Emerging Technologies in Healthcare

This edited book focuses on the role and use of emerging technologies within the healthcare sector. This text will draw on expertise from leading practitioners and researchers who either utilise and/or are at the forefront of researching with emerging technology in anticipation of enhancing patient outcomes

1 Emerging Technologies in Healthcare: Interpersonal and Client-Based Perspectives 2 Augmentation through Technology: Considerations for Choice, Identity, and Culture 3 Emerging Technologies in Healthcare: Disability-Related Perspectives from Ghana 4 Emerging Technologies in Neurorehabilitation: A Perspective from Brazil 5 Virtual Reality and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Anxious or Claustrophobic Patients: An Emerging Solution to a Longstanding Challenge? 6 Ethical and Moral Considerations: Telerehabilitation 7 Technology-aided Programs to Support Leisure, Communication, and Daily Activities in People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities 8 The Role of Healthcare and Social Care Professionals in Supporting Access to and Engagement with Healthcare Technologies 9 Video Modeling: Opportunities and Ethical Considerations 10 The Explosion of Technology in Pediatric Rehabilitation: A Call to Use the F-Word Lens 11 Opportunities to Reduce Inequities through Tele-wheelchair Assessments: The Importance of Co-designing Services with indigenous M ori with Lived Experience of Disability 12 Person-centered Perspective on the Use of Technology in Healthcare 13 Technology in the Home: An Ethical Discussion about Aging Adults with Cognitive Changes 14 Determining the Role of Socially Assistive Robots in Healthcare