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Strategy for the Future of Health.
Title:
Strategy for the Future of Health.
Author:
Bushko, R.G.
ISBN:
9781607504610
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (428 pages)
Series:
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics ; v.149

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Contents:
Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Future of Health Technology Institute -- Contents -- Goals and Synthesis -- Strategy for the Future of Health: Goal Formation and ITicine -- Health Care Strategy for the Future - General Directions -- Informatics and a Health Care Strategy for the Future - General Directions -- Indistinguishable from Magic: Health and Wellness in a Future of Sufficiently Advanced Technology -- Designing the Future of Healthcare -- Strategies for Positive Outcomes: Can Information Technology Make a Difference in Health in Africa -- Can Consumers Cure Healthcare? -- Strategy for Future of e-Health: Technologically Connected Consumers & Machines -- Using Reality Mining to Improve Public Health and Medicine -- Artificial-Intelligence-Based Hospital-Acquired Infection Control -- Innovations in Connected Health -- Talking About Painful Subjects: Flexibility and Constraints in Patient Interviews -- Adaptive Information Networks in Healthcare: Spontaneous Interoperability -- Towards Intelligent Internet-Roaming Agents for Mining and Inference from Medical Data -- Future of eHealth: Can Consumers Cure Themselves? -- Life Extension Strategy - Longer Lives and New Life Forms -- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. The Science Behind Radical Life Extension - Questions and Answers -- The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences -- Of Mice and Men -- Future Approaches to Organ Regeneration: Microscale Environments, Stem Cell Engineering, and Self-Assembly of Living Tissues -- Links Between Quantum Physics and Thought -- Nano-Strategy - Extending Human Potential with Nanomedicine -- Welcome to the Future of Medicine -- Medical Applications of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials -- Diamond Bio Electronics.

Diagnostics for a Personalized Medical Future: Extending Our Senses to the Molecular Scale -- Maintaining Your Health from Within: Controls for Nanorobot Swarms in Fluids -- Fight for Chromallocyte -- Strategy for General Wellness - Emotional and Physical Fitness -- RAGE Control: Regulate and Gain Emotional Control -- Therapeutic Robotics for Children with Disabilities: A Case Study -- Sound of a Hug -- Haptic Medicine -- Future of Obesity Prevention and Treatment -- Biographies of Chapter Authors -- Author Index.
Abstract:
Examines the horizon of ideas and technologies which must be addressed by decision makers involved in health-related resource allocation. This book addresses the technological revolution in healthcare which is manifesting itself in the convergence of molecular biology, computer and medical science, mechanical, genetic and biomedical engineering.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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