Main description:

Patient-Centered Digital Healthcare Technology explores the creative intersection of novel, emerging technologies and medicine. This convergence is transforming the landscape of healthcare with the overarching objectives of improving clinical outcomes and advocating wellness. The concept of encountering or treating a medical condition when it has already become disturbingly manifest is being replaced by earlier awareness, diagnosis, and proactive intervention enabled by technologies.

This book features a range of innovations in health information systems and big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-time home monitoring tools, smartphone apps, medical robotics and intelligent machines, virtual and augmented realities, genome sequencing, blockchain and gamification in healthcare.

Intuitive digital health solutions motivate end-users to become active partners in their care, thus enhancing patient engagement and empowerment. This may perhaps lead to yet the most gratifying consequence of novel and emerging technologies: the democratization of healthcare.

This book offers a valuable resource for healthcare providers, engineers, data and computer scientists, researchers, practitioners in academia, biomedical industry and multi-disciplinary clinical settings. Subjects include informatics, computing, networking, wireless and mobile applications, and robotic sensing that collectively improve healthcare access and delivery.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Information systems in health: what do you need and how will you get it?
Chapter 2: Hybrid usability methods: practical techniques for evaluating health information technology in an operational setting
Chapter 3: Advancing public health in the age of big data: methods, ethics, and recommendations
Chapter 4: Preferential hyperacuity perimetry: home monitoring to decrease vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration
Chapter 5: Incorporating mobile resources to enhance the impact of behavioral health services for suicidal persons
Chapter 6: The gamification of mental health prevention and promotion
Chapter 7: Minimally disruptive medicine: how mHealth strategies can reduce the work of diabetes care
Chapter 8: Innovations in medical robotics: surgery, logistics, disinfection, and telepresence
Chapter 9: New reality for surgical training and assessment using immersive technologies
Chapter 10: Applications of blockchain in healthcare
Chapter 11: A practical introduction to artificial intelligence in medicine
Chapter 12: Under the hood: developing the engine that drives personalized medicine
Afterword: The impacts of novel and emerging technologies on a pandemic