Guest editorial: special section on personal health systems

This special section on personal health systems (PHSs) features 13 papers in three main areas: new-micro-nano instrumentation, sensors, and sensor-based systems; new information processing technology via embedding intelligence in PHS; and PHS platforms to address specific clinical applications.

[1]  Enzo Pasquale Scilingo,et al.  Comparative Evaluation of Susceptibility to Motion Artifact in Different Wearable Systems for Monitoring Respiratory Rate , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[2]  Eric C. Pan,et al.  The Value of Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems , 2008, AMIA.

[3]  Andreas Triantafyllidis,et al.  An open and reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Network for pervasive health monitoring , 2008, Pervasive 2008.

[4]  Vassilis Koutkias,et al.  Citizen Centered Health and Lifestyle Management via Interactive TV: The PANACEIA-ITV Health System , 2003, AMIA.

[5]  Jianchu Yao,et al.  A wearable point-of-care system for home use that incorporates plug-and-play and wireless standards , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[6]  G Tröster,et al.  Pervasive Healthcare , 2009, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[7]  David W. Bates,et al.  Viewpoint Paper: A Research Agenda for Personal Health Records (PHRs) , 2008, J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc..

[8]  Vassilis Koutkias,et al.  A multiagent system enhancing home-care health services for chronic disease management , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[9]  Rune Fensli,et al.  Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors , 2008, BIOSTEC.

[10]  Alex Mihailidis,et al.  Pervasive Computing in Healthcare , 2006 .

[11]  Paul Rubel,et al.  Toward a Personal Health Society in Cardiology , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[12]  Edward Grant,et al.  An Overview of Technologies Related to Care for Venous Leg Ulcers , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[13]  D Konstantas,et al.  Section 4: Sensor, Signal and Imaging Informatics: An Overview of Wearable and Implantable Medical Sensors , 2007, Yearbook of Medical Informatics.

[14]  Chung-Chih Lin,et al.  A pervasive health monitoring service system based on ubiquitous network technology , 2008, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[15]  T Laakko,et al.  Mobile Health and Wellness Application Framework , 2008, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[16]  David Simons,et al.  Continua: An Interoperable Personal Healthcare Ecosystem , 2007, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[17]  Antti Vehkaoja,et al.  Wireless, Multipurpose In-Home Health Monitoring Platform: Two Case Trials , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[18]  David W. Bates,et al.  White Paper: Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption , 2006, J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc..

[19]  Niilo Saranummi,et al.  IT Applications for Pervasive, Personal, and Personalized Health , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[20]  Jacques Jossinet,et al.  Remote Wound Monitoring of Chronic Ulcers , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[21]  Vassilis Koutkias,et al.  A Personalized Framework for Medication Treatment Management in Chronic Care , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[22]  Hassan Ghasemzadeh,et al.  Structural Action Recognition in Body Sensor Networks: Distributed Classification Based on String Matching , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[23]  Ilkka Korhonen,et al.  Empowering Citizens for Well-being and Chronic Disease Management With Wellness Diary , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[24]  Françoise Anceaux,et al.  A distributed coordination platform for home care: analysis, framework and prototype , 2005, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[25]  Vincent M. Stanford,et al.  Guest Editors' Introduction: Pervasive Computing in Healthcare , 2007, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[26]  Vassilis Koutkias,et al.  The citizen health system (CHS): a Modular medical contact center providing quality telemedicine services , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[27]  Sabine Koch,et al.  Home telehealth - Current state and future trends , 2006, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[28]  Upkar Varshney,et al.  Pervasive Healthcare and Wireless Health Monitoring , 2007, Mob. Networks Appl..

[29]  R Haux,et al.  Towards New Scopes: Sensor-enhanced Regional Health Information Systems , 2007, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[30]  B. Marić,et al.  A systematic review of telemonitoring technologies in heart failure , 2009, European Journal of Heart Failure.

[31]  Ari Saarinen,et al.  Compliance and technical feasibility of long-term health monitoring with wearable and ambient technologies , 2009, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[32]  Todd C. Pataky,et al.  Automated Nonlinear Feature Generation and Classification of Foot Pressure Lesions , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[33]  Nathalie Bricon-Souf,et al.  Context awareness in health care: A review , 2007, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[34]  Gerhard Tröster,et al.  Discriminating Stress From Cognitive Load Using a Wearable EDA Device , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[35]  Andrea Ridolfi,et al.  BIOTEX—Biosensing Textiles for Personalised Healthcare Management , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[36]  Piotr Augustyniak,et al.  Autoadaptivity and Optimization in Distributed ECG Interpretation , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[37]  S. Koch,et al.  On Health-enabling and Ambient-assistive Technologies , 2009, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[38]  Jeffrey M. Hausdorff,et al.  Wearable Assistant for Parkinson’s Disease Patients With the Freezing of Gait Symptom , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.