OBJECTIVES The objective of this paper is to describe some of the major healthcare information technology (IT) infrastructures in Turkey, namely, Sağlık-Net (Turkish for "Health-Net"), the Centralized Hospital Appointment System, the Basic Health Statistics Module, the Core Resources Management System, and the e-prescription system of the Social Security Institution. International collaboration...

Many areas of the healthcare sector are information-rich and data-intensive, and often lack of time is a problem. Patient-specific medication information is often seen as highly important part of patient data for patients’ safe treatment and therefore the availability of it should be guaranteed. The aim of this paper is to study healthcare professionals’ perceptions of their utilization of sour...

H. Tan, W. Chen, P. Hu, G. W. Miller, T. A. Altes, J. F. Mata, E. E. de Lange, G. D. Cates, R. F. Lee, C. H. Meyer, and J. P. Mugler III Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, now with GE Healthcare, now with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Radiolo...

Some of the latest healthcare buzzwords are e-health, m-health or telemedicine. Is this the latest fad or is there indeed a lasting wow factor? The use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to support the achievement of health outcomes, namely, e-health has the potential to transform the manner in which health services are delivered. A plethora of applications are emerging though...

S. O. Oduneye, A. Shmatukha, V. Verpakhovski, C. L. Dumoulin, E. Schmidt, E. Crystal, and G. A. Wright Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, GE Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, United States, Brigham and Women's Hospi...

background: protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. in this regard, iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health expenditure to one percent. hence, this study aimed to measure percentage of iranian households exposed to catastrophic health expenditures and t...

Copyright © 2001, Idea Group Publishing. Reengineering is about fundamentally rethinking and dramatically redesigning business processes in order to lower costs and increase quality, service and speed. Such transformation is required in many industries today, perhaps none more so than the health sector. One enabling mechanism to allow for such large-scale change is found in information systems ...

As an industry, healthcare exhibits numerous contradictions, most notably with regard to its embracement of technology. On one hand, medical science is at the cutting edge with technology playing a key role in new techniques in oncology and cardiology as well as advances in various aspects of biomedical engineering. In contrast, healthcare delivery is a noted laggard with regard to its incorpor...

The Dutch healthcare system has changed towards a system of regulated competition to contain costs and to improve efficiency and quality of care. This paper provides: (1) a brief as-is overview of the changes for primary care, based on explorative literature reviews; (2) provides noteworthy remarks as for the way primary and secondary healthcare is organised; (3) an Dutch Healthcare: An Overvie...