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Title Future of intelligent and extelligent health environment / edited by Renata G. Bushko.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Oxford : IOS Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) : illustrations.
Series Studies in health technology and informatics, 0926-9630 ; v. 118
Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 118. 0926-9630
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Title page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Future of Health Technology Institute "Common Sense in Health"; Elevator to the Future; Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering; Contents; Goals and Unsolved Problems; Consumers Era -- Sociotechnological Environment; Healthons Era -- Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us; Cyborgs Era -- Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines; Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era -- Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control; Long Life Era -- Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders.
Summary Human body and the world in which it functions is a changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect data about it, but the challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians.
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Subject Medical innovations -- Forecasting.
Medical care -- Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
Medical technology -- Forecasting.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology.
MEDICAL -- Biotechnology.
MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine.
Added Author Bushko, Renata Glowacka.
Other Form: Print version: Future of intelligent and extelligent health environment. Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, ©2005 1586035711 (DLC) 2006295781 (OCoLC)62901042
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