Technological advancements in the last few decades have significantly revolutionized the healthcare industry, resulting in life expectancy improvement in human beings. The use of automated machines in healthcare has reduced human errors and has notably improved disease diagnosis efficiency. Design and Development of Affordable Healthcare Technologies provides emerging research on biomedical instrumentation, bio-signal processing, and device development within the healthcare industry. This book provides insight into various subjects including patient monitoring, medical imaging, and disease classification. This book is a vital reference source for medical professionals, biomedical engineers, scientists, researchers, and medical students interested in the comprehensive research on the advancements in healthcare technologies.

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of technologies and an aging population, it faces challenges of expanding coverage to newly developed treatments and diagnosis methods and applying the latest innovations to deliver telemedicine and more patient-centered services. The NHI, like the national health systems of other countries, also needs to address the privacy concerns of the personal health data it collects and the issues regarding opening this data for research or commercial use. In this book, the 12 chapters cover the history, characteristics, current status, innovations and future reform plans of the NHI in the digital era. Topics explored include: Income Strategy Payment Structure Pursuing Health Equity Infrastructure of the Medical Information System Innovative Applications of the Medical Information Applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Care in Taiwan is essential reading for academic researchers and students in healthcare administration, health policy, health systems research, and health services delivery, as well as policymakers and public officials in relevant government departments. It also would appeal to academics, practitioners, and other professionals in public health, health sciences, social welfare, and health and biotechnology law.

Business intelligence (BI) tools are capable of working with healthcare data in an efficient manner to generate real-time information and knowledge relevant to the success of healthcare organizations. Further, BI tools benefit healthcare professionals making critical decisions within hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices. Applying Business Intelligence to Clinical and Healthcare Organizations presents new solutions for data analysis within the healthcare sector in order to improve the quality of medical care and patient quality of life. Business intelligence models and techniques are explored and their benefits for the healthcare sector exposed in this timely research-based publication comprised of chapters written by professionals and researchers from around the world. Hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, biomedical engineers, informatics engineers, and students in graduate-level healthcare management programs will find this publication essential to their professional development and research needs.

Today, men and women all over the world are experiencing higher stress levels as a result of poor or reduced sleep. According to author Claes Zell, the answer to this problem could be as simple and enjoyable as stretching and targeted exercise.

After years of self- experience practicing, Zell discovered that many who suffer from insufficient deep sleep complain of the same issues-restlessness, stiff limbs, and difficulty reaching the pre-sleep alpha rhythm. With this information, Zell has developed an effective ten-minute program (minimum) design to target and lengthen specific muscle groups, relaxing your body in order to allow you to relax your mind.

The market for chemical remedies for sleeping disorders has become vast, and yet the problem of inadequate sleep remains. Rather than subject your body to chemical interventions that may or may not work, interventions that could cause any number of new and unpleasant problems, why not give yourself ten minutes at the end of the day? With just ten minutes, you can bring your body and mind into alignment and finally get the deep, quality sleep you've been missing.

The Handbook of Healthcare Management is a comprehensive examination of key management practices for global healthcare organizations, arguing that insight into and implementation of these practices is essential for success and sustainability. Expert contributors analyze both existing methods and new developments in healthcare management, through topics including healthcare marketing and customer service, managing human resources and organizational stakeholders, strategic and business planning, high-reliability organizations, and health informatics. The result is a well-rounded collection of strategies to enhance healthcare quality, with emphasis on factors that promote organizational excellence. This Handbook will be invaluable to students in both master and doctoral healthcare management programs, as well as faculty and health services researchers, practitioners in both private and public sectors, policy-makers, and public administrators. Contributors: A. Beardsley, J.W. Begun, N. Borkowski, B.K. Breland, K. Darr, C. Deschamp, E.W. Ford, M.D. Fottler, L.H. Friedman, J. Gill, P.K. Howse, T.R.Huerta, J.C. Hyde, R. Kemp, D. Malvey, A.S. McAlearney, N. Menachemi, C. Molinari, H. Nguyen, S.J. O'Connor, P.A. Paustian, A. Raffenaud, S. Rahurkar, S. Ruff, C.J. Sampson, D.J. Slovensky, D.G. Smith, P.L. Spath, W.L. Tarver, M. Thygeson, J.M. Trimm, J.G. Van Matre, C.F. Wainwright, J.H. Willig, T. Yeung, T. Zhang

This volume delineates the ways in which key areas of healthcare, well-being, patient safety and organisational change overlap with and contribute to unhealthy workplaces for healthcare professionals. There is a growing realisation within healthcare that healthcare worker well-being, patient outcomes and organisational change are symbiotically linked. Burnout and stress in healthcare workers and toxic organisational cultures can lead to a cycle of patient neglect, medical errors, sub-optimal care and further stress. This topical volume therefore outlines the ways in which worker well-being, patient outcomes and organisational change can be aligned to contribute to a healthy workplace and therefore better medical care. The volume includes an array of authors from different disciplines including primary care, clinical medicine, psychology, sociology, management, clinical governance, health policy and health services research. It succeeds in integrating different voices and reaches meaningful conclusions to address the challenges facing the healthcare workforce.