Overview
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the subject
- Covers micro- and macroeconomics, technical issues, health policy, and the role of the different stakeholders
- Explains how to avoid the technical failures of eHealth systems proposed in the past ?
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The debate over eHealth is alive as never before. Supporters suggest that it will result in dramatic innovations in healthcare, including a giant leap towards patient-centered care, new opportunities to improve effectiveness, and enhanced wellness and quality of life. In addition, the growing market value of investments in health IT suggests that eHealth can offer at least a partial cure for the current economic stagnation. Detractors counter these arguments by claiming that eHealth has already failed: the UK Department of Health has shut down the NHS National Program for IT, Google has discontinued its Health flagship, and doubts have arisen over privacy safeguards for both patients and medical professionals. This book briefly explains why caregivers, professionals, technicians, patients, politicians, and others should all consider themselves stakeholders in eHealth. It offers myth-busting responses to some ill-considered arguments from both sides of the trench, in the process allowing a fresh look at eHealth. In addition, it describes how the technical failures of previous eHealth systems can be avoided, examines the legal basis of eHealth, and discusses associated ethical issues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: eHealth, Care and Quality of Life
Editors: Antonio Gaddi, Fabio Capello, Marco Manca
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5253-6
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5252-9Published: 30 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-3925-4Published: 01 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5253-6Published: 19 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 220
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Informatics, Communications Engineering, Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), European Integration, Interaction Design