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Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services
While digital transformations are happening in all walks of society
and business, there is real potential for improving the quality of
life of the elderly using digital methods and tools. Digital health
promises to deliver better healthcare quality cost-efficiently to
more people, especially in the case of lifestyle diseases such as
diabetes. It will achieve this by combining the benefits of
telehealth, eHealth, data-driven personalised healthcare, and
evidence-based care. This book presents a discussion of evolving
digital technologies, such as smart phones and assisted living, and
innovative digitally based services that are helping improve the
quality and cost of healthcare for the elderly. This book evolved
from a recent multi-country and multi-disciplinary initiative
called Digital Health for the Ageing Population. This project
(2019-2021) aimed at promoting general awareness of digital health
for ageing populations with collaborative research across several
countries including Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan,
Norway, The Netherlands, and USA. With its international scope and
detailed coverage of relevant digital methods and tools, this book
will benefit healthcare technologists, ICT developers, managers of
healthcare and mobile healthcare projects, and academic researchers
working in related fields.
Digital health has faced obstacles from poor IT systems
implementation to lack of consumer acceptance. Very little is known
about the management, development, and design of digital health
projects, the level of IT adoption, and the role of digital
leadership that is needed to successfully drive health projects.
Digital health, if successfully implemented, offers tremendous
opportunities in health data analytics for consumers of health
services and service providers that include health information
portability, personalization of health information by consumers,
easy access and usefulness of health information, and better
management of electronic data records by health institutions and
the government. Research suggests that despite assurances provided
to consumers, digital information security and digital health
innovation have been a challenge and are only slowly being
accepted. Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Healthcare
Innovation is an innovative research publication that identifies
digital health innovation opportunities and obstacles and proposes
frameworks and conceptual models for digital health innovation that
empowers consumers of digital health to use the information to make
informed decisions and choices. Highlighting topics such as data
analytics, health regulations, and telehealth, this book is ideal
for IT consultants, medical software developers, data scientists,
hospital administrators, medical practitioners, policymakers,
academicians, researchers, and students.
Advancements in medical and healthcare technologies pave the way to
improving treatments and diagnoses while also streamlining
processes to ensure the highest quality care is given to patients.
In the last few decades, revolutionary technology has radically
progressed the healthcare industry by increasing life expectancy
and reducing human error. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies
in Medicine and Healthcare provides emerging research on
bioinformatics, medical ethics, and clinical science in modern
applications and settings. While highlighting the challenges
medical practitioners and healthcare professionals face when
treating patients and striving to optimize their processes, the
book shows how revolutionary technologies and methods are vastly
improving how healthcare is implemented globally. This book is an
important resource for medical researchers, healthcare
administrators, doctors, nurses, biomedical engineers, and students
looking for comprehensive research on the advancements in
healthcare technologies.
The state of college students' mental health is a growing
phenomenon across university campuses. Educators often watch
students struggle with academic, social, financial, and familial
issues. Over the past decade, these issues have led to an
increasing number of students exhibiting behavior related to
anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders. Raising
Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education: Emerging Research and
Opportunities describes the current state of college students'
mental health in the United States, influences that contribute to
wavering mental health, factors that promote flourishing mental
health, and interventions that support mental health. While
highlighting present programs and activities, readers will find new
methods that can be implemented to support the needs of college
students. This book is an important resource for staff and faculty
in postsecondary institutions seeking current research on the
growing problem of mental health in higher education.
Despite the development of environmental initiatives, healthcare,
and cultural assimilation in today's global market, significant
problems in these areas remain throughout various regions of the
world. As countries continue to transition into the modern age,
areas across Asia and Africa have begun implementing modern
solutions in order to benefit their individual societies and keep
pace with the surrounding world. Significant research is needed in
order to understand current issues that persist across the globe
and what is being done to solve them. Global Issues and Innovative
Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment is an
essential reference source that discusses worldwide conflicts
within healthcare and environmental development as well as modern
resolutions that are being implemented. Featuring research on
topics such as health insurance reform, sanitation development, and
cultural freedom, this book is ideally designed for researchers,
policymakers, physicians, government officials, sociologists,
environmentalists, anthropologists, academicians, practitioners,
and students seeking coverage on global societal challenges in the
modern age.
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