E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards

E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards

Anastasius Moumtzoglou, Anastasia N. Kastania

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 398

ISBN13: 9781616928438|ISBN10: 1616928433|EISBN13: 9781616928452

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-843-8

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Moumtzoglou, Anastasius, and Anastasia N. Kastania, eds. E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-843-8

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Healthcare professionals and patients hold fundamentally different views with respect to the content of quality in healthcare as related to the reliability of systems and services. E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards addresses the reason, principles and functionality of health and health care systems and presents a novel framework for revealing, understanding and implementing appropriate management interventions leading to qualitative improvement. It also provides evidence on the quality and reliability of telemedicine and reviews standards and guidelines for practicing medicine at a distance.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

General Principles and Logic of Quality Management in Health and Healthcare (pages 1-17)

Aleš Bourek

The following chapter addresses the logic, principles and functionality of health and health care systems to present a framework prerequisite for revealing, understanding and implementing appropriate and adequate management...

Chapter 2

e3Health: Three Main Features of Modern Healthcare (pages 18-27)

Jana Zvárová, Karel Zvára

The chapter studies e-health applications in the frame of the broader concept of the e3Health. It shows how the scheme proposed by J.H. van Bemmel in 1984 can be used for classification of e-health applications. Apart from the...

Chapter 3

The European Perspective of E-Health and a Framework for its Economic Evaluation (pages 28-36)

Paola Di Giacomo

E-health is a priority of the European i2010 initiative, which aims to provide safe and interoperable information systems for patients and health professionals throughout Europe. Moreover, the use of electronic storing and...

Chapter 4

E-Health: A New Framework for the Patient-Physician Relationship (pages 37-46)

Susana Lorenzo, Gilberto Llinas, Jose J. Mira, Emilio Ignacio

E-health does not only imply technological progress but also a new framework for improving citizens’ health. E-health has many strong points, which include clinical applications, and training devices. Health websites have a...

Chapter 5

E-Health: A Bridge to People-Centered Health Care (pages 47-63)

Anastasius Moumtzoglou

People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before anything else the consideration of the patient. The development of people-centered care might include a partnership approach based on...

Chapter 6

ISO 151892007-Implementation in a Laboratory Information System (pages 64-72)

Stavros Archondakis, Aliki Stathopoulou, Ioannis Sitaras

ISO 15189:2007 constitutes an international certification standard, based upon ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 9001, which can be used by medical laboratories wishing to improve their quality standards. The requirements of this standard form a...

Chapter 7

Safe Implementation of Research into Healthcare Practice through a Care Process Pathways Based Adaptation of Electronic Patient Records (pages 73-85)

V. G. Stamatopoulos, G. E. Karagiannis, B. R. M. Manning

Concern has been expressed over the lack of evidence of the effective transfer of new research findings, guidelines and protocols into front-line clinical use. This book chapter outlines an approach which focuses on establishing and...

Chapter 8

Quality Assurance in Evidence-Based Medicine (pages 86-99)

Ioannis Apostolakis, Periklis Valsamos, Iraklis Varlamis

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) refers to the careful examination of all the available evidence when making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It assumes that well known medical practices and solutions are combined...

Chapter 9

Quality and Reliability Aspects in Evidence Based E-Medicine (pages 100-117)

Asen Atanasov

This chapter is a brief survey on some e-medicine resources and international definitions focused on the three main subjects of the healthcare quality – the patient, the costs and the evidence for quality. The patients can find in...

Chapter 10

Safety and Security in Professional and Non-Professional E-Health and Their Impact on the Quality of Health Care (pages 118-124)

Suzana Parente, Rui Loureiro

E-health involves professionals and non-professionals and raises safety and security issues that affect the quality of health care. Therefore, the chapter provides some basic ideas on e-health safety and security, focusing on the...

Chapter 11

Measuring Safety of Care (pages 125-130)

Solvejg Kristensen, Jan Mainz, Paul D. Bartels

Patient safety initiatives have been launched in a number of countries, mostly focusing on problem identification, learning and improvement. However, so far there has been little focus on monitoring outcomes and surveillance of...

Chapter 12

An Information Technology Architecture for Drug Effectiveness Reporting and Post-Marketing Surveillance (pages 131-145)

Amar Gupta, Raymond Woosley, Igor Crk, Surendra Sarnikar

Adverse drug events impose a large cost on the society in terms of lives and healthcare costs. In this chapter, the authors propose an information technology architecture for enabling the monitoring of adverse drug events in an...

Chapter 13

Exploring Linkages between Quality, E-Health and Healthcare Education (pages 146-162)

Christopher L. Pate, Joyce E. Turner-Ferrier

This chapter explores the concept of e-health as it relates to healthcare delivery, healthcare quality and education. Although the concept of e-health is emerging and lacks clear definition, a body of literature in healthcare policy...

Chapter 14

Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor (pages 163-182)

Shiu-chung Au, Amar Gupta

Medical information has been traditionally maintained in books, journals, and specialty periodicals. Now, a growing number of people, including patients and caregivers, turn to a variety of sources on the Internet, most of which are...

Chapter 15

An Evaluation of E-Learning in Healthcare (pages 183-203)

George Athanasiou, Nikos Maris, Ioannis Apostolakis

As new technologies enable a radical transformation of the learning process, new learning approaches and techniques appear, and the need for quality assurance of all learning assets emerges. Although, the existing e-learning...

Chapter 16

E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability (pages 204-219)

Åsa Smedberg

There are e-health communities of many different kinds available on the Internet today. Some e-health communities are for people who need to change their established bad, or unhealthy, habits such as the ones for people suffering...

Chapter 17

Standards in Telemedicine (pages 220-243)

O. Ferrer-Roca

For many years, medical teams working on telemedicine have made a strong effort to define the telemedicine Body of Knowledge (BoK), and generate compatible standards that allow delivering telemedicine with adequate medical quality....

Chapter 18

Standards and Guidelines Development in the American Telemedicine Association (pages 244-252)

Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Nina Antoniotti, Anne Burdick

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was established in 1993 to promote access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology. The ATA Standards and Guidelines Committee has been...

Chapter 19

Telepaediatrics in Queensland: Evidence for Quality, Reliability and Sustainability (pages 253-262)

Sisira Edirippulige, Anthony C. Smith

Telemedicine has been shown to be an effective alternative technique to provide health services to rural and remote communities. Although the interest in telemedicine is growing, there is little evidence to show the quality and...

Chapter 20

Evaluation Considerations for E-Health Systems (pages 263-277)

Anastasia N. Kastania

E-health evaluation, which involves different dimensions, has increased. In traditional healthcare, quality dimensions exist but these are not sufficiently exploited for e-health. Reliability is often examined regarding technology...

Chapter 21

Quality Issues in Personalized E-Health, Mobile Health and E-Health Grids (pages 278-290)

Anastasia N. Kastania, Sophia Kossida

The electronic healthcare in the modern society has the possibility of converting the practice of delivery of health care. Currently, chaos of information is characterizing the public health care, which leads to inferior...

Chapter 22

E-Health as the Realm of Healthcare Quality: A Mental Image of the Future (pages 291-310)

Anastasius Moumtzoglou

E-health has widely revolutionized medicine, creating subspecialties that include medical image technology, computer aided surgery, and minimal invasive interventions. New diagnostic approaches, treatment, prevention of diseases, and...

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