Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society (Information Technologies in Healthcare Industry) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443301689 ISBN 13: 9780443301681

Publisher: Academic Press, 2025

Synopsis

Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society explores the potential of advanced IT in healthcare. This book shares insights on leveraging IT tools to address global disruptions like the pandemic, offering case studies from various regions, innovative topics in digital healthcare, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, and recommendations for policymakers worldwide.

This title is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, CEOs, and policymakers seeking to learn from both failures and successes and harness the potential of advanced information technologies to enhance healthcare systems and services.

• Shows the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for the healthcare sector
• Gives insight into the successes and failures during pandemics
• Exploits the potential of AI, big data, and knowledge management to provide better healthcare services and more digital inclusion of citizen
• Includes study cases in the field of IT and digital health during the pandemic and analyses lessons learned

About this title

About the Authors

Patricia de Pablos is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Her field of research focuses on knowledge management, healthcare sector, innovation, information technologies and technological disruption. She published more than 125 papers in academic journals and more than 35 books. She has wide editorial experience in journals, books and book series. She serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Asian Business and Information and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. She edited several books and bookseries. In 2021 she was named on “Stanford University’s Ranking of the World Scientists: World’s Top 2% Scientists".

Dr. Mohammad Nabil Almunawar is currently an associate professor at the School of Business and Economics, Universiti of Brunei Darussalam (UBDSBE), Brunei Darussalam. Dr. Almunawar has published more than 150 papers in refereed journals, books, book chapters, and encyclopedias. In the area of digital health, he has more than 20 publications. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience in information systems and e-business/e-commerce. He is currently Editor-in-chief of International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) (Index in Scopus and WoS) and Journal of Business and Economic Analysis. His overall research interests include applications of IT in management, e-business/commerce, digital transformation, digital marketplace/platform, digital business ecosystem, health informatics, information security, and cloud computing. Currently, he focuses his research on digital transformation, digital marketplace platforms, and digital business ecosystems - including healthcare business ecosystem .

Anshari has been named in the Stanford University List of the Top 2% of World Researchers for 2022 and 2023 in the fields of ICT, business, and management. He received the Outstanding Paper award at the Emerald Literati Awards 2023 for two published papers in two Emerald journals. His research has also been referenced in two patents 2021 & 2022. After completing his PhD at FBEPS UBD, Anshari served as a research fellow at National Taiwan University and as a researcher at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Prior to that, in 2009, he was a research fellow in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at King Saud University. Anshari has successfully completed eight research grant projects and three research industry consultancies. Anshari's research interests focus on Digital Health, and he has experience as an editor for several edited books and as an author for healthcare information systems in various peer-reviewed journals

From the Back Cover

Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society proofs the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for healthcare sector. It shares crucial knowledge about best experiences, tools and solutions provided by IT to solve the global disruption caused the pandemic in societies, healthcare infrastructures and health workers as well as for preparedness for future pandemics and global disruption. In 9 sections the reader is provided with case studies and experiences not only from Asia-Pacific and Europe, but also from other regions (Africa, Latin America, Gulf Region and USA), innovative, new and emerging topics in the field of digital healthcare, digital inclusion and citizen empowerment, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and experiences in post-COVID scenario and recommendations for policy makers around the world. This book gives insight to Researchers, clinicians, CEOs and policymakers who need to learn from the failures and successes and exploit the potential of advanced information technologies to build stronger healthcare systems, and better quality healthcare services.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443301689
• ISBN 13: 9780443301681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680
• Editor: De Pablos