All Health Technology Requires Compassion, Collaboration, and Humanism for Optimal Care

Web-Based Collaboration Technology for the Delivery of Health Care

At West Virginia University, we were one of the first to implement a Web-based distributed multimedia medical record1, enabling health care providers to collaborate to improve health care delivery. Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Informatics (ARTEMIS) is an open-architecture implementation of collaboration technology in the health care arena that utilized informationsharing, team coordina...

Illuminating collaboration in emergency health care situations: paramedic-physician collaboration and 3D telepresence technology

Introduction. This paper focuses on paramedics' perspectives regarding paramedic-physician collaboration today, and their perspectives regarding the potential of 3D telepresence technology in the future. Method. Interviews were conducted with forty practicing paramedics. Analysis. The interview data were analysed using open and axial coding. An agreement of 0.82 using Cohen's kappa inter-coder ...

Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and Health

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!