objective: to understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in uttar pradesh, india, within the context of maternal health. materials and methods: the study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of uttar pradesh state, india. semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...

Healthcare in Canada is facing many problems. The most publicised symptoms are excessive waiting times for patients, lack of access, high cost of delivery and medical errors. e-health has been introduced as a potential solution for such problems. This research will explore the area of e-health and the technologies as well as the concepts that are included under its large umbrella. Bearing in mi...

E-health is an emerging field in the intersection of information systems, healthcare and business, referring mainly to healthcare services delivered and enhanced through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). An important area of research is the evaluation of e-health services. A holistic e-health evaluation framework should address the aspects that are hampering healthcar...

Electronic healthcare (e-health) will significantly alter the way physicians practise medicine [1, 2]. Electronic medical records with specialised software programs can increase the quality of patient care, reduce unnecessary medical tests, and directly connect with pharmacies to transmit prescriptions. Electronic communication allows physicians to respond to patients’ clinical concerns and que...

G. E. Gold, S. S. Vasanawala, W. Lu, C. A. Chen, W. Chen, J. M. Pauly, K. Butts Pauly, S. B. Goodman, and B. A. Hargreaves Radiology, Bioengineering, Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Tech., Singapore, Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo P...

In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of specific characteristics required to evaluate IS security approaches with regard to their applicability in the healthcare domain. The future of integrated treatment is enabled by e-health solutions that comprise health services and information delivered or enhanced through communication and information technologies. This is based on the communica...

Background E-health technology applications are essential tools of modern information technology that improve quality of healthcare delivery in hospitals of both developed and developing countries. However, despite its positive benefits, studies indicate that the rate of the e-health adoption in some developing countries is either low or underutilized. This is due in part, to barriers such as r...

Th e symposium with international participation entitled Experiences in the Implementation of Healthcare Reform in the Republic of Croatia took place on October 27-29, 2009 at Plitvice Lakes. Th e Symposium was organized by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Croatia and Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, under the persona...

in fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of itc. the evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. e-health is consi...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at kermanshah province. statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at bisotoun district in harsin township, kermanshah province, iran (n=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. the main instrument...