Health Care in the Information Society Vol. 1
Subtitle: From Adventure of Ideas to Programme for Reform
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781800649521
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.
Table of contents: title: Author's Biography
pagenum: xi; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: Adventure of Ideas
pagenum: 9; label: 1
title: Introduction - Connecting for Health
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Knowledge, Language and Reason - From Ancient Times to the Information Age
pagenum: 69; label: 3
title: Observation and Measurement - From Cubits to Qubits
pagenum: 193; label: 4
title: Models and Simulations - The Third Arm of Science
pagenum: 259; label: 5
title: Information and Engineering - The Interface of Science and Society
pagenum: 325; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 425; title: Donors
pagenum: 429; title: Contents in Detail
pagenum: 431; title: List of the Inukbooks
pagenum: 441; title: List of Figures
pagenum: 445; title: List of Additional Resources
pagenum: 447; title: References
pagenum: 449; title: Index of Names
pagenum: 467