Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, October 18 - 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

by Lin, James C.

• ISBN13: 9783642208645
• ISBN10: 3642208649
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

This book contains a selection of thoroughly refereed and revised papers from the Second International ICST Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication in Healthcare, MobiHealth 2010, held in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2010. The 33 papers in this volume describe various applications of information and communication technologies in healthcare and medicine and cover a wide range of topics such as intelligent public health monitoring services, mobile health technologies, signal processing techniques for monitoring services, wearable biomedical devices, ambient assistive technologies, emergency and disaster applications, and integrated systems for chronic monitoring and management.

Table of Contents

Intelligent Public Health Monitoring Services
Tele-psychiatry: Socioeconomic Results, the Way Forward	p. 3
A Citizen Telemonitoring Strategy as Envisaged for Central Greece	p. 11
Estimation and Analysis of Thermal Response of Human Tissue during EM Exposure	p. 17
Mobile Health Technologies, Applications and Integrated Systems for Chronic Disease Monitoring and Management
A Logic Simplification Based on Expert System Application for TBC Diagnosis	p. 27
On Assessing Motor Disorders in Parkinson's Disease	p. 35
An Intelligent System for Classification of Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases	p. 39
Intelligent Home Monitoring
Autonomy, Motivation, Individual Self-management for COPD Patients, the Amica Project	p. 49
A Novel System for Hemodialysis Patients Home Monitoring	p. 54
Post Cardiac Surgery Home-Monitoring System	p. 61
Independent: Technology Supported Autonomous Living	p. 69
Interoperability in e-Health
Towards Interoperability for Telemedicine Systems	p. 79
Personal Health Systems for Patient Self-management: Integration in Pervasive Monitoring Environments	p. 87
A Portal for Ubiquitous Access to Personal Health Records on the Cloud	p. 95
Signal Processing Techniques for Monitoring Services
Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Type Dementia Using Continuous Speech Recognition	p. 105
An Investigation of Acoustical and Signal Processing Techniques for Classification, Diagnosis and Monitoring of Breathing Abnormalities in Sleep	p. 111
Performance Investigation of Empirical Mode Decomposition in Biomedical Signals	p. 117
Implantable and Wearable Biomedical Devices
Design of a Novel Miniaturized Implantable PIFA for Biomedical Telemetry	p. 127
Microstrip Antenna Arrays for Implantable and Wearable Wireless Applications	p. 135
BER Performance of a BPSK Biomedical Telemetry System under Varying Coupling and Loading Conditions	p. 144
Ambient Assistive Technologies
mPharmacy: A System Enabling Prescription and Personal Assistive Medication Management on Mobile Devices	p. 153
AmIVital: Digital Personal Environment for Health and Well-Being	p. 160
An Analysis of Bluetooth, Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy and Their Use in WBANs	p. 168
Experimental Analysis of RSSI-Based Indoor Location Systems with WLAN Circularly Polarized Antennas	p. 176
Mobile Health Technologies, Applications and Integrated Systems for Chronic Disease Monitoring and Management
Predictive Metabolic Modeling for Type 1 Diabetes Using Free-Living Data on Mobile Devices	p. 187
Architecture for Lifestyle Monitoring Platform in Diabetes Management	p. 194
CLAP: Cross-Layer Protocols for Phealth	p. 201
Emergency and Disaster Applications
Future Care Floor: A Sensitive Floor for Movement Monitoring and Fall Detection in Home Environments	p. 211
Monitoring and Assessing Crew Performance in High-Speed Marine Craft - Methodological Considerations	p. 219
Using Location Information for Sophisticated Emergency Call Management	p. 227
Mobile Devices and Wireless Technologies for Patient Monitoring
Proof of the Accuracy of Measuring Pants to Evaluate the Activity of the Hip and Legs in Everyday Life	p. 235
Nano-coating Protection of Medical Devices	p. 245
A UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System for Healthcare: Design and Implementation	p. 252
Poster Session
Real-Time, Remote, Home Based, Non-invasive, Elder Monitoring System	p. 263
Author Index	p. 271
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