| Abstrakt: |
This chapter introduces intelligent technologies applied in electronic healthcare systems and services. It presents an overview of healthcare technologies that enable the advanced patient data acquisition and management of medical information in electronic health records. The chapter presents the most important patient data classification methods, while special focus is placed on new concepts in intelligent healthcare platforms (i.e., advanced data mining, agents and context-aware systems) that provide enhanced means of medical data interpretation and manipulation. The chapter is concluded with the areas in which intelligent electronic healthcare systems are anticipated to make a difference in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
