Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth

In this book, the authors focus on how medical information canbe reliably transmitted through wireless communication networks. Itexplains how they can be optimized to carry medical information invarious situations by utilizing readily available traditionalwireless local area network (WLAN) and broadband wireless access(BWA) systems. In addition, the authors discuss consumer healthcaretechnology, which is becoming more popular as reduction inmanufacturing cost of electronics products makes healthcareproducts more affordable to the general public. Finally, the bookexplores topics such as communication networks and services,patient monitoring, information processing, system deployment, datasecurity and privacy, information technology in alternativemedicine, multimedia and health informatics, and caring for thecommunity.

 

Key Features:

• Focuses on the transmission of medical information overwireless communication networks, and addresses topics such ascommunication networks and services, patient monitoring,information processing, system deployment, data security andprivacy, and many others
• Provides an in-depth introduction to the various factors thatneed to be considered for supporting healthcare services withinformation technology
• Covers advancements in topics such as RFID in healthcare
• Discusses medical signal processing as well as ECG and signalprocessing techniques

This book will be of interest to advanced students andprofessors in biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, andinformation engineering. Medical and IT professionals involved inspecifying new facilities, healthcare practitioners intelemedicine, researchers in wireless communications andinformation technology, and network administrators will also findthis book insightful.