OBJECTIVES Over the past decade, hospitals and clinics have gradually adopted hospital information systems, including provider order entries and electronic health records. Although these systems have helped to improve patient safety and efficiency of healthcare providers, not all healthcare providers and patients are satisfied with the current situation. Healthcare should be smarter. Thus, ther...

Mobile devices used for heath can be used anywhere including homes or offices, thanks to their mobility and portability. Moreover since they are used for monitoring bioinformation as well as medical services in hospital, there is an increasing possibility of the leakage of personal bio data, which in turn increases the possibility of spoofing that data. Therefore, it is critical to establish co...

A cohort of mothers whose babies were born over one calendar month were followed up eight to 11 months after being given a personal health record for their newborn babies. Eight per cent of mothers lost the records and three more said they had not been given a record while in hospital; a total of 10% of mothers had either lost or misplaced the record. There were no particular demographic charac...

Personal control is an individual's belief about the degree that he or she can bring about good events and avoid bad events. High personal control is associated with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and physiological vigor in the face of challenging situations and events; low personal control is associated with maladaptive passivity and poor morale. In this paper, we sketch the roots of the...

OBJECTIVES To summarize current outstanding research in the field of Personal Health and Consumers Informatics. METHODS A selection of excellent research articles published in 2011 in the field of Personal Health Informatics and Consumer Informatics. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS This selection of articles shows that Personal Health Informatics is changing. Indeed, the different solutions tended ...

This paper presents critical issues concerning the community sensitive personal health information system in rural India, from an industrial design perspective. Literature in current ICT based applications, point to the fact that, current efforts related to personal health information dissemination have gained limited acceptance at community level among rural population. This is probably due to...

A population-based sample study of adolescent women and men from Lomé, Togo, was conducted to examine their responses to personal experiences with AIDS. Information was obtained on youth reproductive health knowledge, attitudes and practices, including attitudes towards HIV/AIDS and personal experience with AIDS. Multivariate results demonstrate that an important factor that distinguishes adole...

In the fifties and sixties a rebirth for primary health care (PHC) took place in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. New scientific journals started: the Journal of the College of GP's (now the British Journal of General Practice) in the UK and Huisarts en Wetenschap in The Netherlands. In 1966 in both countries reforms took place to reinforce General Practitioners within the health care sy...

Using household-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate the extent to which medical expenses are responsible for driving households to bankruptcy. Our results suggest that an increase of 10 percent in medical debts would cause a 27 percent increase in the filing propensity of households with primarily medical debt, and an approximately 36 percent increase in filing prope...