HEALTH INFORMATICS: AN ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE HEALTHCARE -- HEALTH INFORMATICS: AN ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE HEALTHCARE -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Cost-effective Networking for Mobile Healthcare -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Contributions -- 1.3. Chapter Organization -- 2. Mobile Healthcare: Status Quo -- 3. Background -- 3.1. The Need -- 3.2. The Opportunity -- 4. Benefits to Under-served Communities -- 5. Cost-effective Networking: A New Paradigm formHealth -- 5.1. Cost-effective Medical Data Upload -- 5.2. Cost-effectiveAdvisory Message Dissemination -- 6. The CellChek Testbed -- 6.1. The Overall Architecture -- 6.2. Medical Devices -- 6.3. Example Use Cases -- 7. Summary -- 7.1. Future Research Directions -- References -- Chapter 2: Context-Aware Process and User Interface Adaptation in Ehealth Applications - The Loca Approach -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MOTIVATION -- A Physician on a Ward Round -- A Dementia Patient Living at Home -- CONTEXT AND CONTEXT MANAGEMENT -- Context and Context-Awareness -- Generic Context Model -- CONTEXT-AWARE PROCESS ADAPTATION -- Static Workflows -- Dynamic and Context-Aware Workflows -- Implementation of Context-Aware Workflows -- Discussion -- CONTEXT-AWARE USER INTERFACE ADAPTATION -- Adapting User Interfaces to their User's Context -- Abstraction Layers of User Interfaces -- A CONCRETE EXAMPLE: THE LOCA SYSTEM -- Architecture of the LoCa System -- Implementation of the LoCa System -- LoCa Prototype System -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: Enhancing Network Patient Capacity in a WLAN for Healthcare Monitoring -- Abstract -- 1. Background -- 1.1. Motivations of healthcare monitoring systems -- 1.2. Categories and architecture of healthcare monitoring systems.

1.3. Challenges in the network for healthcare -- 1.4. Introduction to wireless local area networks -- 2. Literature Review -- 2.1. Channel characteristics in hospital environments -- 2.2. Imperfect CSI inWLAN -- 2.3. Electromagnetic interference in medical equipments -- 3. Resource allocation in wireless healthcare systems -- 3.1. Resource allocation with perfect CSI and without EMI constraints -- 3.2. Optimal bandwidth allocation in view of EMI -- 3.3. Optimal bandwidth allocation with imperfect CSI -- 3.4. Simulation and results -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4: Architecture and Protocols for Body Sensor Networks -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS -- 3. INTERNET-BASED ARCHITECTURE OF BSN -- 4. MAC PROTOCOLS FOR BSN -- 4.1. H-MAC -- 4.2. BSN-MAC -- 4.3. CICADA -- 4.4. Other MAC Protocols -- 5. ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR BSN -- 5.1. BSDTN -- 5.2. Temperature Aware Routing Protocols -- 5.3. Other Routing Protocols -- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: Information and Communication Technologies Enabled Assisted Living: An Integration of RFID and Web Service -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE -- 3. ASSISTED LIVING SERVICES AND ICT -- 4. INTEGRATION -- 4.1. Location Windows Service -- 4.2. Responder Database -- 4.3. Web Service -- 4.4. Illustration of Assisted Living Based Application and Security -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: Towards the Design of Truly Patient-centred Healthcare Infrastructures: A Socio-Technical Approach to Self-Care -- ABSTRACT -- PREAMBLE -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION 1 - KEY FEATURES OF THE MEDICAL MODEL -- 1.1. The Role of Being a Sick Patient - In Traditional Medicine -- 1.2. Biomedical Reductionism and the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm.

1.3. Compliance in the Medical Model -- Summary -- SECTION 2 - SELF-CARE PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGY: CASES FROM SELF-MONITORING -- 2.1. Vignette 1: An Elderly Woman Has Problemswith a Blood Pressure Monitor -- 2.2. Vignette 2: Marc, the Autonomous Diabetic Patient -- SECTION 3 - HEALTH AND ICT, ON COLLABORATION AND E-HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURES -- 3.1. CSCW - Traditional Support for Expert Socio-Technical Practices -- 3.2. Infrastructures and Infrastructuring -- 3.3. Re-Thinking Empowerment: A Critical Look at the Notion of Self in Self-Care -- 3.4. Summary -- SECTION 4 - IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT-CENTRIC DESIGN -- 4.1. The Problem of ―Fixing Things‖ - The Need for On-GoingOpenness and Flexibility in the Act of Categorization -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.