Whilst healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe, it has yet to realise the full potential of the e-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, high-value, accessible healthcare and has traditionally been slow to embrace new busine...

This study utilises a hypercube innovation model to analyse the changes in both healthcare informatics and medical related delivery models based on the innovations from Tele-healthcare, electronic healthcare (E-healthcare), to mobile healthcare (M-healthcare). Further, the critical impacts of these E-health innovations on the stakeholders: healthcare customers, hospitals, healthcare complementa...

investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of china’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

Despite the growing number of e-health websites that are dedicated to health education and information therapy, healthcare provider organizations have been slow in embarking on significant e-commerce ventures to improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients and consumers in geographically dispersed communities. More specifically, hospitals and health provider organizations tend to use...

In developed countries, e-health has rapidly evolved from the delivery of online medical content toward the adaptation of generic e-commerce solutions to the processing of health-related administrative transactions and logistical support of clinical tasks. E-health is perceived as being particularly useful in the operational support of the new decentralised and collaborative healthcare models b...

BACKGROUND E-health users are encouraged to consult healthcare professionals about the health information they found online because it facilitates e-health users to participate in an informed decision-making process with healthcare professionals on treatment options. However, few studies have examined the path of how e-health users consult healthcare professionals about the health information. ...

J. Zhang, G. Zaharchuk, M. Moseley, E. Han, N. White, C. Roddey, D. Rettmann, A. Dale, J. Kuperman, and A. Shankaranarayanan Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Global Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Department of Neuroscience, Univers...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...

BACKGROUND Concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. In terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of E-healthcare. E-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to Information and Communicat...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...