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
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
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
Conclusion: The Exploratory Workshop resulted in a unanimous Declaration for action, which is presented appended to this paper. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
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
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
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
Authors: Liaskos J, Frigas A, Antypas K, Zikos D, Diomidous M, Mantas J According to a common definition, interprofessional education (IPE) is described as “occasions when two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: The final version of HIV TIDES consists of 73 messages. The average readability level of the messages is 6.0 based on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and the average word count is 103. PMID: 17616431 [PubMed – as supplied by … Continued
Authors: Lovis C, Spahni S, Cassoni N, Geissbuhler A BACKGROUND: A system ensuring tight control access is used since 5 years at the University Geneva Hospitals (HUG) over a four campuses health care system with ambulatory care settings behaving like … Continued