"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System … to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the … found between urban and rural health environments"--Provided by publisher. …

of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical informatics. Contributions highlight changes to healthcare distribution …Identifying the Emerging e-Health Technologies To Ubiquity 2.0 and Beyond / Sabah Mohammed, Jinan Fiaidhi -- Semantic … Interoperability Issue of Standardizing Medical Vocabularies / W. Ed Hammond -- Personal Health Records Status-Quo and Future …

, Bradford Kirkman-Liff, Edward Smith -- 8. Engineering dependable health information systems / Khin Win, Peter Croll -- 9. e-Health …16. Aligning multiple knowledge perspectives in a health services system / Tanya Castleman, Paul Swatman, Danielle … healthcare quality in banner health / Twila Burdick, John Hensing, Bradford Kirkman-Liff, Pamela Nenaber, Howard Silverman, Maire …

"This book presents a sampling of the many applications utilizing GIS in the field of health, including needs of less …1. Race, class and place : directions for the future of public health / Gregory Pappas, Mohammed Akhter -- 2 …. Understanding health disparities through geographic information systems / Samuel Soret ... [et al.] -- 3. Using a GIS and the …

, use, and impact of information communication technologies in the context of health informatics and electronic healthcare … adoption and usage of health informatics. Gathering an in-depth collection of research articles and case studies from experts … worldwide, this handbook of research provides a global understanding of the advances in health informatics and electronic …

computer applications applied to healthcare and biomedicine. Innovative technologies in health information systems, medicine …, health services, and other areas in biomedicine are explored. The comprehensive chapters contained in this handbook of …Electronic Health Records / Olga Galani and Ageliki Nikiforou -- Security in Health Information Systems / Christina …

The Impact of the Global, Extensible Electronic Health Record / David W. Forslund, David G. Kilman -- UK Primary …

Current practices in select healthcare systems / Venkat Sadanand -- Economic efficiency and the Canadian health care … system / Asha B. Sadanand -- A review of recent contribution in agent based health care modeling / Simerjit Gill, Raman … Paranjape -- Agency in health care system modeling and analysis / Raman Paranjape, Simerjit Gill -- Operating room simulation …

applications in the health and medicine areas. This book presents interesting and innovative developments from leading experts and … scientists working in health, biomedicine, biomedical engineering, and computing areas. It covers many applications in the areas …