Healthcare Information Articles & Analysis
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Management: FeNO testing has been acknowledged as a tool in asthma management. Aids to inform healthcare professionals when changing or adjusting asthma therapy. ...
In today’s healthcare environment, the general consensus is that the exchange and flow of data is crucial and beneficial to developing better care of the patients. Healthcare information exchanges (HIEs), as an example, have shown to be effective in improving public health, reducing healthcare redundancies, and providing ...
Or will you be proactive enough to seek out the healthcare tools that you need and deserve in order to keep your life standards high? ...
As technology continues to advance software has become an important part of most products. It has become integrated widely into medical platforms. In 2019, the Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) market was estimated at about $18.4 million, and it is projected to reach $86 million by 2027 at an annual growth rate of 21.9%. As one of the fastest growing sectors in healthcare, we explore when ...
They are engineered to transmit all the necessary information without the need for face-to-face interactions. This breakthrough in the healthcare industry is shaping a more modern concept for remote patient monitoring or RPM. ...
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Private hospitals in South East Asia will dramatically expand the capabilities of their healthcare information systems over the next five years to support transformational changes such as value-based care initiatives and better care coordination, according to a survey by InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for ...
Ever since definitions of a ‘healthy’ bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world seems to be facing an obesity epidemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) convened an expert consultation in Geneva that formed the basis for a report that defined obesity – not merely as a coming social catastrophe, but as an “epidemic”. The word “epidemic” is crucial when ...
Moral legitimacy, defined as the ethical judgments made about an organisation's activities, is of particular importance in the healthcare field. Following previous literature that argues that compliance may be an explicit strategic response to institutional processes, this paper develops and discusses a new related strategy for managing organisational moral legitimacy; it is ...
A key to health consumerism is locating reliable health information on the WWW. Unfortunately, much health information on the web is of suspect quality. Differences between individual and clinician information seeking requirements are discussed. An agent-based health Information Retrieval (IR) system is developed using validated ...
While tracking systems have been developed to decrease occurrences and consequences of medication errors in healthcare facilities, there is a growing need for similar systems to monitor drugs that have just entered the market with unknown adverse events. ...
Information Systems in the context of the health domain play a critical role. ...
Healthcare Information Systems (IS) non-integrated nature is associated with inefficient data and knowledge exchange and reduction in healthcare care services' quality. Therefore, numerous medical errors occur that impact healthcare services. Healthcare organisations have used Enterprise Application Integration ...
This paper contributes to the literature regarding the management of healthcare technology, focusing on healthcare information and communication technology (ICT). ...
This tutorial also cautions you as a researcher to be mindful of the limitations of Internet-based research and to learn how to evaluate the information that you do find. Another useful tool to assist in being an informed patient is The Cancer Patient's Workbook: Everything You Need to Stay Organized and Informed, (DK Books, 2001). ...
We review the key determinants of health in Ucayali, Peru, identified by researchers, and, according to these, propose a set of tools to improve health in this area. Women and indigenous peoples are recognized as two vulnerable groups in the region that face greater health risks, and these are the main focus of the development of tools for health improvement. Also, the growing economic ...
Health care organisations have seen exponential growth in the volume of internal and external information which pertains to their operational survival. As such, health care administrators must find ways to manage this flow of information and minimize uncertainty. This paper examines the options available to health care organisations in light of Galbraith's ...