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The field of flexible electronics has grown rapidly over the last two decades with diverse applications including wearable gadgets and medical equipment.

Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation provides a comprehensive and clear review of the theories and practices of structuring and managing complex local government services.

In this book David and Alex Bennet propose a new model for organizations that enables them to react more quickly and fluidly to today's fast-changing, dynamic business environment: the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS).

This volume, focusing on low back pain, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.

Developments in deep learning in the past decade have led to phenomenal growth in AI-based automated medical diagnosis, opening a door to a new era of both medical research and medical industry.

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries.

Public health is the science and art of improving the health and well-being of communities.

Following careers in the military and in industry, Robert Grattan has devoted himself to the subject of strategy and its related theory through his research into the strategy implementation employed by business, governments and the military.

Patients are increasingly encouraged to take an active role in managing their health and health care.

It is widely known today that not only are the aged ageing, or the old getting older, but they are also increasing in number the world over.

The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years.

Over the last two decades across the globe we have seen a multitude of programs, projects and books to help improve the safety of patient care in healthcare.

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This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world.

This book provides a practical guide to federated deep learning for healthcare including fundamental concepts, framework, and the applications comprising domain adaptation, model distillation, and transfer learning.

"e;Everything worth winning in life boils down to teamwork and leadership.

This book reveals how to create efficient institutions and coordinate policy on a transnational scale to ensure that European Union integration can best meet social needs.

HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioners (HCISPPSM) are the frontline defense for protecting patient information.

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic.

This book introduces transdermal drug delivery and the developments that have taken place in various transdermal drug delivery techniques including the system-level design approach of a novel miniaturized medical device to offer precise and painless drug delivery via a skin-based transdermal route.

Effective leadership and management in health and social care are built on good practice, strong relationships and a critical understanding of the wider context in which care takes place.

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Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such as NGOs and local communities.

'This book distills the learning from practical experience and academic research.

In this book, Dr.

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.

Good teamwork ensures the close collaboration and coordination between professional groups and across disciplinary boundaries.

Small things add up: trillions of dollars of products applying nanotechnology have been marketed to consumers promising new medicines, strong packaging to protect goods from contamination, stronger eyelash mascara and long-lasting lipstick, construction materials for housing, cheaper energy, and new drugs to fight cancer.

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.

With the constant evolution of change in healthcare from both a technology and governmental perspective, it is imperative to take a step back and view the big picture.

Implementing new information technologies into the healthcare sector can provide alternatives to managing patients' health records, systems, and improving the quality of care received.

Lean-Led Hospital Design explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare's most persistent problems.

This book explains why the fundamental structures of 20th century American healthcare have failed to keep up with American industry in terms of quality and cost.

This volume demonstrates the diverse state-of-the-art applications that combine artificial intelligence with soft computing, which has great potential for creating smart personalized healthcare services.

The Healthcare industry is one of the largest and rapidly developing industries.

The increasingly global study of policy processes faces challenges with scholars applying theories in radically different national and cultural contexts.

With the same clarity that made the previous editions bestsellers, Healthcare Delivery in the U.

This book focuses on the patient experience as a leadership strategy.

This is the fifth publication under the IIIT-A Series on e-Governance.

First published in 1998, this book sets out to shed sociological light upon the much under-researched realm of day-to-day child care practice.

In the recent decade, governments worldwide are increasingly focusing on being community-centric and outcomes-based.

The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like.

Although Reliability Engineering can trace its roots back to World War II, its application to medical devices is relatively recent, and its treatment in the published literature has been quite limited.

This text provides a guide to strategic communications for nonprofit organizations that is rooted in the desire to serve and do good.

In today's interconnected world, healthcare systems are increasingly turning to digital technologies to enhance patient care and optimize operations.

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade.

Widespread crisis-events such as pandemics can impose an immense strain on societies' multi-stakeholder efforts to preserve and sustain the mechanisms of public value (PV) creation.

Blockchain for Healthcare Systems: Challenges, Privacy, and Securing of Data provides a detailed insight on how to reap the benefits of blockchain technology in healthcare, as the healthcare sector faces several challenges associated with privacy and security issues.