Biblioteca Virtual en Salud

Healthcare is an information problem needing aninformation solution using modern information technology.ÿ Thetraditional medical record does not suffice, but the newtechnologies of internet services do.ÿ Existing technologiescan be combined for new methods of gathering and analyzing healthinformation, via monitors using sensors and clusters usingsupercomputers.ÿ There is a way of utilizing both theelectronic medical record of the past and the personalized genomicmedicine of the future.ÿ It gathers information from all thesources affecting personal healthÿ from the bodies ofindividuals to the societies of populations. HealthcareInfrastructure Health Systems for Individuals and Populationsdescribes the new healthcare infrastructure that will gather thesepersonal health records from every individual and correlate eachlongitudinal record across whole populations.ÿ This bookexplains the problems of personal medicine and public health, thenthe solutions possible with information technology.ÿ Healthdeterminants for individuals and populations are examined atlength, along with present and future technologies to measurethese.ÿ Computer analysis will produce clusters of personswith similar measurements of health status.ÿ The analysisdiscovers which persons have which outcomes and the management usesthis knowledge to provide efficient healthcare. The new healthcareinfrastructure will provide information for decision makers toeffectively manage provider care and manage patientexpectations.ÿ Thus, this book will be a key reference for allprofessionals working within the management of health, frominformatician to healthcare executive, health informationtechnologist to computer scientist, and physician topatient.