U.S. Army Selects Cogon Systems to Develop Advanced Clinical Decision Support Tools for Hand Held Computers – April 12, 2007 Cogon Systems, Inc. has been awarded a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation contract by the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced … Continued
This study evaluated BHIS uptake by health care workers, and pre and post BHIS deployment mortality in selected areas and public health care expenditures.Methods: BHIS encounter data were compared to encounter data from required Ministry of Health reports from licensed … Continued
Conclusions: Specialists found the system used for teleconsultation between a geriatric hospital and a tertiary care hospital to be suitable for their consultations. The main advantage brought about by the teleconsultation system studied resulted from its collaborative nature, which created … Continued
Conclusion: CDS using indication-based prescribing of antihypertensives produced accurate problem placement roughly two-thirds of time with fewer than 5{ca7ad0b74511a57bb2016f24c729dd7716d5352e92d2275aa1f91fb22c36b0a7} inaccurate problems placed. Performance of alerts was sensitive to the number of potential indications of the medication and attendings vs. other … Continued
Highlights: ? Integrated information display for ICU nursing tasks across medication management, patient awareness and team communication was shown to increase nurses’ situation awareness. ? Integrated information for a broad range of tasks decreased task completion time. ? Integrated information … Continued
Highlights: ? Government policy was beneficial for several fields, remaining unexploited in others. ? Very few of the silver innovations were to experience a commercial success. ? 12 main areas in which silver innovations should be facilitated are proposed. ? … Continued
Conclusion: The use patterns and patients’ appraisals of usefulness in this study provide important insights into cancer patients’ information and communication behavior that are important for further improvements and the design of eHealth applications for illness management support. (Source: International … Continued
Conclusion: The results suggest that TEAD is an acceptable alternative to AD for providing physicians advice about prescribing. TEAD is more time efficient, facilitates effective knowledge exchange and interprofessional collaboration, and can reach those physicians virtually where face-to-face AD is … Continued
Conclusion: Through multidisciplinary teamwork, the computerized WMS provides a simple and effective approach that can overcome jammed exams associated problems, increase patient satisfaction level, and decrease staff workload stress under limited resources, eventually creating a win–win situation for both the … Continued
Conclusion: Information systems based on treatment protocols can reduce communication and synchronization needs between the stakeholders in a complex workflow process. These systems can help reengineering the process and improve workflow efficiency by removing unnecessary sequencing and repetitions of tasks. … Continued