Rare Diseases in the Age of Health 2.0 Paperback / softback
Edited by Rajeev K. Bali, Lodewijk Bos, Michael Christopher Gibbons, Simon Ibell
Part of the Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This text focuses on various factors associated with orphan diseases and the influence and role of health information technologies. Orphan diseases have not been adopted by the pharmaceutical industry because they provide little financial incentive to treat or prevent it.
It is estimated that 6,000-7,000 orphan diseases exist today; as medical knowledge continues to expand, this number is likely to become much greater.
The book highlights the opportunities and challenges in this increasingly important area.
The book explores new avenues which are opened by information technologies and Health 2.0, and highlights also economic opportunities of orphan disease medicine.
The editors of this new book have international experience and competencies in the key areas of patient empowerment, healthcare and clinical knowledge management, healthcare inequalities and disparities, rare diseases and patient advocacy.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:292 pages, 14 Illustrations, black and white; XXXIII, 292 p. 14 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:23/08/2016
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- ISBN:9783662522332
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:292 pages, 14 Illustrations, black and white; XXXIII, 292 p. 14 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:23/08/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783662522332
