Notifiable condition reporting and alerting are two important public health functions. Today, a variety of methods are used to transfer these types of information. The increasing use of electronic health record systems by healthcare providers makes new types of electronic communication possible. We used the XForms standard and nationally recognized technical profiles to demonstrate the communic...

conclusions it was concluded that hcos need an hit clearly designed with km and they have to recognize where knowledge is resided, when designing strategies to warrant that knowledge is being created and transferred in the best way and to the right persons. otherwise, the hcos do not use an efficiency-oriented hit. results according to the obtained results 15% of the subjects highly used clinic...

BACKGROUND Despite a consensus that the use of health information technology should lead to more efficient, safer, and higher-quality care, there are no reliable estimates of the prevalence of adoption of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals. METHODS We surveyed all acute care hospitals that are members of the American Hospital Association for the presence of specific electronic-record...

this paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to hiv/aids. this comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and hiv prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and voluntary counseling and testing (vct), for prevention of mother–to-ch...

purpose: having a clinical information system is a good solution for monitoring medical problems. this system is designed to improve the speed and accuracy of data management. the goal is to replace medical records with a clinical information system to support storing, processing and distributing data in all the sections of a healthcare center. the purpose of this research was to determine the ...

Meta-modeling of healthcare records is necessary to capitalize and normalize the knowledge of domain experts. First, it enables knowledge interoperability and, it offers reuse of clinical concepts and provides a higher design quality of health information systems and electronic health record systems. However, to obtain these advantages, designers must be able to retrieve the suitable archetypes...

The implementation of information systems into primary health care opened the possibilities of providing integrated and co-ordinated health care, improved in quality and focused on the healthcare user. The healthcare system, researchers, physicians, and patients have recognised the benefits offered by informatics, but also raised questions that have yet to be answered.

OBJECTIVES The prominence given to universal implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems in U.S. health care reform, underscores the importance of devising reliable measures of factors that predict medical care providers' use of EHRs. This paper presents an easily administered provider survey instrument that includes measures corresponding to core dimensions of DeLone and McClean's...

Patient-controlled personal health record system can help making health care safer, cheaper, and more convenient by facilitating patients to 1) grant any care provider to access their complete personal health records anytime from anywhere, 2) avoid repeated tests and 3) control their privacy transparently. In this paper, we present the architecture of our devised Privacy-aware Patient-controlle...

national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...