The use of EHRs and the benefits from them are significant for healthcare and health informatics. Data form the basis for any EHR and its potential to realize these benefits. This paper considers the housing of information and knowledge management in an EHR system. Are we experiencing a revolution in healthcare? Findings from an investigation of alternative approaches, followed by an evaluation...

Healthcare industry continues to evolve under conditions of intense competition in approaching health prevention, protection, and promotion. Therefore, healthcare providers are challenged to always ensure better patient experience, winning patients' satisfaction, and loyalty and remain competitive on today's healthcare market. Healthcare markets bring together professionals and their patients i...

The African communications 'revolution' has generated optimism that mobile phones might help overcome infrastructural barriers to healthcare provision in resource-poor contexts. However, while formal m-health programmes remain limited in coverage and scope, young people are using mobile phones creatively and strategically in an attempt to secure effective healthcare. Drawing on qualitative and ...

THROUGHOUT the world, information and communication technologies—telematics technologies—form the basis of a new area in the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare. It is characterized as a revolution based on information and the expression of human intelligence targeting to improve the efficiency and efficacy of healthcare delivery. Europe is actively participating in this revolut...

The complex challenges facing 21st century society will require solutions that transcend disciplinary boundaries (National Academies, 2004). The convergence of informatics, engineering and biotechnology is widely predicted to lie at the heart of the next technological revolution (Carlson, 2008). Interdisciplinary science and technology has the potential to fundamentally transform healthcare, ag...

PERSONALIZED MEDICINE People have been talking about personalized medicine, to a point that it almost gets old. Some are firm believers in this revolution and are actively devoting effort to advance it, others wonder whether this is yet another hype, and yet many others may have an impression that, as promising a future as it paints, it may only become reality in another lifetime. Regardless, m...