eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge

by Blobel, Bernd; Pharow, Peter; Nerlich, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781586038359
• ISBN10: 1586038354
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Ios Pr Inc

Summary

Current demographic, economic and social conditions which developed countries are faced with require a paradigm change for delivering high quality and efficient health services. In that context, healthcare systems have to turn from organization-centered to process-oriented and finally towards individualized patient care, also called personal care, based on ehealth platform services. Interoperability requirements for ubiquitous personalized health services reach beyond current concepts of health information integration among professional stakeholders and related Electronic Patient Records. Future personal health platforms particularly have to maintain semantic interoperability among systems using different modalities and technologies, different knowledge representation and domain experts languages as well as different coding schemes and terminologies to include home care, as well as personal and mobile systems. This development is not restricted to regions or countries, but appears globally, requiring a comprehensive international collaboration. This publication within the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics presents papers from leading international experts representing all domains involved in ehealth.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Combining the Domains
Introduction into Advanced eHealth - The Personal Health Challenge	p. 3
eHealth and IMIA's Strategic Planning Process - IMIA Conference Introductory Address	p. 15
Analysis of Barriers in Implementation of Health Information Systems - EFMI Conference Introductory Address	p. 21
Education in Biomedical Informatics and eHealth	p. 27
eHealth for Personalized Care
The Personal Health Record: Consumers Banking on Their Health	p. 35
Bioinformatics and Genomics for Opening New Perspective for Personalized Care	p. 47
EHR Architectures - Comparison and Trends	p. 59
Legal, Ethical, Political and Social Challenges for the Advancement of eHealth Systems
Ethical Aspects of Future Health Care: Globalisation of Markets and Differentiation of Societies - Ethical Challenges	p. 77
Ubiquitous Care in Aging Societies - A Social Challenge	p. 89
eHealth for Service Delivery - Special Considerations for Resource-Challenged Health Systems	p. 97
Legal and Social Responsibility in Health Service Chains	p. 107
The Challenge for Security and Privacy Services in Distributed Health Settings	p. 113
New Sciences and Technologies
Technical Paradigms for Realizing Ubiquitous Care	p. 129
Nanomanipulation and Nanotechnology for Future Diagnostics	p. 135
The Danubian Biobank Project	p. 143
Aslanidis
eHealth from Dream to Reality
eHealth in Europe: From Vision to Reality	p. 163
eHealth: Connecting Health Care and Public Health	p. 169
ICW eHealth Framework	p. 177
National eHealth Strategies and Implementations
Bavaria - Motor and Partner for Advanced Health Services	p. 193
Current Status of National eHealth and Telemedicine Development in Finland	p. 199
Teleradiology with Satellite Units - Six Years Experience at the Norwegian Radium Hospital	p. 209
Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Semantic Interoperability
Establishing and Harmonizing Ontologies in an Interdisciplinary Health Care and Clinical Research Environment	p. 219
Multilingual Documentation and Classification	p. 235
eHealth Interoperability	p. 245
Changes in Medical Documentation over the Last Five Decades	p. 255
List of Authors	p. 265
Author Index	p. 273
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