Health Information Systems – from Present to Future?

Health information systems - past, present, future

In 1984, Peter Reichertz gave a lecture on the past, present and future of hospital information systems. In the meantime, there has been a tremendous progress in medicine as well as in informatics. One important benefit of this progress is that our life expectancy is nowadays significantly higher than it would have been even some few decades ago. This progress, leading to aging societies, is of...

Information systems evaluation: past, present and future

How to Evaluate Health Information Systems: Evaluation stages

The most important goal of health systems is improvement of quality, effectiveness and efficiency of health services. To achieve this goal, health care organizations should establish a proper structure for evaluating health information systems. Health information system evaluation is expected to identify the existing problems of the system through measuring specific indicators. The main objecti...

Event studies in information systems research: past, present and future

Event studies, which gauge stock market reactions to specific events or happenings that may impact a business's operations, represent a relatively new but fast growing research approach in the information systems field. Building on four earlier literature reviews, in this paper we examine seventy-three event studies dealing with information technology. The purpose of this review is to assess th...

Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present and Future