Patient-Centered Healthcare Technology

This book explores the rapidly growing area of healthcare research around the introduction of ICT and robotics technologies. It discusses innovations designed to make individuals more proactive to promote better healthcare and looks at ways to improve systematic access to care, and to produce better monitoring/detecting of physiological metrics. Topics covered include multimedia patient education and video games for health, telemedicine, web-based databases, and user interfaces for remote professionals and patients, advances in computerized medical records and much more.