Better migrant health services with glocal context

Access and authorisation in a Glocal e-Health Policy context

Challenges to the development of appropriate yet adaptable policy and tools for security of the individual patient electronic health record (EHR) are proving to be significant. Compounding this is the unique capability of e-health to transgress all existing geo-political and other barriers. Initiatives to develop and advance policy, standards, and tools in relation to EHR access control and aut...

Global + local = glocal public health.

Community Informatics and Participatory E-Planning in the Glocal Context

Our research group “Participatory local community” (Palco) presented three years ago, at the Prato conference, our first paper on CI and urban planning. Since then, we have continued to conduct research on, with and by communities in which CI is being applied. As our research has produced a set of varying results and concepts around the use of CI, we wished to conduct a meta-analysis of our wor...

Context-Aware Information Services for Health Care

Agility is a distinctive aspect of the health care profession. Clinicians operate in a fast changing environment with needs to access different pieces of information in different situations. On the surface it would appear that clinicians would benefit tremendously from the use of modern mobile technology. In reality, however, the health care sector has been hesitant to embrace electronic clinic...

Women's health: potential for better coordination of services.

OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of women attending a genitourinary medicine clinic (GUMC) who are in need of contraception and the proportion of women attending a family planning clinic (FPC) who may require screening or treatment for sexually transmitted disease (STD). DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING A large FPC (17,600 attendances by women a year) and a large GUMC (20,060 att...