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This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer and dementia, is an increasing concern amongst policy makers and providers of health and social care. Accordingly, the burden on state and private funders in providing care to patients with these complex illnesses is of growing importance to health economists. However, answering the questions raised by the research community on end of life and palliative care health economics has received little attention. The authors shed light on many questions including: Are economic evaluation methods fit for purpose in patients at the end of life? What is the best way to measure and value health outcomes in this population? What are the appropriate societal rules to govern resource allocation for people at the end of life? Are these people more or less deserving of resources than other patients? Does age matter? How can we define a good death for the purposes of resource allocation decision making? What ethics govern research in end of life patients?

Terminal Care --- Palliative Care --- Cost-Benefit Analysis --- Patient Care --- Costs and Cost Analysis --- Therapeutics --- Health Services --- Economics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Terminal care. --- Palliative treatment. --- Palliation (Medical care) --- Palliative care --- Palliative medicine --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Health economics. --- Health Economics. --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Economic aspects

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Medicine and psychology. --- Medical social work --- Behavior modification --- Medicine and psychology --- Organ Transplantation --- Medicine --- Digestive System Surgical Procedures --- Patient Care Management --- Tissue Transplantation --- Health Services --- Behavioral Sciences --- Sociology --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Occupations --- Social Sciences --- Transplantation --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Health Care --- Health Services Administration --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Liver Transplantation --- Social Work --- Delivery of Health Care --- Behavioral Medicine

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Learn how to detect and prevent the hacking of medical equipment at hospitals and healthcare facilities. A cyber-physical attack on building equipment pales in comparison to the damage a determined hacker can do if he/she gains access to a medical-grade network as a medical-grade network controls the diagnostic, treatment, and life support equipment on which lives depend. News reports inform us how hackers strike hospitals with ransomware that prevents staff from accessing patient records or scheduling appointments. Unfortunately, medical equipment also can be hacked and shut down remotely as a form of extortion. Criminal hackers will not ask for a $500 payment to unlock an MRI, PET or CT scan, or X-ray machine—they will ask for much more. Litigation is bound to follow and the resulting punitive awards will drive up hospital insurance costs and healthcare costs in general. This will undoubtedly result in increased regulations for hospitals and higher costs for compliance. Unless hospitals and other healthcare facilities take the steps necessary to secure their medical-grade networks, they will be targeted for cyber-physical attack, possibly with life-threatening consequences. Cybersecurity for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities is a wake-up call explaining what hackers can do, why hackers would target a hospital, the way hackers research a target, ways hackers can gain access to a medical-grade network (cyber-attack vectors), and ways hackers hope to monetize their cyber-attack. By understanding and detecting the threats, hospital administrators can take action now—before their hospital becomes the next victim. This book shows you how to: Determine how vulnerable hospital and healthcare building equipment is to cyber-physical attack. Identify possible ways hackers can hack hospital and healthcare facility equipment. Recognize the cyber-attack vectors—or paths by which a hacker or cracker can gain access to a computer, a medical-grade network server, or expensive medical equipment in order to deliver a payload or malicious outcome. Detect and prevent man-in-the-middle or denial-of-service cyber-attacks. Detect and prevent hacking of the hospital database and hospital web application.

Computer science. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Computer security. --- Computer Science. --- Security. --- Systems and Data Security. --- Operating Systems. --- Internet --- Health facilities --- Security measures. --- Facilities, Health --- Health care facilities --- Health care institutions --- Health institutions --- Institutions, Health --- Medical care facilities --- Medical care institutions --- Medical facilities --- Computer privacy --- Computer system security --- Computer systems --- Computers --- Cyber security --- Cybersecurity --- Electronic digital computers --- Security of computer systems --- Security measures --- Protection of computer systems --- Protection --- Data protection --- Security systems --- Hacking --- Computer operating systems --- Disk operating systems --- Systems software --- Informatics --- Science --- Operating systems --- Medical care --- Public health --- Data protection. --- Data governance --- Data regulation --- Personal data protection --- Protection, Data --- Electronic data processing

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Most neonates who now survive intensive care would have died 50 years ago, and “nature” would have decided the outcomes, making ethical discussions about initiating or withholding resuscitation irrelevant. Medical developments in neonatology have changed the way we respond to diseases of neonates, to their illness, and to their parents. Not only as physicians, but also as a society. Decisions on when to start, withhold, or withdraw life-saving interventions in critically ill neonates are among the most difficult decisions in pediatric practice. These decisions are fraught with ethical dilemmas, for example deciding whether withholding intensive care –leading to death- is superior to uncertain survival with a risk of disability and the additional burden of intensive care. This book covers important ethical questions that arise in neonatal intensive care units. Questions such as, whether to intervene medically and whether we are good at predicting the outcome of fragile neonates; whether a medical intervention should be withheld or withdrawn, and who should be primarily responsible for these decisions and how?

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Chapter 1: Emerging mHealth Ecosystems based on innovative technologies and services Vassileia Costarides, Kostas Giokas and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 2: Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An overview of design research areas Amine Boulemtafes and Nadjib Badache Chapter 3: Citizen Engagement in the mHealth Ecosystem Using Mobiles and Wearable Devices Ioannis Kouris and Dimitrios Koutsouris Chapter 4: Innovative mHealth Ecosystems Dimitrios Tsoromokos, Zacharias Dermatis, Filippos Gozadinos and Athina Lazakidou Chapter 5: Mobile-Health Tool Use and Community Health Worker Performance in the Kenyan Context: A Comparison of Task-Technology Fit Perspectives Maradona C. Gatara Chapter 6: Design of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An overview of techniques and technologies< Nadjib Badache and Amine Boulemtafes Chapter 7: M-Health ecosystem based of a non-invasive commercial hemodynamic monitoring system used for heart failure patients, as portable point of care Petros Toumpaniaris, Kostas Giokas and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 8: How Knowledge Flows Through Social Networks and Communities of Practice in a Healthcare Project Maria Tsouri, Kleopatra Alamantariotou, Ourania Pediaditaki, Vikentia Harizopoulou and Georgia Kontosorou Chapter 9: A context-aware social networking platform built around the needs of elderly users: The Go-myLife experience Maria Haritou, Athanasios Anastasiou, Maria Schwarz-Woelzl, Teresa Holocher-Ertl, Michael Mulquin, Idoia Olalde, Ioannis Kouris and Dimitris Koutsouris Chapter 10: Cost effectiveness in healthcare using social networks Stelios Zimeras Chapter 11: Social Networks and Web-based Applications in the Healthcare Sector Athina Lazakidou Chapter 12: Knowledge Sharing in Health Innovation Projects: Experiential Learning from Collaborating in a Project-Based Working Group Focusing in Knowledge Transfer in Maternity Services Best Practice (COST Projects IS 0907) Kleopatra Alamantariotou and Katerina Nicolopoulou Chapter 13: Social Networks Medical Image Steganography using Sub-Fibonacci Sequences Nikolaos G. Aroukatos, Kostas Manes and Stelios Zimeras Chapter 14: Studying the information behavior of healthcare professionals in a Greek private clinic using social networks models P. Kostagiolas, Stelios Zimeras, G. Alexias and Z. Siskou.

Telemedicine --- Health Communication --- Medical Informatics Applications --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Medical Informatics --- Communication --- Delivery of Health Care --- Medicine --- Telecommunications --- Communications Media --- Patient Care Management --- Health Occupations --- Information Science --- Health Care --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health Services Administration --- Medical informatics. --- Medical telematics. --- Clinical informatics --- Health informatics --- Medical information science --- Clinical telematics --- Health telematics --- Telehealth --- Medical informatics --- Telecommunication in medicine --- Telematics --- Information science --- Data processing --- Health care management. --- Medical records --- Health Care Management. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Health Informatics. --- Data processing. --- EHR systems --- EHR technology --- EHRs (Electronic health records) --- Electronic health records --- Electronic medical records --- EMR systems --- EMRs (Electronic medical records) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Medical care --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Administration --- Management --- Health services administration. --- Application software. --- Health informatics. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software