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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784143703321

Titolo

Future of intelligent and extelligent health environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Renata G. Bushko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Oxford, : IOS Press, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50511-7

9786610505111

1-4237-9729-9

1-60750-148-1

600-00-0438-9

1-60129-128-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Studies in health technology and informatics, , 0926-9630 ; ; v. 118

Altri autori (Persone)

BushkoRenata Glowacka

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Medical innovations - Forecasting

Medical care - Technological innovations - Forecasting

Medical technology - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Future of Health Technology Institute ""Common Sense in Health""; Elevator to the Future; Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering; Contents; Goals and Unsolved Problems; Consumers Era - Sociotechnological Environment; Healthons Era - Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us; Cyborgs Era - Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines; Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era - Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control; Long Life Era - Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders

Global Digital Healthcare Era - Enhancing Healthcare with Soft TechnologiesAdaptive and Errorless Era - Adaptive Healthcare Process Management; The Authors; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Human body and the world in which it functions is a changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect data about it, but the challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians have a better chance of



inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians.