Health Care in the Information Society : Volume 2 - from Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical informatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who became the first UK professor appointed with the mission to bridge information technology with everyday medicine, health, and care. In this role, he has been a co-founder and leader of two rapidly growing initiatives, openEHR and OpenEyes, which stem from international collaborations of universities, health services and industries. These open source and open platform technologies have struck a widely resonant chord worldwide through their focus on community interest endeavours and open access to their methods and outputs. Set against the history of extremely costly, burdensome, and serially unsuccessful top-down attempts of governments to tackle the domain, the book argues for a greater focus on shared endeavours of this kind, contributing towards a standardized care information utility that incorporates methods and resources evolved, shared, and sustained in the public domain. As information technologies are now at the very core of health care, shaping the relationship between medical services and communities, professions, organisations and industries this book is important reading for politicians, health care academics, administrators and providers, and to anybody interested in the future of health services in the digital age."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Intro

PART TWO-ANARCHY OF TRANSITION

6. Life and Information-Co-evolving Sciences

7. Health Care and Information Technology-Co-evolving Services

PART THREE-PROGRAMME FOR REFORM

8. Care Information as a Utility-What Is Needed and Why?

8½. Halfway Houses towards openCare-Stories of GEHR, openEHR and OpenEyes

9. Creating and Sustaining the Care Information Utility-How, Where and by Whom?

10. Half and Whole-Halfway between Information Age and Information Society

Postscript

Acknowledgements

Donors

Contents in Detail

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Life in Evolutionary Context

Life in Historical and Scientific Context

Information in Context of Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences

New Frontiers of Information From Life and Information to Mind and Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Landmark Contributions

1944-Erwin Schro¨dinger: What Is Life?

1956-John von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain

1978-John Zachary Young: Programs of the Brain

1996-Richard Feynman: Feynman Lectures on Computation

1998-Ian Stewart: Life's Other Secret

2007-Douglas Hofstadter: I Am a Strange Loop

2012-John Scales Avery: Information Theory and Evolution

2015-Nick Lane: The Vital Question

2019-Marcus du Sautoy: The Creativity Code

A Pause for Reflection 2020-Paul Davies: The Demon in the Machine

The Magic Mirror of Maurits Escher

The Singularity

Parenthesis-Information Policy

Village Medicine-Snapshots from Earlier Times

Health Care Services Today

Aftermath of War and Seven Decades On

The National Health Service

Balance

Continuity

Governance

From Local to Global Village

Instability of the Global Village

Lifespan, Lifestyle and Health Care

Coevolution of Health Care with Information Technology

The Birnbaum Beatitudes Era 1: 1960s-1970s-Instrumentation

Era 2: 1970s-1980s-Medicine

Era 3: 1980s-1990s-Health Care

Era 4: 1990s-2000s-Health Systems

Era 5: 2000s-2010s-e-Health

Era 6: 2010s-2020s-e-Commons

The Weizenbaum Warnings

The Illich Apocalypse-Iatrogenic Disease

Genetics and Genomics

Education, Competence, Accountability and Risk

Medical and Multiprofessional Education

Skills and Assessment

Practice and Performance

Risk Management and the Law

Central Roles of a Care Information Utility

Research

Information Policy as a Wicked Problem.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-80064-805-7

1-80064-806-5

OCLC:

1410494574