Abha Agrawal Editor 2014 A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide The fundamental premise of this book is the following: patient safety has always been at the core of medical professionals’ ethic and value since Hippocrates and Florence Nightingale implored us to “do no harm.” The newness in the patient safety movement of the last decade lies in a better understanding […]

Donna Malvey • Donna J. Slovensky 2014 Transforming Healthcare This book defines the phenomenon of mHealth and its evolution, explaining why an understanding of mHealth is critical for decision makers, entrepreneurs, and policy analysts who are pivotal to developing products that meet the collaborative health information needs of consumers and providers in a competitive and rapidlychanging environment.  

Nilmini Wickramasinghe with Latif Al-Hakim • Chris Gonzalez • Joseph Tan Editors 2014 At a very fundamental level quality of care is about meeting the physical, psychological, and social expectations of patients who search for care. The American Institute of Medicine (IOM) refers to quality of care as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations […]

Joanna T. Brougher 2014 Balancing Innovation and the Public’s Health These are exciting times in patent law. With the Supreme Court issuing far-reaching opinions, Congress enacting new patent reform legislation, and companies battling over life-saving treatment, there is no better time to learn about what the issues are and how they will affect the development of future technology. […]

Eta S. Berner Editor 2014 Twenty years ago almost the only individuals involved in healthcare who had even heard the term “informatics” were those who identified themselves as medical or nursing informaticians. Today, we have a variety of subfields of informatics including not just medical and nursing informatics, but informatics applied to other health professions (such as dental or […]

Alessandro Scaletti 2014 Health Technology Assessment In the current context of international economy crisis, the control of public expenditure appears to be now a diktat imposed by finance institutions, to ensure continued economic growth and, at least, maintain the levels of well-being achieved by individual nations.

David N. Khey • John Stogner • Bryan Lee Miller 2014 Volume 12 Concerns over the increased use of emerging drugs—especially among teenagers— have captured the attention of the media, legislatures, and local communities. However, there has been a great deal of misinformation, sensationalistic journalism, and uncertainty in regards to these sorts of substances.