"This book provides emerging research on bioinformatics, medical ethics, and clinical science in modern applications and settings. While highlighting the challenges medical practitioners and healthcare professionals face when treating patients and striving to optimize their processes, the book shows how revolutionary technologies and methods are vastly improving how healthcare is implemented globally"--Provided by publisher.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: Bioinformatics
  • Chapter 1: Bioinformatics
  • Chapter 2: Bioinspired Solutions for MEMS Tribology
  • Chapter 3: Building Gene Networks by Analyzing Gene Expression Profiles
  • Chapter 4: Concerns and Challenges of Cloud Platforms for Bioinformatics
• Section 2: Biology
  • Chapter 5: GWAS as the Detective to Find Genetic Contribution in Diseases
  • Chapter 6: RNA Interference Therapeutics and Human Diseases
• Section 3: Clinical Science and Technologies
  • Chapter 7: A Gamification Update to the Taxonomy of Technology and Mental Health
  • Chapter 8: Heart Sound Analysis for Blood Pressure Estimation
  • Chapter 9: Sociological Perspectives on Improving Medical Diagnosis Emphasizing CAD
• Section 4: Healthcare Administration
  • Chapter 10: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Diffusion and an Examination of Physician Resistance
  • Chapter 11: Internet of Things Applications for Healthcare
  • Chapter 12: Maintenance Policies Optimization of Medical Equipment in a Health Care Organization
  • Chapter 13: The Optimal Workforce Staffing Solutions With Random Patient Demand in Healthcare Settings
  • Chapter 14: Using Technology to Reduce a Healthcare Disparity
• Section 5: Health Information Systems
  • Chapter 15: Challenges and Implications of Health Literacy in Global Health Care
  • Chapter 16: Cyber Behaviors in Seeking Health Information
  • Chapter 17: Information Systems and Technology Projects in Healthcare Organizations
  • Chapter 18: Peer-to-Peer Health-Related Online Support Groups
  • Chapter 19: Software Evaluation From the Perspective of Patients and Healthcare Professionals
  • Chapter 20: Technology Design and Routes for Tool Appropriation in Medical Practices
  • Chapter 21: Trends in Health Care Information Technology and Informatics
  • Chapter 22: User Resistance to Health Information Technology
• Section 6: Medical Education, Ethics, and Law
  • Chapter 23: Comprehensive E-Learning Appraisal System
  • Chapter 24: Flipping the Medical School Classroom
  • Chapter 25: Integrating Evidence-Based Practice in Athletic Training Though Online Learning
  • Chapter 26: Integrating Web-Based Technologies Into the Education and Training of Health Professionals
  • Chapter 27: Interactivity in Distance Education and Computer-Aided Learning, With Medical Education Examples
  • Chapter 28: Medical Equipment and Economic Determinants of Its Structure and Regulation in the Slovak Republic
  • Chapter 29: Use of Technology in Problem-Based Learning in Health Science
• Section 7: Medical Technologies
  • Chapter 30: Defining and Characterizing the Landscape of E-Health
  • Chapter 31: Kinect Applications in Healthcare
  • Chapter 32: Neuroscience Technology and Interfaces for Speech, Language, and Musical Communication
  • Chapter 33: Personalized Medicine
  • Chapter 34: Pervasive Mobile Health
  • Chapter 35: Radio Frequency Identification Technologies and Issues in Healthcare
  • Chapter 36: Social Telerehabilitation
  • Chapter 37: A Validation Study of Rehabilitation Exercise Monitoring Using Kinect
  • Chapter 38: Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index