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Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems covers the latest research topics in the field from leading researchers and practitioners. This book offers theory-driven research that explores the role of Information Systems in the delivery of healthcare in its diverse organizational and regulatory settings. In addition to the embedded role of Information Technology (IT) in clinical and diagnostics equipment, Information Systems are uniquely positioned to capture, store, process, and communicate timely information to decision makers for better coordination of healthcare at both the individual and population levels. For example, data mining and decision support capabilities can identify potential adverse events for an individual patient while also contributing to the population's health by providing insights into the causes of disease complications. Information systems have great potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes. The healthcare delivery systems share similar characteristics with most service and productive organizations, but also exhibit specific characteristics, which are related to the complexity and diversity of healthcare production, including the dissimilar ways healthcare professionals discharge their clinical tasks. New requirements and technological advances occurring in healthcare, information systems, and information technology have influenced the evolving role of healthcare information systems and related technology, and this book will help bring the field up to date. The topics covered include computer based simulation and modeling for healthcare treatment, training, and optimization, role of healthcare information systems in improving care in different national health systems, role of healthcare information systems in fostering improved health and healthier lifestyles, challenges and impact of data standards on healthcare delivery, role of information technology in evidence-based medicine, information systems in personalized medicine, e-health Policy, privacy, security and trust issues with e-health solutions, mobile healthcare initiatives and social media in healthcare

Chapter 1: Emerging mHealth Ecosystems based on innovative technologies and services Vassileia Costarides, Kostas Giokas and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 2: Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An overview of design research areas Amine Boulemtafes and Nadjib Badache Chapter 3: Citizen Engagement in the mHealth Ecosystem Using Mobiles and Wearable Devices Ioannis Kouris and Dimitrios Koutsouris Chapter 4: Innovative mHealth Ecosystems Dimitrios Tsoromokos, Zacharias Dermatis, Filippos Gozadinos and Athina Lazakidou Chapter 5: Mobile-Health Tool Use and Community Health Worker Performance in the Kenyan Context: A Comparison of Task-Technology Fit Perspectives Maradona C. Gatara < Chapter 6: Design of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An overview of techniques and technologies< Nadjib Badache and Amine Boulemtafes Chapter 7: M-Health ecosystem based of a non-invasive commercial hemodynamic monitoring system used for heart failure patients, as portable point of care Petros Toumpaniaris, Kostas Giokas and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 8: How Knowledge Flows Through Social Networks and Communities of Practice in a Healthcare Project Maria Tsouri, Kleopatra Alamantariotou, Ourania Pediaditaki, Vikentia Harizopoulou and Georgia Kontosorou Chapter 9: A context-aware social networking platform built around the needs of elderly users: The Go-myLife experience Maria Haritou, Athanasios Anastasiou, Maria Schwarz-Woelzl, Teresa Holocher-Ertl, Michael Mulquin, Idoia Olalde, Ioannis Kouris and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 10: Cost effectiveness in healthcare using social networks Stelios Zimeras Chapter 11: Social Networks and Web-based Applications in the Healthcare Sector Athina Lazakidou Chapter 12: Knowledge Sharing in Health Innovation Projects: Experiential Learning from Collaborating in a Project-Based Working Group Focusing in Knowledge Transfer in Maternity Services Best Practice (COST Projects IS 0907) Kleopatra Alamantariotou and Katerina Nicolopoulou Chapter 13: Social Networks Medical Image Steganography using Sub-Fibonacci Sequences Nikolaos G. Aroukatos, Kostas Manes and Stelios Zimeras Chapter 14: Studying the information behavior of healthcare professionals in a Greek private clinic using social networks models P. Kostagiolas, Stelios Zimeras, G. Alexias and Z. Siskou