Health Informatics
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 495
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health informatics; enterprise planning systems; ICT workarounds and decision support systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health Informatics is now a multi-billion-dollar industry with worldwide relevance for the well-being of citizens in every country. Recently there has been a push to use the concepts of big data and analytics to help manage the vast amounts of data generated every day and to solve complex medical problems from those data. In addition, with wearable technologies such as glucose monitors and fitness bracelets, the data sources are not only institutionally based but can be specific to the individual patient level. Therefore, health is very much an interdisciplinary endeavour and it is why we need innovation not only in technical developments but also in the social-technical aspects of acceptance and long term use of the developed technology.
This special issue invites papers covering a broad range of topics. We will accept papers for peer review in the following areas of interest;
- Case studies of real world applications of healthcare
- Development and evaluation of wearable technologies and how individual data can be combined to improve community health outcomes
- Privacy and security issues in healthcare
- Electronic health records and their challenges
- Population level analysis of health data
- Practitioners reflections of big data and analytics and how they could affect their work
- Conceptual papers and systematic literature reviews on the application of big data and analytics in relation to decision making around health
- Cloud applications for managing intuitional and individual data
- Health initiatives to allow for patient empowerment
- Clinical Decision Support Systems
Dr. Donald Kerr
Guest Editor
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