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Digital Health - Meeting Patient and Professional Needs Online (Paperback)
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Digital Health - Meeting Patient and Professional Needs Online (Paperback)
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This book is concerned with the provision of health information
remotely via the latest communications technologies. The rapidly
aging population has led governments to seek more effective methods
of maintaining high standards of public health through the
cultivation of healthy living, as well as improved and more
efficiently delivered health advice and diagnostic services.
Experiments with remote provision of health information and
transactional services have been piloted to assess in this context
the efficacy of new communications technologies, such as personal
computers linked to the Internet, interactive digital television in
the home, and electronically networked touch-screen kiosks in
public locations. Such developments represent part of a wider
agenda--through electronic government--to cultivate more dynamic
democracies and involve citizens of a time of growing political
alienation. The impact of such developments can only properly be
established through systematic empirical research. This book
examines what has been learned from research-based evaluations of
digital health projects.
It draws upon research from different parts of the world and offers
an up-to-date review of the literature in this field. It also
presents a detailed account of recent research carried out in
Britain on the effectiveness of government-sponsored pilot health
information, advice and transactional services provided via kiosks,
the Internet, and interactive digital television. It considers the
effectiveness of these communications technologies in relation to a
range of distinct applications, their use by the public and
perceived usefulness and authority, and the potential of remote
health deliveryto support or supplant more traditional and direct
forms of health diagnosis and treatment.
The book will be of interest to those involved in the academic
study of digital media developments, e-government and remote
health, as well as to policy-makers and practitioners working in
these rapidly growing fields of endeavor.
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