Modern technology has impacted healthcare and interactions between patients and healthcare providers through a variety of means including the internet, social media, mobile devices, and the internet of things. These new technologies have empowered, frustrated, educated, and confused patients by making educational materials more widely available and allowing patients to monitor their own vital signs and self-diagnose. Further analysis of these and future technologies is needed in order to provide new approaches to empowerment, reduce mistakes, and improve overall healthcare.

Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and Empowerment is a critical scholarly resource that delves into patient access to information and the effect that access has on their relationship with healthcare providers and their health outcomes. Featuring a range of topics such as gamification, mobile computing, and risk analysis, this book is ideal for healthcare practitioners, doctors, nurses, surgeons, hospital staff, medical administrators, patient advocates, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and healthcare students.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Big Data
Gamification
Hospice
Internet of Things
Long-Term Care
Mobile Computing
Patient-Centered Experience
Patient-Provider Communication
Risk Analysis
Senior Care Facilities
Social Media
Subsequent Care

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Editor/Author Biographies

Roger McHaney is Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Kansas State University. He currently holds the Daniel D. Burke Chair for Exceptional Faculty and teaches courses in Management Information Systems and Data Analytics. McHaney earned his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Lake Superior State University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Prior to obtaining a Ph.D., he worked in various software development and simulation analyst roles at a major industrial automation firm. He joined the Department of Management faculty at Kansas State in Fall, 1995. His main research interests include computer simulation and its intersection with industrial systems, healthcare, big data, and other areas. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, scholarly books, and textbooks.

Iris Reychav Ph.D. is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Management and Head of the Collaborative Learning Technology Lab at Ariel University. Prof. Iris Reychav holds an B.Sc and M.Sc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and has 10 years’ experience at Motorola in the field of information systems. She earned her Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University’s Graduate School of Business Administration, and did her post- doctoral work at Tel Aviv University in cooperation with INSEAD. Her current research interests include knowledge management technologies, mobile learning and technologies in health and education.

Joseph Azuri is a specialist in family medicine, and teaches in the Family Department of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv University. He also works for the Department of Community Medicine for Maccabi Healthcare Services. Dr. Azuri is an expert in patient management issues and community healthcare.

Rami Moshonov has been a senior gynecologist since 1987. He currently practices at Assuta Ramat Hahaial Medical Center with a sub specialty in lower genital tract pathology. He holds several other positions including the head of the Cervical Pathology Clinic since 1989 and the head of ob-gyn department since 1991 at the Assuta Tel Aviv Hospital. He also has served as head of gynecology at Assuta medical centers since 1993. Dr. Moshonov has published prior medical studies in the area of patient empowerment.

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