Electronic Healthcare

1. Session 8: Agents in eHealth

   1. An Agent-Based Approach to Real-Time Patient Identification for Clinical Trials

      • Gareth Tyson, Adel Taweel, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, Tjeerd Van Staa, Brendan Delaney

      Pages 138-145

2. Session 9: Online Communities of Practice

   1. The Use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to Create Communities of Practice

      • Ed de Quincey, Avril Hocking, Josephine O’Gorman, Simon Walker, Liz Bacon

      Pages 146-153

   2. Engagement in Online Medical Communities of Practice in Healthcare: Analysis of Messages and Social Networks

      • David Fowler, Martin Szomszor, Simon Hammond, John Lawrenson, Patty Kostkova

      Pages 154-157

   3. Towards Delivering Disease Support Processes for Patient Empowerment Using Mobile Virtual Communities

      • Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Pravin Pawar, Lamia Elloumi, Hermie Hermens

      Pages 158-161

3. Session 10: eHealth Solutions

   1. E-Health Readiness Assessment for E-Health Framework for Africa: A Case Study of Hospitals in South Africa

      • Alfred Coleman, Marlien E. Herselman, Dalenca Potass

      Pages 162-169

   2. The Physical Activity Loyalty Card Scheme: Development and Application of a Novel System for Incentivizing Behaviour Change

      • Ruth F. Hunter, Michael Davis, Mark A. Tully, Frank Kee

      Pages 170-177

4. Session 11: Social Media Surveillance

   1. Tracking Media Reports on the Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104: H4 Outbreak in Germany

      • Jens P. Linge, Jas Mantero, Flavio Fuart, Jenya Belyaeva, Martin Atkinson, Erik van der Goot

      Pages 178-185

   2. Syndromic Classification of Twitter Messages

      • Nigel Collier, Son Doan

      Pages 186-195

   3. Towards Spatial Description-Based Integration of Biomedical Atlases

      • Nurzi Juana Mohd Zaizi, Albert Burger

      Pages 196-203

5. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, held in Málaga, Spain, in November 2011.
The 20 revised full papers presented along with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions in total and cover a wide range of topics including social media analysis, knowledge integration and EPR, personalisation and patient support systems, early warning systems and mobile monitoring, games and learning, security, privacy and prevention, online support for professionals and patients, agents in eHealth, online communities of practice, eHealth solutions, social media surveillance, and communication and data integration.

• assistive technology
• medical ICT
• medical information processing
• patient data integrity
• wireless networks

• School of Health Sciences, City eHealth Research Centre, City University London, London, UK

  Patty Kostkova, Martin Szomszor, David Fowler

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