A drug e-prescription demonstrator was created in compliance with existing legislation as well as security and privacy standards. A professional ID-card was built on a high security chip (ISTEC E4 High; EAL-5) with a Hash hardware accelerator for a digital signature placed in a single chip USB token. Commercial software products as well as development kits of the new hardware designed in the pr...

Introduction A Neolithic transformation is underway in public health, where the ubiquity of digital healthcare (HC) data is changing public health’s traditional role as data hunter-gatherers to one of data farmers harvesting huge reserves of electronic data. ILINet 1.0 is the current U.S. outpatient ILI surveillance network dependent on ~2000 volunteer sentinel providers recruited by States to ...

We are delighted to have been invited to guest edit this special issue of the Australian Journal of Primary Health and to bring you 13 papers looking at aspects of the rhetoric and reality of e-health in relation to primary health. We were pleased to see the enthusiastic reaction from authors to the call for papers and have thoroughly enjoyed reading the submitted papers and guiding them throug...

With the advance of Web Services technologies and the mergence of Web Services into the information space, tremendous opportunities for empowering users and organizations appear in various application domains including electronic commerce, travel, intelligence information gathering and analysis, health care, digital government, etc. However, the technology to organize, search, integrate these W...

E-Health systems include applications of information communication technologies to promote healthcare services support, delivery and education. The success of an E-Health system is very much dependent on the success of EHR systems, as EHR forms the core of any E-Health system. Readiness assessment has been identified as an essential requirement for the success of EHR in terms of adoption rate a...

A staggering amount of 25% of people worldwide are estimated to be affected by mental in their lives (WHO, 2011). Although effective interventions to reducemental health symptoms exist, many sufferers do not receive mental health care. In particular, as much as 76–85% of people in need of treatment in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) do not receive any treatment at all (Patel et al. 2011;...

Traditional clinic-based service delivery systems remain inaccessible to many Australians with mental health problems. If we are to substantially reduce the burden of mental illness, we need to develop more accessible, empowering and sustainable models of mental health care. E-health technologies have specific efficiencies and advantages in the domains of health promotion, prevention, early int...

BACKGROUND Given the rapid increase of Internet use for effective health communication, it is important for health practitioners to be able to identify and mobilize active users of online health information across various web-based health intervention programmes. We propose the concept 'health e-mavens' to characterize individuals actively engaged in online health information seeking and sharin...

In order to provide more accessible, accurate, real-time information for citizens, government E-services, such as information kiosks, have been set up in many public places. Although the public sector has promoted E-government services for many years, their uses and achievements have been below expectations so far. Therefore, this paper explores the key factors of user acceptance through a rese...