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E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the Use IT Model
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the Use IT Model

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-07-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book gives an overview of models on the use and diffusion of information systems in the healthcare sector with particular attention to the role of the user"--Provided by publisher.

Health Information Management: Empowering Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Health Information Management: Empowering Public Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-14
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

The effective and efficient management of healthcare institutions is key to the successful development of national health systems. In an increasingly digital society, the skills involved in health information management become a primary factor in ensuring this development. Employment is projected to grow in all areas of healthcare, but especially in those related to information management, such as applied informatics, public health informatics and medical informatics. This book, Health Information Management: Empowering Public Health, aims to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study and development of health information management. It is designed for use by university and ...

The Nursing Process
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Nursing Process

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. THE NURSING PROCESS; A GLOBAL CONCEPT critically explores a concept that was introduced into nursing in the 1970s and rapidly spread all over the world. It begins with the background and history of the Nursing Process, and analyses its use in various fields, such as managerial technologies and psychiatric nursing. It then goes on to look at its use in six different countries from a variety of world regions - in Europe, Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as South Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. It explores its strengths and weaknesses, and tries to make some predictions about fu...

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1284

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-16
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Medical informatics and electronic healthcare have many benefits to offer in terms of quality of life for patients, healthcare personnel, citizens and society in general. But evidence-based medicine needs quality information if it is to lead to quality of health and thus to quality of life. This book presents the full papers accepted for presentation at the MIE2012 conference, held in Pisa, Italy, in August 2012. The theme of the 2012 conference is ‘Quality of Life through Quality of Information’. As always, the conference provides a unique platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences among the actors and stakeholders of ICT supported healthcare. The book incorporates contributions...

Health Informatics Vision: From Data via Information to Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Health Informatics Vision: From Data via Information to Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-06
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

The latest developments in data, informatics and technology continue to enable health professionals and informaticians to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients everywhere. This book presents full papers from ICIMTH 2019, the 17th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare, held in Athens, Greece from 5 to 7 July 2019. Of the 150 submissions received, 95 were selected for presentation at the conference following review and are included here. The conference focused on increasing and improving knowledge of healthcare applications spanning the entire spectrum from clinical and health informatics to public health informatics as applied in the healthc...

Ubiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1070

Ubiquity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Talks about the ubiquitous computing that helps us to identify ways of managing care that promises to be considerably easier in letting patients maintain their good health while enjoying their life in their usual social setting, rather than having to spend much time at costly, dedicated healthcare facilities.

Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-30
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Over recent years there has been major investment in research infrastructure to harness the potential of routinely collected health data. In 2013, The Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research was established in the UK, undertaking health informatics research to enhance patient and public health by the analysis of data from multiple sources and unleashing the value of vast sources of clinical, biological, population and environmental data for public benefit. The Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference is already established as a key event in the calendar of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI); The Farr Institute has been establishing a conference series. For 2017, ...

EHealth2014 – Health Informatics Meets EHealth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

EHealth2014 – Health Informatics Meets EHealth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-03
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

It is generally accepted that information and communication technology has the potential to support high quality, high-tech medicine, but up to now healthcare has lagged behind other sectors, such as service industries, in the implementation of such technology. Medicine is now beginning to catch up, however, and the Austrian government recently agreed on the nationwide implementation of an Electronic Health Record (Elektronische Gesundheitsakte (ELGA))._x000D_ This book presents the proceedings of the 8th scientific eHealth conference, which is being held in Vienna, Austria, in the context of the eHealth Summit Austria, in April 2014. The theme of the conference is "Outcomes Research: The Be...

Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1064

Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-08-14
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-second International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe MIE 2009, that was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 30 August to 2 September 2009. The scientific topics present in this proceedings range from national and trans-national eHealth roadmaps, health information and electronic health record systems, systems interoperability and communication standards, medical terminology and ontology approaches, and social networks to Web, Web 2.0, and Semantic Web solutions for patients, health personnel, and researchers. Furthermore, they include quality assurance and usability of medical informatics systems, specific disease management and telemedicine systems, including a section on devices and sensors, drug safety, clinical decision support and medical expert systems, clinical practice guidelines and protocols, as well as issues on privacy and security. Moreover, bioinformatics, biomedical modeling and simulation, medical imaging and visualization and, last but not least, learning and education through medical informatics systems are parts of the included topics.