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Instructional Design Exemplars in eHealth and mHealth Education Interventions (Hardcover): Suha R. Tamim Instructional Design Exemplars in eHealth and mHealth Education Interventions (Hardcover)
Suha R. Tamim
R8,638 Discovery Miles 86 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The use of eHealth and mHealth interventions for health promotion, health professional education, and health professional support is on the rise. They have a significant potential for learning through their wide reach, ability to tailor to specific needs, and facilitation of engagement, interactivity, and collaboration. Although eHealth and mHealth interventions are invested in quality and effectiveness, they vary in their use of theory and instructional design principles based on the perspectives of the disciplines that can influence their work. Instructional Design Exemplars in eHealth and mHealth Education Interventions showcases design exemplars of eHealth and mHealth interventions in health promotion and in education and support of health professionals. These exemplars demonstrate the integration of theory and design principles that benefit health professionals and health education. Covering topics such as healthcare access, instructional technology, and diverse learning experiences, this book is a dynamic resource for health professionals, instructional designers, educators, researchers, hospital administrators, policymakers, researchers, and academicians.

Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine (Hardcover): Mildred Lopez Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine (Hardcover)
Mildred Lopez
R8,638 Discovery Miles 86 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While telemedicine was not a new concept before the COVID-19 pandemic, it has certainly helped to propel telehealth as a popular solution and tool for patients to continue to use well after the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt. However, telehealth also provided solutions for health institutions faced with the challenge of preparing the next generation of medical professionals remotely. Telemedicine allowed medical educators to accompany students in their first encounters with patients and to simulate practical scenarios. Through the pandemic, educators have striven to be more creative and propose solutions to overcome adversities such as language barriers, access to technological infrastructure, and lack of legal framework. Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine discusses and presents alternatives on taking advantage of available technologies and infrastructure of telemedicine and e-health to advance health professionals' education. This need emerged amid the pandemic to provide patients and their families with support and guidance, but it also brought opportunities to students to continue their training and be involved in this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Covering topics such as disease-awareness campaigns, medical education, and online clinical simulation, this book serves as a dynamic resource for medical students, medical professionals, medical directors, educational software developers, researchers, communications experts, professors, and academicians.

Smart and Pervasive Healthcare (Hardcover): Urvashi Sharma Smart and Pervasive Healthcare (Hardcover)
Urvashi Sharma
R3,328 Discovery Miles 33 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Telemedicine Services (Hardcover): Hugues F Batsielilit Telemedicine Services (Hardcover)
Hugues F Batsielilit; Edited by Dedrick L Moone
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Advances in Telemedicine for Health Monitoring - Technologies, design and applications (Hardcover): Tarik a. Rashid, Chinmay... Advances in Telemedicine for Health Monitoring - Technologies, design and applications (Hardcover)
Tarik a. Rashid, Chinmay Chakraborty, Kym Fraser
R3,517 R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Save R344 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Advances in telemedicine technologies have offered clinicians greater levels of real-time guidance and technical assistance for diagnoses, monitoring, operations or interventions from colleagues based in remote locations. The topic includes the use of videoconferencing, mentorship during surgical procedures, or machine-to-machine communication to process data from one location by programmes running in another. This edited book presents a variety of technologies with applications in telemedicine, originating from the fields of biomedical sensors, wireless sensor networking, computer-aided diagnosis methods, signal and image processing and analysis, automation and control, virtual and augmented reality, multivariate analysis, and data acquisition devices. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), surgical robots, telemonitoring, and teleoperation systems are also explored, as well as the associated security and privacy concerns in this field. Topics covered include critical factors in the development, implementation and evaluation of telemedicine; surgical tele-mentoring; technologies in medical information processing; recent advances of signal/image processing techniques in healthcare; a real-time ECG processing platform for telemedicine applications; data mining in telemedicine; social work and tele-mental health services for rural and remote communities; applying telemedicine to social work practice and education; advanced telemedicine systems for remote healthcare monitoring; the impact of tone-mapping operators and viewing devices on visual quality of experience of colour and grey-scale HDR images; modelling the relationships between changes in EEG features and subjective quality of HDR images; IoMT and healthcare delivery in chronic diseases; and transform domain robust watermarking method using Riesz wavelet transform for medical data security and privacy.

Tele-Audiology and the Optimization of Hearing Healthcare Delivery (Hardcover): Elaine Saunders Tele-Audiology and the Optimization of Hearing Healthcare Delivery (Hardcover)
Elaine Saunders
R6,013 Discovery Miles 60 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tele-audiology, a blanket term for digital health solutions in audiology and auditory rehabilitation, including education and training, has recently been gaining pace, partly driven by commercial developments in remote otoscopy, remote audiometry, and hearing aids that can be adjusted by a remote professional. Due to these advances, clinicians have the potential to expand their practices and better serve patients in rural areas. However, audiologists are reluctant to use tele-audiology. Tele-Audiology and the Optimization of Hearing Healthcare Delivery is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of technologies that advance audiology and auditory rehabilitation, and allows healthcare providers to offer hearing healthcare at a distance and in a manner that provides appropriate outcomes and reduces delivery costs. This publication examines research findings from real-world experience of tele-audiology and covers topics including eHealth, security management, and internet interventions. It is ideally designed for audiologists, speech pathologists, care providers, medical professionals, academicians, and researchers.

Advancement, Opportunities, and Practices in Telehealth Technology (Hardcover): S N Kumar, Sundaravaradhan Suresh, Padmanabhan... Advancement, Opportunities, and Practices in Telehealth Technology (Hardcover)
S N Kumar, Sundaravaradhan Suresh, Padmanabhan Vivekananth, Sherin Zafar
R10,111 Discovery Miles 101 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent advancements in medical technology, such as telehealth services, have influenced the healthcare sector tremendously. While telehealth technology and its application are not new, it has not been widely utilized despite the numerous benefits and opportunities it provides. However, recent policy changes have lowered obstacles to telehealth access and pushed the use of telemedicine to deliver acute, chronic, primary, and specialist care. In order to successfully integrate this technology in all areas of healthcare, further study is required to fully understand the best practices and challenges of adoption. Advancement, Opportunities, and Practices in Telehealth Technology discusses advances in the digital health technology and telemedicine domains as well as key challenges, solutions, and opportunities regarding their use in healthcare. The book also introduces critical communication protocols, interconnections, system designs, and developments that are extensively used in the present-day telehealth process. Covering a wide range of topics such as digital twins, big data analytics, and robotics, this reference work is an ideal resource for engineers, industry professionals, hospital administration, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications - Advancements and Developments (Hardcover): Joel J. P. C.... Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications - Advancements and Developments (Hardcover)
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Isabel De La Torre Diez, Beatriz Sainz De Abajo
R6,753 Discovery Miles 67 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By combining electronic communication and information technology with healthcare practices, e-health promises access to health information, diagnosis, treatment, and care to patients who may "enter" and interact with the system in new ways. Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications: Advancements and Developments offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to telemedicine by collecting e-health experiences and applications from around the world and by exploring developments and trends in medical informatics. Researchers and professionals in health management, medicine, nursing, and medical informatics will find discussions of critical issues in the emerging field of e- health. The book also introduces innovative concepts and services at the leading edge of healthcare and information technology, which may enable a safer, higher quality, more equitable and sustainable health system.

Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies - Concepts, Methods and Applications (Hardcover): Martina Ziefle, Carsten Roecker Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies - Concepts, Methods and Applications (Hardcover)
Martina Ziefle, Carsten Roecker
R6,687 Discovery Miles 66 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Electronic healthcare technologies support the interaction between patients and health-service providers, institution-to-institution transmission of data, and peer-to-peer communication between patients and health professionals. These technologies promise to deliver significant improvements in access to care, quality of care, and the efficiency and productivity of the health sector. Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications unites researchers and industry practitioners from different disciplines to share their domain-specific knowledge and thereby contribute to a holistic introduction into the area of human-centered design for e-health applications. The knowledge and insights provided in this book will help students, as well as systems designers, to understand the fundamental social and technical requirements future e-health systems have to meet. By providing a well-rounded introduction within one single volume, this book is equally suited as a library reference and upper-level course supplement, but also represents a first-class resource for independent study.

Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions (Hardcover): Jose Machado, Antonio Abelha, Filipe Santos-Silva,... Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions (Hardcover)
Jose Machado, Antonio Abelha, Filipe Santos-Silva, Filipe Portela
R6,528 Discovery Miles 65 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Technology is changing the practice of healthcare by the ways medical information is stored, shared, and accessed. With mobile innovations, new strategies are unfolding to further advance processes and procedures in medical settings. Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions is an advanced reference source for the latest research on emerging progress and applications within mobile health initiatives and health informatics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives such as electronic health records (EHR), clinical decision support systems, and medical ontologies, this publication is ideally designed for professionals and researchers seeking scholarly material on the increased use of mobile health applications.

Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging (Hardcover): David Mendes, Cesar Fonseca, Manuel Jose Lopes, Jose Garcia-Alonso,... Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging (Hardcover)
David Mendes, Cesar Fonseca, Manuel Jose Lopes, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Juan Manuel Murillo
R8,410 Discovery Miles 84 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Technological innovation continues to be present in all areas of our lives, offering seemingly endless possibilities. As technology is increasingly implemented in healthcare applications, it is necessary to understand whether users respond to a predefined organizational strategy of model of care or whether they will become wholly dependent on the healthcare technology. This understanding is especially crucial when dealing with the possibility of generating inequities, especially with individuals that are elderly. Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging is a collection of innovative research that proposes the detailed study of a strategic framework for the development of technological innovation in healthcare and for its adoption by health organizations. While highlighting topics including emotional health, quality of life, and telemedicine, this book is ideally designed for physicians, nurses, hospital staff, medical professionals, home care providers, hospital administrators, academicians, students, and researchers. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in different types of healthcare units at various levels.

E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living - Challenges and Solutions (Hardcover, New): Carsten... E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living - Challenges and Solutions (Hardcover, New)
Carsten Roecker, Martina Ziefle
R6,673 Discovery Miles 66 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

E-health technologies will play an increasingly important role in the coming years, as more and more older people will require medical care and support. Due to the prevalent demographic changes and the continuously decreasing number of nursing staff and caregivers, there is an increased need for intelligent medical technologies, which enable people to live independently at home. E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions reviews existing literature in assistive technologies and provides suggestions and solutions for improving the quality of assisted living facilities and residences through the use of e-health systems and services.

m_Health Current and Future Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Giuseppe Andreoni, Paolo Perego, Enrico Frumento m_Health Current and Future Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Giuseppe Andreoni, Paolo Perego, Enrico Frumento
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes current trends in m_Health technology, systems, and applications. The book proposes a multifaceted view on m-Health opportunities and requirements starting from four aspects: patient, technology, design and innovation. The analysis is completed by a market segmentation overview and by the most recent research experiences to offer a complete benchmark and vision of m_Health for today and tomorrow. The contributions are based on the outcomes of initiatives on the future of healthcare, funded by the EU in the frame of FP7 and Horizon 2020 and their deployment into real clinical practice. Throughout the book, clinicians, technicians, researchers, and end-users debate their experience, needs, risks, opportunities, and available solutions in this fast moving field.

Medical Image Watermarking - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Amit Kumar Singh, Basant Kumar, Ghanshyam... Medical Image Watermarking - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Amit Kumar Singh, Basant Kumar, Ghanshyam Singh, Anand Mohan
R3,859 R3,577 Discovery Miles 35 770 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications. This book emphasizes on medical image watermarking to ensure the authenticity of transmitted medical information. It begins with an introduction of digital watermarking, important characteristics, novel applications, different watermarking attacks and standard benchmark tools. This book also covers spatial and transform domain medical image watermarking techniques and their merits and limitations. The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure watermark. The suggested methods may find potential applications in the prevention of patient identity theft and health data management issues which is a growing concern in telemedicine applications. This book provides a sound platform for understanding the medical image watermarking paradigm for researchers in the field and advanced-level students. Industry professionals working in this field, as well as other emerging applications demanding robust and secure watermarking will find this book useful as a reference.

Mobile Health - Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): James M. Rehg, Susan.A Murphy, Santosh... Mobile Health - Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
James M. Rehg, Susan.A Murphy, Santosh Kumar
R5,691 Discovery Miles 56 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to mHealth technology and is accessible to technology-oriented researchers and practitioners with backgrounds in computer science, engineering, statistics, and applied mathematics. The contributing authors include leading researchers and practitioners in the mHealth field. The book offers an in-depth exploration of the three key elements of mHealth technology: the development of on-body sensors that can identify key health-related behaviors (sensors to markers), the use of analytic methods to predict current and future states of health and disease (markers to predictors), and the development of mobile interventions which can improve health outcomes (predictors to interventions). Chapters are organized into sections, with the first section devoted to mHealth applications, followed by three sections devoted to the above three key technology areas. Each chapter can be read independently, but the organization of the entire book provides a logical flow from the design of on-body sensing technology, through the analysis of time-varying sensor data, to interactions with a user which create opportunities to improve health outcomes. This volume is a valuable resource to spur the development of this growing field, and ideally suited for use as a textbook in an mHealth course.

Telemental Health - Clinical, Technical, and Administrative Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice (Hardcover, New): Kathleen... Telemental Health - Clinical, Technical, and Administrative Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice (Hardcover, New)
Kathleen Myers, Carolyn Turvey
R2,269 Discovery Miles 22 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Acquiring access to mental health treatments can be difficult for those who are not near mental health facilities. The growing field of telemental health addresses this problem by using video and telephone conferencing to provide patients with access to psychiatric professionals. However, the process faces challenges to gain adoption into mainstream medical practice and to develop an evidence base supporting its efficacy. In this comprehensive text, leading professionals in the field provide an introduction to telemental health and explore how to construct a therapeutic space in different contexts when conducting telemental health, how to improve access for special populations, and how to develop an evidence base and best practice in telemental health. In the past 15 years, implementation of telemental health has seemed to follow more from need than from demonstrated efficacy. The thorough and insightful chapters within this book show the importance of continued research and thoughtful development of ethical and responsible practice that is needed in the field and begin to lay out steps in constructing this process. Telemental Health will be an essential book for all clinical practitioners and researchers in mental health fields.

Information in this bookis focused on the clinical practice of telemental health, no other text is similarly oriented to clinical practice. Limited options for interested audience makes this text a top choice.The Editors are experienced in multiple aspects of e-health across diverse clinical settings, and the authors are national leaders who are most knowledgeable regarding developments in the field. Emphasis is on providing evidence-based care, and telemental health emerges as comparable to usual care, not a "second best" option; material is not esoteric but relevant to clinical practice. Readers will be able to readily find the equipment and other technology to establish their practice.
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Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation for eHealth - Principles and Practice (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): Kendall Ho, Sandra... Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation for eHealth - Principles and Practice (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Kendall Ho, Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Helen Novak Lauscher, Jennifer Cordeiro, Richard Scott
R5,654 Discovery Miles 56 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rapid progress in health research has led to generation of new knowledge and innovative practices in management of illness. This has resulted in a significant challenge for health professionals: if today we discovered a new therapy through research, when will this discovery be regularly prescribed or utilized to treat all patients suffering from this condition? Knowledge translation is the non-linear and often complicated process of translating knowledge into routine health practices. Technology enabled knowledge translation (TEKT) is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to accelerate knowledge translation. With the ubiquity of the internet, the proliferation of different approaches in communication and social networking, and the continuously improving technologies from netbooks to smartphones, there are rich opportunities for TEKT in health education, service delivery, and research.

Teleneurology by Internet and Telephone - A Study of Medical Self-help (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): A. J Larner Teleneurology by Internet and Telephone - A Study of Medical Self-help (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
A. J Larner
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Medical information is now widely available on the Internet and through telephone helplines such as NHS Direct and the focus on patient self care is likely to increase. Clinicians in all specialties will often encounter patients who have made self-directed searches for medical information prior to the clinical encounter. Teleneurology by Internet and Telephone is a study of patient information-seeking behaviour in neurology patients prior to referral from primary to secondary care. The book analyses frequency of Internet access and use, and of telephone helpline awareness and use. It also explores use of these modalities over time, use according to patient gender and age and by gender and age over time. Teleneurology by Internet and Telephone is an accessible overview of the utility of these modalities of health information provision and will be of interest not only to neurologists and clinicians in other specialities but also to public health researchers, sociologists and political scientists with an interest in questions of health care provision.

Medical Informatics, E-Health - Fundamentals and Applications (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Alain Venot, Anita Burgun, Catherine... Medical Informatics, E-Health - Fundamentals and Applications (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Alain Venot, Anita Burgun, Catherine Quantin
R5,176 Discovery Miles 51 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the years, medical informatics has matured into a true scientific discipline. Fundamental and applied aspects are now taught in various fields of health, including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and public health. Medical informatics is also often included in the curricula of many other disciplines, including the life sciences, engineering and economics.

Medical informatics is a complex and rapidly changing discipline. Relatively few books have been published on the subject, and they rapidly become obsolete. This book is the fruit of a collaborative effort between authors teaching medical informatics in France and others who are conducting research in this field. In addition, an international perspective was pursued, as reflected in the inclusion of various developments and actions in both the USA and Europe.

This book is divided into 18 chapters, all of which include learning objectives, recommendations for further reading, exercises and bibliographic references.

Telesurgery (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Sajeesh Kumar, Jacques Marescaux Telesurgery (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Sajeesh Kumar, Jacques Marescaux
R4,356 Discovery Miles 43 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written by renowned international experts, this book explains technical issues, digital information processing, and provides collective experiences from practitioners who perform a wide range of telesurgery applications. The book lays the foundation for the globalization of surgical procedures, making possible the ability of a surgeon located in one part of the world to operate on a patient located in another.

Mobile Health Applications for Quality Healthcare Delivery (Hardcover): Anastasius Moumtzoglou Mobile Health Applications for Quality Healthcare Delivery (Hardcover)
Anastasius Moumtzoglou
R7,109 Discovery Miles 71 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the central engines of the current shift towards decentralization and reorientation of healthcare services is mobile healthcare (mHealth). mHealth offers unique opportunities to reduce cost, increase efficiencies, and improve quality and access to healthcare. However, the full impact of mHealth is just beginning to be felt by the medical community and requires further examination to understand the full range of benefits it contributes to medical staff and patients. Mobile Health Applications for Quality Healthcare Delivery explores the emergence of mHealth in the healthcare setting and examines its impact on patient-centered care, including how it has reshaped access, quality, and treatment. Highlighting topics such as patient management, emergency medicine, and health monitoring, this publication supports e-health systems designers in understanding how mobile technologies can best be used for the benefit of both doctors and their patients. It is designed for healthcare professionals, administrators, students, health services managers, and academicians.

Medical Informatics - Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Hsinchun Chen, Sherrilynne S.... Medical Informatics - Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Hsinchun Chen, Sherrilynne S. Fuller, Carol Friedman, William Hersh
R5,370 R4,736 Discovery Miles 47 360 Save R634 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field. The newer concepts, techniques, and practices of biomedical knowledge management and data mining are introduced and examined in detail. It is the research and applications in these areas that are raising the technical horizons and expanding the utility of informatics to an increasing number of biomedical professionals and researchers.

The book is divided into three major topical sections.

Section I presents the foundational information and knowledge management material and includes topics such as: bioinformatics challenges and standards, security and privacy, ethical and social issues, and biomedical knowledge mapping.

Section II discusses the topics which are relevant to knowledge representations & access and includes topics such as: representations of medical concepts and relationships, genomic information retrieval, 3D medical informatics, public access to anatomic images, and creating and maintaining biomedical ontologies.

Section III examines the emerging application research in data mining, biomedical textual mining, and knowledge discovery research and includes topics such as: semantic parsing and analysisfor patient records, biological relationships, gene pathways, and metabolic networks, exploratory genomic data analysis, joint learning using data and text mining, and disease informatics and outbreak detection.

The book is a comprehensive presentation of the foundations and leading application research in medical informatics/biomedicine. These concepts and techniques are illustrated with detailed case studies.

The authors are widely recognized professors and researchers in Schools of Medicine and Information Systems from the University of Arizona, University of Washington, Columbia University, and Oregon Health & Science University. In addition, individual expert contributing authors have been commissioned to write chapters for the book on their respective topical expertise.

EHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge - Global Experts... EHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge - Global Experts Summit Textbook (Hardcover, New)
B. Blobel, P. Pharow, M. Nerlich
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Current demographic, economic and social conditions which developed countries are faced with require a paradigm change for delivering high quality and efficient health services. In that context, healthcare systems have to turn from organization-centered to process-oriented and finally towards individualized patient care, also called personal care, based on ehealth platform services. Interoperability requirements for ubiquitous personalized health services reach beyond current concepts of health information integration among professional stakeholders and related Electronic Patient Records.Future personal health platforms particularly have to maintain semantic interoperability among systems using different modalities and technologies, different knowledge representation and domain experts' languages as well as different coding schemes and terminologies to include home care, as well as personal and mobile systems. This development is not restricted to regions or countries, but appears globally, requiring a comprehensive international collaboration. This publication within the series "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" presents papers from leading international experts representing all domains involved in ehealth.

Digital Health Entrepreneurship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Sharon Wulfovich, Arlen Meyers Digital Health Entrepreneurship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Sharon Wulfovich, Arlen Meyers
R1,308 Discovery Miles 13 080 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship. Topics covered include regulatory affairs featuring detailed guidance on the legal environment, protecting digital health intellectual property in software, hardware and business processes, financing a digital health start up, cybersecurity best practice, and digital health business model testing for desirability, feasibility, and viability. Digital Health Entrepreneurship is directed to clinicians and other digital health entrepreneurs and stresses an interdisciplinary approach to product development, deployment, dissemination and implementation. It therefore provides an ideal resource for medical professionals across a broad range of disciplines seeking a greater understanding of digital health innovation and entrepreneurship.

The History of Medical Informatics in the United States (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2015): Morris F. Collen, Marion J. Ball The History of Medical Informatics in the United States (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2015)
Morris F. Collen, Marion J. Ball
R1,693 Discovery Miles 16 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a meticulously detailed chronological record of significant events in the history of medical informatics and their impact on direct patient care and clinical research, offering a representative sampling of published contributions to the field. The History of Medical Informatics in the United States has been restructured within this new edition, reflecting the transformation medical informatics has undergone in the years since 1990. The systems that were once exclusively institutionally driven - hospital, multihospital, and outpatient information systems - are today joined by systems that are driven by clinical subspecialties, nursing, pathology, clinical laboratory, pharmacy, imaging, and more. At the core is the person - not the clinician, not the institution - whose health all these systems are designed to serve. A group of world-renowned authors have joined forces with Dr Marion Ball to bring Dr Collen's incredible work to press. These recognized leaders in medical informatics, many of whom are recipients of the Morris F. Collen Award in Medical Informatics and were friends of or mentored by Dr Collen, carefully reviewed, editing and updating his draft chapters. This has resulted in the most thorough history of the subject imaginable, and also provides readers with a roadmap for the subject well into later in the century.

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