This book provides decision support anywhere and anytime to acute and long term health care taking as based pervasive or mobile computing. It promotes the cross-fertilization of health informatics information and knowledge across professional and geographical boundaries, serving as the catalyst...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be defined as systems in which physical objects are represented in the digital world and integrated with computation, storage, and communication capabilities and are connected to each other in a network. The goal in the use of the CPS is integrating the dynamics...

"The aim of the book is to present an insight into Lean Thinking as a philosophy that allows you to identify problems / wastes in various areas, analyze them and identify activities that allow you to improve processes in many areas. As Lean Thinking is a philosophy that applies to many areas,...

With a constant increasing in the health expenses and the aggravation of the global economic situation, managing costs and resources in healthcare is nowadays an essential point in the management of hospitals. The goal of this work is to apply clustering techniques to data collected in real-time...

Hospital inpatient care compromises one of the most demanding services in health institutions for providing a careful and continuous healthcare assistance. Such demands require a constant update of the patients' health record allied with support systems responsible for monitoring their clinical...

This paper presents the evaluation of a Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support System in Intensive Medicine making use of Technology Acceptance Model 3 (TAM3). Two rounds of questionnaires were distributed and compared. The work is based on a discursive evaluation of a method employed to assess...