Description
Digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with health to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and make healthcare more personalized and precise. These technologies generally focus on the development of interconnected health systems to improve the use of computational technologies, smart devices, computational analysis techniques, and communication media to help healthcare professionals and their patients manage illnesses and health risks, as well as promote health and well-being. Digital tools play a central role in the most promising future healthcare innovations and create tremendous opportunities for a more integrated and value-based system along with a stronger focus on patient outcomes, and as such, having access to the latest research findings and progressions is of paramount importance.
Digital Therapies in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health introduces the latest digital innovations in the mental health field and points out new ways it can be used in patient care while also delving into some of the limits of its application. It presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art approach to digital mental health technologies and practices within the broad confines of psychosocial and mental health practices and also provides a canvas to discuss emerging digital mental health solutions, propelled by the ubiquitous availability of personalized devices and affordable wearable sensors and innovative technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, mobile apps, robots, and intelligent platforms. It is ideal for medical professors and students, researchers, practitioners of healthcare companies, managers, and other professionals where digital health technologies can be used.
Author's/Editor's Biography
António Marques (Ed.)
Antonio Marques, Ph.D. in Psychology, is currently a member of the directive board of Portuguese Federation of Rehabilitation Entities for Mental Ill, and of the Center for Rehabilitation Research (CIR). He’s also co-coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Lab (LabRP), Porto Interactive Neuroscience Group, of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Research Group of the São João Hospital, and of Porto Metropolitan Area Network of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Institutions. His main research areas are mental health and psychosocial rehabilitation, social innovation, and virtual and augmented reality, being responsible for several postgraduate courses, I&D projects, master and Ph.D. theses in these fields.
Ricardo Queirós (Ed.)
Ricardo Queirós is an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Studies and Management (ESEIG) in Vila do Conde, which is responsible for courses in the area of ICT and Programming Languages. He is a PhD student of the Doctoral Program in Computer Sciences in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). His scientific activity is related with e-Learning Standards and Interoperability, Languages for XML, Architectural Integration, with focus on the development of e-Learning Systems. He is an associated member of the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS)—an INESC-Porto Associated Laboratory—and a founding member of KMILT (Knowledge Management, Interactive, and Learning Technologies) research group.