M-Health Emerging Mobile Health Systems

M-health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems presents recent advances in this area and explores future trends in the applications of current and emerging wireless communication and network technologies for healthcare delivery and new wireless telemedical serv

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TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL BOOK SERIES Series Editor: Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey

Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering: Signal Processing and Physiological Systems Modeling Suresh R. Devasaahayam

Models of the Visual System Edited by George K. Hung and Kenneth J. Ciuffreda

PDE and Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery Edited by Jasjit S. Suri and Swamy Laxminarayan

Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering: Proceedings of the World Congress for Chinese Biomedical Engineers Edited by Ned H.C. Hwang and Savio L-Y. Woo

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis: Volume I: Segmentation Models Part A Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis: Volume II: Segmentation Models Part B Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis: Volume III: Registration Models Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, David L. Wilson, and Swamy Laxminarayan

M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Edited by Robert S.H. Istepanian, Swamy Laxminarayan, and Constantinos S. Pattichis

Robert S.H. Istepanian Swamy Laxminarayan Constantinos S. Pattichis (Editors)

M-Health Emerging Mobile Health Systems

With 182 Illustrations

Swamy Laxminarayan Idaho State University Biomedical Research Institute and the Institute of Rural Health Pocatello, Idaho USA

Robert S.H. Istepanian Kingston University London UK

Constantinos S. Pattichis University of Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005927930 ISBN-10: 0-387-26558-9 ISBN-13: 978-0387-26558-2

e-ISBN: 0-387-26559-7

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Dedication

To the God Almighty for His Blessings and also to my family (my Wife Helen and to my two Daughters, Carolyn and Sarah). Robert S.H. Istepanian

To the tireless work and contributions of all my students all around the world and to my family (my wife Marijke, my son Vi