Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between digital technology and healthcare delivery, emphasising sustainable innovation in health services. It explores how digital technologies improve healthcare outcomes, enhance patient and community experiences, and streamline healthcare management, while addressing ethical, philosophical, and policy challenges tied to healthcare digitization.
Examining trends such as telemedicine, AI diagnostics, data security, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the book highlights global case studies, lessons learned, and strategies for integrating these technologies sustainably. It discusses the contextual, economic, and social impacts of digital health, presenting frameworks for their evaluation and improvement.
Advocating for regulatory policies that prioritise privacy, accessibility and enhance responsible initiative, the book calls for collaborative approaches. Aimed at healthcare professionals, policymakers, and academics, this resource provides insights into creating a more efficient and equitable healthcare system, aligning with the broader goals of public health and social justice.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Sustainable Healthcare Processes.- Chapter 2: The Internet of Senses for Healthcare 5.0: Enabling Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges.- Chapter 3: Human-Centred Robotics for Healthcare: Perspectives of Cognitive Ergonomics and Neuroergonomics.- Chapter 4: Towards Human-Centric, Sustainable and Resilient Robot Technologies.- Chapter 5: Digitally Enhancing Care: Innovating Health Journeys for a Sustainable and Human-Centred Future.- Part 2: Trustworthiness and Society.- Chapter 6: Digital Sustainability and Risk Assessment: Towards Integrated and Systemic Approaches.- Chapter 7: Healthcare 5.0 Paradigm Shift: Empowered Patients & Democratisation of Healthcare.- Chapter 8: Trustworthy AI with Community Learning and Living Labs.- Chapter 9: Healthcare in the AI Age: Considerations from an Operational Excellence Perspective.- Part 3: Organisational Management and Regulatory Scenarios.- Chapter 10: A Sustainable Prosperity for the Healthcare System.- Chapter 11: Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics: New Tools for the Management and Care of Patients.- Chapter 12: Human Factors Engineering Methods for Engaging End Users in the Co-Design of Healthcare 5.0 Technologies.- Chapter 13: Electronic Health Data Sharing for Secondary Uses: Opportunities and Concerns.- Chapter 14: Global Challenges in Human-Machine Interaction: The Case of the Digital Healthcare.
