Full Description
In recent years, unprecedented demographic aging has placed considerable strain on outdated healthcare systems, exacerbating existing challenges and creating new ones. Geriatric care, in particular, necessitates a multidisciplinary approach involving architects and engineers alongside healthcare professionals. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital healthcare, nanotechnology, and additive manufacturing offer promising avenues for systematic improvements in healthcare delivery. Transforming Healthcare Infrastructure addresses the issues of demographic aging and embracing digital transformations such as artificial intelligence and offers timely insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare. It also emphasizes the necessity for all stakeholders to embrace these changes for the betterment of healthcare delivery and outcomes. This book serves as a definitive resource for healthcare professionals at all levels, from frontline workers to administrators, as well as researchers and students across various disciplines. Engineers, policymakers, architects, and environmentalists within the healthcare sector will also find it indispensable.
Features:
Offers timely insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare.
Explores emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, and additive manufacturing used for healthcare solutions.
Emphasizes the necessity for all stakeholders to embrace these changes for the betterment of healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Contents
1. In the Trenches: Current Challenges in Healthcare Delivery. 2. Healthcare Innovation as a Complex Adaptive System. 3. Innovation in Healthcare: Perspectives from Organizational, Societal, and Technological Dimensions. 4. Recent Initiatives in Revamping Healthcare Policies and Programmes in India: A Review of Progress and Challenges. 5. Examining the Inclusivity of India's National Urban Transport Policy for Senior Citizens. 6. Increasing Burden of Non‑Communicable Disease on Health Systems in Aging Populations and Possible Approaches to Lessen the Burden. 7. New Option for the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation? 8. Elevating Wellness: Integrating Health, Sustainability, and Urban Vitality in Tall Building Design. 9. Replacing Harmful Plastics with Biodegradable Alternatives: Innovations and Applications in Healthcare. 10. Circular Sustainable Electronics from Design and Manufacturing to Business Models. 11. Analyzing the Healthcare Performances of EU Countries via Decision Method
