Assessing Information Technologies for Health. Editorial

Health technology assessment. Findings from the Section on Assessing Information Technologies for Health.

OBJECTIVES To summarize current excellent research in the field of health technology assessment. METHODS Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2006. RESULTS Five excellent articles representing the research in four different nations were selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2006 from three international peer reviewed journals. CONCLUSIONS The best paper selection for the Yearb...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management

Access to health information. Editorial.

OBJECTIVES To provide an editorial introduction to the 2008 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. METHODS A brief overview of the main theme of "Access to Health Information", and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2008 IMIA Yearbook. RESULTS This 2008 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highligh...

Acceptance of Health Information Technologies, Acceptance of Mobile Health: A Review Article

Background: Mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. For its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affec...

Assessing health technologies in a changing world.

The author argues that a "narrowing down" in the scope of HTA that occurred at the end of the 1970s was paralleled by developments in bioethics at the same time. Both disciplines responded to changes in the institutional and political field in which they operated. Over the past 20 years, decision making in the health field has changed again. To remain relevant, HTA must evolve further. Building...