Investing in E-Health: People, Knowledge and Technology for a Healthy Future

Selected Papers from the 22nd Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2014)

• Author(s): H. Grain, F. Martin-Sanchez, L.K. Schaper,
• Publisher: IOS Press
• Pages: 200
• ISBN_10: 1614994277
  ISBN_13: 9781614994275
  
• Language: en
• Categories: HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism , HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference , MEDICAL / Family & General Practice , MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine , Medical / Public Health , MEDICAL / Osteopathy , MEDICAL / Atlases , MEDICAL / Essays ,

Description:... As healthcare organisations and governments look to information technology to capitalise and enhance healthcare, the need for effective investment to update existing technology and provide cost-effective infrastructure for the future becomes clear. The issues of defining success and understanding opportunities are crucial to planning optimum investment and the best use of scarce resources. This book presents papers from the Australian Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2014), held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2014. With the theme of investing in e-health: people, knowledge and technology for a healthy future, the papers delivered at the conference and included here address the issues of building a future-focused, scalable and adaptable infrastructure and of training the healthcare workforce necessary to support it. Subjects covered include: user participation in ICT development for older adults; interactive patient websites; application areas of multi-user virtual environments in the healthcare context; as well as governance, training and assessing the quality of data in public health information systems. The book will be of interest to all those policy makers and practitioners involved in the planning and implementation of information technology projects as part of the healthcare system.