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Hoyle, Philip. "Health information is central to changes in healthcare: A clinician’s view." Health Information Management Journal 48, no. 1 (November 26, 2017): 48–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1833358317741354.
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Changes in healthcare, such as integrated care, the use of big data, electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, decision support systems and consumer empowerment, are impacting on the management of health information. Integrated care requires linked data; activity-based funding requires valid coding; EHRs require standards for documentation, retrieval and analysis; and decision support systems require standardised nomenclatures. The ethical oversight of how health-related information is used, as opposed to governance of its content, storage and communication, remains ill-defined. More fundamentally, the conceptual foundations of health information in terms of “diagnostic” constructs are creating limitations: Why should a medical diagnosis be privileged as the key descriptor of care, over disability or other aspects of the human experience? Who gets to say what matters, and how and by whom is that translated into meaningful information? These are important questions on which the health information management profession is well placed to lead. In this changing environment, threats and opportunities for the profession are presented and discussed. Highlighted is the need for leadership from the profession on the ethical use of health information.
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López-Martínez, Fernando, Edward Rolando Núñez-Valdez, Vicente García-Díaz, and Zoran Bursac. "A Case Study for a Big Data and Machine Learning Platform to Improve Medical Decision Support in Population Health Management." Algorithms 13, no. 4 (April 23, 2020): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a13040102.
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Big data and artificial intelligence are currently two of the most important and trending pieces for innovation and predictive analytics in healthcare, leading the digital healthcare transformation. Keralty organization is already working on developing an intelligent big data analytic platform based on machine learning and data integration principles. We discuss how this platform is the new pillar for the organization to improve population health management, value-based care, and new upcoming challenges in healthcare. The benefits of using this new data platform for community and population health include better healthcare outcomes, improvement of clinical operations, reducing costs of care, and generation of accurate medical information. Several machine learning algorithms implemented by the authors can use the large standardized datasets integrated into the platform to improve the effectiveness of public health interventions, improving diagnosis, and clinical decision support. The data integrated into the platform come from Electronic Health Records (EHR), Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Radiology Information Systems (RIS), and Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), as well as data generated by public health platforms, mobile data, social media, and clinical web portals. This massive volume of data is integrated using big data techniques for storage, retrieval, processing, and transformation. This paper presents the design of a digital health platform in a healthcare organization in Colombia to integrate operational, clinical, and business data repositories with advanced analytics to improve the decision-making process for population health management.
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Marchevsky, Alberto M., Ronda Dulbandzhyan, Kevin Seely, Steve Carey, and Raymond G. Duncan. "Storage and Distribution of Pathology Digital Images Using Integrated Web-Based Viewing Systems." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 126, no. 5 (May 1, 2002): 533–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/2002-126-0533-sadopd.
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Abstract Context.—Health care providers have expressed increasing interest in incorporating digital images of gross pathology specimens and photomicrographs in routine pathology reports. Objective.—To describe the multiple technical and logistical challenges involved in the integration of the various components needed for the development of a system for integrated Web-based viewing, storage, and distribution of digital images in a large health system. Design.—An Oracle version 8.1.6 database was developed to store, index, and deploy pathology digital photographs via our Intranet. The database allows for retrieval of images by patient demographics or by SNOMED code information. Setting.—The Intranet of a large health system accessible from multiple computers located within the medical center and at distant private physician offices. Results.—The images can be viewed using any of the workstations of the health system that have authorized access to our Intranet, using a standard browser or a browser configured with an external viewer or inexpensive plug-in software, such as Prizm 2.0. The images can be printed on paper or transferred to film using a digital film recorder. Digital images can also be displayed at pathology conferences by using wireless local area network (LAN) and secure remote technologies. Conclusions.—The standardization of technologies and the adoption of a Web interface for all our computer systems allows us to distribute digital images from a pathology database to a potentially large group of users distributed in multiple locations throughout a large medical center.
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Yuliartanto, Purnaresa, Adian Fatchur Rochim, and Ike Pertiwi Windasari. "Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Rekam Medis untuk Dinas Kabupaten Grobogan." Jurnal Teknologi dan Sistem Komputer 2, no. 3 (August 31, 2014): 203–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jtsiskom.2.3.2014.203-208.
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Abstract - Health services include the recording of the patient's medical record . Medical records were used to aid the treatment process. The number of medical records continues to grow proportional to the number of patients. Tens of thousands of sheets of paper used to record medical record requires effort , time and place great . The amount of effort will continue to grow each day. Search one sheet of medical records among a set of storage shelves requires considerable time and risk data is not found. The risk of error in the search and storing will increase every day. The development of technology allows the implementation of technology in the process of record-keeping. Changes in the form of digital medical records will reduce the need of a previous process. Labor, time and place required by the help of information systems will be reduced significantly . Storage process data stored in the cloud will provide more value for the system as a patient's medical records from a health center can be accessed from other health centers. The development of this system will reduce the risk of inappropriate storage and retrieval of medical records. Grobogan Health Department that oversees health center in Grobogan are office that are ready to migrate business processes into the digital age. Development of medical record information system for the health center expected to improve the quality of service of health centers , especially in health care.
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Haraty, Ramzi A. "Innovative Mobile E-Healthcare Systems: A New Rule-Based Cache Replacement Strategy Using Least Profit Values." Mobile Information Systems 2016 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6141828.
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Providing and managing e-health data from heterogeneous and ubiquitous e-health service providers in a content distribution network (CDN) for providing e-health services is a challenging task. A content distribution network is normally utilized to cache e-health media contents such as real-time medical images and videos. Efficient management, storage, and caching of distributed e-health data in a CDN or in a cloud computing environment of mobile patients facilitate that doctors, health care professionals, and other e-health service providers have immediate access to e-health information for efficient decision making as well as better treatment. Caching is one of the key methods in distributed computing environments to improve the performance of data retrieval. To find which item in the cache can be evicted and replaced, cache replacement algorithms are used. Many caching approaches are proposed, but the SACCS—Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme—has proved to be more scalable than the others. In this work, we propose a new cache replacement algorithm—Profit SACCS—that is based on the rule-based least profit value. It replaces the least recently used strategy that SACCS uses. A comparison with different cache replacement strategies is also presented.
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Wang, Miye, Sheyu Li, Tao Zheng, Nan Li, Qingke Shi, Xuejun Zhuo, Renxin Ding, and Yong Huang. "Big Data Health Care Platform With Multisource Heterogeneous Data Integration and Massive High-Dimensional Data Governance for Large Hospitals: Design, Development, and Application." JMIR Medical Informatics 10, no. 4 (April 13, 2022): e36481. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/36481.
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Background With the advent of data-intensive science, a full integration of big data science and health care will bring a cross-field revolution to the medical community in China. The concept big data represents not only a technology but also a resource and a method. Big data are regarded as an important strategic resource both at the national level and at the medical institutional level, thus great importance has been attached to the construction of a big data platform for health care. Objective We aimed to develop and implement a big data platform for a large hospital, to overcome difficulties in integrating, calculating, storing, and governing multisource heterogeneous data in a standardized way, as well as to ensure health care data security. Methods The project to build a big data platform at West China Hospital of Sichuan University was launched in 2017. The West China Hospital of Sichuan University big data platform has extracted, integrated, and governed data from different departments and sections of the hospital since January 2008. A master–slave mode was implemented to realize the real-time integration of multisource heterogeneous massive data, and an environment that separates heterogeneous characteristic data storage and calculation processes was built. A business-based metadata model was improved for data quality control, and a standardized health care data governance system and scientific closed-loop data security ecology were established. Results After 3 years of design, development, and testing, the West China Hospital of Sichuan University big data platform was formally brought online in November 2020. It has formed a massive multidimensional data resource database, with more than 12.49 million patients, 75.67 million visits, and 8475 data variables. Along with hospital operations data, newly generated data are entered into the platform in real time. Since its launch, the platform has supported more than 20 major projects and provided data service, storage, and computing power support to many scientific teams, facilitating a shift in the data support model—from conventional manual extraction to self-service retrieval (which has reached 8561 retrievals per month). Conclusions The platform can combine operation systems data from all departments and sections in a hospital to form a massive high-dimensional high-quality health care database that allows electronic medical records to be used effectively and taps into the value of data to fully support clinical services, scientific research, and operations management. The West China Hospital of Sichuan University big data platform can successfully generate multisource heterogeneous data storage and computing power. By effectively governing massive multidimensional data gathered from multiple sources, the West China Hospital of Sichuan University big data platform provides highly available data assets and thus has a high application value in the health care field. The West China Hospital of Sichuan University big data platform facilitates simpler and more efficient utilization of electronic medical record data for real-world research.
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Septia Sari, Rahmi. "PENGELOLAAN DATA REKAM MEDIS MELALUI SISTEM PENOMORAN DAN PENYIMPANAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MUTU PELAYANAN KESEHATAN DI KLINIK GIGI DAN UMUM PURI MEDICAL." LOGISTA - Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/logista.3.2.135-141.2019.
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Pemeliharaan dan pengambilan data rekam medis merupakan fungsi penting dalam pelayanan disetiap fasilitas asuhan kesehatan. Peningkatan tuntutan akan informasi kesehatan ini mengharuskan fasilitas untuk memelihara sistem informasi yang efektif dan efisien. Mengenai sistem penomoran, penyimpanan dan retensi dari manajemen rekam medis di Indonesia banyak jenisnya. Bentuk sistem penomoran dan penyimpanan yang baik merupakan tahap awal dalam pemberian pelayanan terhadap pasien. Pengambilan dan penyimpanan rekam medis yang tepat merupakan elemen penting dalam pemberian pelayanan. Perlu kehati-hatian dalam merencanakan sistem penomoran dan penyimpanan. Tujuan utama dalam melakukan pemberian penomoran adalah mengidentifikasi data pasien. Penulis berpendapat bahwa dengan menggunakan bentuk pemberian nomor metode apapun rahasia pasien dapat terjaga. Pemberian nomor ini dilakukan pada saat pasien mendaftar atau kontak dengan sarana pelayanan kesehatan. Hal tujuan utama dalam melakukan pemberian penomoran adalah mengidentifikasi data pasien. Pemberian nomor dilakukan pada saat pasien mendaftar atau kontak dengan sarana pelayanan kesehatan. Dalam kegiatan ini kami berusaha untuk mengoptimalkan sistem pelayanan kesehatan di Klinik Puri Medical melalui penyuluhan tentang sistem penomoran dan penyimpanan data Rekam Medis yang baik dan memudahkan petugas dalam pengambilan dan penyimpanan data Rekam Medis tersebut. Pelaksanaan Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini kami menguraikan tentang pengelolaan data Rekam medis melalui tatacara sistem penomoran dan penyimpanan data Rekam Medis. Metode yang dilakukan dengan cara memberikan materi dan dipresentasikan serta didiskusikan dengan staf yang hadir dalam Pengabdian tersebut dengan beberapa tahap, antara lain dengan pemaparan materi tentang sistem penomoran dan penyimpanan yang disampaikan kepada staf/petugas bagian Rekam medik yang hadir dalam acara Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat, setelah itu dilanjutkan dengan praktik lapangan, jika ada hal yang kurang dipahami dalam pelaksanaan maka akan dilanjutkan dengan tahap bimbingan dan konsultasi antara staf rekam medis dengan tim Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat,tahap akhir dalam jangka beberapa minggu akan dilakukan monitoring dan evaluasi apakah ilmu yang di berikan telah teraplikasi dengan baik di klinik tersebut.
Kata kunci: Rekam Medis, Penomoran, Pengarsipan, Klinik
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* rahmiseptiasari88@gmail.com
Maintenance and retrieval of medical record data is an important function of service in every health care facility. This increasing demand for health information requires facilities to maintain effective and efficient information systems. Regarding the numbering, storage and retention systems of medical record management in Indonesia, there are many types. The form of a good numbering and storage system is the initial stage in providing services to patients. Proper collection and storage of medical records is an important element in the delivery of services. Care needs to be taken in planning the numbering and storage system. The main purpose in numbering is to identify patient data. The author believes that by using any method of giving numbers the patient's secret can be kept. Giving this number is done when the patient registers or contacts with health care facilities. The main goal in making numbering is to identify patient data. The number is given when the patient registers or contacts with health care facilities. In this activity we are trying to optimize the health service system at Puri Medical Clinic through counseling about the numbering system and storing good Medical Record data and facilitate the officers in retrieving and storing the Medical Record data. This Community Service Implementation describes the management of medical record data through the procedure for numbering and storing medical record data. The method is done by providing material and presented and discussed with the staff present at the Service with several stages, including the presentation of material about the numbering and storage system that was delivered to the staff / officers of the Medical Record section who attended the Community Service event, after it is continued with field practice, if there are things that are not understood in the implementation it will be continued with the guidance and consultation phase between the medical record staff and the Community Service Team, the final stage within a period of several weeks will be carried out monitoring and evaluation whether the knowledge provided has been applied well in the clinic.
Keywords: Medical Record, Numbering, Archiving, Clinic
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Lee, Hsiu-An, Hsin-Hua Kung, Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Boonchai Kijsanayotin, Alvin B Marcelo, Louis R. Chao, and Chien-Yeh Hsu. "An Architecture and Management Platform for Blockchain-Based Personal Health Record Exchange: Development and Usability Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 6 (June 9, 2020): e16748. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16748.
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Background Personal health record (PHR) security, correctness, and protection are essential for health and medical services. Blockchain architecture can provide efficient data retrieval and security requirements. Exchangeable PHRs and the self-management of patient health can offer many benefits to traditional medical services by allowing people to manage their own health records for disease prevention, prediction, and control while reducing resource burdens on the health care infrastructure and improving population health and quality of life. Objective This study aimed to build a blockchain-based architecture for an international health record exchange platform to ensure health record confidentiality, integrity, and availability for health management and used Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource international standards as the data format that could allow international, cross-institutional, and patient/doctor exchanges of PHRs. Methods The PHR architecture in this study comprised 2 main components. The first component was the PHR management platform, on which users could upload PHRs, view their record content, authorize PHR exchanges with doctors or other medical health care providers, and check their block information. When a PHR was uploaded, the hash value of the PHR would be calculated by the SHA-256 algorithm and the PHR would be encrypted by the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman encryption mechanism before being transferred to a secure database. The second component was the blockchain exchange architecture, which was based on Ethereum to create a private chain. Proof of authority, which delivers transactions through a consensus mechanism based on identity, was used for consensus. The hash value was calculated based on the previous hash value, block content, and timestamp by a hash function. Results The PHR blockchain architecture constructed in this study is an effective method for the management and utilization of PHRs. The platform has been deployed in Southeast Asian countries via the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) and has become the first PHR management platform for cross-region medical data exchange. Conclusions Some systems have shown that blockchain technology has great potential for electronic health record applications. This study combined different types of data storage modes to effectively solve the problems of PHR data security, storage, and transmission and proposed a hybrid blockchain and data security approach to enable effective international PHR exchange. By partnering with the AeHIN and making use of the network’s regional reach and expert pool, the platform could be deployed and promoted successfully. In the future, the PHR platform could be utilized for the purpose of precision and individual medicine in a cross-country manner because of the platform’s provision of a secure and efficient PHR sharing and management architecture, making it a reasonable base for future data collection sources and the data analytics needed for precision medicine.
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Kumar, Vibha. "Impact of Health Information Systems on Organizational Health Communication and Behavior." Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.46743/1540-580x/2011.1350.
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Information is critical in making health-related decisions. New communication technologies show great promise in providing ways to develop and deliver changes in health behaviors. The behavioral and communication changes in consumers, patients, providers, and organizations are being noticed at individual, community, and organizational levels due to innovations in electronic health information systems, such as personal health records (PHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), and electronic health records (EHRs). The noted behavioral/communication changes include improved quality patient care; easy, accurate, and quick information retrieval; rapid information sharing; quick decision making; reduced medical errors due to electronic alerts; increased storage of data and records electronically; and improved information screening and reporting. Literature was reviewed using Pub Med and an internet search. RogerIn recent years, new developments have resulted in the rapid growth of communication technologies such as computer software, the Internet, email, mobile telephones, information systems, and handheld computers. Previously, computer use was predominantly available in high-level government agencies, research laboratories, and large companies. Today, computers and advanced technologies in connection with health data are the new way to manage diseases. Hospitals, healthcare organizations, health departments, and small healthcare facilities, are adopting health information systems and average citizens are using computers to access health-related information. User interfaces have improved and are being interactive with other information systems. The rate of adoption continues to increase as technology becomes cheaper and more accessible. This article discusses the effect of innovation in health information technology on the public
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Georgiou, Andrew, Julie Li, Rae-Anne Hardie, Nasir Wabe, Andrea R. Horvath, Jeffrey J. Post, Alex Eigenstetter, et al. "Diagnostic Informatics—The Role of Digital Health in Diagnostic Stewardship and the Achievement of Excellence, Safety, and Value." Frontiers in Digital Health 3 (June 10, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.659652.
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Diagnostic investigations (pathology laboratory and medical imaging) aim to: increase certainty of the presence or absence of disease by supporting the process of differential diagnosis; support clinical management; and monitor a patient's trajectory (e. g., disease progression or response to treatment). Digital health can be defined as the collection, storage, retrieval, transmission, and utilization of data, information, and knowledge to support healthcare. Digital health has become an essential component of the diagnostic process, helping to facilitate the accuracy and timeliness of information transfer and enhance the effectiveness of decision-making processes. Digital health is also important to diagnostic stewardship, which involves coordinated guidance and interventions to ensure the appropriate utilization of diagnostic tests for therapeutic decision-making. Diagnostic stewardship and informatics are thus important in efforts to establish shared decision-making. This is because they contribute to the establishment of shared information platforms (enabling patients to read, comment on, and share in decisions about their care) based on timely and meaningful communication. This paper will outline key diagnostic informatics and stewardship initiatives across three interrelated fields: (1) diagnostic error and the establishment of outcomes-based diagnostic research; (2) the safety and effectiveness of test result management and follow-up; and (3) digitally enhanced decision support systems.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Information storage and retrieval systems Medical care Australia"
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Zakaria, Nasriah. ""To tell or not to tell?" Social dynamics in disclosure communities /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Chang, Andrew Yee. "A web accessible clinical patient information networked system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2980.
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Developed with the intention to make the patient data storage system in the clinical outpatient area more efficient, this system stores all pertinent and relevant patient data such as lab results, patient history and X-ray images. The system is accessible via the internet as well as operable over a local area network (LAN). The intended audience for this program is essentially the clinical staff (e.g., physicians, nursing staff, secretarial staff). The computer program was developed using Java Server Pages (JSP) and utilizes the Oracle 9i database.
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Bosire, Joshua. "Designing an integrated surgical care delivery system." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Ogundaini, Oluwamayowa Oaikhena. "Adoption and use of electronic healthcare information systems to support clinical care in public hospitals of the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2417.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.In the Western Cape, South Africa, despite the prospective benefits that e-Health information systems (e-Health IS) offer to support the healthcare sector; there are limitations in terms of usability, functionality and peculiar socio-technical factors. Thus, healthcare professionals do not make the most use of the implemented e-Health IS. Unfortunately, explanations remain tentative and unclear, yet non-usage of the e-Health IS defeats the objectives of its adoption, in the sense that the plan to improve and deliver quality healthcare service in the public sector may not be achieved as envisaged. The aim of the study was to acquire explanations to the causes of the limitations regarding the adoption and, particularly, the use (or non-use) of e-Health IS by clinical staff in the public healthcare institutions in South Africa. The choice of research approach was informed by the research problem, objectives, and the main research question. By the reasons of the subjective and socio-technical nature of the phenomenon, a deductive approach was adopted for this investigation. The nominalist ontology and interpretivist epistemology positions were taken by the researcher as a lens to conduct this research; which informed a qualitative methodology for this investigation. The purposive sampling technique was used to identify the appropriate participants from different hospital levels consisting of Hospital Administrative staff, and Clinical staff (Clinicians and Nurses) of relative experiences in their clinical units. Subsequently, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and content analysis technique were used to contextualize, simplify, and analysis the text data transcripts. The findings indicate that healthcare professionals have a high level of awareness and acceptance to use implemented e-Health IS. There are positive perceptions on the expected outcomes, that e-Health IS would improve processes and enhance healthcare services delivery in the public healthcare sector. Also, findings indicate that social influence plays a vital role especially on the willingness of individuals (or groups); as the clinical staff are influenced by their colleagues despite the facilitating conditions provided by the hospital management. Further, findings indicate that it is somewhat problematic to maintain balance in running a parallel paper-electronic system in the hospital environment. Hence, the core factors that influence successful adoption and use of e-Health IS include; willingness of an individual (or group) to accept and use a technology, the performance expectancy, social influence among professionals in the healthcare scenery and adequate facilitating conditions. In summary, it is recommended that there should be an extensive engagement inclusive of all respective stakeholders involved in the adoption processes. This would ensure that e-Health IS are designed to meet both practical organizational and clinical needs (and expectations) with respect to the hospital contexts.
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Melo, Forchu Midou. "The design of a hands-free speech recognition application during the intrapartum stage." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2416.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.Unlike the developed nations, the health sector within the developing countries is faced with the triple challenges of human, financial and technological scarcity of resources. This insufficiency of resources results into amongst other intrapartum mishaps. To ameliorate some of these conditions, the World Health Organization (1994) promoted the use of the pathogram as an informative and data capturing tool that could help reduce intrapartum mishaps. The usage of the partogram within the intrapartum environment also introduced a dilemma as birth attendants spent quite a good amount of time using their eyes and hands (in pen and paper) capturing medical data onto the partogram instead of investing these resources onto the expectant mother and or fetus. This study adopted Design Science Research as a suitable research approach, strengthened by a pragmatic philosophical standpoint. This study involved the following methods; • A review of literature in the intrapartum environment, along with topics from relevant reference disciplines including speech recognition • A series of semi-structured contextual interviews with birth attendants, student nurses and senior midwives • A design science research study using the knowledge from the reference disciplines to design a hands-free voice driven epartogram • A simulation of the capturing of intrapartum data to evaluate and refine the prototype (epartogram) by applying anonymized intrapartum data driven by natural speech • An evaluation of the artifact (epartogram) based on a number of published guidelines recommended by scholars to demonstrate its potential utility as well as to establish if the solution is generic to the contextual environment. Although the introduction of ICT into the problem domain abetted the process of data capturing (specifically the referral process), the fundamental aspect of using the prototype to free the hands and eyes of the birth attendants proved challenging due to issues with the recognition of natural speech by speech recognition systems and background noise. Monitoring of MOU and the referral process from a lower MOU to a higher one could benefit a great deal from this study as the prototype thrived well in that regard. Natural speech recognition by machines in an uncontrolled environment is still at its infancy (some of the most powerful engines can not differentiate between background noise and direct instruction). Not withsatnding the challenges posed by the infancy of speech recognition, the artifact showed potential as a manual epartogram providing spatial access to multiple participating MOU via the cloud.
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Van, der Watt Cecil Clifford. "Design considerations of a semantic metadata repository in home-based healthcare." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2300.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011.The research was conducted as part of a socio-tech initiative undertaken at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The socio-tech initiative overall focus was on addressing issues faced by rural and under-resourced communities in South Africa, specifically looking at Home-Based Healthcare (HBHC) primarily in the Western Cape. As research into the HBHC context in rural and under-resourced communities continued numerous issues around data and data-elements came to light. These data issues were especially prevalent in relation to the various paper forms being used by the HBHC initiatives that attempt to deliver care in these communities. The communities have the tendency to suffer from poor access to formal healthcare services and healthcare facilities. The data issues were primarily in terms of how data was defines and used within the HBHC initiatives. Within the HBHC initiatives that cater for rural and under-resourced communities there was a clear prevalence of paper-based systems, and a very low penetration of IT-based solution. Because similar and related data-elements are used throughout the paper forms and within different context these data-elements are inconsistently used and presented. The paper forms further obfuscate these inconsistencies as the paper forms regularly change due to internal and external factors. When these paper forms are changed date elements are added or removed without the changes to the underlying ontologies being considered.
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Serobatse, Moilwa Denton. "The challenge of implementing health information systems : a case study in Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80058.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the complexities involved in Health Information Systems. The focus is on the factors of a) efficiency and b) usability. A case study is made of a recently implemented system in Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital. The first objective of the research was to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of Health Information Systems, and secondly to evaluate the situation at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. In Chapter 1 a detailed introduction of the thesis is offered. This includes, explaining what triggered the research, the objective of the research and the methodology used to conduct the research. In Chapter 2 the focus is on a literature review of Health Information Systems, system fundamentals and planning and implementation. It is clear that without a methodology, systems development becomes haphazard and subsequently a risky and expensive undertaking. While change is pervasive, introducing operational efficiencies sometimes may necessitate reviewing of information systems and business strategy, knowledge management and process orientation. In Chapter 3 the issue of usability is investigated. Several healthcare institutions have implemented information systems but evaluations of the usability of these systems are still under debate. For purposes of this research an evaluation method for system usability and survey questionnaires were developed. In Chapter 4 the case study of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital is reported. The chapter also describes the data collection design, research limitations and delimitations, survey findings and interpretations. In Chapter 5 the implications and applications of Health Information Systems are discussed. After analysis of the survey results, it appears that the impact and benefits of the new Health Information System are only positive or realized in the patient administration division. The rest of the health professionals continue to manually capture clinical notes and other management information on pieces of papers, spread sheets and word documents. The thesis comes to the conclusion that despite widespread use of technology in other sectors, clinicians in hospitals do not use implemented automated systems. Implementation of systems is complex and problems associated with usability are not resolved and that traditional systems implementation methodologies may not apply.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tesis ondersoek die faktore wat Gesondheidstelsels (HIC) ingewikkeld maak. Die fokus is op a) doeltreffendheid, en b) bruikbaarheid (uit gebruikersoogpunt). ‘n Gevallestudie word gemaak van ‘n stelsel wat onlangs by Chalotte Maxeke Johannesburg Akakdemiese Hospitaal in gebruik geneem is. Die eerste doelwit van die ondersoek was om die ingewikkeldheidsgraad van sodanige stelsels te probeer bepaal, en tweedens om die situasie in die hospitaal self te evalueer. In hoofstauk 1 word die agtergond en aanleiding tot die ondersoek uiteengesite, woel as die metodologiese keuses wat gemaak is. Hoofstuk 2 bied ‘n oorsig oor relevante literatuur ten ospigte van HIC. Dit is duidelik stlselontwikkeling riskant, onnodig duur en koersloos is as dit sonder ‘n duidelike metodologie geïmplementeer word. Verandering vind voortdurend plaas en die implementering van oprasionele doeltreffendheid mag vernadering in besigheidstrategie, informasiestelsels, kennisbestuur en processoriëntasie noodsaaklik maak. In hoofstuk 3 word bruikbaarheid ondersoek. Verskeie mediese instellings het soortgelyke stelsels in gebruik geneem, maar die bruikbaarheid daarvan is steeds onseker. Vir die doeleindes van hierdie tesis is ‘n eie evaluasiemetode ontwikkel en ‘n vraelys op grond daarvan opgestel. Hoofstuk 4 rapporteer die gevallestudie in Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Akademiese Horspitaal hospital. Datakolleksie, navorsingsafbakening en – beperkinge, sowel as vraelysresultate word aangebied. Hoofstuk 5 bespreek die implikasies en toepassings van HIC. Dit blyk dat die voordele van die stelsel slegs deur die pasiëntadministrasieafdeling geniet word. Alle ander afdeling gaan steeds voort met papiergebaseerde inligtingstelsels, aangevaul deur ad hoc gebruik van Excel en woordprossering. Die tesis kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat kliniese personeel avers is teen die gebruik van geoutomatiseerde informasiestelsels.
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Lakay, Denise. "An investigation into the effect of power distance as a factor that facilitates the implementation of a computerized hospital information system." Thesis, Peninsula Technikon, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1373.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town, 2005The overall objective of this study is to identify the importance of culture in the implementation of Information systems and how output influences the success of a system. • The first objective is to assess the organizational culture in each hospital in terms of one of the dimensions of culture on Hofstede's checklist, namely power distance. • The second objective is to determine whether the speed with which a HIS was implemented was a success at the two academic hospitals in the Western Cape using the reduction of the level of backlog (paper based patient registration records) as a measure of implementation progress.
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Benjamin, Valencia. "Experiences of professional nurses with regard to accessing information at the point-of-care via mobile-computing devices at a public hospital." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020193.
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Mobile computing devices are capable of changing how healthcare is delivered in the future, since they aim to merge and integrate all services into one device that is versatile, customisable, and portable. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of professional nurses with regard to accessing information at the point-of-care of the patient, in order to develop guidelines that could assist other professional nurses with implementing the mobile computing device for accessing information at the point-of-care of patients. To achieve the purpose of the study, a qualitative, explorative, descriptive, and contextual design was used to conduct this research – to gain an understanding of how the professional nurses experienced accessing information at the point-of-care via mobile computing devices. The study was conducted among the professional nurses employed at the public hospital, who were trained and provided with the mobile computing device for accessing information at the point-of-care for more than two years. In-depth interviewing was conducted to obtain the data. Data analysis was done using Tesch‘s method to make sense out of text and data. Four themes were identified, namely, the professional nurses‘ expression of various experiences regarding the training received; the need for support in implementing the mobile computing device; the accessing of information at the point-of-care as beneficial for educational purposes; and the accessing of information at the point-of-care as beneficial to patient care. Two main guidelines were developed. The study concludes with recommendations made with regard to the areas of nursing practice, education and research. Throughout the study, the researcher abided by the ethical considerations. The aspects of trustworthiness implemented in this study, included dependability, credibility, transferability and confirmability (Holloway & Wheeler, 2010:298).
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Bantom, Simlindile Abongile. "Accessibility to patients’ own health information: a case in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2411.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.Access to healthcare is regarded as a basic and essential human right. It is widely known that ICT solutions have potential to improve access to healthcare, reduce healthcare cost, reduce medical errors, and bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres. The access to personal healthcare records is, however, an astounding challenge for both patients and healthcare professionals alike, particularly within resource-restricted environments (such as rural communities). Most rural healthcare institutions have limited or non-existent access to electronic patient healthcare records. This study explored the accessibility of personal healthcare records by patients and healthcare professionals within a rural community hospital in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The case study was conducted at the St. Barnabas Hospital with the support and permission from the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the Eastern Cape Department of Health. Semi-structured interviews, observations, and interactive co-design sessions and focus groups served as the main data collection methods used to determine the accessibility of personal healthcare records by the relevant stakeholders. The data was qualitatively interpreted using thematic analysis. The study highlighted the various challenges experienced by healthcare professionals and patients, including time-consuming manual processes, lack of infrastructure, illegible hand-written records, missing records and illiteracy. A number of recommendations for improved access to personal healthcare records are discussed. The significance of the study articulates the imperative need for seamless and secure access to personal healthcare records, not only within rural areas but within all communities.
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Stolba, Nevena, Tho Manh Nguyen, and A. Min Tjoa. "Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine." In Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development, 174–207. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-748-5.ch008.
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In the past, much effort of healthcare decision support systems were focused on the data acquisition and storage, in order to allow the use of this data at some later point in time. Medical data was used in static manner, for analytical purposes, in order to verify the undertaken decisions. Due to the immense volumes of medical data, the architecture of the future healthcare decision support systems focus more on interoperability than on integration. With the raising need for the creation of unified knowledge base, the federated approach to distributed data warehouses (DWH) is getting increasing attention. The exploitation of evidence-based guidelines becomes a priority concern, as the awareness of the importance of knowledge management rises. Consequently, interoperability between medical information systems is becoming a necessity in modern health care. Under strong security measures, health care organizations are striking to unite and share their (partly very high sensitive) data assets in order to achieve a wider knowledge base and to provide a matured decision support service for the decision makers. Ontological integration of the very complex and heterogeneous medical data structures is a challenging task. The authors’ objective is to point out the advantages of the deployment of a federated data warehouse approach for the integration of the wide range of different medical data sources and for distribution of evidence-based clinical knowledge, to support clinical decision makers, primarily clinicians at the point of care.