Evaluation of Web Based Information Systems: Users’ Informing Criteria

Relevance criteria identified by health information users during Web searches

This study focused on the relevance judgments made by health information users using the Web. Health information users were conceptualized as motivated information users concerned about how an environmental issue affects their health. Users identified their own environmental health interests, and conducted a Web search of a particular environmental health Web site. Users were asked to identify ...

Evaluation Criteria of Information Systems Interference Immunity

This article looks at quantitative measures of conformity degree of received and transmitted information messages, selected depending on message nature, and defines main approaches to assessment of information systems interference immunity. Author analyzed peculiarities of information receiving depending on signals purposes on stages of signal detection, sorting out of signals and message recov...

Evaluation Criteria for Information Systems Development Methodologies

The evaluation of information systems development methodologies is becoming increasingly important. The lack of a commonly acceptable set of criteria for evaluation, however, hinders aggregating knowledge from field studies. Our study attempts to fill the gap. To reduce the effects of subjectivity, we surveyed the opinions of a group (28) of experienced IS researchers. Fifty-one criteria were g...

Evaluation of Hospital Information Systems Data Quality in Educational Hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences form Users’ Perspective

Web-based Medical Information Systems

Corporations and academia are currently exploring medical Information Systems. Medical information systems that contain information on the patients’ health records, appointments, laboratory tests/results, billing and insurance in one comprehensive web site are almost nonexistent. Some of the reasons for this include privacy concerns and reluctance to invest in new technology by health-care prov...