The paper presents a usability evaluation of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of an Electronic Health Record System (EHR). The topic of interest was to explore the system’s usability in the context of nursing process documentation. A cognitive walk through approach was used. The data were analyzed with content analysis and the results show that challenges identified were related to navigating...

Introduction Medical simulation methodology is increasingly being utilised beyond the traditions of education to evaluate patient care workflows, processes, and systems within the health context. A literature review of healthcare facility testing showed that individual clinical departments and singular patient flow processes had been tested under a variety of simulated conditions, such as virtu...

Background and Objectives: Induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. Apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: deductions are a part of hospital revenues. however, they mostly remain unpaid due to incorrect documentation. this study focused on the rate and causes of deductions made by hospitals affiliated to kashan university of medical sciences, kashan, iran, according to available documents. methods: this was a descripti...

The research effort for a national e-Health interconnection infrastructure and for the needs of supporting design guidelines is in great demand. Additional researches in eHealthcare network services are critical to universal deployment in operational and security service management aspects. This paper presents our solution framework for e-Healthcare interconnection infrastructure, operational m...

• The EU/EAA influenza season started in week 1/2015, with 26% of sentinel specimens positive for influenza. • Subtype A(H3N2) viruses are dominant in almost all reporting European countries, and the majority of genetically characterised A(H3N2) viruses belong to subgroups distinct from the currently recommended vaccine-strain A/Texas/50/2012. • As a consequence of the mismatch between vaccine ...

ion and parsing are becoming increasingly important in software engineering. e.g.,  The execution of code can be dynamically checked against its documentation. Also Web Services can be dynamically searched for and invoked on the basis of their documentation.  Use cases can be inferred by specialization of documentation and from code by automatic test generators and by model checking.  Code c...