In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of specific characteristics required to evaluate IS security approaches with regard to their applicability in the healthcare domain. The future of integrated treatment is enabled by e-health solutions that comprise health services and information delivered or enhanced through communication and information technologies. This is based on the communica...

Health informatics is the development and assessment of methods and systems for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of patient data with the help of knowledge from scientific research. This definition implies that health informatics is not tied to the application of computers but more generally to the entire management of information in healthcare. The focus is the patient and the pr...

Many healthcare reforms are to digitalize and integrate healthcare information systems. However, the disparity of business benefits in having an integrated healthcare information system (IHIS) varies with organizational fit factors. Critical success factors (CSFs) exist for hospitals to implement an IHIS successfully. This study investigated the relationship between the organizational fit and t...

In modern decentralised health systems, district and local managers are increasingly responsible for financing, managing, and delivering healthcare. However, their lack of adequate skills and competencies are a critical barrier to improved performance of health systems. Given the financial and human resource, constraints of relying on traditional face-to-face training to upskill a large and dis...

Within the context of Europe’s e-Health strategy, interoperability is the only sustainable way to help partners acting in various locations, with different expertise, perspectives, agendas and status, even cultures and languages, and using distinct information systems from different vendors, to collaborate harmoniously to deliver quality healthcare. Furthermore, to meet the technical demands fo...

introduction: hematology section provides valuable information for diagnosis and treatment of patients to improve the health of them. in this regard hematology information system led to deliver produced information accurately and timely. present study aimed to analyze the situation of hematology information systems in hospital laboratories. methods: in this descriptive study, 13 hematology info...

The healthcare industry has faced challenges in adopting new computer technology to track patient data. Changes in the industry have made it more important than ever to adapt information infrastructures so that patient records and related data are accessible to a variety of healthcare professionals, regardless of their locations or the types of systems they use. In 1995, 3M Company Health Infor...

Easier and focused access to healthcare information can empower individuals to make 'informed' choices and judgements about personal health maintenance. To achieve 'optimum' patient empowerment, we need to re-evaluate and potentially re-design the processes of healthcare information delivery. Our suggestion is that healthcare information should be personalised according to each individual's hea...