Engineers, computer scientists, and others from Europe, Australia, South America, and the US present 16 articles on the design, development, and integration of reliable electronic health platforms. They address information technology systems for population health management and cervical cancer screening programs, intelligent assisted living environments for home-based health care for chronically ill patients, technology to access personal health information, intelligent medication adherence monitoring systems, the use of robotics in surgery, obstetrics and gynecology electronic medical record software, and the early detection of electroencephalogram temporal events in Alzheimer's disease. Others discuss the determination of pauses in speech for the classification of stuttering disorder, the use of surface segmentation to extract information about images of bronchus anatomy, the evaluation of medical speech translation systems, digital medicine and quality, information technology for the quality evaluation of health care services, informed consent and electronic medical records in genetics, using various communication media in quality improvement collaboratives, the operationalization of performance measurement and translation to statements about quality and safety of care, and the use of e-health platforms in health care systems improvement.
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