E-health, enabled by ubiquitous computing and communication technologies, is facilitating a fundamental shift in the age old praxis of healthcare. It is revolutionizing healthcare in the 21 century in much the same way as the arrival of modern medicine and vaccines did in the 19 century. E-health lies at the intersection of diverse disciplines including healthcare, computer science, information...

As the United States becomes a more multicultural and multireligious society, the ranks of healthcare chaplains are no longer being limited solely to Judeo-Christian clerics. In an effort to increase interfaith understanding and ecumenical awareness, the author presents one model of healthcare chaplaincy that derives itself from a Buddhist perspective and how he uses it in his daily work at a l...

300. Tracing the Natural History of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Colonization among Residents of a Long Term Veterans’ Nursing Home in Pittsburgh, PA Gitanjali Pai, MD; Marilyn Wagener, MPH; Candace Cunningham, RN; Cheryl Creen, RN, MSN; Diana Toy, RN, BSN, CIC; Robert Muder, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Univ...

A. K. Thompson, J. M. Park, A. T. Vu, Z. Slavens, J. Ma, A. C. Brau, R. J. Herfkens, and B. L. Daniel Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, MR PSD/Applications Engineering, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, Global Applie...

Received February 5, 2013; Revised April 4, 2013; Accept From the Departments of Surgery (Utter) and In (Romano), and the Center for Healthcare Policy and Cox, Romano), University of California, Davis Medic mento, CA and US Department of Health and Human for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD (Ow Correspondence address: Garth H Utter, MD MSc, Surgery, University of California, Davis...

As an innovative form of healthcare delivery, telemedicine involves technology and process changes that will profoundly affect the organizations into which it is introduced. However, few comprehensive studies have been conducted to determine the impact on organizations that implement such a healthcare delivery process. This paper examines some of the issues that will be studied during Project A...

Earlier papers have reported on Converser for Healthcare, a highly-interactive English↔Spanish speech translation system for communication between patients and caregivers, and upon an extensive pilot project testing the system at a San Francisco medical center, part of a very large healthcare organization. This historical paper provides for the first time details of the resulting evaluation and...

e. Carotid Multicontrast Atherosclerosis Characterization (MATCH) in a Single Scan: Technical Development and Preliminary Validation Zhaoyang Fan, Yibin Xie, Wei Yu, Antonio H. Conte, Xiaoming Bi, Yutaka Natsuaki, Gerhard Laub, Jing An, Prediman K. Shah, and Debiao Li Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anzhen Ho...

over the past two decades, shanghai, the largest megacity in china, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. we study the evolution of shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “avoidable mortality” (am) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...

Introduction: The aim of the TELEKAT project (‘Telehomecare, chronic patients and the integrated healthcare system’) is to develop and test a preventive home monitoring concept across sectors, enabling patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to avoid readmission to hospital and perform self-monitoring and to maintain rehabilitation activities in their homes. COPD patients wit...