Value-Based Health Technology Assessment and Health Informatics

Value-Based Health Technology Assessment and Health Informatics

Assessment-based health informatics curriculum improvement

OBJECTIVE Informatics programs need assurance that their curricula prepare students for intended roles as well as ensuring that students have mastered the appropriate competencies. The objective of this study is to describe a method for using assessment data to identify areas for curriculum, student selection, and assessment improvement. MATERIALS AND METHODS A multiple-choice examination cov...

PERSONALISED HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

There is a growing need of renovation in our health care managingsystems; people need to be more interactive and more conscious of their ownhealth condition in a way to adjust incorrect lifestyles, to obtain a personalizedtherapy tuned to their own physiological reactions and on their own environmentalcondition. To gain knowledge of a citizen’s health status and to monitor witho...

Health technology assessment: Off-site sterilization

Background: Every year millions of dollars are expended to equip and maintain the hospital sterilization centers, and our country is not an exception of this matter. According to this, it is important to use more effective technologies and methods in health system in order to reach more effectiveness and saving in costs. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the technology of regi...

Evidence based health informatics.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * The need for a systematic evaluation of health information systems * How to plan and execute an evaluation study * How to select adequate quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods * How to judge the quality of an evaluation study * The idea of evidence-based health informatics.