Evaluating computerised health information systems: We are still getting information technology wrong

Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt.

Enormous investment has gone into computerised hospital information systems worldwide. The estimated costs for each large hospital are about $50m (£33m), yet the overall benefits and costs of hospital information systems have rarely been assessed. When systems are evaluated, about three quarters are considered to have failed, and there is no evidence that they improve the productivity of health...

Computerised neonatal information systems.

The impact of information technology on health

Information Technology (IT) is the study of systems especially computers for storing, retrieving, and sending information. It uses any networking and other physical devices, infrastructures to secure and exchange all forms of electronic data. IT is used globally as a major portion of daily life and we use it nearly every day within organizations for many reasons. Our computers, mobile phones an...

Wrong questions, wrong answers? Are we getting the drugs we need?

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Lipworth W, Kerridge I, Day R. 2012. Wrong questions, wrong answers? Are we getting the drugs we need? Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 91 3, 367–369 is available online at http://www.nature.com/cl...

Are We Really Getting Conservation So Badly Wrong?

In October 2010, some 18,000 delegates from 193 nations met in Nagoya, Japan, for the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaty to protect biodiversity. In Nagoya, governments reaffirmed their concern over the continuing loss of biodiversity and set new targets to address the crisis. Among the national delegations, indigenous people...