Academic Press Digital Innovation for Healthcare in COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies and Solutions (Information Technologies in Healthcare Industry)

Digital Innovation for Healthcare in COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies and Solutions provides comprehensive knowledge and insights on the application of information technologies in the healthcare sector, sharing experiences from leading researchers and academics from around the world. The book presents innovative ideas, solutions and examples to deal with one of the major challenges of the world, a global problem with health, economic and political dimensions. Advanced information technologies can play a key role in solving problems generated by the COVID-19 outbreak. The book addresses how science, technology and innovation can provide advances and solutions to new global health challenges. This is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, healthcare workers, policymakers and members of the biomedical field who are interested in learning how digital technologies can help us avoid and solve global disease dissemination. Review Discusses how information technologies applied to the healthcare sector can provide efficient solutions to real and urgent problems From the Back Cover <i>Digital Innovation for Healthcare in COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies and Solutions</i> provides a collection of valuable chapters with knowledge and insights on applications of information technologies to healthcare sector, sharing experiences from leading researchers and academics from around the world. It presents innovative ideas, solutions and examples to deal with one of the major challenges of the world in the last decades, a global problem with health, economic and political dimensions.<br><br>Advanced information technologies can play a key role solving problems generated by the COVID-19 outbreak. The book addresses how science, technology and innovation can provide advances and solutions to new global health challenges like the current health emergency and help to find swift actions to curb its negative impact on the healthcare sector.<br><br>It is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, healthcare workers, policy makers and members of biomedical field who are interested to learn how digital technologies can help to avoid and solve a global disease dissemination. About the Author Patricia Ordónez de Pablos, PhD, is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Her field of research focuses on knowledge management, healthcare sector, innovation, information technologies and technological disruption. She published more than 125 papers in academic journals and more than 35 books. She has wide editorial experience in journals, book and book series. She serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (IGI-Global) and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management (Emerald Publishers). She edited books for Routledge, Springer and IGI-Global, including a book series on Advances on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management (Routledge). Kwok Tai Chui, PhD, had industry experience as Senior Data Scientist at an Internet of Things (IoT) company. He joined the Department of Technology, School of Science and Technology, at The Open University of Hong Kong as Research Assistant Professor. He was the recipient of Best Paper Award in IEEE The International Conference on Consumer Electronics-China, in both 2014 and 2015. He has more than 45 research publications including edited books, book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers. He has served as various editorial positions in ESCI/SCIE-listed journals including Managing Editor of International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Associate Editor of International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, and Guest Editor of Journal of Internet Technology. His research interests include computational intelligence, data science, energy monitoring and management, intelligent transportation, smart metering, healthcare,