Contents
1.1 Information Technology and Healthcare Professionals
1.2 Providing Healthcare to Patients
1.3 Healthcare Informatics Developments
1.4 Different Definitions of Telemedicine
1.6 The Growth of the Internet: Information Flooding in E-Health
2 Communication Networks and Services
2.1 Wireless Communications Basics
2.2 Types of Wireless Networks
2.3 The Outdoor Operating Environment
3 Wireless Technology in Patient Monitoring
3.5 General Health Assessments
4 Technologies in Medical Information Processing
4.1 Collecting Data from Patients
4.2 Bio-signal Transmission and Processing
4.3 Patient Records and Data Mining Applications
4.4 Knowledge Management for Clinical Applications
5 Wireless Telemedicine System Deployment
5.1 Planning and Deployment Considerations
5.2 Scalability to Support Future Growth
5.3 Integration with Existing IT Infrastructure
5.4 Evaluating IT Service and Solution Provider
6 Technologies for Safeguarding Medical Data and Privacy
6.1 Information Security Overview
6.3 Safeguarding Patient Medical History
6.4 Anonymous Data Collection and Processing