Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities. Included in the coverage: Use of video technology in an aged care environment A context-aware remote health monitoring service for improved patient care Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician's perspective Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions An ontology of consumer health informatics Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics combines blueprint and idea book for public health and health informatics students, healthcare professionals, physicians, medical administrators, managers, and IT practitioners.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Release date:	March 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Nilmini Wickramasinghe • Indrit Troshani • Joseph Tan
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	465
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-25971-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge-based systems / expert systems Promotions
LSN:	3-319-25971-7
Barcode:	9783319259710

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