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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299493503321

Titolo

The International Conference on Health Informatics : ICHI 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal on 7-9 November, 2013 / / edited by Yuan-Ting Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

9783319030050

3319030051

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

IFMBE Proceedings, , 1433-9277 ; ; 42

Disciplina

502.85

610.285

Soggetti

Biomedical engineering

Medical informatics

Telecommunication

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Health Informatics

Communications Engineering, Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 1680-0737."

"ISSN: 1433-9277 (electronic)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Towards Unobtrusive and Wearable Blood Pressure Measurements -- Monitoring and Screening of Vulnerable Patients with Acute Cardiovascular Diseases -- Photo-acoustic Imaging and its Applications -- Tele-healthcare Systems and Applications -- Body Sensor Networks for Emerging Health Informatics -- Privacy and Network Security -- Emerging Technologies and Applications in Telemedicine -- Advanced Solutions for Supporting Cardiac Patients in Rehabilitation -- RFID & Wireless Sensors for Ubiquitous Healthcare & Internet-of-Things -- Public Health Informatics.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI). The conference was a new special topic conference initiative by the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), held in Vilamoura, Portugal on 7-9



November, 2013. The main theme of the ICHI2013 was “Integrating Information and Communication Technologies with Biomedicine for Global Health”. The proceedings offer a unique forum to examine enabling technologies of sensors, devices and systems that optimize the acquisition, transmission, processing, storage, retrieval of biomedical and health information as well as to report novel clinical applications of health information systems and the deployment of m-Health, e-Health, u-Health, p-Health and Telemedicine.