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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Healthcare information"”.
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Mapping healthcare information technology
In this thesis I have developed a map of Healthcare Information Technology applications used in the United States for care delivery, healthcare enterprise management, clinical support, research and patient engagement. No attempt has previously been made to develop such a taxonomy for use by …
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Healthcare Information Systems:design Theory, Principles And Application
Healthcare information systems (HISs), as a class of systems, are not currently addressed in the MIS literature. This is in spite of a sharp increase in use over the past few years, and the uniquely qualified role that MIS has in the development of, impact and general understanding of HISs. In this …
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Transition to cloud computing in healthcare information systems
… is a study on the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare information technology industry. It provides a guideline for people who are trying to bring cloud computing into healthcare information systems through the use of a framework of tools and processes to overcome both technical and business …
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A shape-based approach for image retrieval in healthcare information infrastructure
This study investigated some models and techniques that would help build shape-based image retrieval with an improved accuracy. As an initial step, a modular prototype system, called BrainSearch was implemented and used to demonstrate the utility of our algorithms and techniques on brain Magnetic …
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Adoption of healthcare information technology and the impact on clinician behavior
It is widely believed that healthcare information technology (health IT) can improve care and lower costs. However, the pattern and uptake of beneficial features of health IT is poorly understood, and is an important part of realizing the full benefits of health IT. This thesis examines the factors …
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Acquisition, Distribution and Perspectives of Healthcare Information in Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM)
… importance of the Internet as a tool to obtain healthcare information. Under the supervision of Professor Edzard Ernst, director of CAM, I carried out five Internet surveys, of which I collected and summarized the data and drafted the first version of the manuscripts, which were then finalized …
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Human Cognitive Performance in Healthcare Information System Environment and its Application on Nursing Tasks
<p>The US healthcare system has serious issues in care quality and patient safety. Patients often do not receive the care they need or the given care service cause harm. In addition, the significant amounts of medical and medication errors occur, and recurring adverse drug events due to damaging …
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Ethics in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Reviews and Reflections
… to consider ethical issues faced in modern healthcare. Using a combination of personal reflections and a review of current literature, ethics within the PED is explored as it pertains to four categories: informed consent, health literacy, language barrier, and implicit bias. Parental consent …
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Exploring the Value of Group and Traditional Obstetrical Appointments to Reduce Health Disparity
… factors that may include access to important healthcare information in a culturally sensitive way. Can a group appointment model like the CenteringPregnancy model provide a more effective means for engaging Spanish-speaking pregnant women? Research studies using the group prenatal appointment …
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Essays on Human Error in Electronic Health Records (EHR) Information Security
… framework designed to mitigate human error in information security, aiming to enhance the resilience of EHR systems to make them less attractive to cybercriminals. The framework enhances Reason's Resiliency Model by incorporating a socially oriented management approach based on socio-technical …
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Evaluating Modern Neural Network Architectures for Suicide Prediction
… death among adolescents despite more access to healthcare information than ever before. Medical professionals struggle to make accurate diagnoses and catch warning signs with the overwhelming amount of data available. Machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, have previously been …
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The dynamics and strategic analysis of wireless communications technology in the healthcare industry
The healthcare industry like other industry is on the cross roads as a result of rising demand for healthcare delivery and service, the industry is facing declining revenues and increasing cost. As a result, one of the industry's strategic arsenal to avert the continual declines in revenue and …
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A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary
In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting …
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Computer, MD
Clinical decision support is an emerging type of healthcare information technology that aims to actively guide doctors' decision-making processes. In its various forms, it can help physicians design treatment regimens, regulate dosage, avoid potentially harmful drug interactions and allergies, …
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The Audacity of Happiness: The Good Life for People in Recovery from Opiate Addiction
… of therapy, medication, resource identification, healthcare information, parenting, nutrition, cooking, reproductive health classes, yoga and arts trainings, and how simultaneously they give each other support by sharing past and present experiences pertaining to all the walks of life they find …
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The Transgender Individual's Experience with Healthcare Interactions
… have difficulty accessing qualified and educated healthcare from health professionals. Therefore, this dissertation research study aimed to explore the transgender healthcare experience through a phenomenological lens. Additionally, the purpose of the study was to provide a transgender narrative …
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Physician Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Massachusetts
… of a paucity of entrepreneurial activity in healthcare more generally, there has been little systematic evidence to inform the extant, type, and drivers of entrepreneurship by physicians. Physician involvement in entrepreneurship is thought to result in more innovative and financially …
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The development and psychometric testing of the health literacy knowledge, application, and confidence scale (HLKACS)
… pervasive issue faced by adults today within the healthcare environment. One in four adults cannot make informed decisions regarding their own care and do not understand basic healthcare information. Nursing provides the majority of healthcare teaching, yet little is known about the current …
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Design and Testing of an Adult Age-Independent Online Needs Assessment Tool and Development of Adult Age-Independent Design Guidelines
… provide online survey and interface designers information on older and younger adult user requirements. They provide a knowledge resource for older and younger user healthcare information needs and information about the usability of one online assessment tool to accommodate both older and …
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