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What is Positive Technology

Emerging Trends and Innovations in Privacy and Health Information Management
Technology designed to improve the quality of life representing a potential way to increase accessibility, affordability, and effectiveness of positive interventions in many areas of society, including health (e.g. Electronic Health Records, Mobile Health Apps, Telemedicine, electronic prescribing).
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Digital Professionalism: Challenges and Opportunities to Healthcare Professions
Joana Vale Guerra (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8470-4.ch003
Abstract
The widespread use of digital technology allows for a number of transformations in the organization of work which renders the importance of professional and expert knowledge more open to challenges. The digital age is impacting and changing many aspects of professional development, therefore must be examined in its effects on reshaping healthcare professions and its implications on professional autonomy and discretionary judgment. To achieve this goal, advantages and disadvantages will be highlighted about the usage of electronic health record software to the healthcare professional's autonomy and discretionary power. The increased use of digital technologies is deeply affecting most professional occupations, transforming their identities, structures, and practices. In recognizing the challenges and opportunities to professional work of the digital transformation is underlined the importance of trying to understand how to remain professional in different digital environments and how to work in contexts with ambient surveillance.
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Positive Technology: A Growing Market With a Potential to Rebuild a Resilient Society During and After the COVID-19 Crisis
It is a scientific and applied approach for improving the quality of our personal experience using digital goods and services with the goal of increasing wellness, generating strengths and resilience in individuals, organizations, and society.
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Serious Games as Positive Technologies
It is an emergent field based on both theoretical and applied research, whose goal is to investigate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used to empower the quality of personal experience. Positive technology approach claims that technology can increase emotional, psychological and social well-being.
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