Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is one of the most studied areas of health information technology due to advocacy for its use by influential organizations such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In the United States, the federal government has played a significant role in encouraging use of e-prescribing technology and in stimulating associated research nationwide. The federal governmen...

The concept of e-health gains rapid and widespread international acceptance as the most practical means of reducing burgeoning healthcare costs, improving healthcare delivery, and reducing medical errors. However, due to profit-maximizing forces controlling healthcare, the majority of e-based systems are characterized by non-existent or marginal compatibility leading to platformcentricity that ...

INTRODUCTION E-health has been a recurrent topic in health reform, yet its implementation, ultimate role and feasibility are yet to be clearly defined. Organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service South East Section (RFDS SE) are in a position to utilise technology to enhance the effectiveness of existing clinical services for remote communities. The study aim was to explore the readin...

The adoption and diffusion of e-health and the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare is being heralded as the panacea with both European and US governments making e-health a priority on their agendas. In this context, a model of network centric healthcare operations has been proffered as the best way to maximize the benefits of ICT use in healthcare as w...

Ensuring interoperability across different healthcare providers becomes an important issue with a potentially large return on investment (ROI) potential when multiple healthcare providers are collaborating in an e-Health system. In cross-context communications, the same information can be expressed by means of different types or values. This chapter proposes a new architecture for crosscontext ...

services in Brunei Darussalam (Brunei) from customers' perspective. It is to identify, understand, analyze and evaluate public's expectation on e-health in Brunei. A questionnaire was designed to gather quantitative and qualitative data to survey patients, patient's family, and health practitioners at hospitals, clinics, or home care centers in Brunei starting from February to March, 2011. A 25...

B. Qiu, F. Gao, T. K. Foo, P. Karmarkar, E. Atalar, and X. Yang Radiology, Image-guided bio-molecular intervention section, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Baltimore, MD, United States, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Anka...

S. Banerjee, A. Shankaranarayanan, H-L. Lee, K. S. Nayak, S. Majumdar, and E. T. Han Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, United States, Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San ...

M. Gebhardt, D. Diehl, E. Adalsteinsson, L. L. Wald, and G. Eichfelder Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany, Siemens Corporate Technology, Erlangen, Germany, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard University, Charlestown, MA, United States, Applied Mathematics II, Universi...