Editors:
- Focuses on various factors associated with orphan diseases
- Highlights the opportunities and challenges through information technologies and Health 2.0
- Explores economic possibilities
- Written by an international authorship with experience and competencies in the key areas of patient empowerment, healthcare and clinical knowledge management, healthcare inequalities and disparities, rare diseases and patient advocacy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics (CMCC, volume 4)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rare and Orphan Diseases
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Front Matter
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Health 2.0
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Front Matter
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Patient Perspectives and Empowerment Issues
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
Editors and Affiliations
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Health Design and Technology Institute, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
Rajeev K. Bali
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International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics (ICMCC), Utrecht, The Netherlands
Lodewijk Bos
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Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Baltimore, USA
Michael Christopher Gibbons
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iBellieve Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Simon Ibell
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rare Diseases in the Age of Health 2.0
Editors: Rajeev K. Bali, Lodewijk Bos, Michael Christopher Gibbons, Simon Ibell
Series Title: Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38643-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38642-8Published: 31 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52233-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38643-5Published: 21 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-3811
Series E-ISSN: 2191-382X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Health Economics