Healthcare and the Effect of Technology: Developments, Challenges and Advancements (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615207333 ISBN 13: 9781615207336

Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference, 2010

Synopsis

Healthcare is significantly affected by technological advancements, as technology both shapes and changes health systems locally and globally. As areas of computer science, information technology, and healthcare merge, it is important to understand the current and future implications of health informatics.

Healthcare and the Effect of Technology: Developments, Challenges and Advancements bridges the gap between todays empirical research findings and healthcare practice. It provides the reader with information on current technological integrations, potential uses for technology in healthcare, and the implicationsboth positive and negativeof health informatics for ones health. Technology in healthcare can improve efficiency, make patient records more accessible, increase professional communication, create global health networking, and increase access to healthcare. However, it is important to consider the ethical, confidential, and cultural implications technology in healthcare may impose. That is what makes this book is a must-read for policymakers, human resource professionals, management personnel, as well as for researchers, scholars, students, and healthcare professionals.

About this title

About the Author:

Stefane M. Kabene, MPs, PhD, is a Professor in the Institute of Management, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, in Rennes France. His primary interests are in healthcare, information and communication technology and human resources for health. His focus is in management and leadership in public health and healthcare settings, inter professional collaborative practice, knowledge transfer, quality of care and patient involvement in clinical decision making. The future of health care lies in health professionals' capacity and willingness to develop new ways of working together for the benefit of the patient. Knowledge and power sharing, role valuing, use of information and communication technology and patients participation in decision making are only a few of the variables we need to better understand. Dr. Kabene is also interested by global management issues in health, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa and comparative management strategies and methods between countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1615207333
• ISBN 13: 9781615207336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Kabene Stéfane M