Using Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare

Using Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare
Author: Stuart Tyrrell
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781857754698

Healthcare professionals are required to use an increasing range of technologies in everyday healthcare. This jargon-free text presents a comprehensive, practical guide including topics on hardware, software, databases, security and local area networks (LANs).

Theorizing Surveillance

Theorizing Surveillance
Author: David Lyon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2006-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134023596

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Using the Internet in Healthcare

Using the Internet in Healthcare
Author: Stuart Tyrrell
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: Internet in medicine
ISBN: 9781857759976

Explaining each aspect of the Internet in a straightforward way, this text gives practical advice on how the Internet can aid doctors, nurses and managers in their daily work. With information for every level of understanding, this second edition reflects changes in the fast-moving field.

Vision and Value in Health Information

Vision and Value in Health Information
Author: Rigby Michael
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315344688

Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK. It comprises a collection of key essays from eminent contributors on the innovative use and development of information in health care.

Health Law and the European Union

Health Law and the European Union
Author: Tamara K. Hervey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2004-11-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139455354

How does the law of the European Union affect health law and policy? At first sight, it seems limited. However, despite its restricted formal competence, the EU has recently become increasingly involved in the health field. Litigation based on EU law has resulted in a 'right to receive health care services' across national boundaries which may have huge practical implications for national health systems. The EU has promulgated legislation regulating clinical research, and the marketing of pharmaceuticals; patients' rights are affected by EU legislation on data protection and product liability; the qualifications of health care professionals are legally recognised across the EU; and the EU has acted to promote public health. This book explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy. Through elaboration of selected examples, the authors show that, within the EU, health law cannot be regarded as a purely national affair.

Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Author: N. Oudshoorn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230348963

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients? What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What actually happens when homes become electronically wired to healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are, however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare. Drawing on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new technologies in healthcare. Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated. This book intervenes critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter in care at a distance.

Quality in General Practice

Quality in General Practice
Author: Katherine Birch
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1315348438

The recent shifts in power, resources, influence and responsibility in primary care has increased the strain on general practice. This book is a comprehensive guide to the wide range of quality schemes available. It is unique in examining quality within the context of current practice, and it discusses future options based on new examples and research. It outlines the development of clinical governance, strategies for managing and assessing quality, continuing professional development, Department of Health policy initiatives and future trends.

Creating Value for All Through IT

Creating Value for All Through IT
Author: Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662434598

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference "Creating Value for All Through IT" on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in June 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 5 research-in-progress papers, 2 experience reports and a panel were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The full papers are organized in the following topical sections: creating value; creating value through software development; and creating value through applications.

E-Health

E-Health
Author: I. Iakovidis
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1607501031

This publication provides health ministers and the public sector in general with validated information on which key implementation decisions concerning e-health may be made. An import issue discussed here is the reinforcement of the implementation and deployment of e-health systems by European health service providers. e-Health systems and services are looked at from a user perspective; the citizen, the patient, the healthcare professional, the hospital manager and the pubic health authority. This volume consists of the following sections: national and regional health information networks; e-health systems and services for health professionals; empowering patients and citizens in management for public health; and industrial and standardization issues.