Health efficiency : how can engineering be a player in health organization? /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Sarazin, Marianne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Great Britain ; United States : Elsevier Ltd. : ISTE Press, 2018.
Series:Health industrialization set.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Health technology coordination approach
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • Chapter 1. Forward vision of technologies and health knowledge
  • Chapter 2. Coordination between professionals: a public health issue
  • Part 2. Optimization of flows within a hospital
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Chapter 3. Decision support methods for efficient flow management in medical device sterilization departments
  • Chapter 4. Prediction of hospital flows based on influenza epidemics and meteorological factors
  • Part 3. Oncology and technology
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • Chapter 5. Cancer care pathway: how technological advances are helping to address coordination challenges
  • Chapter 6. Optimization issues in chemotherapy delivery
  • Part 4. Age-appropriate technologies
  • Introduction to Part 4
  • Chapter 7. Comparison of two hospitalization admission pathways in geriatrics, either directly through a telephone line or hotline or after a visit to an emergency department
  • Chapter 8. Therapeutic education for the patient over 75 years old living at home
  • Part 5. The health network
  • Introduction to Part 5
  • Chapter 9. The evolution of the economic model of the health network in France: challenges and prospects
  • Chapter 10. Primary care electronic health data: good to the last byte
  • Conclusion
  • List of authors
  • Index.