Developments in Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: Models and Methods

Developments in Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: Models and Methods

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 398

ISBN13: 9781616920029|ISBN10: 1616920025|EISBN13: 9781616920036|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923716

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-002-9

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The need for continual development and transformation of healthcare information systems is evident, though progress in this arena is often met with a significant number of challenges.

Developments in Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: Models and Methods presents the latest research in healthcare information systems design, development, and deployment, benefiting researchers, practitioners, and students. Contributions investigate topics such as clinical education, electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, and IT adoption in healthcare.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Evaluating Health Information Services: A Patient Perspective Analysis (pages 1-13)

Umit Topacan, Nuri Basoglu, Tugrul U. Daim

The objective of the chapter is to explore the factors that affect users’ preferences in the health service selection process. In the study, 4 hypothetical health services were designed by randomly selecting levels of 16 attributes...

Chapter 2

Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor (pages 14-34)

Shiu-chung Au, Amar Gupta

Medical information has been traditionally maintained in books, journals, and specialty periodicals. A growing subset of patients and caregivers are now turning to diverse sources on the internet to retrieve healthcare related...

Chapter 3

Envisioning a National e-Medicine Network Architecture in a Developing Country: A Case Study (pages 35-53)

Fikreyohannes Lemma, Mieso K. Denko, Joseph K. Tan, Samuel Kinde Kassegne

Poor infrastructures in developing countries such as Ethiopia and much of Sub-Saharan Africa have caused these nations to suffer from lack of efficient and effective delivery of basic and extended medical and healthcare services....

Chapter 4

Assessing Physician and Nurse Satisfaction with an Ambulatory Care EMR: One Facility’s Approach (pages 54-64)

Karen A. Wager

Evaluating clinician satisfaction with an electronic medical record (EMR) system is an important dimension to overall acceptance and use, yet project managers often lack the time and resources to formally assess user satisfaction and...

Chapter 5

Information Technology (IT) and the Healthcare Industry: A SWOT Analysis (pages 65-83)

Marilyn M. Helms, Rita Moore, Mohammad Ahmadi

The healthcare industry is under pressure to improve patient safety, operate more efficiently, reduce medical errors, and provide secure access to timely information while controlling costs, protecting patient privacy, and complying...

Chapter 6

Using a Neural Network to Predict Participation in a Maternity Care Coordination Program (pages 84-93)

George E. Heilman, Monica Cain, Russell S. Morton

Researchers increasingly use Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to predict outcomes across a broad range of applications. They frequently find the predictive power of ANNs to be as good as or better than conventional discrete choice...

Chapter 7

Can IT Act as a Catalyst for Change in Hospitals?: Some New Evidence (pages 94-101)

Teemu Paavola

This chapter presents a succesful reorganization of a patient care process that was carried out in a middle sized Finnish hospital. The reorganization of the patient care process for joint replacement surgery succeeded in achieving a...

Chapter 8

Informatics Application Challenges for Managed Care Organizations: The Three Faces of Population Segmentation and a Proposed Classification System (pages 102-111)

Stephan Kudyba, Theodore L. Perry

Organizations across industry sectors continue to develop data resources and utilize analytic techniques to enhance efficiencies in their operations. One example of this is evident as Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) enhance their...

Chapter 9

Scrutinizing the Rule: Privacy Realization in HIPAA (pages 112-125)

S. Al-Fedaghi

Privacy policies, laws, and guidelines have been cultivated based on overly verbose specifications. This article claims that privacy regulations lend themselves to a firmer language based on a model of flow of personal identifiable...

Chapter 10

In What Ways Does Web Technology Support the Individual in Choice Reforms in Health Care?: A Comparison among Norway, Denmark, and Sweden (pages 126-144)

Agneta Ranerup

The aim of this article is to evaluate the provision of Web support in choice reforms in health care in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Two main issues are investigated: (1) What institutional frameworks for choice in health care exist...

Chapter 11

Characteristics of Good Clinical Educators from Medical Students’ Perspectives: A Qualitative Inquiry using a Web-Based Survey System (pages 145-161)

Gary Sutkin, Hansel Burley, Ke Zhang, Neetu Arora

Medical educators have a unique role in teaching students how to save lives and give comfort during illness. This article reports a qualitative inquiry into medical students perspectives on the key qualities which differentiate...

Chapter 12

Open Source Software: A Key Component of E-Health in Developing Nations (pages 162-174)

David Parry, Emma Parry, Phurb Dorji, Peter Stone

The global burden of disease falls most heavily on people in developing countries. Few resources for healthcare, geographical and infrastructure issues, lack of trained staff, language and cultural diversity and political instability...

Chapter 13

An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals (pages 175-194)

Gilberto Munoz-Cornejo, Carolyn B. Seaman, A. Günes Koru

Open source software (OSS) has gained considerable attention recently in healthcare. Yet, how and why OSS is being adopted within hospitals in particular remains a poorly understood issue. This research attempts to further this...

Chapter 14

Intelligent Agent Framework for Secure Patient-Doctor Profiling and Profile Matching (pages 195-213)

Masoud Mohammadian, Ric Jentzsch

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a promising technology for improving services and reduction of cost in health care. Accurate almost real time data acquisition and analysis of patient data and the ability to update such a...

Chapter 15

Towards a Conceptual Framework of Adopting Ubiquitous Technology in Chronic Health Care (pages 214-231)

Jongtae Yu, Chengqi Guo, Mincheol Kim

In the advent of pervasive computing technologies, the ubiquitous healthcare information system, or U-health system, has emerged as an innovative avenue for many healthcare management issues. Drawing upon practices in healthcare...

Chapter 16

E-patients Empower Healthcare: Discovery of Adverse Events in Online Communities1 (pages 232-240)

Roy Rada

E-patients can empower themselves and improve healthcare. In online communities, patients may discuss adverse events that are inadequately addressed in the literature. The author as a patient joined various online patient discussion...

Chapter 17

Towards Process-of-Care Aware Emergency Department Information Systems: A Clustering Approach to Activity Views Elicitation (pages 241-254)

Andrzej S. Ceglowski, Leonid Churilov

The critical role of emergency departments (EDs) as the first point of contact for ill and injured patients has presented significant challenges for the elicitation of detailed process models. Patient complexity has limited the...

Chapter 18

Applying Dynamic Causal Mining in Health Service Management (pages 255-274)

Yi Wang

This article describes an application that illustrates the role of data mining technology in identifying hidden causal knoledge from health and medical data repositories. Across the health care and medical enterprises, a wide variety...

Chapter 19

Application of Unified Modelling Language (UML) to the Modelling of Health Care Systems: An Introduction and Literature Survey (pages 275-287)

Christos Vasilakis, Dorota Lecnzarowicz, Chooi Lee

The unified modelling language (UML) comprises a set of tools for documenting the analysis of a system. Although UML is generally used to describe and evaluate the functioning of complex systems, the extent of its application to the...

Chapter 20

TreeWorks: Advances in Scalable Decision Trees (pages 288-301)

Paul Harper, Evandro Leite Jr.

Decision trees are hierarchical, sequential classification structures that recursively partition the set of observations (data) and are used to represent rules underlying the observations. This article describes the development of...

Chapter 21

Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Architecture Designed within the EPI-MEDICS Personal ECG Monitor (pages 302-311)

Hussein Atoui, David Télisson, Jocelyne Fyan, Paul Rubel

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in developing personalized and nonhospital based care systems to improve the management of cardiac care. The EPI-MEDICS project has designed an intelligent, portable Personal ECG Monitor...

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