Informed and Healthy: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on the Value of Information to Health Care focuses on two major issues: the value attributed to information by users and its effect on health care; and, a new model of information behavior in which the value of information drives various information activities (unlike many information models which tend to give prominence to information needs). The inductive development of the model is explained, with associated implications for theory and transferability or applicability elsewhere. The book uses a case study of the health information system in Uganda and expands the analysis by comparing it to other systems utilized by different countries in diverse levels of development. Topics such as access and use of information; value attribution and effect on health outcomes; and modelling information behavior and its implications on health informatics are discussed in detail. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, planners, and policy makers, as well as researchers interested in health information systems and their applicability in different environments.

Fully updated and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is the only truly comprehensive pocket guide to all aspects of history taking, physical examination, practical procedures, data interpretation, and communication skills. Packed with expert knowledge and practical guidance it gives realistic advice on coping with common situations. The handbook is structured to allow rapid reference of key information, and to aid understanding with concise and practical clinical guidance. Full colour throughout, it includes over 140 detailed photographs and diagrams of all common examination skills to show you exactly what you need to do and the theory, practice and complications for each. More photos have been included, with over half completely new and specially produced for this edition. Each system chapter covers applied anatomy, history, examination, and the presentation of common and important disorders. Data interpretation covers the basics of x-rays, ECGs and other key areas. A new chapter on the eyes is included along with the sections on body language and non-verbal communication, and the section on practical procedures has been expanded. This handbook will help to ensure you have the confidence and skill to carry out an 'A' grade examination every time.

Sensors for Health Monitoring discusses the characteristics of U-Healthcare systems in different domains, providing a foundation for working professionals and undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book provides information and advice on how to choose the best sensors for a U-Healthcare system, advises and guides readers on how to overcome challenges relating to data acquisition and signal processing, and presents comprehensive coverage of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication and calculation for next-generation uHealth systems. It then compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. In addition, detailed information on system operations is presented and challenges in ubiquitous computing are highlighted. The book not only helps beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems, but also presents researchers with the technological trends and design challenges they may face when designing such systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2014, held in Cambridge, UK, in June 2014. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers focus problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology, medical informatics and biostatistics.

Andreas Neff zeigt die exzellenten diagnostischen und therapeutischen Optionen der Endoskopie, die fur den MKG-Chirurgen bei der komplexen Anatomie der Mund-Kiefer-Gesichtsregion, speziell der Kieferhoehlen und der Nasengange, des Kiefergelenks, aber auch der Speicheldrusen heute unverzichtbar ist. Minimalinvasive Darstellung und Zugange gemass State of the Art erfordern neben chirurgischem Know-how auch ein spezielles technisches Equipment. Wahrend die Endoskopie in der MKG-Chirurgie meist speziellen Indikationen vorbehalten ist, hat sie insbesondere in der HNO inzwischen einen Grossteil der traditionellen direkten bzw. invasiv-offenen Verfahren ersetzt. Auch in der MKG-Chirurgie wird es analog zu ihren Nachbardisziplinen zunehmend zu Paradigmenwechseln in der Behandlungsstrategie kommen, denen sich die MKG-Chirurgie stellen muss, um sich auch in Zukunft auf Augenhoehe weiterentwickeln zu koennen.

Practising fundamental patient care skills and techniques is essential to the development of trainees' wider competencies in all medical specialties. After the success of simulation learning techniques used in other industries, such as aviation, this approach has been adopted into medical education. This book assists novice and experienced teachers in each of these fields to develop a teaching framework that incorporates simulation. The Manual of Simulation in Healthcare, Second Edition is fully revised and updated. New material includes a greater emphasis on patient safety, interprofessional education, and a more descriptive illustration of simulation in the areas of education, acute care medicine, and aviation. Divided into three sections, it ranges from the logistics of establishing a simulation and skills centre and the inherent problems with funding, equipment, staffing, and course development to the considerations for healthcare-centred simulation within medical education and the steps required to develop courses that comply with 'best practice' in medical education. Providing an in-depth understanding of how medical educators can best incorporate simulation teaching methodologies into their curricula, this book is an invaluable resource to teachers across all medical specialties.

Deep Learning in Personalized Healthcare and Decision Support discusses the potential of deep learning technologies in the healthcare sector. The book covers the application of deep learning tools and techniques in diverse areas of healthcare, such as medical image classification, telemedicine, clinical decision support system, clinical trials, electronic health records, precision medication, Parkinson disease detection, genomics, and drug discovery. In addition, it discusses the use of DL for fraud detection and internet of things. This is a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students and healthcare professionals who are interested in learning more about deep learning applied to the healthcare sector. Although there is an increasing interest by clinicians and healthcare workers, they still lack enough knowledge to efficiently choose and make use of technologies currently available. This book fills that knowledge gap by bringing together experts from technology and clinical fields to cover the topics in depth.

In 1997, Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy (Cyberonics, Houston, Texas) was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of epilepsy refractory to antiepileptic medications. In 2005, VNS received FDA approval for treatment-resistant depression refractory to antidepressants, and Cyberonics recently received FDA approval for the clinical study of VNS for rapid cycling bipolar depression. Many researchers continue to investigate the anxiolytic effects of VNS in human and non-human animal models. The author presents a study of VNS effects on anxiety and the capacity of atropine methyl nitrate to attenuate these effects. The results indicate that VNS decreases anxiety in the laboratory animals tested. These findings provide evidence to support the testing and subsequent use of VNS therapy for the treatment of clinical anxiety in humans. Because many therapies that are effective in the treatment of depression effectively treat anxiety, VNS therapy should be effective and approvable for clinical anxiety. This book can serve as a research tool, training mechanism, or surgical guide to the implantation of the vagus nerve stimulating electrode in the laboratory rat. Hopefully, this resource provides information that facilitates FDA approval of VNS for treatment-resistant anxiety, a chronic, devastating and often debilitating illness.

Die rasante Entwicklung der Informationstechnologien forciert den Wandel im Gesundheitswesen und damit die neuen Rollenverstandnisse von Patient, Arzt, Gesundheitsdienstleister und Life-Science-Industrie. Die sich anbahnenden Chancen und Risiken im Gesundheitswesen sind so vielseitig, wie das Verstandnis des Begriffes e-Health. In kompakter und verstandlicher Form werden sowohl fundierte Basiskenntnisse vermittelt als auch Praxis-Perspektiven mit Fallbeispielen fur e-Health aufgezeigt.

Bioengineering is the application of physical sciences and mathematics to the study of living organisms and structures. This book introduces the student to the physical processes and engineering aspects of a systems performance both under normal and abnormal conditions, and helps them to design, develop and use diagnostic or artificial devices to measure, improve, safeguard or replace life functions.

Use technology and agile methodologies such as DevOps and micro-enterprises to find your solution space to design, form and provide sustainable healthcare Key Features * Distinguish different pace and timing of change for healthcare systems and recognize constraints * Apply shared mental models for common understanding between digital, medical and enterprise * Integrate new technology to accelerate digital transformation based on practical examples Book Description Technology is an important driver for change, but in essence we should design and plan for personalized health and not focus on the tech. Healthcare transformation requires more than just technology: medical staff, supporting staff, and patients including their community need to embrace it. We need a methodology to bring it all together: people, organizations, and technology by creating common understanding. This book presents ways to build understanding between the stakeholders and agree jointly on the way forward. Every chapter of this book has a specific theme, providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges, the opportunities and the approaches to deal with them in architecture and transformation. You will be able to guide the digital transformation of global healthcare. It includes the impact of new technologies, but addresses primarily a methodology or framework for common understanding in the first place. The framework is referred to as TISH: transformation in sustainable healthcare. In addition, you will also apply OODA principles (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) and DevOps4Care in real practice, step-by-step. By the end of this book, you will not only understand the issues and challenges, but also possess a workable, actionable solution in the form of a roadmap. What you will learn * Understand the need for transformation of healthcare * Accelerate transformation through common understanding in manageable steps * Learn about networked, stepped, integrated, and directed care * Handle complexity through System of Systems * Learn about Journey Interaction Mapping (JIM) * Add value to healthcare by applying DevOps methodologies Who This Book Is For This book is written for anyone interested in designing, building, and providing data driven healthcare. Architects, consultants, engineers, and especially healthcare practitioners who want to embrace the complexity of the digital transformation of healthcare can benefit from this book. The book will be interesting for digital leaders (including C-suite) and for anyone who is on a learning path to understand the world of technological innovation combined with healthcare and wants to be a part of it.

Antibiotika-resistente Bakterien und fehlende Antibiotika gefahrden zunehmend die erfolgreiche Behandlung von bakteriellen Infektionskrankheiten. Diese Stellungnahme beschreibt den unbefriedigenden Status Quo in der Entwicklung neuer Antibiotika und gibt auf breiter Basis Empfehlungen fur Loesungsansatze in Forschung, Politik und Gesellschaft.

Regional anaesthesia is currently undergoing a renaissance in paediatric anaesthetic practice, particularly in day case surgery, for post-operative pain relief and in ex-premature babies. However, most practical textbooks of local anaesthetic technique are not written with small children, and particularly newborn infants, in mind.

This practical manual has been designed to aid both those aiming to refresh their knowledge of the techniques of regional anaesthesia in babies and children, and those learning these methods for the first time. Whilst it is not intended as a substitute for direct trainig by experts, its clear and concise text and simple diagrams make it an ideal companion to 'hands on' training in the operating theatre. Both authors have extensive experience of teaching anaestheitc trainees.

The two introductory chapters of this book describe the relevant pharmacological and biological differences between infants, children and adults, and the general practical aspects of regional anaesthesia. The book is then divided into sections describing the nerve blocks of the major anatomical regions of the body. The descriptions of the different blocks can be read independently and include the relevant anatomy, indications, specific contraindictions, equipment, drugs and dosages, Each description concludes with a step-by-step guide to the block illustrated with photographs and simple diagrams.

In recent years, important technological innovations have made it possible to evaluate the small bowel endoscopically. Thus, traditional diagnostic methods such as imaging techniques are flanked by enteroscopy. The aim of this book is to present the results of enteroscopy as a method to diagnose small bowel disease, correlating it to the other investigative methods and above all to clinical findings. The book is a unique selected collection of images deriving from the results of documented experience and also including a brief clinical presentation, tables and diagrams of diagnostic algorithms. Renowned and accredited experts in gastroenterology, enteroscopy and researchers in the sector of small bowel disease have contributed to this volume.

This new book will enable family practitioners, obstetricians and pediatricians to answer the concerns of the families in their care. It is the first book to make information on this important topic so easily accessible to clinicians. The book is firmly rooted in clinical practice and based on many years of experience, much of it involving the development and implementation of new techniques for examining the fetus in utero. The techniques now available are assessed and better ways to identify pregnancies which are eligible to their application are proposed. The authors describe both the sampling and laboratory techniques available. Other sections cover both predictable and unpredictable pregnancy risks from genetic diseases to abnormal ultrasound, including the possibilities for laboratory evaluation, and the risks and limitations. Throughout the book, the special status of the fetus as a patient is emphasized and the concerns and questions of families are considered, making this the first fully comprehensive and authoritative volume on fetal medicine.

Der erste Band der wissenschaftlichen Buchreihe "Forschung fur die Rehabilitationstechnik" umfasst die Dissertation von David Hochmann mit dem Titel "Pruf- und Bewertungsmethoden fur Knieorthesen". Knieorthesen sind orthopadische Hilfsmittel, die beispielsweise nach Knieverletzungen, Operationen oder auch im Rahmen der Rehabilitation von Behinderungen eingesetzt werden. Sie gehoeren zu den haufigsten verordneten orthopadischen Hilfsmitteln, wobei sich die mechanischen Eigenschaften dieser Orthesen sehr voneinander unterscheiden. Mit den vom Autor entwickelten Laborprufverfahren lassen sich Knieorthesen erstmals objektiv hinsichtlich ihrer wichtigsten physikalischen Eigenschaften beurteilen. David Hochmann zeigt in seiner Dissertation voellig neue Ansatze auf, um die Stutzwirkung von Knieorthesen in verschiedenen Ebenen, ihre Betriebsfestigkeit und ihre mikroklimatischen Eigenschaften bewerten zu koennen.

This is the second volume in an annual series reviewing important areas and advances in obstetric ultrasound, with wide-ranging reviews as well as chapters that look at chosen topics in more depth. This volume again draws together outstanding contributions from radiologists, obstetricians, and scientists to provide full coverage of clinical problems of particular current interest, such as extopic pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis of neural tube defects, fetal cardiac arrhythmias, and non-immune hydrops, while also covering litigations, equipment, and randomized trails of obstetric ultrasound.

Since 1945, a broad array of health care technologies have come into use, including antibiotics, anti-hypertensive drugs, oral diuretics, oral contraceptives, psycho-pharmaceuticals, corticosteroids, vaccines, open-heart surgery, genetics screening, automated clinical laboratories, renal dialysis, and cardiac pacemakers. Unquestionably, these technologies have brought benefits to millions. However, as costs of health care have risen rapidly, governments have increasingly singled out expensive technology as the culprit. The result has been changes in the methods of paying for health care in most countries to control cost rises. This has led to a slowing of technological change in some countries and increasing necessities to choose in all countries. This timely work describes how technology assessment critically evaluates the benefits, costs, and social implications of technology. The book presents an international perspective on health care technology's development and diffusion, and explains how health care technology can enlighten difficult choices faced by policy-makers, clinicians, and patients.

Los incentivos para la innovacion son especialmente relevantes en el sector farmaceutico, en el que no todas las necesidades sociales proporcionan las mismas oportunidades de beneficio y en el que la mayoria de los paises de la OCDE intentan aplicar diferentes medidas que fomenten la investigacion en estos campos que generan menos beneficios. La falta de incentivos para la innovacion resulta especialmente dramatica si tenemos en cuenta las enfermedades que afectan principalmente a paises de renta baja, y tambien las enfermedades que afectan a grupos pequenos de pacientes."

Diese praktische Anleitung stellt die Physiologie und Pathologie der Tube mit allen operativen Korrekturmoglichkeiten dar.
- Mikrochirurgie und operative Endoskopie, Lasertechniken
- Behandlung der Extrauteringraviditat, Endometriose und tubaren Sterilitat, Reanastomosierung
- Praoperative Abklarung und postoperative Betreuung
Alle Operationstechniken sind prazise und verstandlich beschrieben. Speziell fur Anfanger enthalt das Buch ein Trainingsprogramm, das sie in den chirurgischen Techniken schnell fit macht."

Konstantin Ens beschaftigt sich mit den Moglichkeiten Registrierungs- und Segmentierungsansatze der modernen medizinischen Bildverarbeitung miteinander zu verbinden. Er entwickelt einen theoretischen Rahmen fur eine derartige Kombination von Methoden, klassifiziert die Verfahren und erlautert weitere neue Moglichkeiten, die Registrierung und die Segmentierung zu verbessern.
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The rate at which toxicological data is generated is continually becoming more rapid and the volume of data generated is growing dramatically. This is due in part to advances in software solutions and cheminformatics approaches which increase the availability of open data from chemical, biological and toxicological and high throughput screening resources. However, the amplified pace and capacity of data generation achieved by these novel techniques presents challenges for organising and analysing data output. Big Data in Predictive Toxicology discusses these challenges as well as the opportunities of new techniques encountered in data science. It addresses the nature of toxicological big data, their storage, analysis and interpretation. It also details how these data can be applied in toxicity prediction, modelling and risk assessment. This title is of particular relevance to researchers and postgraduates working and studying in the fields of computational methods, applied and physical chemistry, cheminformatics, biological sciences, predictive toxicology and safety and hazard assessment.