Background: Hospitals need to accurately manage mobile devices (e.g., intravenous pumps) associated to their patients and health providers to ensure patient safety. Some hospitals have already invested substantially in real-time location system (RTLS) technology, a specific type of Internet of...

Large-scale deployment of electronic Prescription and Patient Summary services (eP/ PS) is expected to enable seamless cross-border care and secure access to patient health information between European healthcare systems. Guaranteeing national readiness to support priorities, determined at the...

The purpose of this work is to expose challenges related to the implementation of quality electronic medical record (EMR) systems in public hospitals in Greece, a country where the national health system (NHS) has already acquired electronic medical records (EMRs). The level of EMR...

A widely discussed shortcoming of long-term care in nursing homes for elderly is the inappropriate or suboptimal drug utilization, in particular the utilization of psychotropic drugs. This paper estimates the effect of institutionalization on the drug intake of frail elderly using administrative...

This report provides a spatial representation of hospital geography in Iowa and of the decisions of patients to patronize hospitals. It begins with a brief analysis of hospital proximity and hospital proximity’s relationship to population distributions and existing hospital capacity. This is...

This research aims to examine the impact of IT launch, technical support regarding IT, and the length of IT usage on healthcare outcomes including patient safety and quality of care. This study examines health information technology adoption as a mediator in this research model. To accomplish...

Die Deutsche Gesundheitstelematik startet im Laufe des Jahres 2009 in die Testphase für Online- Anwendungen [1]. Neben den freiwilligen oder verpflichtenden Anwendungen, die von der gematik vorgegeben wurden [2], soll die Telematikinfrastruktur eine sichere Applikationsplattform für...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether online communities meet their potential ofproviding environments in which social relationships can be readily established to help patients copewith their disease through social support. The paper aims to develop and test a model to...

Die Qualität von Produkten und Dienstleistungen steht seit einiger Zeit imMittelpunkt entsprechender Verbesserungsbemühungen, woraus sich entsprechendeKonzepte für das Qualitätsmanagement ebenso wie für das Qualitätscontrollingentwickelt haben. Dabei ist Qualität nun wahrlich keine neue...

The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and...