Measuring Healthcare Outcomes-a Race to Utopia?

Dialogue--A New Utopia?

Socially-Assigned Race, Healthcare Discrimination and Preventive Healthcare Services

BACKGROUND Race and ethnicity, typically defined as how individuals self-identify, are complex social constructs. Self-identified racial/ethnic minorities are less likely to receive preventive care and more likely to report healthcare discrimination than self-identified non-Hispanic whites. However, beyond self-identification, these outcomes may vary depending on whether racial/ethnic minoritie...

A new physiologic race

Using Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes

Big data analytics will transform every industry, and none more than healthcare. To simplify integration, Intel is working with GE to deliver Predix® for Healthcare, a computing platform designed specifically for integrating applications and for sharing and analyzing large, complex data sets. Predix will help healthcare providers turn mountains of isolated data into actionable insights across t...

Ambient Utopia

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...