E ighty percent of adults experience at least one traumatic event throughout their lives and approximately 10% of them subsequently develop a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; e.g., De Vries & Olff, 2009). Trauma exposure, especially when prolonged and in childhood, may have negative health consequences throughout the lifespan, in severe cases leading not only to psychological morbidity but ...

At the centre of the Clinical e-Science Framework (CLEF) project is a repository of well organised, detailed clinical histories, encoded as data that will be available for use in clinical care and in-silico medical experiments. An integral part of the CLEF workbench is a tool to allow biomedical researchers and clinicians to query – in an intuitive way – the repository of patient data. This pap...

Hospital websites are becoming an industry standard as patients (consumers) and health professionals use web resources for information, research, and communication. Industry predictions focused on future e-hospitals that would integrate all stakeholders in a seamless network allowing data to be shared. This paper investigates web assurance strategies implemented by hospitals in the design of th...

As an emerging form of enabling technology, Web-based e-Health portals provide patients easier accesses to their healthcare information and services. We design and implement such an e-Health portal which can integrate many backend medical services effectively. A major challenge in designing such a system is to meet critical security requirements, such as the confidentiality of patient data, the...

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...

Nova Scotia's healthcare policy direction seems well-defined and well-established for the foreseeable future. This is the case, despite the recent electoral transition from a Progressive Conservative to a New Democratic Party government for the first time in the province's history; and despite the threat of the province's net direct debt increasing through 2012, after eight years of declining n...

BACKGROUND Concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. In terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of E-healthcare. E-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to Information and Communicat...

The increase in the number of online health resources and in particular medical digital libraries has made a wealth of information available to health professionals. Previous research has mainly concentrated on the usability and development of the resource but often, the continued promotion of the site and how to increase the levels of usage over an extended period are overlooked. In this paper...

This paper describes the Virtual Laboratory for e-Health system which is currently being developed in the EU IST ViroLab project. The Virtual Laboratory is an environment that enables clinical researchers to prepare and execute computing experiments using a distributed Grid infrastructure, while not requiring in-depth Grid computing technologies knowledge. By virtualizing the hardware, computin...

introduction: intestinal parasitic infections are of a major public health problem in many societies. enterobius vermicularis (e. vermicularis) is particularly more persistent in places such as kindergartens, dormitories, and barracks, where people live and work together. this study aimed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of infection with e. vermicularis in the kindergartens of de...