DISCUSSION: Despite the many problems still encountered such as technological problems related to sensors and some problems like battery replacement, we could transfer the data of glucometer and ECG sensors to web-server via ZigBee protocol. Authors think the ZigBee could … Continued
CONCLUSION: The study shows that ‘compatibility’, ‘perceived usefulness’, ‘perceived ease of use’, and ‘trust’ all have great positive influence on ‘behavioral intention to use’. On the other hand ‘perceived financial cost’ has great negative influence on behavioral intention to use. … Continued
Conclusion: The AUC for “billing diagnosis” of depression performed the best of the three single fields tested, with an AUC of 0.77, corresponding to a test with moderate accuracy. This analysis demonstrates that specific EMR fields can be used as … Continued
CONCLUSION: The log file appears to be a valuable source for analyzing physicians’ behavior on reminders if well designed with the CPOE. Hospitals, clinicians and patients should pay more attention and be seriously concerned about CPOE reminders. It is also … Continued
Conclusions: After experimental testing, BUCINATOR shows great potential to be a reliable bed-exit alarm system. In general, bed-exit alarm systems with extended features could play a major role in ambient assisted living technologies.Limitations: Besides the theoretical evaluation, it will be … Continued
Abstract: Patients’ medical data have been originally generated and maintained by health professionals in several independent electronic health records (EHRs). Centralized electronic health records accumulate medical data of patients to improve their availability and completeness; EHRs are not tied to … Continued
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Abstract: Objective: To examine the effectiveness of delivering of computer-generated discharge summaries to general practice by email, fax, post and patient hand delivery.Design: Blinded, randomized controlled trial. A pre-study audit ascertaining baseline statistics and a follow-up survey were conducted with … Continued
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
In this study, a literature review on blogs and blogging practices was conducted, followed by case study analyses of two separate sites that use blogging tools to help patients and other lay web end-users record health-related experiences. This paper explores … Continued