The quality and the effectiveness of the communication between patients and clinicians is a key aspect of an eHealth system. Mobile communication technologies can help addressing this problem providing ubiquitous and personalized information access. In this paper we illustrate the architecture of a mobile service, integrated in the hospital information system, aimed at supporting the user task ...

Handheld computers are increasingly being used by hospital workers. With the integration of wireless networks into hospital information systems, handheld computers can provide the basis for a pervasive computing hospital environment; to develop this designers need empirical information to understand how hospital workers interact with information while moving around. To characterise the medical ...

Information technology is not being optimally incorporated in developing countries for improving healthcare practices and the implementation problems have been so portrayed that it has further reduced investors’ confidence in hospital management information systems (HMIS). The purpose of this study was to ascertain the actual impact of various factors on HMIS in Pakistan for which an explorator...

OBJECTIVES Hospital information systems (HIS) are a substantial quality and cost factor for hospitals. Systematic monitoring of HIS quality is an important task; however, this task is often seen to be insufficiently supported. To support systematic HIS monitoring, we developed HIS-Monitor, comprising about 107 questions, focusing on how a hospital information system does efficiently support cli...

Hospital management and business processes in hospitals have changed considerably over the past twenty years, as did the use of hospital information systems. In this paper a ‘stages of growth’ framework is developed and used to describe the relations between types of hospital management and the use of hospital information systems over time. In this paper the framework is applied in a case study...

The introduction of hospital information systems (HIS) into the hospital environment has brought profound changes to the healthcare system around the world. Through an in-depth case study with one of the model digital hospitals in China, this study explores some key factors impacting HIS adoption. To get a holistic view of the HIS adoption process, three different inter-connecting adoption phas...