Keeping up with Advancements in Health Information Technology

The Use of Health Information Technology by Nurses in Healthcare

Background: Health Information Technology (HIT) has the potential for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare and nurses are the largest group of HIT users. Objectives: Therefore, the present study mainly aimed to investigate the use of HIT by nurses in healthcare. Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was conducted in four educational and treatmen...

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...

Keeping virtual information resources up and running

The maintenance of materialized views in large-scale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources (ISs), such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of information service providers. These applications face the problem that such large-scale environments are plagued with ISs not only continuously modifying their contents, but also their schemas and query capabilities...

Keeping up with Change

Keeping up with calcium

Our understanding of how calcium functions as a second messenger continues to increase at an incredible pace. This symposium covered most, if not all, aspects of the many roles of calcium in the regulation of cellular processes and ranged from calcium imaging through to the structure and function of calcium-binding proteins. Emphasis was placed on elucidating the involvement of these proteins i...