Category: research
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HCTP Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop 2004 – Day 1 thoughts…
It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’ve been somewhat caught up on readings and preparing some of the background work for my thesis/dissertation work. In any case, I attended this year’s Health Care, Technology, & Place (HCTP) Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop held at St. Andrew’s Club in Toronto, Canada. Here are some of…
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eHealth in the news
Here are some news that I stumbled onto regarding eHealth during the past week or so: European e-Government to get €37.5M from EU eTEN programme Funding announcement for public-private projects on Europe’s “e” projects, including eHealth. DO-IT-YOURSELF diagnosis is a popular online activity An article in the Friday March 5, 2004 edition of the Toronto…
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Qualitative resources
Here are some interesting on-line resources regarding qualitative research: – an interesting paper by Myers titled “Investigating information systems with ethnographic research” – Action Research Resources – an online site dedicated to action research/qualitative methods I’ve found several more, but I’m currently in the process of reviewing the materials, so I will update this post…
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Healthcare Informatics Technology Trends
Here’s an interesting article published by Healthcare Informatics Online. The authors present what they believe are nine technology trends in health care informatics. Clinical Decision Support Consumer-Driven Healthcare CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) Disease Surveillance National Standards Open Source Security Web Services Work flow Automation It’s interesting to see this list of trends compared with…
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Special issue on eHealth by IPTS Report
The most recent IPTS Report (a monthly report published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies affiliated with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre) is titled “Aspects of eHealth“**. There are several interesting articles and is available in four other languages other than English. Seven articles are available online: “The challenges to the medical decision…
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Spending up through 2013…
Health Affairs just released an article titled Health Spending Projections Through 2013 . I found the article very interesting because there is no mention of technology/ehealth spending. If we consider that spending on ehealth/technology is in the area of 2-5% of hospital operating budgets and probably something similar for other health groups, how come we…
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Most Wired….
I came across some interesting resources by the American Hospital Association (AHA). They run an annual survey of hospitals called “Health Care’s Most Wired“. The survey collects information on the use of ICTs by hospitals and creates a list of “most wired” hospitals in a variety of different categories. One of the main purposes of…