Background: To promote preventive health care by primary care physicians and the development of computerized health maintenance tracking systems, the American Cancer Society sponsored an expert advisory group to define necessary and desirable, but optional, features of computer-based health maintenance tracking software for use in primary care practice. Methods: Systematic literature review and...

Any particular IT system can be specified in many different ways, reflecting the processes and practices of the organization and organizational culture. It is important to understand the interconnections between IT and the organization and to understand the implications of impacts of different systems on the organization. This paper explores some of the human and organizational needs and requir...

OBJECTIVE To compare how nurses in two different paper-based systems perceive the impact of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system on their medication-related activities. SETTING 13 non-surgical, adult inpatient wards in a Dutch academic hospital. METHODS Questionnaire survey of 295 nurses before and 304 nurses after the implementation of a CPOE system. These nurses worked with ...

introduction: with increasing production of health information, information technologies have been used for better management and usage of such data. this enormous increase in gathering and storing of information and widespread accessibility also concerns individuals regarding privacy and security of information. this research is concerned with this issue due to decisions on establishing indivi...

in a competitive market, timely production and speed of response to orders, also flexibility of manufacturing companies to production of various products required by customers is necessary. production companies to survive in the market, must be able to deliver their products with the use of all factors of production. for this purpose, one of the most challenging factors of production, keeping r...

“Make or buy” of software has been a key question for management since the emergence of computerized information systems. Until today this question has not been answered satisfactorily. It is still unclear what evaluation methods should be used to support the decision process in the selection of a suitable package unambiguously. In this article a first step in the development of a framework for...

Animal facilities are installations of great importance for the advancement animal research, since it is where activities breeding, maintenance and experimentation carried out. Based on this assumption, present dissertation addresses development a monitoring system environmental factors such as temperature, relative humidity, ammonia luminosity in an automated way through open source hardware s...