M-health can be defined as the 'emerging mobile communications and
network technologies for healthcare systems.' This book paves the path
toward understanding the future of m-health technologies and services
and also introducing the impact of mobility on existing e-health and
commercial telemedical systems. M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
presents a new and forward-looking source of information that explores
the present and future trends in the applications of current and
emerging wireless communication and network technologies for different
healthcare scenaria. It also provides a discovery path on the synergies
between the 2.5G and 3G systems and other relevant computing and
information technologies and how they prescribe the way for the next
generation of m-health services. The book contains 47 chapters, arranged
in five thematic sections: Introduction to Mobile M-health Systems,
Smart Mobile Applications for Health Professionals, Signal, Image, and
Video Compression for M-health Applications, Emergency Health Care
Systems and Services, Echography Systems and Services, and Remote and
Home Monitoring. This book is intended for all those working in the
field of information technologies in biomedicine, as well as for people
working in future applications of wireless communications and wireless
telemedical systems. It provides different levels of material to
researchers, computing engineers, and medical practitioners interested
in emerging e-health systems. This book will be a useful reference for
all the readers in this important and growing field of research, and
will contribute to the roadmap of future m-health systems and improve
the development of effective healthcare delivery systems.
