Special Issue Call for Papers: Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare Settings
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Implementation of an electronic medical record does not change delivery of preventive care for HIV-positive patients
Conclusions: As EMR implementation expands, it is important to evaluate the effects that EMRs have on patient outcomes, including preventive health provision. Our study showed that after implementation of an EMR, the provision of most preventive care measures did not … Continued
Challenges to effective crisis management: Using information and communication technologies to coordinate emergency medical services and emergency department teams.
DISCUSSION: The three challenges highlight the importance of designing systems from socio-technical perspective. In particular, these inter-team coordination systems must support socio-technical issues such as awareness, context, and workflow between the two teams. PMID: 18835211 [PubMed – as supplied by … Continued
A four-phase model of the evolution of clinical decision support architectures.
CONCLUSIONS: Each of the four evolutionary approaches to decision support architecture has unique advantages and disadvantages. A key lesson was that there were common limitations that almost all the approaches faced, and no single approach has been able to entirely … Continued
Market segmentation of health information use on the Internet in Korea
Conclusions: We found that each section of health information has its own clients concerning their personal interests and status of health and life style. That is why customized market segmentation is strongly recommended for their loyal customers. Depends on the … Continued