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by  Joseph Tan

Medical Informatics:
Concepts, Methodologies,
Tools, and Applications
Joseph Tan
Wayne State University, USA
Volume I
Medical inforMation science reference
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Medical informatics : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications / Joseph Tan, editor.
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List of Contributors
Adams, Barbara / Cyrus Medical Systems, USA ............................................................................1871
Aden, Thomas / OFFIS, Germany .....................................................................................................666
Ahmadi, Mohammad / University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA ............................................134
Ainsworth, John / The University of Manchester, UK ......................................................................365
Al-Ali, Abdul-Rahman / American University of Sharjah, UAE ......................................................822
Alesanco Iglesias, Álvaro / University of Zaragoza, Spain ..............................................................443
Al-Qirim, Nabeel A. Y. / Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand ..................................1209
Ammenwerth, Elske / University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics & Technology, Austria ..1
Andersen, Charlotte / University of Cincinnati, & Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center USA ..........................................................................................................2085
Anderson, James G. / Purdue University, USA ...............................................................................1301
Angelidis, Pantelis / Vidavo Ltd., Greece ..........................................................................................107
Archer, Norm / McMaster University, Canada ...................................................................................95
Au, Shiu-chung / State University of New York Upstate Medical University, USA ........................1451
Balas, E. Andrew / Old Dominion University, USA ........................................................................1301
Bali, Rajeev K. / Coventry University, UK ........................................................................................232
Baraldi, Stefano / Catholic University, Italy ...................................................................................2323
Barnes, Stuart J. / Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ...............................................1232
Barolli, Leonard / Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan ..................................................1162
Barth, Jeffrey / University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA ....................................................1060
Bastaki, Maria / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ....................................1410
Basu, Arindam / CAL2CAL Corporation, USA .................................................................................500
Beachboard, John / Idaho State University, USA ...........................................................................1669
Becker, Shirley Ann / Florida Institute of Technology, USA .............................................................792
Begg, Rezaul / Victoria University, Australia ....................................................................................784
Ben Miled, Zina / Indiana University, Perdue University, USA ........................................................589
Berler, Alexander / National Technical University of Athens, Greece ..............................................257
Berner, Eta S. / University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA .........................................................1871
Bernstam, Elmer V. / University of Texas, USA ..............................................................................2029
Bhattacherjee, Anol / University of South Florida, Tampa, USA ...................................................1646
Botsis, Taxiarchis / Athens Medical School, Greece .........................................................................776
Braswell, Melanie / Purdue University, USA ....................................................................................799
Brear, Michelle / University of New South Wales, Australia ...........................................................1373
Briggs, Pamela / Northumbria University, UK ................................................................................1976
Brimhall, Bradley B. / University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA ........................................562
Bruining, Nico / Erasmus Medical Thorax Center, The Netherlands ................................................935
Bukhres, Omran / Indiana University, Purdue University, USA ......................................................589
Burgess, Stephen / Victoria University, Australia ...............................................................................57
Burgsteiner, Harald / Graz University of Applied Sciences, Austria ..............................................1009
Burjaw, Rick / University of Western Ontario, Canada ....................................................................178
Bürkle, Thomas / University of Erlangen, Germany ............................................................................1
Burstein, Frada / Monash University, Australia ...................................................................1530, 2244
C. R., Ranjini / Lancaster University, UK .......................................................................................1265
Cader, Yoosuf / Zayed University, UAE ...........................................................................................2477
Cannoy, Sherrie D. / The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ................65, 1485, 1703
Carbone, Daniel / Victoria University, Australia ................................................................................57
Cardenas, David / L.A. County Department of Public Health, USA .................................................500
Chang, Elizabeth / Curtin University of Technology, Australia ......................................................2096
Chang, Karen / Purdue University, USA ...........................................................................................799
Chbeir, Richard / University of Bourgogne, France .........................................................................705
Chen, Cheng-Hsui / National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan .......................1351
Chen, Leida / Creighton University, USA ........................................................................................1813
Chen, Ying-Hsiou / National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.......................................................1351
Cheng, Jie / Wayne State University, USA .......................................................................................1940
Cheng, Qiang / Wayne State University, USA ..................................................................................1940
Chesney, David / Freeman Hospital, UK ........................................................................................2218
Chesney, Thomas / Nottingham University Business School, UK ..................................................2218
Chhanabhai, Prajesh / University of Otago, New Zealand ............................................................1965
Chigan, Chunxiao / Michigan Tech, USA .........................................................................................533
Chong, Jing / The Pennsylvania State University, USA ..................................................................1614
Christinal, Hepzibah / Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, India ...................................1131
Chu, Feng / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ............................................................2066
Clarebout, Geraldine / University of Leuven, Belgium ..................................................................1445
Clark, Frank C. / Medical University of South Carolina, USA ......................................................1289
Clarke, Malcolm / Brunel University, UK .......................................................................................1594
Cook, David P. / Old Dominion University, USA ..................................................................1910, 1381
Cortes, Jose A. / Cabrini Medical Center, USA .................................................................................980
Couto, Francisco M. / Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal ..............................................................2074
Crk, Igor / The University of Arizona, USA .......................................................................................631
Croasdell, David / University of Nevada, USA................................................................................1897
Cunningham, Colleen / Drexel University, USA ...............................................................................334
Currie, Wendy L. / University of Warwick, UK ..............................................................................1472
Daim, Tugrul / Portland State University, USA...............................................................................2387
Damigou, Dionisia / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ................................733
Das, Subrat / Swinburne University, Australia ................................................................................2123
Daskalaki, Andriani / Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Germany ..............................1430
Datta, Gora / CAL2CAL Corporation, USA ......................................................................................500
Davies, Simon / University of Birmingham Research Park, UK .....................................................2218
Davis, Diane C. / Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA ...................................................1112
de Campos, Luis M. / Universidad de Granada, Spain ..................................................................2274
De Marco, Giuseppe / Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan ............................................1162
den Ende, Jef Van / Institute for Tropical Medicine, Belgium ........................................................1445
Denko, Mieso K. / University of Guelph, Canada ...........................................................................1322
Deshmukh, Pooja / Washington State University, USA ...................................................................1897
Desouza, Kevin C. / University of Illinois at Chicago, USA .............................................................208
Diamond, Herbert S. / The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, USA .................................................1605
Dillon, Tharam S. / Curtin University of Technology, Australia .....................................................2096
Dillon, Thomas W. / James Madison University, USA ....................................................................2042
Dorado de la Calle, Julián / University of Coruña, Spain ..............................................................2351
Dornstauder, Sebastian / University of Bayreuth, Germany ..........................................................2181
Drougas, Bill Ag. / ATEI Education Institute of Epirus, Greece .....................................................1125
Duch, Wlodzislaw / Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland ........................................................2085
Dwivedi, Ashish / The University of Hull, UK ...................................................................................232
Edenius, Mats / Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden ..............................................................1567
Edmonson, Sarah R. / Baylor College of Medicine, USA ................................................................995
Eichelberg, Marco / OFFIS, Germany ..............................................................................................666
Eisler, George / BC Academic Health Council, Canada .................................................................1850
Elen, Jan / University of Leuven, Belgium .......................................................................................1445
Engelbrecht, Judith / Massey University, New Zealand .................................................................1997
Erlanger, David M. / HeadMinder Corporation, USA ....................................................................1060
Exarchos, Themis P. / University of Ioannina, Greece .....................................................................851
Fadlalla, Adam / Cleveland State University, USA ...........................................................................322
Faerber, Matthias / University of Bayreuth, Germany....................................................................2181
Fernández Navajas, Julián / University of Zaragoza, Spain............................................................443
Fernández-Luna, Juan M. / Universidad de Granada, Spain .......................................................2274
Ferreira, Cândida / Gepsoft, UK ....................................................................................................2154
Fishwick, Lesley / Northumbria University, UK .............................................................................1976
Ford, W. Chris L. / University of Bristol, UK .................................................................................1437
Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. / University of Ioannina, Greece;
Biomedical Research Institute FORTH, Greece; & Michaelideion Cardiology Center, Greece ........851
Fuller, Richard G. / Robert Morris University, USA ......................................................................1417
Gao, Wei / Fordham University, USA ..............................................................................................2360
Garrett, Bernard Mark / University of British Columbia, Canada .................................................836
Gaynor, Mark / Boston University School of Management, USA ...................................................2443
Geisler, Elie / Illinois Institute of Technology, USA ...................................................................17, 1395
Giannakakis, Nikolaos / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece .................862, 900
Goldberg, Steve / INET International Inc., Canada ........................................................................1773
Goletsis, Yorgos / University of Ioannina, Greece .............................................................................851
Götz, Manuel / University of Bayreuth, Germany ...........................................................................2181
Goyal, Raj K. / Harvard Medical School & VA Boston Healthcare System, USA ..........................1733
Gräber, Stefan / University Hospital of Saarland, Germany ................................................................1
Guah, Matthew W. / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
& University of Warwick, UK .........................................................................................427, 1472, 1689
Gupta, Amar / The University of Arizona, USA ............................................................631, 1451, 1733
Gupta, Jatinder N.D. / University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA ..................................................186
Hagenbuchner, Markus / University of Wollongong, Australia .......................................................944
Hamers, Ronald / Erasmus Medical Thorax Center, The Netherlands .............................................935
Han, Hyoil / Drexel University, USA .................................................................................................314
Han, Shengnan / Åbo Akademi University, Finland ........................................................................1253
Handy, Jocelyn / Massey University, New Zealand .........................................................................1997
Hansen, David / CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia ...............................................................................2203
Harper, Robert / The University of Manchester, UK ........................................................................365
Harris, Peter / Sheffield University, UK ..........................................................................................1976
Harvie, C. / University of Wollongong, Australia ............................................................................1581
Hashmi, Nada / 10Blade, Inc., USA ................................................................................................2443
Häyrinen, Kristiina / University of Kuopio, Finland ......................................................................1103
Helms, Marilyn M. / Dalton State College, USA ..............................................................................134
Hernández Ramos, Carolina / University of Zaragoza, Spain ........................................................443
Hertweck, Dieter / University for Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Germany......................................1788
Hikmet, Neset / University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, USA ..........................................1646
Hilton, Brian N. / Claremont Graduate University, USA ..................................................................113
Hliaoutakis, Angelos / Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece ...............................................647
Hoffmeister, Amanda H. / Cookeville Regional Medical Center, USA ..........................................1882
Holt, Alec / University of Otago, New Zealand ................................................................................1965
Holzinger, Andreas / Medical University Graz (MUG), Austria.....................................................1009
Horan, Thomas A. / Claremont Graduate University, USA ..............................................................113
Hu, Xiaohua / Drexel University, USA ............................................................................314, 334, 2232
Huang, Guan-Shieng / National Chi Nan University, Taiwan ........................................................2259
Huete, Juan F. / Universidad de Granada, Spain ............................................................................2274
Hunter, Inga / Massey University, New Zealand .............................................................................1997
Hyland, P. N. / University of Wollongong, Australia .......................................................................1581
Ilioudi, Christina / University of Piraeus, Greece ..........................................................................1430
Iller, Carola / University of Heidelberg, Germany ................................................................................1
Imam, Khaled / William Beaumont Hospital, USA .........................................................................1060
Imoto, Seiya / University of Tokyo, Japan .......................................................................................2281
Istepanian, Robert S. H. / Kingston University, UK .........................................................................443
Itert, Lukasz / Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland .................................................................2085
Iyer, Lakshmi / The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ...................................65, 1485
Jablonski, Stefan / University of Bayreuth, Germany .....................................................................2181
Jaccard, Frederic / CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia ..........................................................................2006
Jaffery, Jonathan B. / University of Wisconsin, USA .....................................................................1040
Jain, Divya / Datamation Foundation Charitable Trust, India .......................................................2174
Jenkins, Arnold / Johns Hopkins University, USA ..............................................................................37
Jenkins, Julian M. / University of Bristol, UK ................................................................................1437
Jennett, Penny A. / University of Calgary, Canada ..............................................................1186, 1222
Jentzsch, Ric / Compucat Research Pty Ltd., Canberra, Australia ...................................................485
Jih, Wen-Jang (Kenny) / Middle Tennessee State University, USA ................................................1351
Jing, Liping / The University of Hong Kong, China ........................................................................2232
Johnson, Michael P. / Carnegie Mellon University, USA ...............................................................1605
Joiner, Keith A. / University of Arizona, USA .................................................................................1733
Jones, Sara / University of South Australia, Australia ......................................................................841
Joseph, Jimmie L. / The University of Texas at El Paso, USA ..............................................1381, 1910
K. S. Tong, Carrison / Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, China,
& Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Hong Kong ..........................................................................870, 890, 1714
Kabene, Stefane M. / University of Western Ontario, Canada .........................................................178
Kallio, Markku / The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, Finland ...............................................1253
Kalogeropoulou, Maria / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece .....................1410
Kalogirou, Fotini / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ..................................733
Kalyanpur, Arjun / Teleradiology Solutions, India ........................................................................1840
Kamira, Robyn / Paua Interface Ltd., & Rangatiratanga Canvases Ltd., New Zealand ...............1342
Kassegne, Samuel Kinde / San Diego State University, USA .........................................................1322
Kastner, Peter / ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Austria .............................................................753
Katzarova, Mila / Oxford University, UK .........................................................................................387
Katz, Alan / University of Miami, USA ............................................................................................1016
Kaushik, Tanya / HeadMinder™ Corporation, USA ......................................................................1060
Kennedy, Paul J. / University of Technology Sydney, Australia ......................................................2096
Kern, Josipa / Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Croatia .................................................2059
Kerr, Karolyn / Simpl, New Zealand .................................................................................................513
Kido, Takashi / HuBit Genomix, Inc., Japan ...................................................................................2109
Kim To, Phuong / Tedis P/L, Australia ..............................................................................................944
Kinsner, Witold / University of Manitoba, Canada ........................................................................2465
Knight, Rachael / Royal Women’s Hospital, Australia ....................................................................1437
Kollmann, Alexander / ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Austria .................................................753
Koop, Paul / University of South Australia, Australia .......................................................................841
Koppelaar, Henk / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ...............................................935
Koumpis, Adamantios / ALTEC S.A., Greece ...................................................................................350
Koutsouris, Dimitris / National Technical University of Athens, Greece .........................................257
Kraehenbuehl, Gregoire / CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia ...............................................................2006
Krishnamurthy, E.V. / Australian National University, Australia ..................................................1024
Kuhne, Gary / Penn State University, USA .....................................................................................1417
Kvasny, Lynette / The Pennsylvania State University, USA ..................................................1549, 1614
LaBrunda, Andrew / University of Guam, USA .............................................................................2306
LaBrunda, Michelle / Cabrini Medical Center, USA ..............................................................980, 2306
Laforest, Frédérique / LIRIS CNRS UMR 5205, France ................................................................2423
Landolsi, Taha / American University of Sharjah, UAE ...................................................................822
Latif, Firoz / Teleradiology Solutions, India ....................................................................................1840
Lay, Rainer / ProDatO Integration Technology GmbH, Germany ..................................................2181
Lazakidou, Athina A. / University of Piraeus, Greece ...................................................................1430
Lazarus, Sandra Synthia / University of Sydney, Australia .............................................................811
Leahy, Richard M. / University of Southern California, USA ..........................................................881
Leduc, Raymond / University of Western Ontario, Canada .............................................................178
Lee, B. C. / University of Wollongong, Australia .............................................................................1581
Lefkowitz, Jerry B. / University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Cente, USA .............562
Lemma, Fikreyohannes / Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia .........................................................1322
Lending, Diane / James Madison University, USA .........................................................................2042
Lewis, Marilyn / The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago .....................................1180
Li, Nianhua / Indiana University, Purdue University, USA ...............................................................589
Liao, Shuang-Te / Ming Chuan University, Taiwan ........................................................................2259
Lichtenberg, Peter A. / Wayne State University, USA .....................................................................1060
Ling Fung, Maria Yin / University of Auckland, New Zealand ......................................................1071
Liu, Liping / University of Akron, USA ...........................................................................................1514
Liu, Xiaoqiang / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;
& Donghua University, China ............................................................................................................935