Mhealth Multidisciplinary Verticals

ISBN-13: 9781482214802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 754 str.

Sasan Adibi

Opis

An in-depth overview of the emerging concept; Mobile Health (mHealth), mHealth Multidisciplinary Verticals links applications and technologies to key market and vendor players. It also highlights interdependencies and synergies between various stakeholders which drive the research forces behind mHealth. The book explores the trends and directions where this vertical market is headed. Divided into nine sections, the book covers a number of multidisciplinary verticals within the field of mHealth such as:

• Preventive and curative medicine
• Consumer and patient-centric approaches
• Psychological, behavioral, and mental verticals
• Social perspectives
• Education, adoption, and acceptance
• Aged care and the aging population
• Regional, geographical, and public-health perspectives
• Technology implications
• Cloud applications

The book collates emerging and diverse mHealth applications into a single resource. The result of extensive research, the book is a collaborative effort between experts from more than 20 countries, who have been carefully reviewed and selected by the team of reviewers. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to health informatics and provides a roadmap to current and future directions of mHealth.

Spis treści

mHealth Business Perspective. mHealth Market Players. mHealth Cloud Computing. mHealth Regional and Geographical Influences. mHealth and Public Health. mHealth Standards and Regulations. mHealth and Governments and Non-Profit Organizations. mHealth Social Perspectives. Legal and Liability Issues in mHealth. mHealth and Psychology. Political aspects of mHealth.

O autorze

Sasan Adibi