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In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who bec...

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Έκδοση: Open Book Publishers 2023
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-852902023-11-22T02:35:08Z Health Care in the Information Society Ingram, David Information technology;Health informatics;UK's National Health Service;OpenEHR;public domain;Standardized care information utility bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBF Medical bioinformatics bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine::MBNH Personal & public health bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare & social services In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who became the first UK professor appointed with the mission to bridge information technology with everyday medicine, health, and care. In this role, he has been a co-founder and leader of two rapidly growing initiatives, openEHR and OpenEyes, which stem from international collaborations of universities, health services and industries. These open source and open platform technologies have struck a widely resonant chord worldwide through their focus on community interest endeavours and open access to their methods and outputs. Set against the history of extremely costly, burdensome, and serially unsuccessful top-down attempts of governments to tackle the domain, the book argues for a greater focus on shared endeavours of this kind, contributing towards a standardized care information utility that incorporates methods and resources evolved, shared, and sustained in the public domain. As information technologies are now at the very core of health care, shaping the relationship between medical services and communities, professions, organisations and industries this book is important reading for politicians, health care academics, administrators and providers, and to anybody interested in the future of health services in the digital age. 2023-11-21T11:23:55Z 2023-11-21T11:23:55Z 2023 book 9781800648036 9781800648050 9781805111917 9781805111924 9781805111931 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85290 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781800648067.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0384 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0384 10.11647/OBP.0384 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781800648036 9781800648050 9781805111917 9781805111924 9781805111931 ScholarLed 624 Cambridge open access
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description In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who became the first UK professor appointed with the mission to bridge information technology with everyday medicine, health, and care. In this role, he has been a co-founder and leader of two rapidly growing initiatives, openEHR and OpenEyes, which stem from international collaborations of universities, health services and industries. These open source and open platform technologies have struck a widely resonant chord worldwide through their focus on community interest endeavours and open access to their methods and outputs. Set against the history of extremely costly, burdensome, and serially unsuccessful top-down attempts of governments to tackle the domain, the book argues for a greater focus on shared endeavours of this kind, contributing towards a standardized care information utility that incorporates methods and resources evolved, shared, and sustained in the public domain. As information technologies are now at the very core of health care, shaping the relationship between medical services and communities, professions, organisations and industries this book is important reading for politicians, health care academics, administrators and providers, and to anybody interested in the future of health services in the digital age.
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