CONCLUSIONS: When hospital clinical staff seek medication advice from other members of a ward it tends to be sought from those in their profession. However key individuals in the ward are relied upon for the provision of medication advice by … Continued
Software continues to change along the course of its life-cycle, either due to day to day maintenance issues such as bug fixes, or in a rather planned fashion to evolve into a more capable product. Software maintainability (‘maintainability’ from here … Continued
CONCLUSION: Starting with the requirements for semantic interoperability derived from paradigm changes for health information systems, and supported in formal software process engineering methods, an appropriate development framework for semantically interoperable HIS has been provided. The usability of the framework … Continued
Conclusion: The emerging world of the ‘integrated nurse’ cannot be adequately understood without examining how nurses make use of ICT and the Internet within nursing practice and the way this is shaped by institutional, technical and professional opportunities and constraints. … Continued
Conclusion: Low-income breast cancer patients sought out information from an online cancer information expert. Patients with more negative perceptions at pre-test tended to use the service more. Greater use of the service was associated with improvement in patients’ perception of … Continued