Nursing informatics has a long history of focusing on information management and nurses have a long history of describing their computer use. However, based on the technical advances and through the ongoing and consistent changes in healthcare today,...Lasīt vairāk
Grivas (orthopedic surgery, Thriasio general hospital, Greece) and his contributors from the Society on Scoliosis Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) report on the current state of scoliosis research and practice, including recent advanc...Lasīt vairāk
Examples of the use of robots and other interactive technologies to assist the physical and cognitive therapies of patients, particularly among the aging population, are described in the 17 chapters of this volume. Written by an international group o...Lasīt vairāk
How is long-distance delivery of health care faring in developing countries? In these 20 articles contributors help practitioners, administrators, policy makers and technical professionals keep track of current ideas and applications. Along with a na...Lasīt vairāk
There is wide agreement that health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the need for specialized curricula, though the scientific underpinnings of the field are not well articulated in textbooks or by professional so...Lasīt vairāk
The topics of Advances in Information Technology and Communication in Health, the proceedings of ITCH 2009, include telemedicine and telehealth, electronic health records, software assurance and usability, terminology, classification and standards,...Lasīt vairāk
Techno-Anthropology is an emerging interdisciplinary research field focusing on human/technology interactions and relations, and how these can be understood and facilitated in context. Techno-Anthropology also considers how technological innovation,...Lasīt vairāk
Constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Nursing Informatics Congress (NI2009) that offers a wide range of scientific knowledge to be disseminated among nurses, administrators, physicians or informaticians irrespective of whether they a...Lasīt vairāk
This work provides an overview of the health informatics field. It is suitable as a basic text in undergraduate and post-graduate courses in health disciplines, and can be used for continuing education. An overview looks at health care services, info...Lasīt vairāk
Shows a synergy between research efforts in three areas: sensor technologies, advanced textiles and nanotechnology and computing. This book brings together researchers from academia, industry and clinical healthcare provision and focuses the need fo...Lasīt vairāk
During his 31-year tenure as director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. dramatically increased access to knowledge about health issues, medicine, medical care, the health professions, and health literacy. As a...Lasīt vairāk
Digital technology is now an indispensible part of modern healthcare, and this reliance is only likely to increase, with the healthcare of the future set to become ever more data-driven, decision-supporting, deep, and simply more digital. This book...Lasīt vairāk
Medical informatics is increasingly central to the effective and efficient delivery of healthcare today.This book presents the proceedings of the European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference (EFMI STC 2017), held in Tel Aviv,...Lasīt vairāk
Understanding and modifying health behaviors plays an important part in healthcare. The need to change behaviors applies across a range of health contexts, from individual interventions to the clinically-delivered management of chronic diseases and...Lasīt vairāk
Time is short in emergency situations; the need for action becomes imperative. Biomedical Informatics can be invaluable in supporting the management of emergency medicine, and the need for the creation of Accident and Emergency Informatics (A&EI) as...Lasīt vairāk
There can be no doubt that digital technologies are set to become ever more intrinsic to many areas of healthcare in the future. This book presents the proceedings of Healthcare of the Future 2022, held on 20 May 2022 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Th...Lasīt vairāk
Personalized health technologies offer many benefits. Smart mobile systems, textiles and implants and sensor-controlled medical devices have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health as the next-generation health ser...Lasīt vairāk
Modern information and communication technologies make it easier for individuals to be involved in their own health and social care. They also facilitate contact between individuals and service providers and deliver more efficient tools for healthcar...Lasīt vairāk
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need for the collection of data. Such data cannot be collected or provided without medical informatics, documentation and health data management. Nor can health data be evaluated and converted i...Lasīt vairāk
For several years now, both eHealth applications and digitalization have been seen as fundamental to the new era of health informatics and public health. The current pandemic situation has also highlighted the importance of medical informatics for t...Lasīt vairāk
