Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases

Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases explores the trends, perspectives, and cases of Digital Healthcare and Informatics (DHI) that are transforming healthcare across the globe. Organized in 5 major connecting parts, this well-conceived text begins by laying out foundational DHI themes before focusing in on key DHI core technologies, developments, methods and challenges -- from big data analytics & artificial intelligence to security and privacy issues, clinical decision support systems, consumer health informatics, and more. It then explores DHI emerging technologies (e.g. sensors and wearable electronics), and concludes with short case studies and critical case questions designed to reinforce conceptual understanding. Written for undergraduates health professionals, this accessible text offers a multidisciplinary perspective that is suitable for use in variety of healthcare disciplines - from allied health and nursing to health administration, public health, and health informatics. Key Features: - Each chapter follows a consistent structure that comprehensively covers a specific DHI topic(s) and related key technological components along with workplace practices from a multidisciplinary perspective. - Real world cases studies help students understand key and illustrate how they can been applied in real-world settings. - Clinical innovations and techniques for evaluating clinical outcomes, such as improved care, performance improvement, and cost reduction in clinical settings, are explored and emphasized throughout the text. - Technology and issues that a transforming the health care industry are explored including standardization, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, medical sensors, enterprise architectures, and precision medicine. - Navigate eBook Access (included with the printed text) provides online or offline access to the digital text from your computer, tablet, or mobile device.

Author: Phillip Olla, Joseph Tan
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 05/18/2022
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.06h x 7.24w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781284153859

About the Author
Tan, Joseph: - Joseph Tan, PhD (MIS), MS (Industrial & Management Engineering), BA (Maths/Computer Science), Dip (Civil Engineering), former Wayne C Fox Chair of eBusiness Innovation, is Professor of eHealth Innovation, eBusiness Strategies, Entrepreneurship & Informatics, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. He is the founding and ongoing Editor-in-Chief (EIC), International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics (IJHISI) as well as the co-EIC, International Journal of Applied Research on Public Health Management (IJARPHM) with a professional background that spans a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research areas. He is also EIC, SpringerBriefs for Healthcare Economics & Management and the Senior Associate Editor (eHealth Informatics) of HLPT: Health Technology & Policy.