scholarly journals The Role of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine in Personalized Health Care

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmeline Edwards
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
Marcello Aspria ◽  
Marleen de Mul ◽  
Samantha Adams ◽  
Roland Bal

We explore the role of two metaphors for innovation and infrastructure integration in the development of a regional patient portal. Our premise is that metaphors have real consequences for agenda setting and decision-making; we view them as operationalizations of sociotechnical imaginaries. Drawing on our formative study of the portal project, we focus on the generative character of metaphors and argue that they are constitutive elements of information infrastructures. While the two metaphors in our study helped to make imaginaries of ‘integrated’ and ‘personalized’ health care more definite, cognizable, and classifiable, they also concealed the politics of infrastructural work. We argue that the act of ‘spelling out’ metaphors can open up a space for new imaginaries and alternative strategies. With this study we aim to contribute to existing knowledge about infrastructural work, and to renew the interest among STS scholars for the role of discursive attributes in information infrastructures.Keywords: metaphors, e-Health, information infrastructures


Author(s):  
Aleš Bourek

Future health systems, besides traditional areas defined and addressed since 1980, face the advent of Proactive, Predictive, Prospective, Preventive, Participative and Personalized health care (HC). Reliable e-health platforms can help us with these challenges. They should be designed and implemented in a way to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary results. Even the best projects addressing HC systems improvement are not automatically qualified for implementation unless adopted by policy makers. The introduction of strategies with a potential for healthcare systems improvement to policy makers is necessary but difficult because of the complexity of the addressed issue. Illustrated on four projects, selected from the 25 the author participated in, from 1993 to 2016, principles, processes and attitudes found beneficial for successful policy implementation in various healthcare environments, are presented, to help with the integration of reliable electronic healthcare platforms into coming healthcare systems.


Author(s):  
Kevin B. Johnson ◽  
Wei‐Qi Wei ◽  
Dilhan Weeraratne ◽  
Mark E. Frisse ◽  
Karl Misulis ◽  
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Maturitas ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Cano ◽  
Tommaso Simoncini ◽  
Margaret Rees

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