List of Chapters
What Drives to Adopt and to Decline mHealth Services?
Author(s): Sang HyunJo; Hyeyoon Bae, Euehun Lee*
In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of mHealth services and the antecedents to affect the intention to use the services. The mHealth services, which combine the characteristics of mobile communications and healthcare services, allow users to obtain their health data, physician consultations, and health information when they need at home or office. They do not have to go to a hospital. In particular, it is expected that the services will be more useful to the global aging phenomenon and well-being trend. However, as a variety of mHealth services are introduced to the market with high smart phone penetration and technological development, there are not many studies on acceptance factors of the service and continuous intention to use the service.
Applications of Telemedicine on the Integral Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review
Author(s): Pedro J Tárraga López; Laura M. Lopez Torres
Introduction: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a common, preventable and treatable disease. It is currently the 4th cause of mortality worldwide with an upward trend. It is a under diagnosed entity, which implies a high cost to Public Health, and a huge loss of quality of life for the people who suffer it. Currently, there is no effective screening program, and follow-up is a difficult task.
Update of Telemedicine for Chronic Heart Failure
Author(s): Emmanuel Andrès *, Samy Talha, Mohamed Hajjam, Amir Hajjam El Hassani
Background: This is a narrative short review of the literature pertaining to telemedicine projects developed in the field of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF), with special attention to non-invasive telemonitoring projects, especially the French projects. Results: Numerous non-invasive telemonitoring projects, based on connected objects or Information and Communication Technology (ICT), have emerged over the last ten years or are under development in the field of CHF. This is the case of the main randomized international telemonitoring studies TELE-HF, TIM-HF and BEAT-HF. This is also the case in France with the telemonitoring projects: SCAD, OSICAT, PIMS, MEDICA and E-care. The E-care project is a French telemonitoring project of new generation.
Current Researches on Telemonitoring in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review
Author(s): Emmanuel Andrès*; Laurent Meyer; Abrar–Ahmad. Zulfiqar; Mohamed Hajjam; Samy Talha; Sylvie Ervé; Jawad Hajjam; Jean Doucet; Nathalie Jeandidier; Amir Hajjam E Hassani
Background: This is a narrative review of both the literature and Web pertaining to telemedicine projects within the field of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, with special attention placed on remote monitoring 2.0 projects and studies.
Material and method: A literature search was performed using the PubMed database of US National Library of Medicine, along with Scholar Google. Textbooks on telemedicine and e-Health, from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for Study the Diabetes (EASD), as well as information from international meetings and commercial sites on the Web were used. After rigorous selection, 29 papers were included in our review and analyzed.
Smart@Iot Ai-Iot Healthcare Solution in Smart Homes Environment Telemedicine
Author(s): Bassant M. Elbagoury*; Marwa Zaghow; Rytis Maskeliunas; Ahmed Adel Bakr; Abdel Badeeh M. Salem
AI has been in development for decades, but only recently gotten good enough for people to notice, mostly due to advances in other industries besides health care. Intelligent computing/AI uses algorithms, heuristics, pattern matching, rules, machine/deep learning, and cognitive computing to solve problems typically performed by humans, as well as complex problems difficult for humans...
Impactful Telemedicine: Tele-Intake and Telemedicine Medical Screening
Author(s): Hanson Hsu, MD; Matthew Laghezza, MBA*; Peter Greenwald, MD; Rahul Sharma, MD
Since the turn of the 19th century, early accounts of “patient dumping” have described the inappropriate and the life-endangering practice of transferring a patient from one hospital to another hospital based presumably on the patient’s ability to pay for medical services. During the mid-century as hospitals have evolved from private endeavors into public service, the concept of emergency care, offered without regards to the ability to pay at the time of presentation, has been designated as a community service obligation, as opposed to mandated by law.
