Pnm-25: Nursing Information Systems: Issues and Challenges

Enterprise Information Systems: Issues, Challenges and Viewpoints

This paper is based on a panel presentation to the first International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). The panel intends to address important issues in EIS from the perspectives of research and industry. It has not only raised questions, concerns and topics related to the research, development and application of information technologies and systems, but also suggested approa...

Enterprise Information Systems and Implementing IT Infrastructures: Challenges and Issues

Issues and Challenges in the Development of Hypermedia Information Systems

Hypermedia is a powerful information management technology that couples the enhanced representative capabilities of multimedia with the power to define ever more meaningful relationships between data. It is only in recent years that hypermedia has been popularised, due in large measure to the surge of the ubiquitous World Wide Web. Of course, not all hypermedia applications are Web-based, nor c...

Issues and Challenges in Business Rule-Based Information Systems Development

An explicit manipulation of business rules in information systems development (ISD) is an old domain. There were many attempts in the last two decades to define how the rules should be dealt with throughout the ISD activities. Despite many results that have been achieved, several questions regarding business rule manipulation within ISD remain unresolved and present challenges for future resear...

The Discipline of Information Systems : Issues and Challenges

This paper explores challenges of the evolution of the concept of Information Systems (IS) and its implications on IS as a discipline. The concept of IS has come a long way since the first ‘computer applications’ that automated routine, repetitive tasks, up until today’s organisation-wide IS, groupware systems and Internetbased IS that mediate communications. Gradually, IS have penetrated into ...

Pilot Implementation of Health Information Systems: Issues and Challenges

OBJECTIVES This study aims to explore the issues and challenges involved in designing and organizing pilot implementations of health information systems (HIS). Pilot implementations are a widely used approach for identifying design flaws and implementation issues before full-scale deployment of new HIS. However, it is not uncommon for pilot implementations to fail in the sense that little can b...