Electronic Healthcare - Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

Title Page

Preface

Organization

Table of Contents

Session 1: Telehealth and Mobile Health Solutions

Model Checking for Robotic Guided Surgery

Introduction

Transformation and Validation

Model Checking

Model Checking Examples

Results

Future Works

References

Intelligent Mobile Health Monitoring System (IMHMS)

Introduction

System Architecture

Evaluation

Future Works and Conclusion

References

Mobile Health Access for Diabetics in Rural Areas of Turkey – Results of a Survey

Mobile Devices in eHealth

Providing Information to Patients

Transmission of Physiological Parameters

Alert of Patients or Medical Professionals with Critical Values

The eSana Framework

Survey

Introduction

Diabetes Application Context

ICT Infrastructure and Know-How of the Medical Professionals

Use of Mobile Technologies

Potential Effects of a Mobile Diabetes Solution

Conclusion and Outlook

Interpretation of the Survey Results

Components of a Mobile Diabetes Application

Outlook

References

Session 2: Outbreak Management, Web 2.0 and Public Health Communication

Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter

Introduction

Methodology

Use of Twitter in This Study

Preliminary Results

Conclusion

References

Communicating with Public Health Organizations: AnInventory of Capacities in the European Countries

Introduction

The Use of Customer Relationship Management in Public Health

The ECDC Contacts and Organizations Database

References

Transparency and Documentation in Simulations of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Towards Evidence-Based Public Health Decisions and Communications

Introduction

Methods

Results

Settings and User Groups

Implementation

‘Swine flu’ Use Example

Discussion

Conclusions

References

Session 3: EPR: Trust, Security and Decision Support

Prototyping a Personal Health Record Taking Social and Usability Perspectives into Account

Introduction

Personal Health Management in the Household

Methodology

Three Strategies of Health Information Management in the Household

Implications for System Design

System Design

Design Principle

Architectural Components

Underlying Data Model

Future Work

The Usability Evaluation Approach

The Target Users

Implication for the System Interface

Conclusions

References

Mixed-Initiative Argumentation: Group Decision Support in Medicine

Introduction

Formal Framework

Medical Group Decision Support System

Conclusion

References

Session 4: ICT Support for Patients and Healthcare Organizations

Enabling Technology to Advance Health-Protecting Individual Rights-Are We Walking the Talk?

Introduction

Potential of E-Health

Difficulty in Defining Ownership of Data

The Complexities of "Privacy" in a Networked World

Privacy Legislation

New Business Models – Need for Education, Accountability and New Legislation

Personalized Medicine

Personal Health Records and Personal Medical Monitoring

Need to Provide Education and Technical Assistance for Consumers

Need for Methods to Validate and to Ensure Accountability

Need for Legislation That Covers All Entities

Conclusion -- Enabling Technology to Advance Health -Protecting Individual Rights - Are We Walking the Talk?

References

Detecting Human Motion: Introducing Step, Fall and ADL Algorithms

Introduction

Research and Methodology

Equipment

Sensor Placement

Step Detection

Fall Detection

Detecting the Position of the User

Conclusion

References

The Costs of Non-training in Chronic Wounds: Estimates through Practice Simulation

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results

Conclusion

References

Open Source Virtual Worlds and Low Cost Sensors for Physical Rehab of Patients with Chronic Diseases

Introduction

Virtual Valley

System Architecture

Functional Design

Discussion and Future Work

References

Session 5: Evaluation of ICT in Healthcare

Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers

Introduction

Background

Sealife SWB Evaluation

Use of Triangulation for Semantic Web

Value of Data Triangulation in Interpreting the Results

Sealife Results

Web Server Logs

Questionnaires

Semi-structured Interviews

Sealife Evaluation: Validation and Completeness of Results

Validation

Completeness

Discussion

Conclusion

References

Adaptive Planning of Staffing Levels in Health Care Organisations

Introduction

Staffing Model

Transient Approximations for GI/G/c(n) Model

Adaptive Staff Planning Approach

Staff Planning in an A&E Unit

Conclusions

References

“Do Users Do What They Think They Do?”– A Comparative Study of User Perceived and Actual Information Searching Behaviour in the National Electronic Library of Infection

Introduction

‘User Perceived’ versus User Actual Information ‘Searching Behaviour’

NeLI Navigation Structure

Information Searching Investigation Methods

Study Results

Did the Users Find the Information They Were Looking for?

Navigation on NeLI: Browsing and Searching

Browsing and Searching Behaviour Details

Cases Where the Users Reported Navigation Behaviour and Observed Behaviour Did Not Match

Discussion

Conclusion

References

MEDEMAS -Medical Device Management and Maintenance System Architecture

Introduction

Design Considerations

System Architecture

Conclusion Remarks and Future Work

References

ROC Based Evaluation and Comparison of Classifiers for IVF Implantation Prediction

Introduction

IVF Dataset

Experiments and Results

Conclusions and Future Work

References

Evaluation of Knowledge Development in a Healthcare Setting

Introduction

Methods

Study Design

Findings

Conclusions

References

Session 6: Healthcare Knowledge Management and Ontologies

Building and Using Terminology Services for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Introduction

Understanding the Problem – Why ECDC Needs Interoperability Tools?

Semantic Interoperability and the Selected Tools: Building a Terminology Server and a Domain Ontology

Methods, Tools, Standards

Avoiding Reinventing the Wheel – What Is Out There?

What Methods, Tools and Standards Have Been Chosen?

Results in Building Terminology, Operating the Terminology Server (TS) and Planned Next Steps

Discussion and Conclusions

References

Semantic Description of Health Record Data for Procedural Interoperability

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results

Description of Medigrid Entities

MediGRID and OpenEHR

Discussion

Indicator Ontology

Archetype Data as Indicators

Conclusions

References

A Lexical-Ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare

Introduction

Medical Terminologies and Ontologies

Approach

Knowledge Acquisition Task

Term Extraction and Mapping Analysis

First Results Evaluation

Concluding Remarks

References

An Ontology of Therapies

Introduction

The Oncocure Project

Which Ontologies for Medicine?

The NCI Thesaurus

The Ontology Developed

Use of the Ontology

Conclusions

References

Modelling and Decision Support of Clinical Pathways

Development of the Process-Oriented Perspective in German Hospitals to the “Clinical Pathways”

Modelling of Clinical Paths

Architectural Concept of a Knowledge-Base Process-Oriented Hospital Information System

Limits of Process-Oriented Hospital Information Systems

Architectural Concept of a Knowledge-Based Hospital Workflow-System

Synopsis and Future Prospects

References

With Intègre®, Leverage Every Medical Professionals’ Skills and Expertise

Session 7: Web 2.0, Multimedia and Personalisation

Personality Diagnosis for Personalized eHealth Services

Introduction

References

Collaboration through ICT between Healthcare Professionals: The Social Requirements of Health 2.0 Applications

Introduction

Health 2.0

Social Requirements

Method

CSCW in Healthcare

Social Requirements of Health 2.0

Supported Autonomy

Rationale in Context

Fluid Collaboration

Discussion

References

A Web2.0 Platform in Healthcare Created on the Basis of the Real Perceived Need of the Elderly End User

The Early Approach to Elderly Care and the New Challenges in Web2.0

The Federative Platform as Approach for Web2.0 in Healthcare

The Contribution to Web 2.0 in Healthcare for Elderly

Conclusions

References

Web 2.0 Artifacts in Healthcare Management Portals-State-of-the-Art in German Health Care Companies

Introduction

Basic Principles

The Landscape of German Healthcare Management

Related Work

Survey of German Health Insurance Companies Websites

Methodology and Design

Results

Discussion

Summary and Outlook

References

Session 8: eHealth Automation and Decision Support

Compensation of Handicap and Autonomy Loss through e-Technologies and Home Automation for Elderly People in Rural Regions: An Actual Need for International Initiatives Networks

Introduction

The Local Initiative Context

References

Modeling Market Shares of Competing (e)Care Providers

Introduction

Conceptual Framework and Model Mechanisms

Definitions

General Model Concept

Inflow and Inter Tier Flow Distribution

Churn

Capacity

Simulation Results

Capacity

Market Shares of Competing Care Providers

Conclusion and Future Work

References

Security Protection on Trust Delegated Data in Public Mobile Networks

Introduction

Trust Negotiation in Mobile Services

Proposed Schema

Implementation

Protocol

Token Generation and Management

Security Capsule Implementation

Conclusion

References

Session 9: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Communicating with Public Health Organizations: Technical Solution

Introduction and Requirements

Implementation Phases

Author Index