Using Foucault to Understand Self-Monitoring in Chronic Disease Management
AbstractIn today’s twenty-first century healthcare environment, the interaction of patients with information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a particularly interesting dynamic to researchers...
View ArticleThe Enabling Role for Technology in the Support of Care Coordination in...
AbstractEspecially in a value-based healthcare environment, there is increasing pressure to deliver efficient and effective care. To do so necessitates focus on care coordination. Technology is an...
View ArticleIntelligent Risk Detection in Health Care: Integrating Social and Technical...
AbstractThe rapid increase of service demands in healthcare contexts today has reignited the importance of a robust risk assessment framework supported by real-time service handling in order to ensure...
View ArticleTowards a Medical Tricorder: A 3D Map to Categorise Diseases for Self-Care...
AbstractTo address lifestyle-related cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders, self-care actions of the patient are needed. This chapter shows how mobile technology can support patients to take...
View ArticleDetermining Missing Key Elements in Oncology Information System to Improve...
AbstractCancer (malignant neoplasms/tumours) is a generic term used for a collection of diseases occurring in different parts of the human body, mainly starting from one organ (primary site) and then...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of the Point-of-Care (PoC) System Implementation and Adoption...
AbstractSuccessful adoption and implementation of HIS has been the subject of extensive research as can be evidenced by the large body of research literature on this topic. However, the effect of...
View ArticleAddressing Data Accuracy and Information Integrity in mHealth Solutions Using...
AbstractToday, much of the healthcare delivery is done digitally. In particular, there exists a plethora of mHealth solutions being developed. This in turn necessitates the need for accurate data and...
View ArticleOpportunities for Using Blockchain Technology in e-Health: e-Prescribing in...
AbstractHealthcare has been a noted laggard when it comes to adopting technology solutions; however, this time lag appears to be decreasing more recently, in particular, when we look at blockchain...
View ArticlePrecision Wellness: An Optimization Model
AbstractToday, the terms precision health, precision medicine, and even precision wellness are peppering the literature and discourse around the agendas of providing better health and wellness to a...
View ArticleTowards a Better Life for Diabetic Patients: Developing and Integrating a...
AbstractThis paper focuses on the design and development of a non-invasive smart and pervasive mobile solution to measure blood glucose without the need for drawing blood or pricking fingers....
View ArticleConverting Disability into Ability Using IT/IS and Smart Textiles
AbstractThis chapter focuses on utilizing IT (information technology)/IS (information system) and smart textiles to empower individuals suffering from physical disability due to neuron/nerve damage in...
View ArticleThe Australian PCEHR or My Health Record: The Journey Around a Large-Scale...
AbstractThis case study attempts to document key events and milestones in the development of Australia’s nationwide digital health solution the My Health Record (formerly known as the PCEHR). This is...
View ArticleEnabling Value-Based Health Care with Business Analytics and Intelligence
AbstractHealthcare is one of the most data-rich and data-generating industries. Yet, these data tend to be discontinuous, incomplete, lacking standardization, as well as erroneous and unusable....
View ArticleUsing Knowledge Management to Develop Superior Online Health Decision Support...
AbstractToday, in healthcare, many online solutions are being designed and developed; however many of these fall short of delivering a superior care experience. The following investigates the benefits...
View ArticleA Mobile Nursing Solution
AbstractIn recent years, the serious consequences of medical error are realized by both healthcare practitioners and the public because of the critical direct injury towards the involved patients and...
View ArticleUsing Responsive Web Design to Enhance the User Experience of Chronic Disease...
AbstractChronic diseases are a major burden on health and welfare services both globally and in Australia. They are complex and often require advanced management. More recently, technology solutions...
View ArticleA Review of Mixed Reality in Health Care
AbstractMixed reality (MR) give users a virtual three-dimensional representation of real objects embedded into the physical surroundings. Microsoft HoloLens and Google Glass are examples of MR devices...
View ArticleData, Denial, and Disparity: Is This a New Digital Divide?
AbstractTo address escalating healthcare costs in the USA, many are advocating incorporating a value-based system for healthcare delivery including bundled payments for services. However, this approach...
View ArticleLeveraging the IoT to Enable the Guided Self-Determination Method
AbstractToday, chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity and cancer and mental health are dominating the healthcare agendas of most, if not all, OECD countries and many developing countries. The...
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