Canada's
e-health journey and HIMSS Analytics' Canada Information and
Communications Technology Study (2009 - Healthc Q.) NoFull Text
In
spring 2007, HIMSS Analytics began developing its first Canada
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Study. Less than one
year later, 38 RHAs, DHAs and HAs are already on board, with some 20
more scheduled to participate by year's end. Why are so many Canadian
provincial healthcare delivery organizations now participating in
HIMSS Analytics' Canada ICT Study? The answer is tied to the
character of the HIMSS study, the value offered to all participants
and specific Canadian healthcare issues that are addressed by the
study.
US:
Interoperable electronic prescribing in the United States: a progress
report. (April 2009 - Health Affaires)
Although the vast
majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption
of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to
adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit
prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards
for data exchange. Federal and state governments and private insurers
are using payment and policy incentives to boost e-prescribing
because they still believe in its promise for improving the quality
and efficiency of health care. However, additional efforts and
further investments are needed to reap the benefits of e-prescribing
on a national scale.
Health
information technology: dispatches from the revolution. (April 2009 -
Health Affairs)
Countries around the world are increasingly
employing health information technology (IT). These tools hold the
promise of powerful health system breakthroughs from Johannesburg to
Jakarta. While implementers multiply, a global e-health consensus
framework is beginning to take shape among donors, governments,
industries, researchers, and policymakers. As plans are formulated in
the United States for substantial new federal investments in health
IT, this paper details common threads in national and global health
IT discourse. Among them are the need for strong stakeholder
engagement, workable policy solutions, funding and donor
coordination, and the imperative for adequately addressing standards
and interoperability.
Exploring
antecedents of consumer satisfaction and repeated search behavior on
e-health information (2009 - J Health Commun.)::
E-health
information has become an important resource for people seeking
health information. Even though many studies have been conducted to
examine the quality of e-health information, only a few studies have
explored the effects of the information seekers' motivations on the
perceived quality of e-health information
User
information seeking behaviour: Perceptions and reality. An evaluation
of the WHO Labresources Internet portal (2009 - Inform Health Soc
Care.)
This article discusses the evaluation of a WHO Internet
portal: the Labresources website. The evaluation investigates user
satisfaction with the resource, usability, demographic information
about users and how well they could complete specific tasks using the
website and compared this with the actual online behaviour revealing
a number of discrepancies