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The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in healthcare is driven by the need to contain costs while maximizing quality and efficiency. However, ICT adoption for healthcare information management has brought far-reaching effects and implications on the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, patient privacy and confidentiality. A wave of security breaches have led to pressing calls for opt-in and opt-out provisions where patients are free to choose to or not have their healthcare information collected and recorded within healthcare information systems. Such provisions have negative impact on cost, efficiency and quality of patient care. Thus determined efforts to gain patient ...
"This book addresses issues involving health information systems and informatics as innovative forms of investment in healthcare"--Provided by publisher.
Provides research on e-government and its implications within the global context. Covers topics such as digital government, electronic justice, government-to-government, information policy, and cyber-infrastructure research and methodologies.
This textbook is a logical continuation of Dr. Tan's first book, Healt h Management Information Systems. For graduate level and upper level u ndergraduate courses, it explains the use of health decision support s ystems throughout the health care industry, citing examples from hospi tals, managed care organizations and long term care facilities. This b ook includes learning objectives, case studies and review questions. A n Instructor's guide is also available.
Containing more than 250 articles, this three-volume set provides a broad basis for understanding issues, theories, and applications faced by public administrations and public organizations, as they strive for more effective government through the use of emerging technologies. This publication is an essential reference tool for academic, public, and private libraries.
Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- A Telemedicine Guideline for the Practice of Teleconsultation -- Medical Telematics in Disaster Response -- Architecture and Tools for Open, Interoperable and Portable EHRs -- Telemedicine in Extreme Environments: Analogs for Space Flight -- Development of a Robotic Navigation and Fracture Fixation System -- A Readiness Model for Telehealth Is it possible to Pre-Determine How Prepared Communities are to Implement Telehealth? -- An Automated Diagnostic System for Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast - An Overview of Approach and Considerations -- Data Analysis Now and Then: Significant Changes in Approaches and Results -- Software Agents in Surgery: An Update -- Technologies for Haptic Systems in Telemedicine -- Cybercare NDMS: An Improved Strategy for Biodefense Using Information Technologies -- A Communication-Theory Based View on Telemedical Communication -- Implementation of TeleCare Services: Benefit Assessment and Organisational Models -- LifeGuard - Recording, Evaluation and Wireless Transmission of Medical Data -- NOAH - A Mobile Emergency Care System -- Author Index
For the first time in a single core textbook, the Association for the Study of Medical Education presents a complete and authoritative guide to medical education. Written by leading experts in the field, Understanding Medical Education provides a comprehensive resource of the theoretical and academic bases to modern medical education practice. This accessible and timely reference is designed to meet the needs of all those working in medical education from undergraduate education through postgraduate training to continuing professional development. As well as providing practical guidance for clinicians, teachers and researchers, Understanding Medical Education will prove an invaluable resourc...
These days, medical science, coupled with the latest technology, can throw up infinite conveniences for both the doctor examining a patient and the latter s diagnosis and treatment. So, if a patient s data is evaluated well, it can lead to a better unders