Background: An increasing number of patients will receive municipal home health care services. Most of these patients will have frequent contact with a number of care providers across different settings, including GPs and hospitals. Ineffective transfer of information between the providers threatens the patient safety and quality of care. Purpose: The purpose of this Norwegian ongoing study, ‘B...

Background As a majority of U.S. adults now have access to the Internet, patient demand for online access to their physicians has steadily increased. While electronic communication may improve the patient-physician interaction, adoption has been slow due to issues regarding security, physician workload, and appropriate use by patients. To improve care and facilitate patient-clinic electronic co...

Web Services and related open standard technologies are key technologies for system infrastructure in industry systems and local government systems. There are many projects that have adopted these technologies in the local government systems and also in B2B systems in various industries. We found that one of the key requirements to promote these standards in industries is pull messaging for cli...

Non-attendance reduces clinic and provider productivity and efficiency, compromises access and increases cost of health care. This systematic review of the English language literature (November 1999-November 2009) compares telephone, mail, text/short message service, electronic mail and open-access scheduling to determine which is best at reducing outpatient non-attendance and providing net fin...

n engl j med 363;7 nejm.org august 12, 2010 678 structed on an advanced, entirely new technological platform, much of which comes from our new publishing partner, Atypon. Our new Web site is just one part of the revolution in information technology and delivery. Electronic delivery modes continue to proliferate. Social networks, intranets, mobile applications, tablet computers and e-readers, an...