Health informatics
Subtitle: a patient-centered approach to diabetes
By: edited by Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray.
Contributors: Hayes, Barbara M., 1955-; Aspray, William.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780262014328
Subjects: Diabetes -- Data processing; Medical informatics; Diabetes Mellitus -- therapy; Medical Informatics -- methods; Patient Education as Topic
Description: In this work, experts in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes - a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system - to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The informatics of diabetes : a research agenda for the socially and institutionally sensitive use of information technology to improve healthcare / Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray; title: Understanding the potential of ubiquitous computing for chronic disease management / Elizabeth D. Mynatt ... [et al.]; title: An iterative discovery approach in designing ubicomp technologies that assist individuals in managing diabetes / Lena Mamykina and Elizabeth D. Mynatt; title: Diabetes and obesity : can video games help? / Lynne Harris, Jon DeShazo, and Wanda Pratt; title: Diabetes education and serious gaming : teaching adolescents to cope with diabetes / Anthony Faiola and Hadi Kharrazi; title: Relational agents for chronic disease self management / Tim Bickmore; title: Designing information to facilitate chronic disease management : clinician-patient interactions in diabetes care / Mark S. Ackerman and Barbara Mirel; title: Information and communication technologies for diabetes self-management and education : user-centered perspectives / Mia Liza A. Lustria and Linda Lockett Brown; title: Mother, my medical record : what role do patients with chronic conditions and parents play in the management of their medical information? / Carsten S. Osterlund , Nienke P. Dosa, and Catherine Arnott; title: Using behavior change theory to understand and guide technological interventions / Tammy Toscos and Kay Connelly; title: Achieving success in research collaborations in health informatics / Katie A. Siek and Kay Connelly.