Brian E. Dixon1,2,3; Katherine Barboza4; Ashley E. Jensen4,5; Katelyn J. Bennett4,5; Scott E. Sherman5,4; Mark D. Schwartz4,5 1Center for Health Information and Communication, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development Service CIN 13–416, Indianapolis, IN, USA; 2Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indian...

E-health innovations support empowered customers. It offers the ability for customers to have greater control and ready access applications of health information, clinical information, and social interaction between interested groups. However, providing empowerment in any state of interaction levels to customers (patients) in a healthcare organization is challenging tasks. Customers are empower...

this commentary is a brief response to nir eyal’s argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. while in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, i argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing...

pierre-gerlier forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. i would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. to dr. forest’s list, i wou...

New information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the Internet are considered important instruments for advancing social and economic development throughout the world. The benefits of ICTs, however, have not been evenly distributed among individuals with different socio-economic status. For example, few studies consider how ICTs affect men and women differently. Th...

BACKGROUND The area of e-Health is broad and has an excellent growth potential. An increasing number of experts believe that e-Health will fuel the next breakthroughs in health system improvements throughout the world, but there is frequent evidence of unsustainable use of e-Health systems in medical centres, particularly hospitals, for different reasons in different countries. Iran is also a d...

NEWS / ACTA INFORM MED. 2016 AUG; 24(4): 300-301 In the period from 1st to 3rd July 2016 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology and Healthcare (ICIMTH 2016) was held in Athens. The Conference was organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Greek Biomedical and Health Informatics Association, in cooperation with European Federation for Med...

Today most countries are implementing or planning to implement some type of e-health solution. This in turn leads to an exponential increase to the amount of data created, captured and stored. In order to maximise such a valuable data asset as well as create reliable and trustworthy e-health solutions, it is paramount to have a systematic strategy and robust organising framework which will in t...