Editorial Statement: Information Systems and Health Care Department

Editorial Statement: Information Technology and Systems (ITS) Department

This paper introduces the Information Technology and Systems (ITS) Department of CAIS. The department focuses on articles in design science. The goal of design-science research is the development and evaluation of technologies that extend the boundaries of human and organizational information-processing capabilities. Research must demonstrate the utility of such technologies to address problems...

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

ASHP statement on confidentiality of patient health care information.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that all medical information is sensitive and should be given the utmost protection. ASHP supports the adoption into federal law of a minimum standard for protection of individually identifiable patient health information and believes that states should retain the ability to adopt standards that are more stringent than federal la...

Health care services and information systems

Health care service delivery could be described as an information intensive industry. In contrast the banking industry is transaction intensive. Both are able to benefit greatly from the use of computing, information and communications technology. Yet the banking industry is much further advanced in this regard. A transaction based system relies predominantly on data. These are observations or ...

Editorial statement

We would like to welcome our readers to the twenty-eighth issue of 49 th Parallel and our second of 2012. In the last few months there have been some exciting developments at the journal and we hope that 49 th Parallel will continue to flourish in the future. We would like to welcome our new Articles Editor, Galateia Demetriou, to the 49 th Parallel team. Galateia is a second year doctoral rese...