| Description |
1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Executive summary -- Health and wellness needs -- From personalised to ubiquitous care -- Smart participatory care models -- Actions to build a smarter health and wellness future -- Objectives and issues in integrating social care and health care delivery -- Integrating personalised medicine into health care: Opportunities and challenges -- Managing our own health and well-being: Australia's personally controlled electronic health record -- Strengthening our capability to analyse big data streams in health systems: The challenges -- Building a smarter health and wellness future: Privacy and security challenges -- Converging technologies for a smarter health and wellness future |
| Summary |
The future sustainability of health systems will depend on how well governments are able to anticipate and respond to efficiency and quality of care challenges. Bold action is required, as well as willingness to test innovative care delivery approaches. The greatest promise for transformational change is in applications that encourage new, ubiquitous, participatory preventive and personalised smart models of care. A whole new world of possibilities in using mobiles and the Internet to address healthcare challenges has opened up. The potential of mobile devices, services and applications to support self-management, behavioural modification and "participatory healthcare" is greater than ever before. A key hurdle is, however, the big data challenge, dealing with the exponentially accelerating accumulation of patient data - all of which must be mined, stored securely and accurately, and converted to meaningful information at the point of care. In order to fully exploit the new smart approaches to care, acceptance, privacy and usability issues will also have to be carefully considered |
| Notes |
"In the OECD Secretariat, Elettra Ronchi was responsible for the project and drafted the report"--Foreword |
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"The report draws on the OECD-National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop entitled "Building a Smarter Health and Wellness Future", which was held in Washington DC, United States on 15-16 February 2011"--Foreword |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (OECD iLibrary, viewed Jan. 5, 2014) |
| Subject |
Communication in medicine -- OECD countries.
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Health -- Information technology -- OECD countries.
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Medical care -- Information technology -- OECD countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ronchi, Elettra, editor
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National Science Foundation (U.S.), host institution
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, host institution, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9264202854 (print) |
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9264202862 (PDF) |
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9789264202856 (print) |
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9789264202863 (PDF) |
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