Multiple innovations in e-health have the proven potential to improve treatment success, reduce adverse events and healthcare spending. Despite the promising potential, verified in various studies, the diffusion speed of healthcare application is very low. A major challenge in healthcare is therefore not only the research and development for improved treatment, but also the comprehensive and ef...

This paper presents a technology-enhanced assessment system that can be used for both skill and knowledge learning. For this purpose, a general technology-enhanced assessment system is designed and developed for an online logic course at a fully online university, taking into account e-learning standards and specifications, which can be easily adapted to any institute and subject requiring a hi...

During the last decades the interest of health scientists has been increasingly focused on patients’ needs, the quality of the services offered and the satisfaction level from the available health care. The measurement and evaluation of patient satisfaction is a milestone for the improvement of the services provided – procedures, given that these results can provide a useful variety of informat...

The tool integration research area emerged in the 1980s. This survey focuses on those strands of tool integration research that discuss issues beyond technology. We reveal a discourse centered around six frequently mentioned non-functional properties. These properties have been discussed in relation to technology and high level issues. However, while technical details have been covered, high le...

The use of ICT for Education is an extremely complex issue that can and should be analyzed from different perspectives. This article does not intend to cover all of them but, instead, try to address only some of them by developing a high level view showing the contradictions that characterize different official statements and stressing some educational paradoxes. The article describes the Frenc...

Among other proposals to reform the German outpatient health care system the establishment of networks of cooperating physicians (doctors’ networks) has found high and controversial consideration in recent years. In this paper we analyze doctors’ networks both from an economic perspective, particularly with a view on network strategies, and the perspective of supporting information technologies...

Many authors have stressed that DSS development requires a high level of user involvement. Three DSS case studies are presented which illustrate that the level of user involvement can vary considerably. Based upon the existing literature, a tentative model of the dimensions affecting user involvement in the creation of a DSS is hypothesized. This model is then refined in light of the three case...

A useful method in intelligent engineering, called model reference control MRC , is applied in an economic control problem. The authors review the main framework of MRC and Goodwin growth cycle GGC model between two countries and drive the employment rate to be approximate stable in a high level by controlling the workers’ share in the national income automatically. It is very helpful to consti...

In this paper we conduct an analysis of Moodle activity data focused on identifying early predictors of good student performance. The analysis shows that three relevant hypotheses are largely supported by the data. These hypotheses are: early submission is a good sign, a high level of activity is predictive of good results and evening activity is even better than daytime activity. We highlight ...