Abstract: The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up, community led approach to show how villages in developing countries can get out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: Efforts to facilitate application of evidence into nursing practice are unlikely to be successful unless the approaches used are integrated into the clinical workflow. Our approaches use a variety of informatics methods to integrate evidence into CISs as a … Continued
Low Cost Telemedicine Application to be Deployed in South America – December 28, 2006 DICOR, a low cost diagnostic image collaborative review application will help doctors in early diagnosing of acute myocardial infarction in rural areas, starting in Colombia, South … Continued
CONCLUSION: The impact of CPOE systems was especially positive in the category adherence to guidelines, but also to some extent in alerts and appropriateness of alerts; costs and organizational efficiency; and satisfaction and usability. Although on average, there seems to … Continued
In 2011 the Institute of Medicine published the report Health IT and Patient Safety. It addressed the growing concern that health information technology may not only beneficial for patients but also pose risks for patient safety. The report emphasizes that … Continued
Conclusion: Using the standardised nursing wound care record improved nursing documentation meeting legal demands, which should increase the safety of patient. There was however a discrepancy between the nurses stated knowledge and how they carried out the documentation. Regular in-service … Continued
Conclusions: Achieving successful electronic patient record implementation is complex. While technical challenges exist, it is possibly more important to acknowledge the social considerations. Initially, an increase in medical record fragmentation and disruption to workflow can arise with the introduction of … Continued
CONCLUSION: Themes identified in this study suggest that sophisticated genetic researchers face similar problems of technology implementation as do professionals in other fields. We recommend that leadership support and on-going training and evolution of academic curricula can improve chances of … Continued
Authors: Marin HF PMID: 17761451 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Authors: Wozak F, Schabetsberger T, Ammmenwerth E The interconnection of medical networks in different healthcare institutions will be constantly increasing over the next few years, which will require concepts for securing medical data during transfer, since transmitting patient related data … Continued