BACKGROUND E-health is an essential information sharing tool in healthcare management and delivery worldwide. However, utilization of e-health may only be possible if healthcare professionals have positive attitudes towards e-health. This study aimed to determine the relationships between healthcare professionals' attitudes towards e-health, level of ICT skills and e-Health use in healthcare de...

E-health, enabled by ubiquitous computing and communication technologies, is facilitating a fundamental shift in the age old praxis of healthcare. It is revolutionizing healthcare in the 21 century in much the same way as the arrival of modern medicine and vaccines did in the 19 century. E-health lies at the intersection of diverse disciplines including healthcare, computer science, information...

The aim of this study is to analyze the factors affecting the acceptance of electronic health on the basis of the theory of planned behavior. E-health is a growing field of health communication that entails using medical informatics, public health, and trades. As a result, E-health facilitates the provision of health information and services through the internet and related technologies. In thi...

M. A. Vogelsong, E. Staroswiecki, B. A. Hargreaves, E. Han, J. A. Fattor, A. L. Friedlander, O. Shah, J. M. Beaubien, and G. E. Gold Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, GE Healthcare Global Applied Sciences Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, Stanford Center on Longevity, St...

Purpose – Modern e-health systems incorporate different healthcare providers in one system and provide an electronic platform to share medical information efficiently. In cross-context communications between healthcare providers, the same information can be interpreted as different types or values, so that one patient will be issued different identifiers by different healthcare providers. This ...

i This issue of IJHISI delivers a set of articles that further expand the breadth and depth of our understanding of key issues in health information systems and informatics. As with authors of papers appearing in previous issues, the assembled contributors also use a range of research methodologies, from conceptual model-ing and framework development to survey-based statistical analyses. In the...

e-Health Readiness refers to the preparedness of healthcare institutions or communities for the anticipated change brought by programs related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This paper presents e-Health Readiness assessment tools developed for healthcare institutions in developing countries. The objectives of the overall study were to develop e-health readiness assessment t...

Superior access, quality, and value of healthcare services has become a national priority for healthcare to combat the exponentially increasing costs of healthcare expenditure. E-Health in its many forms and possibilities appears to offer a panacea for facilitating the necessary transformation for healthcare. While a plethora of e-health initiatives keep mushrooming both nationally and globally...

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 health literacy presents an enormous challenge in the delivery of effective healthcare and quality outcomes. we evaluated the impact of low health literacy (lhl) on healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure.   methods database analysis used medical expenditure panel survey (meps) from 2005-2008 which provides nationally representative estimates of healthcare utilization and e...