Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics Book

Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics

  • Author : Michell, Vaughan
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2013-09-30
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 486
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466645479
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Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and processes, decision-making can be more successful and quality care and patient safety would see significant improvements. The Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics highlights current research and trends from both professionals and researchers on health informatics as applied to the needs of patient safety and quality care. Bringing together theory and practical approaches for patient needs, this book is essential for educators and trainers at multiple experience levels in the fields of medicine and medical informatics.

E Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety Exploring Organizational Factors Book

E Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety Exploring Organizational Factors

  • Author : Moumtzoglou, Anastasius
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2012-12-31
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 372
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466626881
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E Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety Exploring Organizational Factors Excerpt :

Advancements in technology regularly influence the healthcare field and developing aspects on medical patient safety. Implementing electronic health records, decision support systems, and computerized physician order entry systems reduces risk in the potential for e-health to make errors leading to adverse events. E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors presents an overview on information and communication technologies and addresses the impacts on the field of both patient safety and e-health. This book offers insightful perspectives and concentrated research on concepts related to these areas, as well as issues and current trends in patient safety in e-health.

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application Book

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application

  • Author : Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2016-12-12
  • Genre: Computers
  • Pages : 671
  • ISBN 10 : 9781522517863
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Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application Excerpt :

The communication field is evolving rapidly in order to keep up with society’s demands. As such, it becomes imperative to research and report recent advancements in computational intelligence as it applies to communication networks. The Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application is a pivotal reference source for the latest developments on emerging data communication applications. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as satellite communication, cognitive radio networks, and wireless sensor networks, this book is ideally designed for engineers, professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, and academics seeking current information on emerging communication networking trends.

Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management Book

Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management

  • Author : Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2016-08-23
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 825
  • ISBN 10 : 9781522509219
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Effective healthcare delivery is a vital concern for citizens and communities across the globe. The numerous facets of this industry require constant re-evaluation and optimization of management techniques. The Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on emerging strategies and methods for delivering optimal healthcare opportunities and solutions. Highlighting issues relating to decision making, process optimization, and technological applications, this book is ideally designed for policy makers, administrators, students, professionals, and researchers interested in achieving superior healthcare solutions.

Crossing the Quality Chasm Book

Crossing the Quality Chasm

  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 2001-08-19
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 360
  • ISBN 10 : 9780309072809
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Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

E Health and Telemedicine Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications Book

E Health and Telemedicine Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications

  • Author : Management Association, Information Resources
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2015-09-23
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 1759
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466687578
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E Health and Telemedicine Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications Excerpt :

Advances in medical technology increase both the efficacy and efficiency of medical practice, and mobile technologies enable modern doctors and nurses to treat patients remotely from anywhere in the world. This technology raises issues of quality of care and medical ethics, which must be addressed. E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores recent advances in mobile medicine and how this technology impacts modern medical care. Three volumes of comprehensive coverage on crucial topics in wireless technologies for enhanced medical care make this multi-volume publication a critical reference source for doctors, nurse practitioners, hospital administrators, and researchers and academics in all areas of the medical field. This seminal publication features comprehensive chapters on all aspects of e-health and telemedicine, including implementation strategies; use cases in cardiology, infectious diseases, and cytology, among others; care of individuals with autism spectrum disorders; and medical image analysis.

Research Anthology on Decision Support Systems and Decision Management in Healthcare Business and Engineering Book

Research Anthology on Decision Support Systems and Decision Management in Healthcare Business and Engineering

  • Author : Management Association, Information Resources
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2021-05-28
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 1538
  • ISBN 10 : 9781799890249
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Decision support systems (DSS) are widely touted for their effectiveness in aiding decision making, particularly across a wide and diverse range of industries including healthcare, business, and engineering applications. The concepts, principles, and theories of enhanced decision making are essential points of research as well as the exact methods, tools, and technologies being implemented in these industries. From both a standpoint of DSS interfaces, namely the design and development of these technologies, along with the implementations, including experiences and utilization of these tools, one can get a better sense of how exactly DSS has changed the face of decision making and management in multi-industry applications. Furthermore, the evaluation of the impact of these technologies is essential in moving forward in the future. The Research Anthology on Decision Support Systems and Decision Management in Healthcare, Business, and Engineering explores how decision support systems have been developed and implemented across diverse industries through perspectives on the technology, the utilizations of these tools, and from a decision management standpoint. The chapters will cover not only the interfaces, implementations, and functionality of these tools, but also the overall impacts they have had on the specific industries mentioned. This book also evaluates the effectiveness along with benefits and challenges of using DSS as well as the outlook for the future. This book is ideal for decision makers, IT consultants and specialists, software developers, design professionals, academicians, policymakers, researchers, professionals, and students interested in how DSS is being used in different industries.

Healthcare Informatics and Analytics Emerging Issues and Trends Book

Healthcare Informatics and Analytics Emerging Issues and Trends

  • Author : Tavana, Madjid
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2014-07-31
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 325
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466663176
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Healthcare practices have been enhanced through the use of information technologies and analytical methods. A cross between computer science, healthcare, and information science is needed for the optimization of data resources and information systems within the healthcare industry. Healthcare Informatics and Analytics: Emerging Issues and Trends introduces the latest research concerning the innovative implementation of information technology and data analysis in the healthcare field. Highlighting current concerns and recent advances in patient care and healthcare delivery, this book is a comprehensive reference source for academics, researchers, medical students, and healthcare practitioners interested in the application of information science within the health sector.

Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics Book
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Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics

  • Author : Dash, Sujata
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2016-06-20
  • Genre: Computers
  • Pages : 514
  • ISBN 10 : 9781522504283
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Developments in the areas of biology and bioinformatics are continuously evolving and creating a plethora of data that needs to be analyzed and decrypted. Since it can be difficult to decipher the multitudes of data within these areas, new computational techniques and tools are being employed to assist researchers in their findings. The Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics examines emergent research in handling real-world problems through the application of various computation technologies and techniques. Featuring theoretical concepts and best practices in the areas of computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, big data, and bio-inspired computing, this publication is a critical reference source for graduate students, professionals, academics, and researchers.

Healthcare Administration Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications Book

Healthcare Administration Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications

  • Author : Management Association, Information Resources
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2014-08-31
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 1586
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466663404
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As information systems become ever more pervasive in an increasing number of fields and professions, workers in healthcare and medicine must take into consideration new advances in technologies and infrastructure that will better enable them to treat their patients and serve their communities. Healthcare Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications brings together recent research and case studies in the medical field to explore topics such as hospital management, delivery of patient care, and telemedicine, among others. With a focus on some of the most groundbreaking new developments as well as future trends and critical concerns, this three-volume reference source will be a significant tool for medical practitioners, hospital managers, IT administrators, and others actively engaged in the healthcare field.

Digitalisation Innovation and Transformation Book

Digitalisation Innovation and Transformation

  • Author : Kecheng Liu
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release Date : 2018-07-05
  • Genre: Computers
  • Pages : 322
  • ISBN 10 : 9783319945415
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, held in Reading, UK, in July 2018. The 30 full papers and 4 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and application; digital business ecosystems and value networks; socially aware knowledge engineering; and business intelligence and analytics.

Healthcare Ethics and Training Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications Book

Healthcare Ethics and Training Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications

  • Author : Management Association, Information Resources
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2017-03-28
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 1512
  • ISBN 10 : 9781522522386
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The application of proper ethical systems and education programs is a vital concern in the medical industry. When healthcare professionals are held to the highest moral and training standards, patient care is improved. Healthcare Ethics and Training: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive source of academic research material on methods and techniques for implementing ethical standards and effective education initiatives in clinical settings. Highlighting pivotal perspectives on topics such as e-health, organizational behavior, and patient rights, this multi-volume work is ideally designed for practitioners, upper-level students, professionals, researchers, and academics interested in the latest developments within the healthcare industry.

Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine Book

Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine

  • Author : Lazakidou, Athina A.
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2006-06-30
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 479
  • ISBN 10 : 9781591409830
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Describes and analyzes recent breakthroughs in healthcare and biomedicine providing comprehensive coverage and definitions of important issues, concepts, new trends and advanced technologies.

Embracing Complexity in Health Book

Embracing Complexity in Health

  • Author : Joachim P. Sturmberg
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release Date : 2019-05-16
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 335
  • ISBN 10 : 9783030109400
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This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization. Researchers highlight the fresh perspectives and novel approaches offered by these interdisciplinary fields in addressing the complexities of global, national, and community health challenges in the 21st century. With the implications that these emerging fields hold for health still relatively underexplored, researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, including physiological, social, environmental, clinical, prevention, educational, organizational, finance, and policy domains, aim in this book to suggest future directions in health care and highlight recent advances in basic and clinical physiology, education, policy-making, and leadership. Among the topics discussed: Impact of genomic heterogeneity on bio-emergent properties Harnessing Big Data to improve health services Decision-making of women in violent relationships Co-producing healthcare interventions A socio-ecological solution to physician burnout Embracing Complexity in Health: The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy is a highly relevant resource to practitioners in the field, students, instructors, and policy makers, and also should find an engaged audience among health and disease researchers, healthcare planners, health system financiers, health system administrators, health services administrators, health professional educators, and other health professionals. The trans- and interdisciplinary natures of health and health care are fostering a broad discourse amongst all concerned with improving patient care in an equitable and sustainable way.

Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems Standards Management and Technology Book

Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems Standards Management and Technology

  • Author : Sicilia, Miguel Ángel
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release Date : 2013-06-30
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 318
  • ISBN 10 : 9781466630017
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Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems Standards Management and Technology Excerpt :

Although the standards in electronic health records and general healthcare services continue to evolve, many organizations push to connect interoperability with public service and basic citizenship rights. This poses significant technical and organizational challenges that are the focus of many research and standardization efforts. Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems: Standards, Management and Technology provides a comprehensive collection on the overview of electronic health records and health services interoperability and the different aspects representing its outlook in a framework that is useful for practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers.