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Thinking spatially, acting collaboratively : a GIS-based health decision support system for improving the collaborative health-planning practice
Gudes, Ori; Pathak, Virendra; Kendall, Elizabeth; … - 2011
The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges due to the lack of effective information, systems and the absence of a framework to make informed decisions. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the healthy cities movement, consequently, there have been more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438091
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A taxonomy of e-health standards to assist system developers
Chavez, Emma; Krishnan, Padmanabhan; Finnie, Gavin - 2009
Building e-health systems requires a good understanding of the range and characteristics of many relevant standards. These standards play an important role in the promotion of coordination amongst the key players in the technical and administrative areas of the e-health arena. Many entities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441588
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A framework for assessing e-health preparedness
Wickramasinghe, N; Fadlalla, A; Geisler, E; Schaffer, J - 2005
Whilst healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realise the full potential of the e-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481768
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Diffusion and usage of public e-services in Europe: An assessment of country level indicators and drivers
Seri, Paolo; Bianchi, Annaflavia; Matteucci, Nicola - In: Telecommunications Policy 38 (2014) 5, pp. 496-513
empirically the issue of the explanation of the availability scores, i.e. how the supply of the various e-services in each country … analysis uncovers the importance of broadband penetration and higher education as drivers for most of the types of e-services … phenomenon – the e-services availability and usage across European countries. As such, this work appears useful to inform the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943172
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The Impact of ICT on Health Promotion: A Randomized Experiment with Diabetic Patients
Balsa, Ana; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper summarizes a randomized experiment to study the effects of an Internet-based intervention on type 2 diabetes patients in Montevideo, Uruguay. A specially designed website and electronic social network allowed participants to navigate freely, download materials, and interact with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944301
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Provider perceptions of electronic medical records and e-prescribing and their integration into safety net clinics
Hotchkiss, Renee Brent; Mason, Mondi A.; John R. … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 1/2/3, pp. 79-91
This paper reports the findings of a formative study that examined knowledge, readiness, and perceptions of healthcare providers in safety-net clinics about electronic medical records (EMR) and e-prescribing. It was conducted in six safety net clinics in southeast Georgia that serve a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011015199
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Empowering patients and professionals: case of Lithuanian e-health system
Skarzauskiene, Aelita; Maciuliene, Monika; Stokaite, … - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
development of high quality healthcare services. The deployment of new ICTs has the potential to increase organisational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210132
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Empowering patients and professionals: case of Lithuanian e-health system
Skarzauskiene, Aelita; Stokaite, Viktorija; Maciuliene, … - In: International Journal of Business and Management 3 (2015) 1, pp. 75-89
development of high quality healthcare services. The deployment of new ICTs has the potential to increase organisational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210389
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Automation of e-health systems through mobile devices and semantic technology
Abdullai, Besim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the time where the digital world is moving to mobile devices, new opportunities are emerging for the e-health systems. We live in the time when data are stored in different databases and different ways. This imposed the use of ontologies to resolve interoperability issues. Ontologies can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260416
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Survival of the project: A case study of ICT innovation in health care
Andreassen, Hege K.; Kjekshus, Lars Erik; Tjora, Aksel - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 62-69
From twenty years of information and communication technology (ICT) projects in the health sector, we have learned one thing: most projects remain projects. The problem of pilotism in e-health and telemedicine is a growing concern, both in medical literature and among policy makers, who now ask...
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