Digital Transformation in Healthcare in Post-COVID-19 Times discusses recent advances in patient care and offers critical comparative insights into their application across multiple domains in healthcare. By showcasing key problems, best practices and emerging challenges, the book offers a state-of-art review of opportunities and prospects in the process of delivering smart sustainable healthcare services. Topics discussed include healthcare challenges in the post-COVID-19 era, enabling technologies for digital transformation, value driven approaches to the delivery of patient centric top-quality health services, and analytics and enhanced decision making. In addition, the book updates knowledge on best practices for training towards digital transformation and sustainable health.
This is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors, researchers, graduate students and members of the biomedical field who are interested in learning more about the use of emerging technologies in healthcare.
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Table of Contents
1. The Challenges in the HealthCare in the post-COVID-19 era2. The enabling technologies for the Digital Transformation3. A value driven approach to the delivery of patient centric top-quality health services4. Analytics and Enhanced Decision Making in Health5. Best Practices for Training towards Digital Transformation and Sustainable healthAuthors
Miltiadis Lytras Effat University, Computer Science Department, College of Engineering, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Miltiadis D. Lytras is an expert in advanced computer science and management, editor, lecturer, and research consultant, with extensive experience in academia and the business sector in Europe and Asia. Dr. Lytras is a Research Professor at Deree CollegedThe American College of Greece and a Distinguished Scientist at the King Abdulaziz Univer sity, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Lytras is a world-class expert in the fields of cognitive computing, information systems, technology-enabled innovation, social networks, computers in human behavior, and knowledge management. In his work, Dr. Lytras seeks to bring together and exploit synergies among scholars and experts committed to enhancing the quality of education for all. He has coedited more than 110 high-impact fac tor special issues in ISI/Scopus-indexed journals and coedited/authored more than 80 books with international publishers including Elsevier, Emerald, IGI-Global, Springer, etc. Dr. Lytras has coauthored more than 120 high-impact factor papers in Q1 and Q2, Web of Sci ence, and Scopus-indexed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data En gineering; IEEE Internet Computing; IEEE Transactions on Education; IEEE Access; Future Generation Computer Systems; the Journal of Business Research; the International Journal of Information Management; the Journal of Innovation and Knowledge; Technological Forecasting and Social Change; the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing; World Wide Web Journal; Computers in Human Behavior; Studies in Higher Education; Telematics and Informatics; Information Systems Management; the International Journal of Engineering Education; the Journal of Universal Computer Science; the Journal of Knowledge Management; the British Journal of Educational Technology; Interactive Learning Environment; Educational Technology & Society; Behavior & Information Technology, etc. Dr. Lytras has 25 years of experience on Research and Development projects and grants with significant skills and competencies to the successful conceptualization, financing, and implementation of R&D projects with extensive experience in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. He has involved in more than 70 R&D projects overtime. Dr. Lytras has held various senior editorial positions in prestigious journals over time including Editor in Chief and Associate Editor positions. He has also the privilege to guest edit more than 130 special issues in high-impact factor journals. He is the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (High-Impact Factor, WoS indexed). Additional editorial positions (selected): Founding Editor in Chief, International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Founding Editor in Chief International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) Founding Editor in Chief of International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR). Dr. Lytras has coedited more than 100 peer-reviewed volumes/books in topics related to his expertise. Indicative titles include the following: Digital Transformation in Healthcare in Post COVID-19 Times, Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation, Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats, and Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond.
Abdulrahman Housawi Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia.Dr. Abdulrahman Housawi is a Nephrologist and Specialist in multiorgan transplant surgery and Chairman of the Multi-organ Transplant Research Committee at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, KSA. He received his medical degree from the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, his Master of Science degree with a focus on epidemiology and biosta?tistics from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and a Master of Science in Health Administration from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. His research interests include the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, developing research registries for CKD and solid organ transplants, the outcomes of living kidney donation and the long-term outcomes of kidney transplantation. From the PH-LEADER workshops, he hopes to further his knowledge of transplants and outside aspects of surgery and its effects on the donors and their families. Currently, he is responsible for the development and implementation of the Saudi Commission's strategy, including its transformation to a data-driven organization (2016epresent).
Basim Alsaywid Saudi National Institute of Health, Education and Research Skills Directory, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Basim Alsaywid, Pediatric Urology Surgeon, graduated from King Abdulaziz University then completed Saudi Board of Urology in 2007. He obtained his Pediatric Urology Training Certificate from a fellowship at Westmead Children Hospital and then Sydney Children Hospital at Randwick, Sydney, Australia. During his fellowship training, he completed his Master of Medicine degree from the University of Sydney in Clinical Epide?miology with focus on biostatistics, and then he completed his Master's in Health Profes?sion Education from King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Alsaywid founded the research offices at the College of Medicine and College of Applied Health Sciences at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Jeddah. Also, he founded and chaired the Research and Development Department at Saudi Commission for Health Specialties in Riyadh. Currently, Dr. Alsaywid is the Director of Education and Research Skills at Saudi National Institute of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
