Overview
- Introduces the foundations of consumer health informatics
- Examines the field of consumer health informatics from a socio-technical perspective?
- Offers guidance and materials to instructors, including PowerPoint slides, answers to chapter questions, and answers to mini-case questions
Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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About this book
This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities.
Included in the coverage:- Use of video technology in an aged care environment
- A context-awareremote health monitoring service for improved patient care
- Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician’s perspective
- Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings
- An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions
- An ontology of consumer health informatics
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Indrit Troshani is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Adelaide Business School in Australia. He holds a PhD from Edith Cowan University (Western Australia) and an MSc (Sunderland, UK). His research interests include adoption and diffusion of network innovations and mobile services in the healthcare and financial services industries. His work has been published in several journals including Information Technology & People, ElectronicMarkets, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Industrial Management & Data Systems.
Prof. Joseph Tan specialises in innovative design, implementation, and diffusion of advancing e-technology to improve health services delivery system efficiencies and effectiveness. His research interests cut across multiple disciplines, with emphasis on the application of strategic e-business and e-health models to improve health systems operational efficiencies, individual or group decision effectiveness, and community health behaviours. He teaches health IT project management and special topics in e-health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics
Editors: Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani, Joseph Tan
Series Title: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25971-0Published: 29 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79868-4Published: 24 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25973-4Published: 21 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2191-5946
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5954
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 465
Number of Illustrations: 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Public Health, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems