L. H. Hamilton, J. A. Fabregat, D. Moratal, S. Ramamurthy, S. Kozerke, and M. E. Brummer School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, United States, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, School of Medicine, Emory University...

In this paper is presented a distributed e-healthcare system that is expert of automatically diagnose the situation of a patient based on data provided by the patient without involvement from a physician. This service is provided over the internet and can be used to observe the situation of a patient. When the situation of a patient changes, the system will automatically alert the doctor. This ...

Healthcare systems around the globe are facing a number of challenges. Thus Increasing focus is being placed on constructing appropriate healthcare reforms which are attempting to address how to tackle these challenges. A critical enabler in these reforms is the adoption of an e-health solution. Such e-health solutions are not only expensive and complex endeavours, but also have far reaching im...

reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

Background: Occurs as a result of long-term exposure to stress, job burnout threatens the health of personnel. Objectives: Considering the important role of healthcare personnel in maintaining and promoting people’s health, the current study investigated the job burnout frequency and its association with job performance among healthcare personnel. Methods: This correlational and cross-s...

BACKGROUND Most developing countries, including Uganda, have embraced the use of e-Health and m-Health applications as a means to improve primary healthcare delivery and public health for their populace. In Uganda, the growth in the information and communications technology industry has benefited the rural communities and also created opportunities for new innovations, and their application int...

Out of the UN Assembly (2000) initiated Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targeting, the MDG 4, 5 and 6 are concerned about health for all, while MDG 7 deals with environmental stability, while MDG 8 is a capstone goal advocating for global partnership for development. Quality and equitable healthcare delivery in Africa still remain a daunting challenge (Ditsa & Ojo, 2011). There is a g...

Healthcare delivery, irrespective of the region in the world, is facing the key challenges of escalating costs, an aging population, an increase in a myriad of diagnostic technologies and the rise of chronic diseases which in turn is leading to a more and more preventative focus. In short, the current state of healthcare delivery is not sustainable (OECD, 2012a;2012b; Porter and Guth, 2012; Por...

The ability of healthcare information systems to share and exchange information (interoperate) is essential to facilitate the quality and effectiveness of healthcare services. Although standardization is considered key to addressing the fragmentation currently challenging the healthcare environment, e-health standardization can be difficult for many reasons, one of which is making sense of the ...

Conventional healthcare delivery system is facing constraints in terms of maintenance of health records, of health care data, interoperability of information communication systems and ubiquitous availability of patient’s health record. The limitation of the conventional health system can be overcome by either replacing it of supplementing it by eHealth solution. If the healthcare organizations ...