Applying IS research to the healthcare context is an important endeavor. However, IS researchers must be cautious about identifying individual roles, the context of the setting, and postulating generalizability. Much of IS theory is rooted in organizations, their business processes, and stakeholders. It is not a simple matter to generalize healthcare IS research, assuming that it is equivalent ...

OBJECTIVES The Web-based integrated public healthcare information system (PHIS) of Korea was planned and developed from 2005 to 2010, and it is being used in 3,501 regional health organizations. This paper introduces and discusses development and performance of the system. METHODS We reviewed and examined documents about the development process and performance of the newly integrated PHIS. Th...

Service-oriented components differ greatly with the traditional ones in the Service-Oriented Architecture. The ways of scheduling components seamlessly according to the agile computing needs to fit the e-business requirements is the key technology in the highly distributed, paralleled environment. In this paper, Based on the Multi-Agent Coalition, a new service-oriented component dynamic schedu...

Coalition operations pose clear challenges for information sharing and for the integration of disparate information processes. ISX Corporation has been investigating the combined use of agent-based approaches to implement Information Management AgentsTM operating on a semantically organized Semantic Object WebTM to provide highly flexible means of delivering information services within a large,...

This paper describes a business process multidimensional data modeling in breast radiology with the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach. The Business Process Management (BPM) consists of modeling business processes of the enterprise. Healthcare enterprises rely on information technology solutions (IT). IT environments consist of various application systems such as Hospital Information Systems (...

The challenges of how to manage healthcare and achieve clinical integration in today's payment setting has become a national concern. The use of technology to help ensure healthcare quality and control cost is an ongoing research subject. Business intelligence solutions are used in many industries to garner insight from financial and operational data to make more informed decisions towards the ...

This is a commentary on Gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the National Health Service (NHS). Morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. The creation of the UK NHS in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. The mo...

Healthcare organizations are facing the challenge of delivering high-quality services to their patients at affordable costs. To tackle this challenge, the Medical Informatics community targets at formalisms for developing decision-support systems (DSSs) based on clinical guidelines. At the same time, business process management (BPM) enables IT support for healthcare processes, e.g., based on w...