In recent years, unprecedented demographic aging has placed considerable strain on outdated healthcare systems, exacerbating existing challenges and creating new ones. Geriatric care, in particular, necessitates a multidisciplinary approach involving architects and engineers alongside healthcare professionals. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital healthcare, nanotechnology, and additive manufacturing offer promising avenues for systematic improvements in healthcare delivery. Transforming Healthcare Infrastructure addresses the issues of demographic aging and embracing digital transformations such as artificial intelligence and offers timely insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare. It also emphasizes the necessity for all stakeholders to embrace these changes for the betterment of healthcare delivery and outcomes. This book serves as a definitive resource for healthcare professionals at all levels, from frontline workers to administrators, as well as researchers and students across various disciplines. Engineers, policymakers, architects, and environmentalists within the healthcare sector will also find it indispensable.
Features:
- Offers timely insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare.
- Explores emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, and additive manufacturing used for healthcare solutions.
- Emphasizes the necessity for all stakeholders to embrace these changes for the betterment of healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Transforming Healthcare Infrastructure addresses the issues of demographic aging and embracing digital transformations such as artificial intelligence and offers timely insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare.
1. In the Trenches: Current Challenges in Healthcare Delivery.
2.
Healthcare Innovation as a Complex Adaptive System.
3. Innovation in
Healthcare: Perspectives from Organizational, Societal, and Technological
Dimensions.
4. Recent Initiatives in Revamping Healthcare Policies and
Programmes in India: A Review of Progress and Challenges.
5. Examining the
Inclusivity of Indias National Urban Transport Policy for Senior Citizens.
6. Increasing Burden of NonCommunicable Disease on Health Systems in Aging
Populations and Possible Approaches to Lessen the Burden.
7. New Option for
the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation?
8. Elevating Wellness: Integrating Health, Sustainability, and Urban Vitality
in Tall Building Design.
9. Replacing Harmful Plastics with Biodegradable
Alternatives: Innovations and Applications in Healthcare.
10. Circular
Sustainable Electronics from Design and Manufacturing to Business Models.
11.
Analyzing the Healthcare Performances of EU Countries via Decision Method
David S-K. Ting studied Combustion and Turbulence, followed by Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid-Structure Interactions, prior to joining the University of Windsor. Dr. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering. Professor Ting supervises students on a wide range of research topics including Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy. To date, he has co-supervised over 90 graduate students, co-authored more than 170 journal papers, authored five textbooks, and co-edited more than 25 volumes.
Jacqueline A. Stagner is the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor, and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering. Dr. Stagner co-advises students primarily in sustainable energy in the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory. Prior to working at the University of Windsor, she attained a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, a Master of Business Administration, and a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. She also worked as a release engineer in the automotive industry for six years. She has co-edited ten volumes.
