The ageing of the population, the growth of chronic diseases, and the explosion of healthcare costs jeopardise the sustainability of healthcare systems in many European countries. This opens opportunities for innovative prevention and healthcare services supported by information and communication technologies (ICT). The natural focus for providing such services is the home. However, the ehealth...

The mining of temporal aspects over multi-dimensional data is increasingly critical for healthcare planning tasks. A healthcare planning task is, in essence, a classification problem over health-related attributes across temporal horizons. The increasingly integration of healthcare data through multi-dimensional structures triggers new opportunities for an adequate long-term planning of resourc...

T hroughout the summer, federal plans for healthcare reform continued to stall, to the chagrin of many in the healthcare and policy communities. Even within the Clinton administration, the tension was apparent between the desire to forge ahead and the need to wait for a politically appropriate moment to unveil the health reform planafter the president's economic package and budget have passed. ...

Mental Health is a state of wellbeing that plays a key role in affecting the quality of life of an individual. However, globally the level of treatment and focus it receives in terms of funding and priority as a healthcare issue differs significantly. More recently mental health in Saudi Arabia has begun to receive better attention from authorities and researchers. In particular, e-mental healt...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

a decade ago, sub-saharan africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. the chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. these health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...

background hispanics comprise 17% of the total u.s. population, surpassing african-americans as the largest minority group. linguistically, almost 60 million people speak a language other than english. this language diversity can create barriers and additional burden and risk when seeking health services. patients with limited english proficiency (lep) for example, have been shown to experience...

The Application of e-health solutions has brought superb advancements in the health care industry. E-health solutions have already been embraced in the industrialized countries. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the healthcare industry by use of Information technology in different ways. Based on a technology assessment carried out i...

The 21st century continues to witness the transformation of organizational systems globally through the deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The emerging future is witnessing the convergence of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nomadic information systems, and nanotechnology. This promises to further transform the nature of inter-organizational systems between t...

T. Grafendorfer, N. I. Matter, R. D. Venook, S. E. Ungersma, G. E. Gold, N. J. Giori, B. A. Hargreaves, J. M. Pauly, A. Macovski, G. C. Scott, and S. M. Conolly GE Global Health, CA, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, Stanford University, CA, Radiology, Stanford University, CA, Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University, CA, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, E...