Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment: Volume 118 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

The technology on our body, in our body and all around us enhances our health and well-being from conception to death. Human body and the world in which it functions is a continuously changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect more and more data about it, but the real challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians (mathematicians serving human health) have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. Humans can only process comfortably three dimensions, while computers can see infinite number of dimensions. We will need to trust the distributed network of healthons, Intelligent Caring Creatures, and NURSES (New Unified Resource System Engineers) to create Health Extelligence. We need new vocabulary to push forward in a new way. For instance; healthons are tools combining prevention with diagnosis and treatment based on continuous monitoring and analyzing of our vital signs and biochemistry Title page......Page 1 Preface......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 6 About the Future of Health Technology Institute "Common Sense in Health"......Page 7 Elevator to the Future......Page 8 Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering......Page 9 Contents......Page 11 Goals and Unsolved Problems......Page 15 Healthons: Errorless Healthcare with Bionic Hugs and No Need for Quality Control......Page 17 Consumers Era - Sociotechnological Environment......Page 27 The Prospects for Medical Technology in the Next Decade......Page 29 Innovation in Telehealth and a Role for the Government......Page 46 Present and Future Challenges in Medical Data Management: Economics, Ethics, and the Law......Page 57 Healthons Era - Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us......Page 67 Healthwear: Medical Technology Becomes Wearable......Page 69 Interfacing Biology and Computing for Health: The Future of Home Diagnostics......Page 80 Designing and Evaluating Home-Based, Just-in-Time Supportive Technology......Page 93 Health. Care. Anywhere. Today......Page 103 How Do We Get the Medical Intelligence Out?......Page 125 Cyborgs Era - Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines......Page 137 Future of Computer Implant Technology and Intelligent Human-Machine Systems......Page 139 Future of Caring Machines......Page 146 Cyber-Anthropology: A New Study on Human and Technological Co-Evolution......Page 160 Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era - Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control......Page 171 Harnessing the Power of an Intelligent Health Environment in Cancer Control......Page 173 Future of Anti-Addiction Vaccines......Page 191 Automating Addiction Treatment: Enhancing the Human Experience and Creating a Fix for the Future......Page 200 Long Life Era - Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders......Page 221 A Strategy for Postponing Aging Indefinitely......Page 223 Future of Caring for an Aging Population: Trends, Technology, and Caregiving......Page 234 Promoting Safe and Comfortable Driving for Elders......Page 245 Global Digital Healthcare Era - Enhancing Healthcare with Soft Technologies......Page 259 Global Medicine Technology......Page 261 Shaping a Healthy Future: Megabyte, Not Mega Bite!......Page 271 Digital Literacy in a Landscape of Data: A Plea for a Broader Definition for Citizens and Patients......Page 277 Adaptive and Errorless Era - Adaptive Healthcare Process Management......Page 285 Situated, Strategic, and AI-Enhanced Technology Introduction to Healthcare......Page 287 Towards an Intelligent Hospital Environment: OR of the Future......Page 292 Framework for Measuring Adaptive Knowledge-Rich Systems Performance......Page 327 The Authors......Page 339 Biographies of the Authors......Page 341 Author Index......Page 349