Critical Perspectives on Technological Innovations in Healthcare : Building the Future

This new complementary volume to ?Developing and Utilising Digital Technology in Healthcare for Assessment and Monitoring? extends well beyond what has been already covered, including AI, Machine Learning and Big Data in health care, data-informed care, tackling health inequalities in cancer care through technological solutions and the policy considerations of digital innovation. 

This book echoes the increasing influx of technological solutions in varying fields, within the context of healthcare, that extend from prevention, to early detection, treatment and survivorship. With an increasing number of supportive care needs being unmet, such technological solutions can bridge the gap to the way that current care is being delivered. An aspect that previously has not received considerable attention is the cultural competence in healthcare AI and Robotics, and a chapter dedicated to this aspect will bring an insight to developing technologies that are culturally competent. Here lays one of the uniqueness of this book, which highlights the areas and the ways (e.g. taking into consideration cultural aspects) that these interventions can actually be incorporated in the care continuum empowering the end-user (healthcare professional and patient). The book draws on the experts? current (and at times ongoing) research on these topics.

The structure of the book provides multiple perspectives to the topic and makes it appealing to a multidisciplinary and multi-professional audience including wide range of recipients including nurses as first target but also clinicians, researchers, patients, technology experts as well as students. Precisely this approach fills a gap in this field of expertise not only by familiarizing the reader with a wide range of technological interventions in relation to their application in clinical practice but it also emphasizes on what the data-driven and need-orientated development of future interventions needs to take into consideration including policy.