30 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 1089-7801/10/$26.00 © 2010 IEEE IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING M ashups are applications developed by integrating content and functionality sourced from the Web. Although in most cases, enthusiastic programmers hand write them, the recent emergence of so-called mashup tools or mashup platforms, such as Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com), Dapper (www.dapper.n...

Purpose: Nurses can directly influence health services quality and outcomes. They need correct information in due time to provide an effective service for the patient and other healthcare personnel. Nursing information system is a subsystem of hospital information system that can help nurses to have better performances. The goal of this study was to evaluate nursing information system of hospit...

BACKGROUND Patients are increasingly expected to become active, critical consumers in healthcare. They can use comparative healthcare information presented on websites to make informed choices for healthcare providers. However, the use of this information has been limited so far. An obstacle can be that the information is not perceived as relevant by patients. Presenting only the most important...

background and objectives: medical tourism tourism is emerging as a fast growing healthcare industry with the potential to open a new economic opportunity for developing countries. iran has been the treatment destination of many medical tourists from middle eastern countries for many years, yet this field of services remains underdeveloped. the best judges for the challenges facing development ...