Maximizing Healthcare Delivery and Management through Technology Integration: 9781466694460: Medicine & Healthcare Books

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ISBN13: 9781466694460

EISBN13: 9781466694477

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9446-0

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Improvements in health services require continual attention and dedication to ensure proper care and treatment for citizens. To support this endeavor, professionals rely more and more on the application of information systems and technologies to promote the overall quality of modern healthcare.

Maximizing Healthcare Delivery and Management through Technology Integration is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the integration of ICT within the health services sector. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a range of topics from technical and non-technical perspectives, this book is an essential reference source for IT specialists, professionals, managers, and students seeking current research on the growing relationship between technology and healthcare.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Data Acquisitions and Measurement
Decision Support Systems
Emergency Department Information Systems
Hospital Information Systems
Intelligent Risk Detection
Mobile Devices
Rabies Surveillance Systems
RFID Technology

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The 17 chapters in this volume examine the integration of information and communication technologies in healthcare. Computer science and medical researchers from around the world discuss intelligent risk detection in hip and knee arthroplasty and pediatric congenital heart disease; the management of different types of knowledge in the healthcare environment; the use of non-invasive data acquisition and measurement; the mobility of healthcare services for nomadic people; the role of information systems and technology in the treatment of ADHD in university students; radiofrequency identification technology in a hospital; and more.

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Tiko Iyamu holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, Iyamu is Research Professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa. Previously, he was with the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, and Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia. Iyamu served as a Professor Extraordinaire at the Department of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape, from 2006 to 2015. In 2014, he was a visiting Professor at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Professor Iyamu’s areas of focus include enterprise architecture, health informatics, big data analytics, and mobile computing. In addition, he has keen interest in the application of sociotechnical theories, such as actor-network theory, structuration theory, and diffusion of innovation in information systems research. He has authored 6 books, and over 150 peer-reviewed research articles in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.

Arthur Tatnall is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. In his PhD he used actor-network theory to investigate adoption of Visual Basic in the curriculum of an Australian university. Arthur’s research interests include technological innovation, history of technology, project management, information systems curriculum, information technology in educational management and electronic business. Much of his research is based on the use of actor-network theory. Arthur is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and active in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) as Chair of IFIP WG9.7 – History of Computing, Chair of IFIP WG3.4 – ICT in Professional and Vocational Education and a member of IFIP WG3.7 – Information Technology in Educational Management. He has published widely in journals, books, book chapters and conference proceedings and recently edited the Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications, and Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications for IGI Global. Arthur is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education and Information Technologies and Editor of the Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics.

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