Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications

Electronic healthcare technologies support the interaction between patients and healthservice providers, institutiontoinstitution transmission of data, and peertopeer communication between patients and health professionals. These technologies promise to deliver significant improvements in access to care, quality of care, and the efficiency and productivity of the health sector.Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications unites researchers and industry practitioners from different disciplines to share their domainspecific knowledge and thereby contribute to a holistic introduction into the area of humancentered design for ehealth applications. The knowledge and insights provided in this book will help students, as well as systems designers, to understand the fundamental social and technical requirements future ehealth systems have to meet. By providing a wellrounded introduction within one single volume, this book is equally suited as a library reference and upperlevel course supplement, but also represents a firstclass resource for independent study.