Medical and care compunetics 4

SciTech Book News, June, 2008

Medical and care compunetics 4.

Ed. by Lodewijk Bos and Bernd Blobel.

IOS Press

2007

317 pages

$150.00

Hardcover

Studies in health technology and informatics; v.127

R858

These materials from the 2007 conference of the International Council on Medical and Care Computetics (ICMCC) includes keynote addresses, papers, and a draft version of the organization's recommendations to the World Health Organization on record access. Along with electronic health records and record access, general subjects include digital home care, behavioral compunetics and recent paradigm shifts in personal health. Specific topics include creating health care equity in India, development and deployment of a primary healthcare information system, patient-drive web-based information, improvement of health care through access control, the value of information in decision-making, the building of trust, assisted living applications, wearable assistance and information devices (for stuttering, mild dementia, asthma and ankylosing spondylitis), a common health information registry for patients and practitioners, and schemes that allow patient access while also keeping data safe and private.

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