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Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...

In this paper we analyze the limitations of current recommendations of the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) Directive as far as the temporal metadata definition for discovery purposes, and propose its extension so as to allow the representation and management of imperfect spatiotemporal metadata. We propose to extend the metadata in order to cope with the requirements ...

purpose: nurses can directly influence health services quality and outcomes. they need correct information in due time to provide an effective service for the patient and other healthcare personnel. nursing information system is a subsystem of hospital information system that can help nurses to have better performances. the goal of this study was to evaluate nursing information system of hospit...

It is absolutely essentially that the metaphors of use surrounding the NII and its component services be examined critically. We need to do this for two reasons. The descriptions and explanations of the NII and its component services will affect the societal debate around implementation and social impacts. Some of the metaphors used to describe the NII, however, distort the real effects and pos...