Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022 Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage
Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022 Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-11-25

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9264396284

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This seventh edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health-care resources and utilisation, health-care expenditure and financing, and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries and territories, and a thematic analysis on the health impact of COVID-19.

Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023
Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9264732624

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This second edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank, presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, healthcare resources and utilisation, healthcare expenditure and financing, quality of care, health workforce, and ageing across 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries.

Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law
Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law

Author: Barry Solaiman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-07-05

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1802205659

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline, thanks to generous funding support from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). The Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law explores the use of AI in healthcare, identifying the important laws and ethical issues that arise from its use. Adopting an international approach, it analyses the varying responses of multiple jurisdictions to the use of AI and examines the influence of major religious and secular ethical traditions.

DHealth 2022
DHealth 2022

Author: G. Schreier

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2022-06-17

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1643682830

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Digital technology is now an indispensible part of modern healthcare, and this reliance is only likely to increase, with the healthcare of the future set to become ever more data-driven, decision-supporting, deep, and simply more digital. This book presents the proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Health Informatics Meets Digital Health (dHealth 2022), held on 24 and 25 May 2022 in Vienna, Austria. In keeping with its interdisciplinary mission, the conference series provides a platform for researchers and decision makers, health professionals and healthcare providers, as well as government and industry representatives, to discuss innovative digital health solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare using digital technologies. The book includes 42 papers covering a wide range of topics and providing an insight into the state-of-the-art of different aspects of dHealth, including the design and evaluation of user interfaces, patient-centered solutions, electronic health/medical/patient records, machine learning in healthcare and biomedical data analytics. Offering the reader an interdisciplinary view of the state-of-the-art and of ongoing research activities in digital health, the book will be of interest to healthcare students and professionals everywhere.

Health system performance assessment
Health system performance assessment

Author: Irene PAPANICOLAS

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9240042474

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Ensuring a robust and resilient health system involves policy actions which need to be implemented based on the best available evidence. This requires health systems to be monitored regularly to build on their strengths and to overcome any apparent shortcomings. In order to assist in that process, this volume, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, presents a new framework to support monitoring of health system performance, with a focus on detailed conceptual links between health system functions and overall system goals. This HSPA framework for Universal Health Coverage thus represents a comprehensive attempt to address fundamental questions regarding regular assessment of health systems, including health system boundaries, component elements and outcomes. In this book, each of the health system function chapters outlines the purpose of the function, the sub-functions that enable it to carry out the key activities necessary to fulfil its purpose, as well as the assessment areas and proposed indicative measures to evaluate how well a system performs. The framework will thus assist policy-makers in understanding possible origins or impact of poor performance on a particular health system outcome, triggering more in-depth analysis.

Engineering Open-Source Medical Devices
Engineering Open-Source Medical Devices

Author: Arti Ahluwalia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-23

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 303079363X

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This book focuses on the challenges and potentials of open source and collaborative design approaches and strategies in the biomedical field. It provides a comprehensive set of good practices and methods for making these safe, innovative and certifiable biomedical devices reach patients and provide successful solutions to healthcare issues. The chapters are sequenced to follow the complete lifecycle of open source medical technologies. The information provided is eminently practical, as it is supported by real cases of study, in which collaboration among medical professionals, engineers and technicians, patients and patient associations, policy makers, regulatory bodies, and citizens has proven beneficial. The book is also supported by an online infrastructure, UBORA, through which open-source medical devices can be collaboratively developed and shared for the democratization of medical technology and for promoting accessible biomedical engineering education.

5th International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering
5th International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering

Author: Ion Tiginyanu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 3030923282

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This book gathers the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering, held online on November 3–5, 2021, from Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. It covers fundamental and applied research at the interface between nanotechnologies and biomedical engineering. Chapters report on cutting-edge bio-micro/nanotechnologies, devices for biomedical applications, and advances in bio-imaging and biomedical signal processing, innovative nano-biomaterials as well as advances in e-health, medical robotics, and related topics. With a good balance of theory and practice, the book offers a timely snapshot of multidisciplinary research at the interface between physics, chemistry, biomedicine, materials science, and engineering.