Advancing Medical Practice through Technology: Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality

Advancing Medical Practice through Technology: Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality

Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 361

ISBN13: 9781466646193|ISBN10: 1466646195|EISBN13: 9781466646209

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4619-3

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Medical practitioners are continuing to advance their knowledge of the latest technologies in order to keep up with the opportunities for faster and more reliable treatments for patients.

Advancing Medical Practice through Technology: Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality focuses on the latest medical practices through the utilization of technologies and innovative concepts. This book is an essential reference source for researchers, academics, and industry professionals interested in the latest advancements in the healthcare, biomedicine, and medical communications fields.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (AHISA) Book Series

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Insights into the Search Behavior of Non-Medical Professionals Based on Task Difficulty and an Evaluation against New Generation Medical Information Retrieval Strategies (pages 1-26)

Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Pervaiz K. Ahmed

Medical information searching is amongst the most common type of search performed on the Internet. The accessibility and availability of publicly available medical domains has made medical domains a popular destination to perform...

Chapter 2

Indicating Fields of Inequalities Regarding the Access to Health Benefits: Summary of Watch Health Care Foundation's Three-Year Activity (pages 27-41)

Krzysztof Landa, Karolina Skora, Iwona Zaczyk

Restrictions to health services in Poland inspired the establishment of the Watch Health Care Foundation (WHC). The fundamental disease of the system is the disproportion between the amount of the funds and the contents of the...

Chapter 3

Health Care Reform Requires IT Solutions to Influence Consumer Perception at a Health Care Payer (pages 42-52)

Rahul Bhaskar, Au Vo

Recent health care reform is one of the biggest changes that the health care industry has ever faced. This reform represents paradigm changing opportunities and challenges for the company providing health insurance in a managed care...

Chapter 4

Doing the Right Things Right or the Wrong Things Well: How Healthcare Searches for the Wisdom to Know the Difference (pages 53-65)

Vahé A. Kazandjian

The measurement and evaluation of healthcare services’ quality is faced with the challenge of describing its appropriateness. Is the right service rendered for the specific disease? Or do our measures quantify the efficiency of...

Chapter 5

A Cognitive Machine-Learning System to Discover Syndromes in Erythemato-Squamous Diseases (pages 66-101)

Francesco Gagliardi

A syndrome is a set of typical clinical features that appear together often enough to suggest they may represent a single, as yet unknown, disease. The discovery of syndromes and relative taxonomy formation is the critical early...

Chapter 6

E-Collaboration in Biomedical Research: Human Factors and Social Media (pages 102-120)

Kathleen Gray, Fernando Martin Sanchez, Gabrielle Bright, Ardis Cheng

There are compelling arguments for using emerging Web technologies to facilitate research in the biomedical sciences. This chapter reviews current research and current technologies for e-collaboration in biomedical research. This...

Chapter 7

Migrant Women: Implications for Policy Development of Effective User-Driven Health Care (pages 121-135)

Jane Fitzpatrick

Women across the world migrate for a wide range of reasons. Some gravitate to towns and cities in their own countries seeking safety, education, health care, and employment opportunities. Others cross international boundaries...

Chapter 8

Diffusion of Innovations: A Foundational Theory for Medical Informatics Research (pages 136-153)

Fred K. Weigel, Benjamin T. Hazen

In this chapter, the authors discuss the use of diffusion of innovations as a foundational theory for research in the medical informatics discipline. They performed a meta-analysis to examine the enduring efficacy of the tenets of...

Chapter 9

A New Space for Biotechnology Innovation?: Comparison of Physical and Virtual Collaboration in Early Drug Discovery1 (pages 154-177)

David Tamoschus

New technological opportunities and online communication constantly gain importance for knowledge integration and knowledge creation in any innovation-driven environment. The cooperation between firms and individual actors in...

Chapter 10

Modeling the Diffusion of Psychological Stress (pages 178-204)

Pietro Cipresso, Silvia Serino, Andrea Gaggioli, Giuseppe Riva

Stress reduces quality of life and causes many diseases. Nevertheless, it is not completely clear whether stress transmission may involve acquaintances and other people in addition to lovers, friends, and relatives. More generally...

Chapter 11

Cloud Bioinformatics in a Private Cloud Deployment (pages 205-220)

Victor Chang

This chapter describes service portability for a private cloud deployment, including a detailed case study about Cloud Bioinformatics services developed as part of the Cloud Computing Adoption Framework (CCAF). The Cloud...

Chapter 12

Application of the Cloud Computing for the Effective Implementation of the Medical Information System (pages 221-237)

Ekaterina Kldiashvili

The field of healthcare informatics is rapidly evolving. The new models and protocols of Medical Information System (MIS) are developed. Despite obvious advantages and benefits, practical application of MIS in everyday practice is...

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