Dr Google and the Consumer: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Navigational Needs and Online Health Information-Seeking Behaviors of Consumers With Chronic Health Conditions
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The role of perceptions of clinicians in their adoption of a web-based antibiotic approval system: Do perceptions translate into actions?
CONCLUSION: The majority of clinicians in an independent investigation of the antibiotic approval system found the system easy to use and useful to them. A number of clinicians’ perceptions about the system were found to be correlated with the actual … Continued
Improved HIV-related outcomes associated with implementation of a novel public health information exchange
Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrate that an information exchange can effectively facilitate engagement, re-engagement, and retention of out-of care HIV-infected persons in HIV specialty care. Within two years, we were able to observe significant improvements in HIV-related utilization … Continued
Differences between notifiable and administrative health information in the spatial-temporal surveillance of enteric infections.
CONCLUSIONS: Notifiable disease data may suffer from selection bias; administrative health data may be insufficiently precise without laboratory confirmation. Our results illustrate differences in the spatial and temporal information generated from these two systems of case identification. Future surveillance of … Continued
The perception of medical professionals and medical students on the usefulness of an emergency medical card and a continuity of care report in enhancing continuity of care
Conclusions: The EMC and CoC report were found to be useful methods for transporting patient healthcare information across the healthcare continuum. The documents were found more specifically to be useful for effective decision making, improving efficiency and quality of care, … Continued
Definition, structure, content, use and impacts of electronic health records: A review of the research literature.
CONCLUSION: Studies focusing on the content of EHRs are needed, especially studies of nursing documentation or patient self-documentation. One future research area is to compare the documentation of different health care professionals with the core information about EHRs which has … Continued
Medical informatics: Past, present, future
Conclusions: Health care continuously changes as the underlying science and practice of health are in continuous transformation. Medical informatics as a discipline is strongly affected by these changes and is in a position to be a key, active contributor in … Continued