New Horizons in Health discusses how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can integrate research in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences to better understand the causes of disease as well as interventions that promote health. It outlines a set of research priorities for consideration by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), with particular attention to research that can support and complement the work of the National Institutes of Health. By addressing the range of interactions among social settings, behavioral patterns, and important health concerns, it highlights areas of scientific opportunity where significant investment is most likely to improve nationalâ€"and globalâ€"health outcomes. These opportunities will apply the knowledge and methods of the behavioral and social sciences to contemporary health needs, and give attention to the chief health concerns of the general public.

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While ultra-high field strength diagnosis technologies and artificial intelligence have propelled medicine imaging towards microstructure analysis and precise medicine, persistent challenges remain. These range from long scanning times to motion sensitivity and issues with imaging quality for certain types of tissue. Medical Robotics and AI-Assisted Diagnostics for a High-Tech Healthcare Industry summarizes emerging techniques, outlines clinical applications, and confronts the challenges head-on, proposing avenues for further research. It explores emerging techniques such as human-like robotics, medical Internet of Things (IoT), low-cost CT scanners, portable MRI devices, and breakthroughs in diagnosis technologies like zero echo time (ZTM) and compressed sensing volume interpolation breath-holding test sequences (CS-VIBE). This book provides an overview of the current state of medical imaging and clinical diagnosis applications, then expands into a roadmap for the future, envisioning the seamless integration of medical robotics and AI-assisted applications in the high-tech healthcare industry. As the influence of artificial intelligence continues to grow, the book serves as a clarion call for collaborative efforts, increased research, and unified strategies to navigate the challenges and harness the opportunities presented by the high-tech medical industry. This book is ideal for medical analysts, healthcare scientists, biotechnology analysts, scholars, researchers, academics, professionals, engineers, and students worldwide.

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Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health care stem as much from a lack of agreement about the goals and priorities of medicine as from the way systems function. This book asks basic questions about the purposes and ends of medicine and shows that the answers have practical implications for future health care delivery, medical research, and the education of medical students. The Hastings Center coordinated teams of physicians, nurses, public health experts, philosophers, theologians, politicians, health care administrators, social workers, and lawyers in fourteen countries to explore these issues. In this volume, they articulate four basic goals of medicine — prevention of disease, relief of suffering, care of the ill, and avoidance of premature death — and examine them in light of the cultural, political, and economic pressures under which medicine functions. In reporting these findings, the contributors touch on a wide range of diverse issues such as genetic technology, Chinese medicine, care of the elderly, and prevention and public health. The Goals of Medicine clearly demonstrates the importance of clarifying the purposes of medicine before attempting to change the economic and organizational systems. It warns that without such examination, any reform efforts may be fruitless.

Powerful new approaches and advances in medical systems drive increasingly high expectations for healthcare providers internationally. The form of digital healthcare – a suite of new technologies offering significant benefits in cost and quality – allow institutions to keep pace with society’s needs. This book covers the need for responsible innovation in this area, exploring the issues of implementation as well as potential negative consequences to ensure digital healthcare delivers for the benefit of all stakeholders.