This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the demand for improved access and quality of service, and modern information technologies are helping to process and manage the growing wealth of data involved. Web-based applications offer a sharp increase in data access and management, and they are at the forefront of the broad field of medical informatics.

Topics to be covered will include semantic web applications; workflow and process management; content management and portal technology; data and web mining, warehousing, and information collection, curation, and analysis; web-based learning environments; access control and security; transaction management; and tools for implementation.

Autorentext

Dr. Athina Lazakidou is currently a lecturer at the University of the Peloponnese, Sparta, and a visiting lecturer in informatics at the Hellenic Army Academy & Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece as. Prior to that, she worked as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2000-2002). She is also an internationally known expert in the field of computer applications in healthcare and biomedicine, with seven books and numerous papers to her credit.

Zusammenfassung
Web-based applications provide the power of desktop and server applications with the exibility and accessibility of the web. Using web browsers, users can securely access applications from anywhere within the reach of the company intranet or extranet. The special issue strives to explore the advanced web-based information systems and database applications in healthcare area. Healthcare organizations are undergoing major reorganizations and adjustments to meet the increasing demands of improved healthcare access and quality, as well as lowered costs. As the use of information technology to process medical data increases, much of the critical information necessary to meet these challenges is being stored in digital format. Web-enabled information technologies can provide the means for greater access and more effective integration of healthcare information from disparate computer applications and other information resources. This book presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on the current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with heal- care organizations and their strategic use of web-enabled technologies. Managing healthcare information systems with web-enabled technologies is an excellent ve- cle for understanding current and potential uses of Internet technology in the broad areas of healthcare and medical applications.

Inhalt
Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Personal Electronic Health Record (pEHR).- Exploring the Potential of Over-the-Web Psychiatry.- An Intelligent Web-Based Healthcare System: The Case of DYMOS.- An Empirical Study of Sections in Classifying Disease Outbreak Reports.- A Web-Based Application to Exchange Ophthalmologic Health Records Using Open-Source Databases.- An Image-Centric, Web-Based, Telehealth Information System for Multidisciplinary Clinical Collaboration.- SOAP/WAD-Based Web Services for Biomedicine.- Web Resources for Gene List Analysis in Biomedicine.- Web-Based Applications in Healthcare.- Evaluation for Web-Based Applications.- Web-Based Communities for Lifelong Medical Learning.- Evaluation of Wikis Exploited for Medicine Courses Teaching.- Computer-Based Oxygen Transport Scenario Analysis: A New Web-Based Medical Education Resource.- Development of an Educational Web Site to Assist in Learning Clinical Airway Management.- An Integrated Approach in Medical Decision-Making for Eliciting Knowledge.- Using Decision Trees for the Semi-automatic Development of Medical Data Patterns: A Computer-Supported Framework.- Telemedicine for the Diabetic Foot: A Model for Improving Medical Care, Developing Decision Support Systems, and Reducing Medical Cost.- SOAP/WAD-Based Web Services for Biomedicine.