"Global Perspectives on Probing Narratives in Healthcare offers a multidisciplinary examination of theoretical and methodological uses of narratives in healthcare by bringing together medical aspects of healthcare and the study of arts and humanities. This illustrates specific applications of narratives in healthcare settings, including improvement of clinical skills, performance of the caring role, and self efficacy for building a true partnership in the patient's health journey through varied approaches, up-to-date tools, and resources that can be transferred and adapted to specific educational and healthcare contexts"--
There is often a communication disconnect between medical caregivers, including doctors, nurses, therapists, and other assistive medical personnel, and the patient. While medical staff usually understand a patient’s symptoms, causes, and treatments, communicating this understanding to a patient using industry terminologies can lead to confusion and misunderstanding, and similarly, patients may lack the vocabulary to effectively communicate their experiences back to their caregivers. A new approach to communication must be bridged between these groups by individuals who have experience on both sides of the conversation. Previous studies of doctors who end up in the role of the patient reveal how these individuals have a dual perspective on illness, combining their medical knowledge with their own personal medical experiences. Narratives, including autobiographical accounts and fictional stories, can help bridge the gap between experiential and academic knowledge of illness by expanding one’s limited perspective and accessing others’ points of view. Autobiographical and fictional narratives can both play a role in developing a more comprehensive understanding of illness beyond simply treating the disease. It is necessary to further examine the ethical and methodological underpinnings of narrative-based interventions in the education of healthcare professionals, practitioners, and patients. Global Perspectives on Probing Narratives in Healthcare offers a multidisciplinary examination of theoretical and methodological uses of narratives in healthcare by bringing together medical aspects of healthcare and the study of arts and humanities. This illustrates specific applications of narratives in healthcare settings, including improvement of clinical skills, performance of the caring role, and self-efficacy for building a true partnership in the patient’s health journey through varied approaches, up-to-date tools, and resources that can be transferred and adapted to specific educational and healthcare contexts. This diverse collection of expert knowledge and experience is led by editors with over 20 years of teaching experience: Dr. Teresa Casal of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and Dr. Maria de Jesus Cabral of the University of Minho, Portugal. Expertise featured in this book includes contributions from some of the most prestigious academic institutions, including Columbia University in the United States, King’s College in the United Kingdom, University of Padua in Italy, and more. It is an essential resource for healthcare and social science researchers, academics, advanced healthcare students, health training and education departments, healthcare practitioners and patients’ associations, and policymakers in healthcare who are looking to broaden their scope of understanding of the patient experience.
Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era, edited by Kakhaber Djakeli from the International Black Sea University, Georgia, is a comprehensive guide that addresses the critical challenge of transforming healthcare marketing strategies in the dynamic landscape of the digital era. With innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and mobile applications reshaping the healthcare industry, this book offers practical insights and innovative methodologies to create a consumer-centric health culture. Healthcare professionals, policymakers, and marketers will find valuable guidance in bridging the gap between technology and marketing, enabling them to thrive in this ever-evolving landscape. Through its exploration of historical developments, the status, and the evolution of needs and demands in healthcare markets, the book equips readers with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of modern healthcare marketing. It covers essential topics such as patient segmentation, customer relationship management, and the integration of virtual and augmented reality in healthcare marketing and sales. By providing real-world examples and empirical research findings, Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era serves as a practical roadmap for transforming healthcare services, fostering patient-clinic partnerships, and enhancing health literacy through effective marketing efforts. With its valuable insights, this book is a vital resource for students, educators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers, empowering them to embrace digital innovations and cultivate a consumer-centric health culture for superior patient care and satisfaction.
Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques play a crucial role in dealing with large amounts of heterogeneous, multi-scale, and multi-modal data coming from the internet of things (IoT) infrastructures. Therefore, further discussion on how the fusion of blockchain, IoT, and AI allows the design of models, mathematical models, methodologies, algorithms, evaluation benchmarks, and tools to address challenging problems related to health informatics, healthcare, and wellbeing is required. Contemporary Applications of Data Fusion for Advanced Healthcare Informatics covers the integration of IoT and AI to tackle applications in smart healthcare and discusses the efficient means to collect, monitor, control, optimize, model, and predict healthcare data using blockchain, AI, and IoT. The book also considers the advantages and improvements in the smart healthcare field, in which ubiquitous computing and traditional computational methods alone are often inadequate. Covering key topics such as disruptive technology, electronic health records, and medical data, this premier reference source is ideal for computer scientists, nurses, doctors, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
The Healthcare sector is evolving with Healthcare 5.0, promising better patient care and efficiency. However, challenges like data security and analysis arise due to increased digitization. Federated Learning and AI for Healthcare 5.0 offers solutions, explaining cloud computing's role in managing data and advocating for security measures. It explores federated learning's use in maintaining data privacy during analysis, presenting practical cases for implementation. The book also addresses emerging tech like quantum computing and blockchain-based services, envisioning an innovative Healthcare 5.0. It empowers healthcare professionals, IT experts, and data scientists to leverage these technologies for improved patient care and system efficiency, making Healthcare 5.0 secure and patient centric.
The Healthcare sector is experiencing a mindset change with the advent of Healthcare 5.0, bringing forth improved patient care and system efficiency. However, this transformation poses significant challenges. The growing digitization of healthcare systems raises concerns about the security and privacy of patient data, making seamless data sharing and collaboration increasingly complex tasks. Additionally, as the volume of healthcare data expands exponentially, efficient handling and analysis become vital for optimizing healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Addressing these multifaceted issues is crucial for healthcare professionals, IT experts, data scientists, and researchers seeking to fully harness the potential of Healthcare 5.0. Pioneering Smart Healthcare 5.0 with IoT, Federated Learning, and Cloud Security presents a comprehensive solution to the pressing challenges in the digitalized healthcare industry. This research book dives into the principles of Healthcare 5.0 and explores practical implementation through cloud computing, data analytics, and federated learning. Readers will gain profound insights into the role of cloud computing in managing vast amounts of healthcare data, such as electronic health records and real-time analytics. Cloud-based frameworks, architectures, and relevant use cases are explored to optimize healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Medical internet of things (IoT)-based applications are being utilized in several industries and have been shown to provide significant advantages to users in critical health applications. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a key role in the growth and success of medical IoT applications and IoT devices in the medical sector. To enhance revenue, improve competitive advantage, and increase consumer engagement, the use of AI with medical IoT should be encouraged in the healthcare and medical arena. Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Applications provides greater knowledge of how AI affects healthcare and medical efficacy in order to improve outputs. It focuses on a thorough and comprehensive introduction to machine learning. Covering topics such as patient treatment, cyber-physical systems, and telemedicine, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for hospital administrators, medical professionals, government officials, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
This volume is the first to address multilingual healthcare communication around the globe and focuses on institutional, social and linguistic challenges and resources of the healthcare industry. It comprises studies from Canada, Australia, South Africa, Greenland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, and aims to introduce new paths of communicative and methodological agendas, casting a critical view on current linguistic practices in healthcare, nursing and medical interactions. With increased personal mobility in a global society, the need for multilingual staff is on the rise in medical institutions and healthcare organisations, and communicative competencies and practices involving different languages pose challenges for medical doctors, healthcare staff and patients alike. Many studies have highlighted the crucial role played by interpreters and interpreting staff, but the diversity of language situations in different countries requires very different approaches and solutions. Additionally, it may not be possible to develop a single agenda of language services for different medical areas with different needs for counselling, with various forms of treatment that require explanation and the patient‘s informed consent and with varying approaches to the relationship between medical professionals and patients. How to best organise medical (digital) language services in countries as different as South Africa, Greenland, Germany, Belgium and Australia calls for a diversity of possible solutions. The current volume makes a variety of such solutions and practices available for medical staff and healthcare institutions faced with international patients and working with international medical staff. It makes the challenges palpable on an international scale in a way that comparisons may be drawn between different solutions as well as their socio-cultural and institutional implications. This volume is intended for policy makers, medical and healthcare practitioners, institutions, interpreters, teachers and students in professional multilingual healthcare.
The study of health care brings one into contact with many disciplines and perspectives, including those of the provider and the patient. There are also multiple academic lenses through which one can view health, illness and disease. This book brings together scholars from around the world who are interested in developing new conversations intended to situate health in broader social and cultural contexts. This book is the outcome of the second global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in July 2003. The selected papers pursue a range of topics and incorporate perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and clinical sciences. This volume will be of interest to researchers and health care practitioners who wish to gain insight into other ways of understanding health, illness and disease.
This book examines all aspects of narrative medicine and its value in ensuring that, in an age of evidence-based medicine defined by clinical trials, numbers, and probabilities, clinical science is firmly embedded in the medical humanities in order to foster the understanding of clinical cases and the delivery of excellent patient care. The medical humanities address what happens to us when we are affected by a disease and narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes the importance of patient narratives in bridging various divides, including those between health care professionals and patients. The book covers the genesis of the medical humanities and of narrative medicine and explores all aspects of their role in improving healthcare. It describes how narrative medicine is therapeutic for the patient, enhances the patient–doctor relationship, and allows the identification, via patients' stories, of the feelings and experiences that are characteristic for each disease. Furthermore, it explains how to use narrative medicine as a real scientific tool. Narrative Medicine will be of value for all caregivers: physicians, nurses, healthcare managers, psychotherapists, counselors, and social workers. “Maria Giulia Marini takes a unique and innovative approach to narrative medicine. She sees it as offering a bridge – indeed a variety of different bridges – between clinical care and ‘humanitas’. With a sensitive use of mythology, literature and metaphor on the one hand, and scientific studies on the other, she shows how the guiding concept of narrative might bring together the fragmented parts of the medical enterprise”. John Launer, Honorary Consultant, Tavistock Clinic, London UK
