Overview
- Addresses the motivation and enablers for digital health innovations
- Contextualizes the application, technical considerations, as well as socio-psycho-economical ones influencing many digital health technologies’ acceptance and widespread use
- Presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It provides a canvas to discuss emerging digital health solutions, propelled by the ubiquitous availability of miniaturized, personalized devices and affordable, easy to use wearable sensors, and innovative technologies like 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality and driverless robots and vehicles including drones. One of the most significant promises the digital health solutions hold is to keep us healthier for longer, even with limited resources, while truly scaling the delivery of healthcare.
Digital Health: Scaling Healthcare to the World addresses the emerging trends and enabling technologies contributing to technological advances in healthcare practice in the 21st Century. These areas include generic topics such as mobile health and telemedicine, as well as specific concepts such as social media for health, wearables and quantified-self trends. Also covered are the psychological models leveraged in design of solutions to persuade us to follow some recommended actions, then the design and educational facets of the proposed innovations, as well as ethics, privacy, security, and liability aspects influencing its acceptance. Furthermore, sections on economic aspects of the proposed innovations are included, analyzing the potential business models and entrepreneurship opportunities in the domain.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof Katarzyna Wac is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the leader of the Quality of Life technologies lab at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, as well as she is affiliated with Stanford University since 2013. Prof. Wac researchers how mobile and emerging sensor-based technologies can be leveraged for an assessment of the individual’s behavior and Quality of Life, as they unfold naturally over time and in context. She draws on new emerging models from Computer Science incorporating examination of daily life as an “organ” – much like a cardiologist examines hea
rt. She contributes to the ITU European Regional Initiative for mHealth. Prof. Wac is also a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Health
Book Subtitle: Scaling Healthcare to the World
Editors: Homero Rivas, Katarzyna Wac
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61446-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87081-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61446-5Published: 02 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Health Informatics