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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791657503321

Titolo

Health informatics : a patient-centered approach to diabetes / / edited by Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

ISBN

0-262-28949-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HayesBarbara M. <1955->

AsprayWilliam

Disciplina

362.196/46200285

Soggetti

Diabetes - Data processing

Medical informatics

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

The informatics of diabetes : a research agenda for the socially and institutionally sensitive use of information technology to improve health care / Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray -- Understanding the potential of ubiquitous computing for chronic disease management / Elizabeth D. Mynatt ... [and others] -- An iterative discovery approach in designing ubicomp technologies that assist individuals in managing diabetes / Lena Mamykina and Elizabeth D. Mynatt --

Diabetes and obesity : can videogames help? / Lynne Harris, Jon DeShazo, and Wanda Pratt -- Diabetes education and serious gaming : teaching adolescents to cope with diabetes / Anthony Faiola and Hadi Kharrazi -- Relational agents for chronic disease self-management / Timothy Bickmore -- Designing information to facilitate chronic disease management : clinician-patient interactions in diabetes care / Mark S. Ackerman and Barbara Mirel -- Information and communication technologies for diabetes self-management and education : user-centered perspectives / Mia Liza A. Lustria and Linda Lockett Brown --

Mother, my medical record : what role do patients with chronic conditions and parents play in the management of their medical information? / Carsten S. Osterlund , Nienke P. Dosa, and Catherine Arnott Smith -- Using behavior change theory to understand and guide technological interventions / Tammy Toscos and Kay Connelly -- Achieving success in research collaborations in health informatics /



Katie A. Siek and Kay Connelly.

Sommario/riassunto

In this work, experts in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes - a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system - to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care.