networking Requirements of Wireless Health Monitoring;174 9.3;8.3. Advantages of Cellular/3G for Health Monitoring;178 9.4;8.4 Limitations of Cellular/3G for WHM;181 9.5;8.5 Advantages of W-LANs in Health Monitoring;183 9.6;8.6 Limitations of W-LANs for WHM;185 9.7;8.7 Comparison of Cellular/3G and Wireless LANs;188 9.8;8.8 Reliability for Wireless Health Monitoring;189 9.9;8.9 Other Networking Considerations;191 9.10;8.10 Future;192 10;Chapter 9: Ad Hoc Networks for Health Monitoring;195 10.1;9.1 Introduction;195 10.2;9.2 Challenges for Wireless Health Monitoring;199 10.3;9.3 Existing Ad Hoc Networks;201 10.4;9.4 Monitoring Protocols;203 10.5;9.5 Routing in Ad Hoc Networks;204 10.6;9.6 Reliability of Ad Hoc Network Monitoring;212 10.7;9.7 Future;214 11;Chapter 10 Using Incentives in Wireless Health Monitoring;216 11.1;10.1 Introduction;216 11.2;10.2 Overcoming the Non-cooperation of Routers;218 11.3;10.3 Incentives for Co-operation of Devices;221 11.4;10.4 Steps in Obtaining Co-operation;223 11.5;10.5 Protocols and Operations;226 11.6;10.6 The Decision Making Protocols;228 11.7;10.7 Strategies for Nodes;230 11.8;10.8 Challenges in the Implementation of Incentives;231 11.9;10.9 Conclusions and Future Research;233 12;Chapter 11: Context-awareness in Healthcare;235 12.1;11.1 Introduction;235 12.2;11.2 Context and Context Awareness;236 12.3;11.3 Context in Healthcare;242 12.4;11.4. Context in Health Monitoring;246 12.5;11.5 Integration of Context Information and Details;250 12.6;11.6 From Context-awareness to Health-Awareness;258 12.7;11.7 Summary and Future;259 13;Chapter 12 Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability;262 13.1;12. 1 Introduction;262 13.2;12.2 Challenges in Mental Health Monitoring;266 13.3;12.3 Examples of MHM;267 13.4;12.4 Monitoring of Medication Compliance and Addiction;273 13.5;12.5 Disability Monitoring and Verification;280 13.6;12.6 Conclusions and Future;283
