OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the effects of e-health education content on the attitude of undergraduate health science students towards the efficiency of health ICT in healthcare provision. METHODS A cross-sectional survey design was used. Participants were Health Sciences students attending The University of Sydney. Students were divided into three groups: junior students enrolled i...

One of the challenges faced nowadays by the healthcare industry is semantic interoperability. It is the ability of a healthcare system to share information and have that information properly interpreted by the receiving system in the same sense as intended by the transmitting system. Semantic Web (aka Web 3.0) provides the enabling technologies to achieve semantic interoperability. Web Services...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service projects that by the year 2011 the total healthcare expenditure would reach $2.8 trillion and would amount to 17% of the GDP. Several surveys in the past equivocally agree that the population of the world is aging and this is resulting in increased healthcare utilization/expenses. The current research evaluates ubiquitous healthcare as a strategy tha...

Changes in healthcare delivery have become so widespread and frequent that the idea of change in healthcare has become one of anticipation and expectation rather than interruption and surprise. Consumers, providers, organizations and societies have seen changes in the definitions of vital concepts related to healthcare delivery, like health and quality, which have in turn altered the methods by...

this commentary explores some of the issues raised by gilbert et al.short communication, morality and markets in the nhs. the increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the national health service (nhs), all have important ethical implications. in order for the nhs to con...

WH AT T H I S C O M P E T E N C Y E N TA I L S The Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) defines this competency as “the demonstrated understanding of the health care system and the environment in which health care managers and providers function.” According to HLA’s research, this competency involves 18 areas that are particularly important for healthcare leaders to master. These areas can be o...

There are many borders that prevent the provision of quality and equitable healthcare. Regional borders limit the mobility of individuals and services, linguistic borders challenge mutual understanding, geographical borders limit the access to adequate care, and professional boundaries cause breakdowns in the continuity of the information chain. Although there are still significant challenges t...

Healthcare service is the core of the social welfare system, and has been widely focused by the governments, media and the public. The rapid development of e-commerce and the wide application of ICT have accelerated their uses in healthcare service. China welcomes ehealth service as it is developing globally, but like many other nations it encounters both opportunities and challenges. Therefore...

. .the barriers to diffusion of Tele-Medicine are not entirely technical. Cost has to simultaneously satisfy a number of stakeholders. . . (Anderson, Aydin and Jay, et al., 1994). Rising costs of the provision of healthcare have been a major issue for debate in both developing and developed countries. This is especially true of very capitalistic societies such as the United States where privati...