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Paul Sonnier is an author, speaker, technologist, and social entrepreneur who has spent nearly a decade educating global stakeholders on digital health and its escalating impact on health, healthcare, living, and society. In The Fourth Wave: Digital Health, Paul explains how the fusion of the digital and genomic revolutions is rapidly creating a new era of human progress.Building upon the work of futurist Alvin Toffler--author of The Third Wave--Sonnier enumerates the key drivers of The Fourth Wave and, along the way, cites the work of other key innovators and thought leaders, whose work has formed the digital health body of knowledge: J. Craig Venter, Francis Crick, Eric Topol, MD, Donald J...
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Healthcare and well-being have captured the attention of established software companies, start-ups, and investors. Software is starting to play a central role for addressing the problems of the aging society and the escalating cost of healthcare services. Enablers of such digital health are a growing number of sensors for sensing the human body and communication infrastructure for remote meetings, data sharing, and messaging. The challenge that lies in front of us is how to effectively make use of these capabilities, for example to empower patients and to free the scarce resources of medical personnel. Requirements engineering is the process by which the capabilities of a software product ar...
The two LNCS volume set 9193-9194 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers of the two volume set address as follows: LNCS 9193, Design for Aging (Part I), addressing the following major topics: HCI design and evaluation methods for the elderly; ICT use and acceptance; aging, the web and social media; and the elderly and mobile devices and LNCS 9194, Design for Everyday Life (Part II), addressing the following major topics: health care technologies and services for the elderly; home and work support; smart environment and AAL; and communication, games, and entertainment.
Eight generations of Bonins born in the United States, beginning with the family of Antoine Bonin (b. 1715) and Marie Marguerite Tellier (1726-1800). Antoine was a rifleman in the French Army of occupation of the Louisiana Territory; he married Marie in October 1740 while stationed at Fort Toulouse, Mobile, Alabama. Following his discharge in 1763, he and his family relocated in French territory west of the Mississippi River, settling finally in present-day St. Martinville, Louisiana. This Bonin family is distinguished from the other Bonin families from France, Belgium, Poland, Germany, or Italy by the term Bonin Martinet.
Digital Health--the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society--is rapidly creating a new era of human progress. Building upon the work of famed futurist Alvin Toffler--author of The Third Wave--Paul Sonnier enumerates the key drivers of this new era, aka The Fourth Wave. The Fourth Wave: Digital Health provides readers from all backgrounds--consumers, business, media, marketing, sales, healthcare, pharma, sports, fitness, nutrition, research, science, policy, regulation, and non-governmental organizations--with an understanding of the megatrends taking place, the challenges, opportunities, timeline, and key actionable insights required to...