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,...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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,...Loe edasi...
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,...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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,...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Universal Design is a process for creating an equitable and sustainable society. It is a concept committed to recognizing and accepting each individuals potential and characteristics, and promoting the realization of a built environment that does no...Loe edasi...
It is over 70 years since two orthopedic surgeons invented the Milwaukee brace for the treatment of children with scoliosis. Since then, clinicians and researchers have been inspired to design ever more effective braces to correct 3-D spinal deformi...Loe edasi...
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 peoples is dependent on the fulle...Loe edasi...
Data science, informatics and technology have inspired health professionals and informaticians to improve healthcare for the benefit of all patients, and the field of biomedical and health informatics is one which has become increasingly important in...Loe edasi...
The technological advances in Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI) in the last 4 decades could barely have been imagined when the field was in its infancy. At the time, computers were large and unwieldy, memory was measured in kilobytes, and the...Loe edasi...
Digital technologies have become an integral part of all our lives, and the area of healthcare is no exception.This book presents the proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Health Informatics meets Digital Health (dHealth 2023), held in Vienna,...Loe edasi...
Current ideas about human diversity often highlight the importance of the relational and dynamic nature of interactions across different domains of human function, activities and participation. Universal Design (UD) is defined as design that is usabl...Loe edasi...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is once again in the news, with many major figures urging caution as developments in the technology accelerate. AI impacts all aspects of our lives, but perhaps the discipline of Biomedical Informatics is more affected th...Loe edasi...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace at which innovative health technologies are being designed, developed, and implemented. This inevitably presents new risks and challenges, not least, how to ensure that these technologies are appropriate...Loe edasi...
Science-fiction author William Gibson is famously quoted as saying, “The future is already here – its just not very evenly distributed.” During the Covid pandemic, telehealth and remote monitoring were elevated from interesting innovations to essent...Loe edasi...
