Editorial: Personal Health Systems

Towards Knowledge Oriented Personal Health Systems

Although current e-health tools such as personal health records have proven to be useful they still have many shortages. Especially, they do not provide effective means for querying personal health information. They also fail in information therapy, i.e., in providing the right information to right people at right time. In addition, they are totally passive, although through automating the cont...

Heuristic Evaluation of Personal Health Records Systems

Evaluation of Health Information Technology can be expensive and complex. In this work, we explored the use of heuristic evaluation as a low-cost evaluation method for Personal Health Records (PHR). We evaluate three PHR using both a traditional and a modified heuristic evaluation. The results of these evaluations demonstrate that heuristic evaluation can be used successfully to find many of th...

Personal Health Systems for Mental Health: The European Projects

Since the European funded project VREPAR--Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)--different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission ...

Editorial: The Global Nature of Health Information Management and Systems.

equity in health( editorial )

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