MEDICAL ROBOTICS, TELESURGERY, AND IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY Medical Robotics Giancarlo Ferrigno, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Elena De Momi, Emilia Ambrosini, and Elisa Beretta Modern Devices for Telesurgery Florian Gosselin Microsurgery Systems Leonardo S. Mattos, Diego Pardo, Emidio Olivieri, Giacinto Barresi, Jesus Ortiz, Loris Fichera, Nikhil Deshpande, and Veronica Penza Image-Guided Microsurgery Tom Williamson, Marco Caversaccio, Stefan Weber, and Brett Bell TELENURSING, PERSONALIZED CARE, PATIENT CARE, AND EEMERGENCY SYSTEMS eHealth and Telenursing Sinclair Wynchank and Nathanael Sabbah mHealth: Intelligent Closed-Loop Solutions for Personalized Healthcare Carmen C. Y. Poon and Kevin K. F. Hung Patient Care Sensing and Monitoring Systems Akihiro Kajiwara and Ryohei Nakamura Mobile Health Sleep Technologies Anda Baharav Cardiovascular Disease Management via Electronic Health Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Ioannis Andreadis, Vasileios Kolias, and Konstantina S. Nikita mHealth eEmergency Systems Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Andreas Panayides, and Panayiotis Constantinides NETWORKS AND DATABASES, INFORMATICS, RECORD MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING Global and Local Health Information, Databases, and Networks Kostas Giokas, Yiannis Makris, Anna Paidi, Marios Prasinos, Dimitra Iliopoulou, and Dimitris Koutsouris Electronic Medical Records: Management and Implementation Liping Liu Public Health Informatics in Australia and around the World Kathleen Gray and Fernando Martin Sanchez Ubiquitous Personal Health Records for Remote Regions Lee H. Seldon, Jacey-Lynn Minoi, Mahmud Ahsan, and Ali Abdulwahab A. Al-Habsi Education and Training for Supporting General Practitioners in the Use of Clinical Telehealth: A Needs Analysis Sisira Edirippulige, Nigel R. Armfield, Liam Caffery, and Anthony C. Smith BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES, AND WEB APPLICATIONS Delivering eHealthcare: Opportunities and Challenges Deborah A. Helman, Eric J. Addeo, N. Iwan Santoso, David W. Walters, and Guy Helman Mobile Healthcare User Interface Design Application Strategies Ann L. Fruhling, Sharmila Raman, and Scott McGrath Epidemic Tracking and Disease Monitoring in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Pakistan Hammad Qureshi, Arshad Ali, Shamila Keyani, and Ahmad Atif Mumtaz mHealth and Web Applications Javier Pindter-Medina Investigation and Assessment of Effectiveness of Knowledge Brokering on Web 2.0 in Health Sector in Quebec, Canada Moktar Lamari and Saliha Ziam EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES: VIRTUAL SYSTEMS, IMAGE PROCESSING, BIOKINEMATICS, MEASUREMENTS, AND VLSI Virtual Doctor Systems for Medical Practices Hamido Fujita and Enrique Herrera-Viedma Synthetic Biometrics in Biomedical Systems Kenneth Lai, Steven Samoil, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, and Adrian Stoica Performance Analysis of Transform-Based Medical Image-Compression Methods for Telemedicine Sujitha Juliet and Elijah Blessing Rajsingh Tracking the Position and Orientation of Ultrasound Probe for Image-Guided Surgical Procedures Basem F. Yousef Biokinematics for Mobility: Theory, Sensors, and Wireless Measurements Atila Yilmaz and Tuna Orhanli Biopotentials and Electrophysiology Measurements Nitish V. Thakor Sensor Signal Conditioning for Biomedical Instrumentation Tomas E. Ward Sensor-Based Human Activity-Recognition Techniques Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, and Sungyoung Lee Very Large-Scale Integration Bioinstrumentation Circuit Design and Nanopore Applications Jungsuk Kim and William B. Dunbar Wireless Electrical Impedance Tomography: LabVIEW-Based Automatic Electrode Switching Tushar Kanti Bera