Would You Tell Everyone This? Facebook Conversations as Health Promotion Interventions
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The RAFT network: 5 years of distance continuing medical education and tele-consultations over the Internet in French-speaking Africa.
Authors: Geissbuhler A, Bagayoko CO, Ly O Continuing education of healthcare professionals is a key element for the quality and efficiency of a health system. In developing countries, this activity is usually limited to capitals, and delocalized professionals do not … Continued
User profiles and personas in the design and development of consumer health technologies
Abstract: Background: “The graying of the globe” has resulted in exponential rise in health care expenses, over-worked health care professionals and a growing patient base suffering from multiple chronic diseases, one of which is diabetes. Consumer health technologies (CHT) are … Continued
A data-gathering broker as a future-orientated approach to supporting EPR users.
Authors: Rigby M, Budgen D, Turner M, Kotsiopoulos I, Brereton P, Keane J, Bennett K, Russell M, Layzell P, Zhu F With the continued expansion of electronic patient record systems ahead of comprehensive evidence, metrics, or future-proofing, health informatics in … Continued
The importance of the verbal shift handover report: A multi-site case study
Conclusions: The benefits provided by a face to face handover suggest that technology should focus on supporting rather than replacing the verbal shift handover report, providing a flexible solution that allows handover participants to gather more information as it is … Continued
New e-service development in the homecare sector: Beyond implementing a radical technology.
CONCLUSIONS: A comprehensive development model and ‘mindfulness’ is necessary for radical service innovation in the long-term homecare sector. Creating new services that exploit the capability of radical technical innovations requires organizational development and the use of many non-technology innovations and … Continued
Social care informatics as an essential part of holistic health care: A call for action
Conclusion: The Exploratory Workshop resulted in a unanimous Declaration for action, which is presented appended to this paper. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
SHARE road map for HealthGrids: Methodology.
Authors: Olive M, Rahmouni H, Solomonides T, Breton V, Legré Y, Blanquer I, Hernandez V The SHARE(1) project (http://www.eu-share.org) was asked to identify the key developments needed to achieve wide adoption and deployment of HealthGrids throughout Europe. The project was … Continued
A PACS maturity model: A systematic meta-analytic review on maturation and evolvability of PACS in the hospital enterprise.
CONCLUSION: We argue that this model can help hospitals to gain insights into their (strategic) objectives for growth and maturity with regard to PACS, the electronic patient record (EPR) and other health information systems. Moreover, the proposed model can be … Continued