Recent developments in e-health have enhanced the healthcare industry as well as expanded the role of medical informatics. These emerging innovations have not only given patients the opportunity for quality of life improvement, but also opened the door to health communication exploration. This...

"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...

"This book offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents an overview of information and communication technologies and their impact on the field of both patient safety and e-health and highlights a better understanding of their interaction"--Provided by publisher.

Doing and understanding: use of case studies for health informatics education and training / Cynthia LeRouge ... [et al.] -- Individual, organizational, and technological barriers to EHR implementation / Matthew J. Wills -- One system of care, one electronic chart / Jennifer Gholson, Heidi...

Insights into the search behavior of non-medical professionals based on task difficulty and an evaluation against new generation medical information retrieval strategies / Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Pervaiz K. Ahmed -- Indicating fields of inequalities regarding the access to health...

Advances in information technology have brought about a revolution in healthcare, enabling medical personnel to have round-the-clock access to clinical data regardless of geographic location. This handbook provides researchers, educators, students, and industry practitioners with new research,...

A comprehensive overview of wireless body area networks (WBAN) / Nourchene Bradai, Lamia Chaari, Lotfi Kamoun -- An advanced and secure Symbian-based mobile approach for body sensor networks interaction / Orlando R. E. Pereira, João M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues -- Pervasive...