Within the healthcare system, training and continued professional development although essential, can be effected by cost and logistical restraints due to the nature of healthcare provision e.g employee shift patterns, access to expertise, cost factors in releasing staff to attend training etc. The use of multimedia technology for the development of e-learning applications is also a major cost ...

With the implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR), the patients' health information will reside on the network of computers that can be accessed through a variety of techniques and technologies. One of the widely used present-day communication technology is the mobile/cell phone that has great potential in the healthcare delivery and management as the healthcare providers can remotely a...

The main contribution of the paper is to present challenges relating to the use of new healthcare technology, the eDiary, which seeks to create a better integration between home and hospital. To minimise risks of malformations and other complications, pregnant women with diabetes are enrolled in an extensive treatment regime, which requires frequent visits to an outpatient clinic as well as a h...

The Healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from healthcare institution-centred care to a citizen-centred care that emphasises on continuity of care from prevention to rehabilitation. The recent development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), especially the Internet and its related technologies has become the main driver of the paradigm shift. Managing relationship wit...

technology transmission has engaged not only developing countries but also many western research communities. foreign direct investment is a commonly used method to transfer the technology. since specific studies on factors affecting the transmission of technology through foreign direct investment has not been made in nanotechnology, the purpose of this study is to identify the issues affecting...

Establishing an e-health infrastructure forms a fundamental building block of the National Health Insurance (NHI) initiative; directed at transforming the South African healthcare infrastructure. Currently patient healthcare records constitute paper-based files that result in numerous difficulties in making patient related information available to healthcare practitioners. This research study w...

● ● Describe the healthcare environment as it has evolved since the middle to late 1960s with attention to the dynamic interplay of key factors. ● ● Examine megatrends in the healthcare environment with attention to: ● ❍ Client characteristics ● ❍ Professional practitioners and caregivers ● ❍ Healthcare marketplace and settings ● ❍ Applicable laws, regulations, and standards ● ❍ Impact of techn...

Superior retention of 70% PCE in inorganic CuSCN HTM PSCs for 1500 h over organic and HTM-free counterparts.

An important step towards superior healthcare management is meaningful use of the electronic health record (EHR) systems which can be facilitated through the use of Direct technology by the healthcare providers. Contrary to expectations, the usage of Direct technology is not wide-spread. This article seeks to understand the underlying causes by using discourse analysis of qualitative data colle...