Conclusions: The transition into an era of evidence-based mHealth supports our position that innovation in this domain can be evaluated with the same rigor as other public health strategies, attenuating some of the hype previously associated with mHealth. (Source: International … Continued
Conclusion: The high level of user satisfaction indicated the feasibility of conducting a large-scale randomized control trial to evaluate the effects of a telecare service on health outcomes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Source: International Journal of Medical … Continued
Conclusion: The empirical results show that the method can effectively help to reduce medical errors, increase data quality, and lead to more accurate decision support. In addition, the dynamic hierarchical data entry model proves to provide a good balance between … Continued
Conclusions: Although the benefits of the EHR systems were obvious, as found by our previous study, introducing EHR systems in RACH can also cause adverse consequences of EHR avoidance, difficulty in access, increased complexity in information management, increased documentation burden, … Continued
This study demonstrated that the perceived communication urgency gap between sending nurses and receiving physicians was primarily related to timeframe and context, not clinical condition. Most disagreement occurred when nurses used urgent messaging for time sensitive but not clinically urgent … Continued
Highlights: ? Medical informatics education in China has grown significantly in that country over the past 10 years. ? Specialty name change and an unclear identity have hampered the visibility of this educational specialty and impeded its development. ? Imbalance … Continued
Conclusions: The Model for Evaluation of Diagnostic Accuracy Based on Fuzzy Logic applied in this study is feasible and can be used to evaluate students’ performance. In this regard, it will open a broad variety of applications for learning and … Continued
Highlights: Abstract: Objective: Advanced life support (ALS) knowledge and skills decrease in as little as three months, but only a few ALS providers actually attend retraining courses. We assess the effectiveness of a 3D serious game as a new tool … Continued
Conclusions: Organizational issues surrounding technology implementations in healthcare settings are crucially important, but have as yet not received adequate research attention. This may in part be due to the subjective nature of factors, but also due to a lack of … Continued
Conclusion: Articulation work and clinical work are hard to separate in a real clinical setting. Predefined messages and strict workflow design do not suffice when supporting communication in the context of collaborative clinical work. Flexibility is of vital importance, and … Continued