Systems biology and the digital revolution are together transforming healthcare to a proactive P4 medicine that is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. Systems biology - holistic, global and integrative in approach - has given rise to systems medicine, a systems approach to health and disease. Systems medicine promises to (1) provide deep insights into disease mechanisms, (2)...

Over the last 15 years, a virtual revolution has taken place in the use of Virtual Reality simulation technology for clinical purposes. Shifts in the social and scientific landscape have now set the stage for the next major movement in Clinical Virtual Reality with the "birth" of intelligent virtual humans. Seminal research and development has appeared in the creation of highly interactive, art...

For decades now, IT technology has been used in the field of medicine and healthcare. Developments in medicine led to a plethora of new diagnostic and imaging possibilities and a flood of corresponding patient data. Nowadays, healthcare is more of an inter-institutional joint effort than it ever was. In IT, the possibilies to process, store and share data have seen a revolution. Both sciences t...

The 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran is considered as a turning point in the contemporary architecture of the nation. There have been apexes to the eye catching architectural improvements in the three forthcoming decades after the revolution. One of the most effective isorganizing the contests in architectural that affairs has not only removed the recession in the field but has also discarded th...

OBJECTIVES The current digital revolution is particularly relevant for interactions of healthcare providers with patients and the community as a whole. The growing public acceptance and distribution of new communication tools such as smart mobile phones provide the prerequisite for information and communication technology (ICT) -assisted healthcare applications. The present study aimed at ident...

in iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. this es...

New York: Basic Books; 2012 ISBN: 0465025501 Hard cover, 303 pages Until my mentor recommended this book, I did not imagine the future of medicine, ‘digitalized and individualized’, seriously. Our world is rapidly digitalized and connected with each other. However, it seems that the medical field wants to be the last land to be changed. Have you ever imagined how the medicine will change when t...

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), alongside Radiological Information Systems (RIS) are nowadays widely disseminated, proven useful, hospital information systems components. The “Région Sans Film” (“Filmless Region”) program was launched in 2009 by the French ministry of health in order to help the generalization to all healthcare structures such as hospitals or general physici...

revolution theoreticians have declared contending and approximately incompatible theories, caused in bewilderment among concerned field enthusiasts. as a result, some have intended to categorize these theories till reduce bewilderment, and make them easier to study. one of these theoreticians is jack goldstone who at first categorized theories of revolution into three generations. but after the...