Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

This books analyzes what happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between patients and healthcare professionals.

Author: N. Oudshoorn
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/27/2011
Pages: 241
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230300200

About the Author

Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research interests focus around issues of the development and use of new technologies in healthcare. She is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2005), the Diana Forsythe Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009) and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (2012).