Progress in ubiquitous computing, social networking, medical informatics and IT technologies has resulted in a new generation of healthcare systems. This book provides insight into the various trends, innovations, and organizational challenges of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical...

"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the main components of a GIS, how important...

"[This book] is an essential reference publication for the latest material on the nature, process, and outcome of migrant entrepreneurs' economic activities expanding from their countries of origin to their countries of residence. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as regional...

The studies in this book use non-traditional, exploratory data analysis and data mining tools to examine health outcomes, finding patterns and trends in observational data. This book is ideal for the next generation of data mining practitioners--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses the benefits that can be gained from the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic areas, particularly providing a regional focus on the Southern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Arab economies"--Provided by publisher.

Healthcare systems are now experiencing a variety of challenges with the integration of mobile and ubiquitous technology. This book provides an international perspective on the benefits of mobile health technology and describes examples and applications implemented in global healthcare. This...

My click is my bond: the role of contracts, social proof, and gamification for sysops to reduce pseudo-activism and internet trolling / Jonathan Bishop -- Cognitive load and empathy in serious games: a conceptual framework / Wen-Hao David Huang, Sharon Y. Tettegah -- What's in a game?: the...

"This book explores biomedical instrumentation, biosignal processing and device development. It employs IoT based technologies in improving the healthcare facilities. It explores versatile applications of electronics, instrumentation and signal processing techniques in biomedical engineering,...

"This book explores how the use of mobile devices by health care professionals (HCPs) has transformed many aspects of clinical practice. It also explores how mobile devices and apps provide many benefits for HCPs, perhaps most significantly increased access to point-of-care tools, which has been...

"This book focuses on the philosophy, theory and application components of this salad bowl information system to help discover value-based healthcare which is all about maximum quality of care at minimum cost. It defines a new meaning for the value-based healthcare as more of a clinical value...