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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254984603321

Titolo

Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems : 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, Tampere, Finland, September 16-18, 2016, Proceedings / / edited by Hongxiu Li, Pirkko Nykänen, Reima Suomi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-44672-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 267 p. 50 illus. in color.)

Collana

Communications in Computer and Information Science, , 1865-0937 ; ; 636

Disciplina

307.1416

Soggetti

Medical informatics

Computers and civilization

Application software

Data mining

Electronic commerce

Health Informatics

Computers and Society

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

e-Commerce and e-Business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Macro level considerations of e-health and welfare -- Welfare issues of children, youth, young elderly and seniors -- Analytics issues of eHealth and welfare -- National/regional initiatives in eHealth and welfare -- Specific topics of eHealth. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, held in Tampere, Finland, in September 2016. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. With the core topic "Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems" WIS 2016



focused on innovations and fresh ideas in the cross-section of urban living, information society and health as understood in a wide sense. The papers presented in this volume are organized along the following seven broad topics: 1. Macro level considerations of e-health and welfare, 2.Welfare issues of children, youth, young elderly and seniors, 3. Analytics issues of eHealth and welfare, 4. National/regional initiatives in eHealth and welfare, and 5. Specific topics of eHealth. The papers in these topics span qualitative and quantitative analysis, empirical surveys, case studies as well as conceptual work.