In today’s evolving digital landscape, health organizations face responsibilities in delivering care while ensuring ethical, transparent, and informed use of technology. Creating responsible inquiring digital health organizations means building systems that prioritize data integrity, patient privacy, equitable access, and continuous learning through critical inquiry. As AI, telemedicine, and digital records reshape healthcare, it is essential for organizations to foster a culture of accoun...

Experience the forefront of healthcare innovation the essential volume edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe of La Trobe University. In today’s field of healthcare, the demand for high-quality care, accessible to all, has never been more pressing. However, traditional models struggle to meet these demands, leaving gaps in delivery and outcomes. The solution lies in harnessing the power of digital technologies to revolutionize healthcare delivery. Impact of Digital Solutions for Improved Healthc...

Healthcare is noted for using leading-edge technologies and embracing new scientific discoveries to enable better cures for diseases and better means to enable early detection of most life-threatening diseases. However, the healthcare industry globally, and in the US specifically, has been extremely slow to adopt technologies that focus on better practice management and administrative needs. Presently, healthcare is grappling with many challenges both nationally and globally, including esc...

This title demystifies artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, upskilling individuals (healthcare professionals, hospital managers, consultants, researchers, students, and the population at large) around analytics and AI as it applies to healthcare.This book shows how the tools, techniques, technologies, and tactics around analytics and AI can be best leveraged and utilised to realise a healthcare value proposition of better quality, better access and high value for everyone eve...

A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. Anunexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking.Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, mana...

Healthcare systems globally are grappling with how best to implement effective and efficient patient-centred care while simultaneously trying to contain runaway costs and provide high quality. This book explores the essential enabling role of digital health, taking a socio-technical perspective and looking at the key facets of technology, people and process in turn.This book examines the opportunities of key digital health components, demystifying digital health and demonstrating h...

This book centres on the topic of digital twins for superior healthcare decision support, as access is enabled to large volumes of multi-dimensional data such as patient’s electronic medical records, medical scans, and data. The reader learns about the possibility of a digital representation of analogous clinical cases built from data-driven models to represent and present relevant information and germane knowledge in context.Together with cutting-edge technologies, the authors sha...

Healthcare delivery today is plagued with numerous challenges such as escalating costs, an aging population with a longer life expectancy, rapid increases in chronic conditions, and more. To address this and deliver a healthcare value proposition of better quality, access, and value to all, it is vital to look to advances in digital solutions. Rapid advances in technology enable the possibility of delivering tailored, personalized, and precise care. This leads to ensuring optimal clinical ...

Effective healthcare delivery is a vital concern for citizens and communities across the globe. The numerous facets of this industry require constant re-evaluation and optimization of management techniques. The Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on emerging strategies and methods for delivering optimal healthcare opportunities and solutions. Highlighting issues relating to decision making, process...

Responsible analytics in healthcare achieves superior health quality outcomes by ensuring data-driven decisions are ethical, transparent, and patient-centered. As healthcare systems rely on big data, AI, and predictive modeling, the importance of responsible data governance, bias mitigation, and privacy protection has become critical. Responsible analytics involves accountability in data collection, interpretation, and application in clinical and operational decisions. By promoting ethical...

This in-depth book addresses a key void in the literature surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and health. By systematically evaluating the benefits of mobile, wireless, and sensor-based IoT technologies when used in health and wellness contexts, the book sheds light on the next frontier for healthcare delivery. These technologies generate data with significant potential to enable superior care delivery, self-empowerment, and wellness management. Collecting valuable insights and recomm...

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Women Researchers in Electronics and Computing (WREC 2023). The content discusses novel contributions and the latest developments in signal/image processing, VLSI design, futuristic communication, and computational technologies. The contents include papers on signal processing for communications & networking, machine learning and deep learning for signal processing, human-computer interface, 5G/6G wireless ...