Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems

Wayne Pease (University of Southern Queensland, Australia), Malcolm Cooper (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan), and Raj Gururajan (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

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Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781605662664

EISBN13: 9781605662671

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4

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The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in the management of knowledge within consumer health behavior and the delivery of health services.

Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems provides multidisciplinary best practices and experiences in knowledge management relevant to the healthcare industry. A useful reference for field researchers, academicians, and healthcare practitioners, this Handbook of Research presents an in-depth examination of common approaches to shared problems in the management of knowledge within e-health services.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Biomedical knowledge management
Client-based treatment
Data mining methods in medical records
Electronic Health Records
Healthcare Disparities
Human factors in e-health systems
Integrated Information Systems
Knowledge management in the healthcare industry
Mental Health Management
Theory and applications of biotelemetry
User driven e-health care
Web-decision support system

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For our purposes in this book eHealth is therefore best examined in terms of its social as well as technical ramifications, and especially its political and economic (or political economy) contexts at and between different service levels, including the local, the regional and the global. However, only very limited systematic research has been carried out to inform eHealth policy and practice in this sense. It was one of the objectives of this book to address this deficiency.

– Wayne Pease

Wayne Pease is the Associate Dean (Wide Bay) for the Faculty of Business, University of Southern Queensland and lectures in Information Systems, at the Wide Bay Campus of the University of Southern Queensland and has published and has published over 30 books, refereed articles and book chapters. His employment background is in senior management with Queensland Health and has worked in higher education since 1998 when he accepted a lecturing position in information systems at the then new USQ Wide Bay Campus. His research interests include electronic commerce and its impact on rural and regional communities; payment and security systems in electronic commerce; collaborative commerce; web design and web data delivery systems including DBMS integration and query optimisation; and windows application development.

Dr. Malcolm Cooper is Vice President International Cooperation and Research, and holds the position of Professor of Tourism Management in the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. He is a specialist in tourism management and development, environmental management, water resource management and environmental law, and has published over 80 books, refereed articles and book chapters. Dr. Cooper is the Asia Pacific regional editor for Tourism Research International and sits on the Editorial Boards of other international academic tourism journals. He has held previous appointments at the Universities of New England, Adelaide and Southern Queensland (Australia), and Waiariki Institute of Technology (New Zealand) and has worked in the environmental planning and tourism policy areas for Federal, State and Local Governments in Australia, and as a private tourism consultant to the Governments of China and Vietnam.

Raj Gururajan PhD is Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. His main area of research is user behaviour issues in using wireless technology, the management of technology and the diffusion of technology at enterprise level. Currently he is applying these interests to health settings. He has published over 100 refereed articles, won over $2 million in grant income, manages six funded projects and is supervising over 10 PhD students. He also holds 3 national competitive grants (ARC) in health informatics.

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