TCTH2021: Telemedicine: The Computer Transformation of Healthcare |
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Abstract registration deadline | December 25, 2020 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2021 |
EDITOR AND TITLE INFORMATION
- Tentative book title and subtitle (if any):
Telemedicine: The Computer Transformation of Healthcare
Editors full name/s :
- Dr. Tanupriya Choudhury*
- Ms. Avita Katal*
- Dr. Jung-Sup Um
- Prof. Dr. Ajay Rana
- Professor Marwan Al-Akaidi
Position and affiliation:
- *Dr. Tanupriya Choudhury, Associate Professor; Informatics Dept., School of CSE University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India
- Avita Katal, Assistant Professor, Department of Virtualization, School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India
- Dr. Jung-Sup Um, Professor, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
- Prof. Dr. Ajay Rana, Vice President, Amity Education Group, Noida, India
- Professor Marwan Al-Akaidi , Vice President for Research, American, University in the Emirates-Dubai
Full mailing address/es, telephone, and email:
- Dr. Tanupriya Choudhury
Email ID: tanupriya1986@gmail.com; tanupriya@ddn.upes.ac.in
Mailing Address:
Associate Professor, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, ENERGY ACRES, UPES, BIDHOLI, via, Prem Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248007,India
Telephone No: +91-9910803601 ,+91-9711938087
https://www.upes.ac.in/schools-faculty/computer-science/dr-tanupriya-choudhury
- Ms. Avita Katal
Email ID: avita207@gmail.com, akatal@ddn.upes.ac.in
Mailing Address:
Assistant Professor, Department of Virtualization, School of Computer Science,
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, ENERGY ACRES, UPES, BIDHOLI, via, Prem Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248007, India.
Telephone No: +91-8171253344,+91-8218042954
https://www.upes.ac.in/schools-faculty/computer-science/avita-katal
- Dr. Jung-Sup Um, Professor, Department of Geography, College of Social Sciences,
Kyungpook National University, South Korea, jsaeom@knu.ac.kr or jsaeom21@gmail.com, http://jsum.knu.ac.kr/profile/profile.htm,
- Prof (Dr.) Ajay Rana, Senior Vice President – RBEF (An Umbrella Body for all Amity)
Dean , Amity University
Advisor, Amity Higher Education Group
Director , Amity Institute of Information Technology
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
India Head Office : E 2, Ground Floor,Amity University Campus,Sector 125, Noida (India)
- Professor Marwan Al-Akaidi, IEEE SPC Chair, IEEE UK & Republic of Ireland, Vice President for Research American, University in the Emirates-Dubai, <mmalakaidi@gmail.com>; https://aue.ae/en/portfolio/prof-marwan-al-akaidi/
About the Book :
Telemedicine has been used to improve patient outcomes for more than 50-years. Telemedicine, a state-of-the-art concept, utilizes the advanced technologies to accommodate healthcare services in the remote areas. Initially the Tele-based healthcare services thought to be “fortuitous future” for the medical federations and associations, but with the incoming of vivacious and apex technologies it has now become a successful reality today. Telemedicine enables advanced health care systems electronically which improves patient health care. This system reduces infrastructure costs and is useful in providing health care services at home, understaffed areas such as rural health centres, ships, trains and airplanes.
About the Edited Volume :
This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system. With the arrival of advanced technologies, telehealth has become a new subject requiring a new understanding of IT devices and how to utilize them to fulfill health needs. The books discuss topics such as the basics of TeleMedicine to help the readers understand the technology from ground up, details about the infrastructure and communication technologies to helps readers in gaining deeper insights into the technology. This book also discusses the details about the use of IoT and cloud services along with the use of blockchain technology in the TeleMedicine. This book provides in-depth knowledge of a TeleMedicine with the detailed information about the use of machine learning and computer vision techniques for the proper transmission of medical data keeping in mind the bandwidth of the network. This book will be readily accessible source of information for the professionals working in the area of information technology as well as for the professionals that work in the healthcare sector.
CHAPTERS INFORMATION :
Chapter 1 – Introduction and Fundamentals to Telemedicine
Telemedicine can be defined as a combination of wired and wireless transmission of medical data where biological signals, images and videos are transferred to remote locations for diagnosis. This chapter shall cover the basics of TeleMedicine Technology.
Chapter 2 – Infrastructure and systems of Tele-Medicine and Remote Health Monitoring
The wireless networks would be able to overcome all spatial, temporal, organizational and infrastructure barriers to provide medical service with desired QoS. The requirements for the architecture of TeleMedicine are real-time transmission, traffic condition of the network and desired QoS. This chapter shall cover the general architecture of Telemedicine, its functionality and data communication network. The chapter will also cover the infrastructural components of remote health monitoring, general architecture of remote health monitoring and its functionalities.
Chapter 3 -Legal perspective of Telemedicine – Policies, Legal and Regulatory Issues
Chapter 4 - Integration of IoT and Cloud with Telemedicine
Connected medical devices are already doing a great job in establishing Smart Hospitals where patient care is improved. This is due to the internet of things solution. The IoT along with the cloud enables the concept of smart hospitals in which the data of the patient can be accessed by doctors anywhere in the world with the help of the internet. This chapter will cover the detailed analysis of the internet of things with the integration of technology and how it is beneficial for patients and doctors in the field of tele consultancy.
Chapter 5 - Different technologies involved in Telemedicine
This chapter discusses in detail the technology of tele-medicine. It brings out as to how information’s ae captured and processed to make them suitable for exchanging information and transformation.
Chapter 6 - M-Health Applications
The utilization of mobile communication for transferring the information related to healthcare gives rise to a new word m-heath, and can be called as mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for healthcare. The m-health works on the principle of three A’s Anytime, Anywhere Access with Always best-connected features” that brings the transformation of emerging wireless communication and network technologies, facilitating delivery of health care over the heterogeneous infrastructure. People play an important role in managing their own wellness and health in today’s consumer driven healthcare environment. Using the smartphone as a diagnostic tool – a concept gaining popularity in developing nations, where healthcare access is minimum and the need for in-the-field diagnostic testing is high. Smartphones offer researchers and healthcare professionals a much bigger opportunity to reach underserved populations than wearables, because more people own a phone than a smartwatch or doctor-supplied device. With the increased focus on patient-centred care, mobile technology is used to create a link between patients and their health care teams. There are various mobile applications that can assist with both surgical and medical interventions, Mobile applications and interactive websites are an increasingly used method of telemedicine. This chapter shall cover the detailed architecture and the technology used to implement M-health applications.
Chapter 7 - Machine Learning Techniques for TeleMedicine
Artificial Intelligence can be utilized to reduce the wait time in hospitals and other regulatory pains. While this is for in-person visits at the time, predictive analytics will help discover specialists quicker for telemedicine patients also. Machine learning, including deep neural networks, would be useful in various disease diagnosis. This chapter shall cover the machine learning techniques to implement the TeleMedicine technology.
Chapter 8 -The Role of Computer Vision in TeleMedicine
Computer vision becomes very helpful that allows software to go over medical data, such as MRI scans, and find the patterns in the scans doctors are looking for much faster than the doctors themselves. Computer vision in healthcare reduces the costs in care delivery by sending the time-consuming and tedious tasks to machines, allowing healthcare professionals to provide better care to the patient, boosting patient outcomes as a result. This chapter shall cover the detailed role of computer vision in sharing the digital images to the healthcare professionals.
Chapter 9 - Communication technologies in telemedicine and M-Health and Ubiquitous healthcare
Health care delivery with the help of telemedicine involves combination of both wired and wireless technologies with wearable, medical sensors or devices, etc. The optical fiber cables or coaxial cables are very useful to achieve the wired communication. The main wireless technologies used in telemedicine systems are Cellular Mobile Communication, 3G—Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA2000, CDMA-evdo, 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE). Other wireless services like satellite communication, Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) links, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), WiMAX, Cognitive Radio (CN)-based Wireless Regional Area Networks, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), Ad-hoc, Sensor Networks, etc. This chapter shall cover the communication technologies that are used to implement telemedicine.
Chapter 10 : E- Health and Cyber Medicine
This chapter deals with eHealth and cyber medicine. The role of cyber medicine in teleconsultation and for ehealth purposes will also be explained. Various issues may have addressed for and against the cyber-medicine will be covered.
Chapter 11- The Role of Blockchain in TeleMedicine
Blockchain technology enables healthcare professionals to access the important data in a decentralized ledger. The integration of blockchain with telemedicine allows for the elimination of information blocking. The blockchain technology allows the patients to access their medical records anytime and it also provides secure transmission of records related to health to the healthcare professionals. If the connection between a patient and a doctor is not secure, it increases the risk of a data leakage. Blockchain technology with telemedicine, creates a secure network. This chapter shall cover the implementation of blockchain technology in telemedicine for secure transmission and storage of files in a decentralized manner.
Chapter 12 - Security and Privacy issue in TeleMedicine: issues, solutions, and standards
In telemedicine, the data is captured through equipment at the hospitals and sent to the remote hospital either through web applications or live sessions. Authenticity, privacy and integrity of the captured data must be secured in a telemedicine architecture to ensure timely and correct diagnosis without any loss of privacy of patient’s data. Telemedicine consists of networks and since, information related to healthcare are sensitive to mishandling, maintaining security, privacy, and confidentiality are the major problems and of topmost priority. Doctors, in remote healthcare, rely on the record that is digitally stored for treatment. Hence information integrity and reliability are essential for correct treatment. These systems are vulnerable to large security threats. The threats can be performed at each level of a remote healthcare system, for instance, at data transmission, data access levels, data collection and data storage. This chapter shall cover all the details related to security and privacy issues in TeleMedicine.
Chapter 13 - The Role of TeleMedicine in COVID-19
TeleMedicine technology plays a major role in the case of pandemics. This technology can be used to reduce the risk of spread of disease among the individuals, alleviating issues related to mental health and utilizing the time of healthcare professionals. There are many benefits of using this technology in the case of pandemics because through this technology, the healthy people can remotely monitor the health of the infected person thus reducing the risk of spread of the infection. This chapter shall cover the advantages of using TeleMedicine in the pandemics.
Chapter 14 - TeleMedicine: A future of Healthcare Sector in India
The building of a national task force by the ministry of health in India in 2005 has paved way for the various projects like ICMR-AROGYASREE, NeHA and VRCs. The indian telemedicine act of 2003 described telemedicine as a transfer of medicines digitally by the use of telecommunications including audio, visual data communication and interactive video technology, performed by licensed or otherwise legally authorized individuals. National TeleMedicine network was successfully launched in 2015 to provide services of telemedicine in the remote areas from the hospitals. This chapter describes the use cases of telemedicine in India.
Chapter 15 - Methodologies for Improving the Quality and Safety of Telehealth Systems
Chapter 16– The role of computational bioinformatics in tele-based healthcare.
Bioinformatics has opened up satisfactory opportunities in tele-based healthcare. One of the widely used bioinformatics application in tele-based medical care is BioWAP which stands for Bioinformatics Wireless Application Protocol, and is easily available and can be used on mobile devices
Chapter 17 – Telemedicine in Children Health
Telemedicine is a technological tool that is capable for improving the health of the children. It provides the services related to healthcare at times and places where children may not usually be able to get those services. This chapter shall cover the detailed information of the advances in the technology and electronic systems to treat children in a better way.
Chapter 18 - Introducing Tele-Medicine into Surgical Care: Case Study 1
Telemedicine can also be used in surgical care. The doctors use this technology for pre and post-operative surgical consultations and provide surgical education. This technology can be used for mentoring, proctoring, telecommunications and it is increasingly applied to do the remote surgical procedures. This chapter shall cover the implementation of TeleMedicine in surgical care.
Chapter 19 – Tele-Medicine in Oncology: Case Study 2 or other case studies in Tele-Medicine
Chapter 20 - A predictive model for disease diagnosis using machine-learning techniques
TeleMedicine technology is growing rapidly and now it is being integrated into the treatment of cancer patients. Teleoncology have the ability to enhance the quality of clinical cancer as well as education and training. This chapter shall cover the solutions provided by telemedicine in improving the care and rate of survival of cancer patients.
Chapter 21- The network of TeleMedicine in Developing countries
The use of advanced technology has brought new opportunities as well as threats to the healthcare industry. TeleMedicine, a broad term for the delivery of medical care from a distance has reached around the globe that enables healthcare professionals to communicate faster. Telemedicine has more impact on the developing countries rather than developed countries. This chapter shall cover the detailed analysis of implementation of telemedicine in the developing countries.
Chapter 22 - Telemedicine: Present and Future and applications
Telemedicine has the ability to change the future of medicine in both urban and rural settings by upgrading the access to medical care and providing a cheaper idea to deliver it. The need for telemedicine will rise, and the care providers should know about the practical implementation of this technology. Telemedicine has already achieved popularity in developing countries where populations living in villages did not have access to even basic healthcare. Currently, telemedicine is an extremely feasible solution reaching out to the population living in remote village areas and bridging disparity in quality and access to healthcare between urban and rural regions. The use of telemedicine in the Intensive Care Unit will increase. Critical care physicians would be able to provide better treatment to remote locations, resulting in better diagnosis. This chapter discusses the present and the future of TeleMedicine in the healthcare sector.
TENTATIVE DATES OF SUBMISSIONS:
Abstract Submission: 25th Dec. 2020(tentative)
Notification for Abstract: 2nd Jan., 2021(tentative)
Full Chapter Submission: 30th April , 2021(tentative)
Notification for full chapter submissions: 15th May, 2021(tentative)
Final CRC Submission: 30th May2021 (tentative)
Final Data to Springer: 15th June, 2021 (tentative)
FOR MORE DETAILS AUTHORS CAN MAIL : TCTH2021@gmail.com / tanupriya1986@gmail.com / akatal@ddn.upes.ac.in