Intro; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Healthcare and Green IT: The Duo of Emerging Importance; The Message from Our Book; Readers for Whom the Book Is Intended; Themes Addressed and the Structure of the Book; Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Healthcare: An Emerging Domain and Its Global Importance; The Healthcare Domain in the Global Context; The Healthcare Industry: An Overview; The Healthcare Industry: The Challenges; Healthcare and Green IT; Green Healthcare: Its Importance for our Planet.
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Six Sigma to Help Make Healthcare GreenChapter Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 3: Healthcare and Green IT; The GREEN Context for Healthcare (IT and non-IT); Mobile Devices and Telemedicine in Healthcare Domain; Exhibit 3.1: EMR and HER: The Two Related but Different Things; Exhibit 3.2: "mHealth" and Mobile Devices in Healthcare: The World Is Changing; Healthcare and the Benefits of Telemedicine and Mobile Medicine; The Barriers in the Use of Telemedicine and Mobile Healthcare; The IT Infrastructure of Telemedicine; The Greening of Healthcare: Telemedicine and Green IT.
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Telemedicine Practices and mHealth Services in Developing Countries: The Indian ScenarioTelemedicine in Healthcare: The Challenges; Green Healthcare and the Role of Virtualization in Green IT; The Concepts of Consolidation and Virtualization; Consolidation: A Key in Energy Efficiency; Virtualization: The Greenest of Technologies; Server Virtualization; Partitioning; Other Virtualization Techniques; Chapter Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 4: Using Data Science to Make Healthcare Green; Implementing Efficient Applications and Deduplicating Data.
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The Greening of Health from a Transportation Point of ViewThe Greening of Health from the Energy Operations Point of View; Green Building for the Greening of Health; Chapter Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 2: The Role of Data Science and Data Analytics in Healthcare; Data Science and Big Data; The Relation Between Cloud and Big Data; An Overview of "Analytics" and Healthcare Data Complexity; The Role of Data Analytics in Healthcare; Leveraging Big Data to the Benefit of Healthcare; Using Green IT and Data Science to Make Healthcare Green; Implement Efficient Applications and Deduplicate Data.
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Using Data Mining to Establish the Applicable New Technologies to Significantly Make Health GreenFuel Cells for Data-Center Electricity; Other Emerging Green Technologies for the Data Center; Adopting Data Analytics to Help Make Healthcare Green; Six Sigma Approach to Help Make Healthcare Green; Define the Opportunities and Problems (Diagnose); Measure (You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure); Analyze IT Infrastructure with Energy-Efficient Cooling; Improve (Virtualize IT Devices -- Use Cloud When Feasible); Control (Continue to Measure and Manage and Upgrade as Necessary).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book offers examples of how data science, big data, analytics, and cloud technology can be used in healthcare to significantly improve a hospital's IT Energy Efficiency along with information on the best ways to improve energy efficiency for healthcare in a cost effective manner. The book builds on the work done in other sectors (mainly data centers) in effectively measuring and improving IT energy efficiency and includes case studies illustrating power and cooling requirements within Green Healthcare. Making Healthcare Green will appeal to professionals and researchers working in the areas of analytics and energy efficiency within the healthcare fields.
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783319790695
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Title
Making healthcare green.
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9783319790688
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Climate change mitigation.
Green technology.
Medical care-- Cost control.
Sustainable buildings.
Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology.