Conclusions: Health care continuously changes as the underlying science and practice of health are in continuous transformation. Medical informatics as a discipline is strongly affected by these changes and is in a position to be a key, active contributor in … Continued
CONCLUSION: Studies focusing on the content of EHRs are needed, especially studies of nursing documentation or patient self-documentation. One future research area is to compare the documentation of different health care professionals with the core information about EHRs which has … Continued
Conclusions: The EMC and CoC report were found to be useful methods for transporting patient healthcare information across the healthcare continuum. The documents were found more specifically to be useful for effective decision making, improving efficiency and quality of care, … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: Notifiable disease data may suffer from selection bias; administrative health data may be insufficiently precise without laboratory confirmation. Our results illustrate differences in the spatial and temporal information generated from these two systems of case identification. Future surveillance of … Continued
Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrate that an information exchange can effectively facilitate engagement, re-engagement, and retention of out-of care HIV-infected persons in HIV specialty care. Within two years, we were able to observe significant improvements in HIV-related utilization … Continued
Conclusion: In spite of the potential of online communities of opening up health care to the critical voice of the public, the analysis points to a synthesis of the otherwise opposite positions of empowerment and compliance in patient care. On … Continued
Conclusions: The results of the study demonstrate how to evaluate the success of an ERMIS as well as introduce potential changes in how one applies the DeLone and McLean success model in an emergency response medical information system context. (Source: … Continued
CONCLUSION: Implementation of an information system requires consideration of issues involving hardware and software, staff training, organizational policy, and workflow changes. PMID: 18457988 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this study provide evidence that the hybrid model of categorization is more complete than either a deductive or an inductive method alone. The hybrid method developed in this study provides the methodical support for understanding, analyzing, and … Continued
Increasing numbers of patients suffering from chronic medical conditions like cardio-respiratory diseases and diabetes mellitus are overwhelming modern health care services with high annual expenses [1]. Addressing these increasing financial challenges, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) allow for cost-effective disease … Continued