Digital Health: Mobile and Wearable Devices for Participatory Health Applications. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Digital Health: Mobile and Wearable Devices for Participatory Health Applications

Digital Health: Mobile and Wearable Devices for Participatory Health Applications is a key reference for engineering and clinical professionals considering the development or implementation of mobile and wearable solutions in the healthcare domain. The book presents a comprehensive overview of devices and appropriateness for the respective applications. It also explores the ethical, privacy, and cybersecurity aspects inherent in networked and mobile technologies. It offers expert perspectives on various approaches to the implementation and integration of these devices and applications across all areas of healthcare. The book is designed with a multidisciplinary audience in mind; from software developers and biomedical engineers who are designing these devices to clinical professionals working with patients and engineers on device testing, human factors design, and user engagement/compliance.

Shabbir Syed-Abdul MD., PhD: an associate professor at Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University. He is a leading researcher and a principal investigator at the International Center for Health Information Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Shabbir has 15 years experience of research in the domain of Long-term care with Wearable technologies, mHealth, Big data analysis and visualisation, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health Records, Social Network in healthcare and Hospital Information System. He wants to empower care providers and improve patient participation and engagement. Dr. Shabbir is an editor of the book ‘Participatory Health Through Social Media’ published by Elsevier in 2016. Also, Dr. Shabbir is guest editor for the Journal Sensors since March 2018.

Dr. Xinxin (Katie) Zhu brings diverse knowledge and experience across medicine, health program management, and biomedical informatics to her role as the Executive Director of the Center for Biomedical Data Science at Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to her medical training and practice in anesthesiology, she also received her M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University through the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s fellowship. Prior to joining Yale faculty, Dr. Zhu served as an External Advisory Board member of the Center for Advanced Technology at Columbia University, physician scientist lead for the Center for Computational Health at IBM Watson Research Center, associate medical director at Pfizer, and clinical project manager at Philips. She also worked among a group of healthcare subject matter experts at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs through Kforce Government Solutions where she served as Chief Medical Information Officer. She is the recipient of many excellence awards, and author of dozens of scientific publications and 13 filed patents. Dr. Zhu has also served as Chair for the American Medical Informatics Association’s Global Health Informatics Working Group, Membership Chair for the Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Working Group, as well as Scientific Program and Women Leadership Committee members.

Dr. Fernandez-Luque is co-founder of digital therapeutics company Adhera Health Inc (USA), and currently leads operations at its subsidiary Salumedia Labs (Spain). He has over 15 years of experience in digital health research with a strong focus on mobile health for behavioural change. He has worked in digital health initiatives across the globe including the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has served in multiple positions the International Medical Informatics Association, being one of the founders of its working group focused on participatory health and social media.