background & aim: sexual health education is one of the responsibilities of healthcare workers at schools, which can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases such as aids, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, substance abuse, sexual violence, and suicidal tendencies. this study aimed to investigate healthcare workers’ competence in sexual health education for female adolescents at schools. met...

& Drug Administration (KFDA) in 2009 and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) and Korea Industrial Technology Foundation (KOTEF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Strategic Technology and the Seoul R&BD Program, Republic of Korea (10526) and the Brain Korea21 Project for Medicine Science Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. JuHyun Kim is with the Brain Korea 21 Project for Med...

As the saying goes, health is wealth, and as the number of various diseases have increased in the past few decades, it is very important to monitor the health of the patients on daily basis. Internet of Things(IoT) has become one of the popular area for various applications. IoT will create technological revolution in a large number of applications, such as, smart living, smart home, healthcare...

It is well recognised that adoption of information communication and technology (ICT) in healthcare can transform healthcare services. Numerous countries are seeking to establish national e-health development and implementation. To collect, store and process individual health information in an electronic system, healthcare providers need to comply with the appropriate security and privacy legis...

Technological innovations such as electronic health records (EHRs), regional health information organizations (RHIOs), and the nationwide health information network (NHIN) have enabled increased sharing of medical records in the healthcare community. Recent studies have shown that patients do not trust healthcare providers to keep medical records safe from unauthorized release and want more con...

Healthcare is an important pillar of society, critical for e ectively responding to public health emergencies, and addressing disease, ill health, and poverty brought on by communicable disease and non communicable disease and cancer [7]. The increasing need for cost e ective, time e ective, and preventive healthcare is forcing radical changes in current healthcare systems, requiring them to ta...

This paper analyzes the public healthcare expenditure of Middle Eastern countries in relation to different exogenous explanatory variables, through a panel study involving twelve (12) Middle East countries. More specifically, the study methodology uses panel cointegration, and panel-based error correction models derived from annual data covering the period of 2000 to 2010. The empirical results...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions (e.g. e-health, telemedicine, e-education) are often viewed as vehicles to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres and to resolve shortcomings in the rural health sector. This study focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthc...

This study aims to explicate the strategic utilisation of e-learning is of upmost significance as e-learning plays a pivotal role in the improvement of healthcare learning and knowledge transfer, especially in developing countries and in pursuing of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Rapid technology changes in the learning and knowledge transfer landscape markedly, the swift pace of e-learni...

As the costs of healthcare services rise and healthcare professionals are becoming scarce and hard to find, it is imminent that healthcare organizations consider adopting health information technology (HIT) systems. HIT allows health organizations to streamline many of their processes and provide services in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. The latest technological trends such as Clo...