Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781609601805)

Within the last years a variety of new healthcare concepts for supporting and assisting users in technology-enhanced home environments emerged. These so-called "smart healthcare technologies" are characterized by a combined use of information and communication technologies and health monitoring devices in the home domain. Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices provides an in-depth introduction into medical, social, psychological, and technical aspects of smart healthcare applications as well as their consequences for the design, use and acceptance of future systems. The knowledge and insights provided in this book will help students as well as systems designers understand the fundamental social and technical requirements smart healthcare technologies have to meet.

Author: Carsten Röcker
ISBN-10: 1609601807
ISBN-13: 9781609601805
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2011
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 321