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MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Edited by Shaul Mordechai and Ranjit Sahu
Medical Informatics
Edited by Shaul Mordechai and Ranjit Sahu
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First published March, 2012
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Medical Informatics, Edited by Shaul Mordechai and Ranjit Sahu
p. cm.
ISBN 978-953-51-0259-5
Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Information Technology 1
Chapter 1 Innovative Integration of Information
Systems for Managing a National Access to Surgery 3
Luís Velez Lapão
Chapter 2 Anonymization Approach for Protect Privacy
of Medical Data and Knowledge Management 25
Asmaa Hatem Rashid and Norizan Binti Mohd Yasin
Part 2 Bioinformatics Methods 39
Chapter 3 Aligning Biomedical
Terminologies in French: Towards
Semantic Interoperability in Medical Applications 41
Tayeb Merabti, Lina F. Soualmia, Julien Grosjean,
Michel Joubert and Stefan J. Darmoni
Chapter 4 A Comprehensive Analysis
of MALDI-TOF Spectrometry Data 69
Malgorzata Plechawska-Wojcik
Part 3 Clinical Applications 91
Chapter 5 Using Brazilian Digital TV
to Integrate Health Care Services
Embedded in Medical Commercial Devices 93
Vandermi Silva, Ricardo Erikson Veras De Sena Rosa
and Vicente Ferreira De Lucena Jr.
Chapter 6 Real Time Clinical Decision Support System 111
Hsueh-Chun Lin
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Chapter 7 Wireless Monitoring of Patient’s Vital Signs 137
Anna G. C. D. Ribeiro, André L. Maitelli, Ricardo A. M. Valentim,
Cicília Raquel Maia Leite and Ana M. G. Guerreiro
Preface
The advent of newer technologies along with the developments in the field of
computer software and information technologies has been revolutionizing everyday
life. It has also impacted the field of biomedicine and health care, bringing into its
ambit additional dimensions of database creation for analysis of patient samples, in
retrospect or in real time, making impressive changes to the way health care and
patient information is recorded, processed, interpreted and utilized for improving the
quality of life.
The book consists of seven chapters, dealing with three major issues of medical
information gathering from patient's and health care professional’s perspective,
translational approaches from a researcher point of view, and finally the application
potential as required by the clinicians.
The first section of the book consists of two chapters that detail the basic process of
acquisition of information in a health system, and how the barriers of language can
play a role in creating a noise in transmission of information through a medical
system. These chapters emphasize the ways to make the system comprehensible to
both the clinician/physician as well as to the patient, the source and the recipient. A
chapter by Msc. Rashid is also included in this section, wherein the issue dealt with is
the protection of the individuals' identities while disseminating required information
to the designated personnel. This section intends to especially educate the people with
expertise in information technology who are involved in medical fields, thereby aiding
in their discretion of data collection, evaluation, storage and supply in clinical set ups.
The chapters also describe the design and first results of using an information system
to improve the access to surgery by re-defining key processes and workflows. The use
of the proposed systems has the potential to improve health care quality and prevent
medical errors, as well as increasing the efficiency of the care provided and reducing
unnecessary health care costs.
Section II deals with technological developments that have been invading the health
system, with the example of MALDI-TOF and its application in prostate cancer
diagnosis and monitoring. It demonstrates the requirement of translating scientific
concepts and jargons to the common men in lay terms, through the use of information
systems. The section also includes a chapter about the integration of technological
X Preface
breakthroughs, patients, physicians and the information system, and principles laid
out in the studies help to demonstrate the increased effectiveness of communication
between the source and the recipient. There is currently extensive literature on mass
spectra analysis problems. In the chapter "A comprehensive analysis of MALDI-TOF
spectrometry data" the successful preprocessing as a condition of reliable mass
spectrometry data analysis is emphasized. All elements of mass spectra analysis are
closely related. Any performed operation has an influence on the further quality of the
results. Not only are the set of methods and parameters important, but the proper
order of methods is also important. Another important issue in mass spectrometry
data analysis is the supporting of biological interpretation. Biological interpretation
tries to determine peptides and proteins on the basis of the m/z values list. The ability
to check the details of those components is of great importance to biologists.
The final section encompasses chapters that deal with realistic evaluation of the
principles of medical informatics in terms of relevance to the patients. The practical
utility of any break through in science requires an evaluation under everyday
conditions. Since medical informatics is a growing and upcoming field, it is routinely
subjected to scrutiny for its relevance. The chapters in section III are thus examples of
how the medical informatics system is likely to integrate into the lives of both patients
and the medical professionals. The chapter "WIRELESS MONITORING OF
PATIENT’S VITAL SIGNS", proposes a wireless monitoring of patient’s vital signs,
presenting a new telemedicine software using GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)
and Bluetooth technologies that add the idea of ubiquity to the medical area,
innovating the relation between doctors and patients through wireless communication
and bringing security and confidence to a patient being monitored in home care.
Lastly, the chapter "Using Brazilian Digital TV to Integrate Health Care Services
Embedded in Medical Commercial Devices" shows how to construct highly integrated
systems for measuring and collecting patients’ data, aimed at assisting in diagnoses,
prevention of diseases and patient care under real world situations, using the
information highways of the virtual world.
Ranjit Sahu
Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Manhasset NY
USA
Shaul Mordechai
Head, Biomedical Spectroscopy
Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University
Beer-Sheva
Israel
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ISBN 978-953-51-0259-5
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