The Nordic countries are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden comprise a total population of approximately 27 million. provide unique opportunities for joint health registry-based research in large populations with long complete follow-up, facilitated by shared features, such as the tax-funded public care systems, similar population-based registries, personal identity number identifier...

Health care information systems are an area between two intersecting fields: Information Systems and health care. The development of health care information systems (HCIS) is influenced by software and hardware as well as medical innovations/development. The HCISs in also intersects with a wide range of other areas including management science, statistics and biomedical science. The technologic...

Academic and business environments increasingly accept the utility of diverse qualitative research approaches for informing the design, implementation and evaluation of information systems. However, there are concerns that inherent techno-centrism within the IS discipline distorts criteria for choosing and adapting approaches and, significantly, works to marginalise the opportunities qualitativ...

In an editorial titled “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems” the authors Hutchinson, Balabanova, and McKee hope to encourage a wider conversation about corruption in the health sector. Such conversations are difficult to hold for at least five reasons; it is hard to define corruption; corruption may allow some fragile health systems to subsist, shifting blame – are those involved...