Social Innovation in Long-Term Care Through Digitalization: Proceedings of the German-Italian Workshop LTC-2021

This book explores innovative approaches to Long-Term Digital Care, focusing on improving internationalization and accessibility, and includes contributions from experts in technology and social disciplines. It provides practical roadmaps for digital social innovation, evaluates processes for sustainability, and discusses technologies for patient monitoring, medical data analysis, and advanced diagnostics. The aim is to inform and inspire collaboration across disciplines, countries, and institutions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 142 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive book presents a collection of extended contributions to the workshop on Long-Term Digital Care, LTC-2021, organized by the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona, Italy, and the Hochschule Konstanz (HTWG) in Germany, with funding from the DAAD Joint Mobility Program. The workshop, held in November 2021, aimed to explore innovative and practice-oriented approaches to foster digital health care, with a particular emphasis on enhancing internationalization and accessibility. Spanning technological and social disciplines, the book offers a rich tapestry of insights, reporting on selected studies that seek to establish a comparative analysis of Long-Term Digital Care approaches, with a focus on exchange and networking processes. It also provides practical roadmaps for digital social innovation, develops concepts and methods for process evaluation and sustainability, and provides a timely snapshot on technologies for patient monitoring and assistant systems, medical data analysis and image processing, digital platforms, and advanced diagnostics techniques. Moreover, it delves into important concepts related to traceable process evaluation, networking, and accessibility. The primary objective of this book is to inform, while also serving as a catalyst for inspiring and fostering stronger collaboration across disciplines, countries, and academic and professional institutions. By bringing together experts from diverse backgrounds, the book aims to advance the field of Long-Term Digital Care and contribute to the development of a more inclusive and sustainable healthcare system.

Weight: 401g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031168543
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022