Developments in Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: Models and Methods

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Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 17
Evaluating Health Information Services: A Patient Perspective Analysis......Page 48
Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor......Page 61
Envisioning a Nationale-Medicine Network Architecture in a Developing Country: A Case Study......Page 82
Assessing Physician and Nurse Satisfaction with an Ambulatory Care EMR: One Facility’s Approach......Page 101
Information Technology (IT) and the Healthcare Industry: A SWOT Analysis......Page 112
Using a Neural Network to Predict Participation in a Maternity Care Coordination Program......Page 131
Can IT Act as a Catalyst for Change in Hospitals? Some New Evidence......Page 141
Informatics Application Challenges for Managed Care Organizations: The Three Faces of Population Segmentation and a Proposed Classification System......Page 149
Scrutinizing the Rule: Privacy Realization in HIPAA......Page 159
In What Ways Does Web Technology Support the Individual in Choice Reforms in Health Care? A Comparison among Norway, Denmark, and Sweden......Page 173
Characteristics of Good Clinical Educators from Medical Students’ Perspectives: A Qualitative Inquiry Using a Web-Based Survey System......Page 192
Open Source Software: A Key Component of E-Health in Developing Nations......Page 209
An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals......Page 222
Intelligent Agent Framework for Secure Patient-Doctor Profiling and Profile Matching......Page 242
Towards a Conceptual Framework of Adopting Ubiquitous Technology in Chronic Health Care......Page 261
E-Patients Empower Healthcare: Discovery of Adverse Events in Online Communities......Page 279
Towards Process-of-Care Aware Emergency Department Information Systems: A Clustering Approach to Activity Views Elicitation......Page 288
Applying Dynamic Causal Mining in Health Service Management......Page 302
Application of Unified Modelling Language (UML) to the Modelling of Health Care Systems: An Introduction and Literature Survey......Page 322
TreeWorks: Advances in Scalable Decision Trees......Page 335
Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Architecture Designed within the EPI-MEDICS Personal ECG Monitor......Page 349
Compilation of References......Page 359
About the Contributors......Page 390
Index......Page 395