background: adopting information technology (it) systems in an organization is a decision which faces several challenges. this study has been conducted with the aim of analyzing barriers and challenges in application of ict in medical science universities in general and the ilam medical science university in particular. methods: the studied population was the employees of ilam university of med...

The article reports on experiences in e-Health platforms and services for supporting medical research into the causes and relationships among physiological parameters and health problems concerning different chronic diseases. The Personal Health Record (PHR) is a way of standardizing electronic management of medical information between patients and their physicians, including medical bodies col...

E-health innovations support empowered customers. It offers the ability for customers to have greater control and ready access applications of health information, clinical information, and social interaction between interested groups. However, providing empowerment in any state of interaction levels to customers (patients) in a healthcare organization is challenging tasks. Customers are empower...

The personal health record (PHR) is proposed as an innovative solution to the problems of fragmented communication and lack of interoperability among diverse electronic medical record (EMR) systems. It provides a single source (the patient’s PHR) for authentication and remote access of the health information data from all EMR systems. A voluntary survey was offered to selected patients, caregiv...

background and purpose:consumption of baking soda, as a primary material for preparation of bread dough, has been banned due to its health complications in iran. so bread production in our country faced difficulties and one part of them is related to health issues which are bread production. also, in some cases, baking soda is used in the bread production. this study was done to study the envir...

Personal health record systems (PHR) have great potential to improve both health documentation and patient care. The introduction and adoption of these systems, however, have been relatively slow. In this work, through usability evaluations and clinician interviews, we evaluated the usability of, usefulness of, and the ability to communicate and share information through PHR. We describe the re...