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Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes with Health Information Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 570

Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes with Health Information Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-26
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Information technology is revolutionizing healthcare, and the uptake of health information technologies is rising, but scientific research and industrial and governmental support will be needed if these technologies are to be implemented effectively to build capacity at regional, national and global levels. This book, "Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes with Health Information Technology", presents papers from the Information Technology and Communications in Health conference, ITCH 2019, held in Victoria, Canada from 14 to 17 February 2019. The conference takes a multi-perspective view of what is needed to move technology forward to sustained and widespread use by transitioning...

Enabling Health and Healthcare Through ICT
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Enabling Health and Healthcare Through ICT

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

For many people in both developing and developed countries universal healthcare is still not the norm. Socio-economic status and geographical restrictions have proved to be major barriers to accessible care. The use of information and communication technologies ICT is growing rapidly internationally as the need to provide more efficient and cost-effective care becomes increasingly urgent. Improving the health of a nation begins with the individual and recent developments in genomics and mobile networked information technologies have regenerated interest in individualizing healthcare. Harnessing the diversity and ubiquity of

MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health — Global Partnership for Digital Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1180

MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health — Global Partnership for Digital Innovation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-05
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, and its constitution also asserts that health for all people is “dependent on the fullest co-operation of individuals and States”. The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the power of both healthy and unhealthy information, so while healthcare and public health services have depended upon timely and accurate data and continually updated knowledge, social media has shown how unhealthy misinformation can be spread and amplified, reinforcing existing prejudices, conspiracy theories and political biases. This book presents the proce...

MEDINFO 2017: Precision Healthcare Through Informatics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1440

MEDINFO 2017: Precision Healthcare Through Informatics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-31
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Medical informatics is a field which continues to evolve with developments and improvements in foundational methods, applications, and technology, constantly offering opportunities for supporting the customization of healthcare to individual patients. This book presents the proceedings of the 16th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo2017), held in Hangzhou, China, in August 2017, which also marked the 50th anniversary of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). The central theme of MedInfo2017 was "Precision Healthcare through Informatics", and the scientific program was divided into five tracks: connected and digital health; human data science; human, o...

AI and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

AI and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-08
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

AI's impact on human societies is and will be drastic in so many ways. AI is being adopted and implemented around the world, and government and universities are investing in AI studies, research, and development. However, very little research exists about the impact of AI on our lives. This book will address this gap; it will gather reflections from around the world to assess the impact of AI on different aspects of society as well as propose ways in which we can address this impact and the research agendas needed.

Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 729

Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health

The contributed volume "Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health" is a health-centered volume of the Integrated Science Book series. Lack of confidence, lack of expertise, complexities of healthcare, the confusing nature of healthcare environments, and lack of organization and standardization can become obstacles to successful communication. This volume establishes how extensive is the interface between formal sciences and medical sciences on health-related issues. The book provides an overview of the value of the integration of formal, biological, and medical sciences and related products, i.e., health informatics and biomedical engineering, to frame a holistic approach to heal...

Ross-Kerr and Wood's Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives - E-Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Ross-Kerr and Wood's Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives - E-Book

- NEW! Revamped two-colour layout improves readability and visual appeal. - NEW! Expanded and updated art program incorporates more vivid and up-to-date photos, charts, and graphs throughout the text. - NEW! Coverage of the latest top-of-mind topics hits on historical colonialism vis-a-vis Canada's Indigenous population and its impact on nursing education; how nursing education will respond to the Calls to Action set forth by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); (MAID) Medical Assistance in Dying, and much more. - NEW! Separate chapters on Indigenous health and gender allows for greater attention to be placed on cultural diversity, feminism, and men's roles. - NEW! Personal Perspec...

E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1798

E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

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  • Published: 2015-09-23
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Advances in medical technology increase both the efficacy and efficiency of medical practice, and mobile technologies enable modern doctors and nurses to treat patients remotely from anywhere in the world. This technology raises issues of quality of care and medical ethics, which must be addressed. E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores recent advances in mobile medicine and how this technology impacts modern medical care. Three volumes of comprehensive coverage on crucial topics in wireless technologies for enhanced medical care make this multi-volume publication a critical reference source for doctors, nurse practitioners, hospital administrators, and researchers and academics in all areas of the medical field. This seminal publication features comprehensive chapters on all aspects of e-health and telemedicine, including implementation strategies; use cases in cardiology, infectious diseases, and cytology, among others; care of individuals with autism spectrum disorders; and medical image analysis.

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1284

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Role of e-health in pursuing benefits in terms of quality of life for patients, health-care personnel, citizens and society.

Advanced Biomedical Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Advanced Biomedical Engineering

This book presents a collection of recent and extended academic works in selected topics of biomedical signal processing, bio-imaging and biomedical ethics and legislation. This wide range of topics provide a valuable update to researchers in the multidisciplinary area of biomedical engineering and an interesting introduction for engineers new to the area. The techniques covered include modelling, experimentation and discussion with the application areas ranging from acoustics to oncology, health education and cardiovascular disease.