"This book explores how the use of mobile devices by health care professionals (HCPs) has transformed many aspects of clinical practice. It also explores how mobile devices and apps provide many benefits for HCPs, perhaps most significantly increased access to point-of-care tools, which has been...

1. Pervasive networks and ubiquitous monitoring for wellness monitoring in residential aged care / Leroy Lai Yu Chan, Branko George Celler, James Zhaonan Zhang, Nigel Hamilton Lovell -- 2. Smart homes to support elderly people : innovative technologies and social impacts / Arianna D'Ulizia,...

"This book provides explanations of concepts, processes and acronyms related to different areas, issues and trends in various areas of wireless technologies for ambient assisted living and healthcare, focusing on emerging wireless technologies and innovative wireless solutions for smart home...

"This book offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life"--Provided by publisher.

This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations. Furthermore, it has a global...

"This book provides an extensive and rich compilation of international research, discussing the use, adoption, design, and diffusion of information communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare, including the role of ICTs in the future of healthcare delivery; access, quality, and value of...

The Concept of Knowledge Media / Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva -- Experience with a Functional-Logic Multi-Agent Architecture for Medical Problem Solving / Giordano Lanzola, Harold Boley -- Cross-Fertilizing Logic Programming and XML for Knowledge Representation / Harold Boley -- Four Different...

1. Introduction to ranking models -- 2. Data visualization and data summary -- 3. Statistical methods -- 4. Predictive modeling versus regression -- 5. The Charleston Comorbidity Index -- 6. The all patient refined diagnosis related group -- 7. Risk adjustment based upon resource utilization --...

Insights into the search behavior of non-medical professionals based on task difficulty and an evaluation against new generation medical information retrieval strategies / Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Pervaiz K. Ahmed -- Indicating fields of inequalities regarding the access to health...

"This book focuses on cloud technologies that could affect quality in the healthcare field, with experts presenting their knowledge and contributions to the demystification of healthcare in the Cloud"--Provided by publisher.