CONCLUSION: Starting with the requirements for semantic interoperability derived from paradigm changes for health information systems, and supported in formal software process engineering methods, an appropriate development framework for semantically interoperable HIS has been provided. The usability of the framework … Continued
Conclusions: A variety of user types, ranging from clinicians to administrative staff, took advantage of the EHR-based search utility. Though these users’ search behavior differed, they predominantly performed informational searches related to laboratory results and specific diseases. Additionally, a number … Continued
Abstract: Purpose: Low health literacy has been associated with poor health-related outcomes. The purposes are to report the development of a website for low-literate parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and the findings of heuristic evaluation and a … Continued
The United States of America’s (USA) Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 [1] has led to increased adoption and use of health information technologies (HIT), particularly use of electronic health record systems (EHRs) [2] … Continued
The development and implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) systems in hospitals have proven to be challenging processes, especially because of the mobile and fragmented nature of hospital work {Bardram, 2003 #999;Bardram, 2005 #743;Bardram, 2006 #1005;Monteiro, 2003 #962;Reuss, 2007 … Continued
Conclusions: This case study indicates that critical factors for the successful introduction of clinical information systems into hospital environment were an initial clear vision to be paperless, strong clinical leadership and management at the departmental level, committed project management, and … Continued
There is a pressing need for individualized healthcare systems as chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetics will be responsible for three-quarters of the world’s deaths by 2020 [1,2,28]. Most hospital readmission rates are due to a definable … Continued
CONCLUSION: The work presented in this paper shows the applicability of the FITT framework in explaining the complexity of aspects observed in the implementation of healthcare information systems. The reported experiences reveal that fit management can be viewed as a … Continued
Electronic health record (EHR) systems have been adopted to capture the condition of patients, facilitate communication between healthcare providers [1,2], and improve the quality of care [3]. While certain aspects of patient care are documented by structured data (e.g., diagnosis … Continued
CONCLUSION: The majority of clinicians in an independent investigation of the antibiotic approval system found the system easy to use and useful to them. A number of clinicians’ perceptions about the system were found to be correlated with the actual … Continued