Smart Health Open Problems and Future Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Holzinger, Andreas (Editor), Röcker, Carsten (Editor), Ziefle, Martina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8700
• Subjects: Computer science.; Health informatics.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; Health Informatics.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Database Management.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Prolonged life expectancy along with the increasing complexity of medicine and health services raises health costs worldwide dramatically. Whilst the smart health concept has much potential to support the concept of the emerging P4-medicine (preventive, participatory, predictive, and personalized),...

Table of Contents:

• From Smart Health to Smart Hospitals
• Medicine and Health Care as a Data Problem: Will Computers Become Better Medical Doctors
• Spatial Health Systems: When Humans Move Around
• Towards Pervasive Mobility Assessments in Clinical and Domestic Environments
• Personalized Physical Activity Monitoring Using Wearable Sensors
• Energy Harvesting on Human Bodies
• On Distant Speech Recognition for Home Automation
• A User-Centered Design Approach to Physical Motion Coaching Systems for Pervasive Health
• Linking Biomedical Data to the Cloud
• Towards Personalization of Diabetes Therapy Using Computerized Decision Support and Machine Learning: Some Open Problems and Challenges
• State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges in the Integration of Biobank Catalogues.