Healthcare Information Systems

With the advent of technological advancements, different types of wearables are built and introduced to individuals to better quantify and monitor their lifestyles. This helps in creating awareness among individuals about their health and wellness, motivating them to make healthy changes in their lifestyles. The young-elderly (aged 60–75) age group constitutes an important segment of the society, which is growing worldwide, but with little or no attention of researchers and practitioners. Wearables offer lots of open research avenues; with a proper integration with new and existing mobile applications it will be possible to build systematic and smart life routines for users. Designing wearables for young elderly is an interesting design challenge with its own set of requirements. We have carried out a systematic review of current literature to get an understanding of how wearables can support wellness routines for individuals. The purpose is to study the current state of art in creating wellness routines with wearables as technological interventions. In doing so we present a categorization of existing approaches and a summarization of different design recommendations that serve different design goals. The review also suggests a clear lack of efforts to address the needs of the young-elderly. We suggest an introduction of action design research to encourage users to be part of a co-creation process that would help to lower adoption barriers for the young elderly.

The impacts of employing healthcare information systems in decreasing the admission and discharge time, patient transfer time, the internal clashes and clinical applications, time to get answers and refer to previous data file, increasing information and request accuracy, accelerating the communication between hospital wards, increasing patient satisfaction, providing better quality services, accessing hospital income and expenses information, downsizing, etc. are obvious in recent decade. Regarding the significance and the broad application of these softwares, there are a few number of research to verify their conformance as a whole or a collection of components with software quality metrics. In this research, the quality of healthcare information systems componets that are currently being used in hospitals in Guilan province is investigated regarding their conformance to software technical quality metrics. To this end, ten components of five healthcare information systems are analyzed with gathering information of users through questionnaire. The conformance degree of each component with software quality metrics is statistically analyzed and presented through this paper.

Background: This paper used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which was extended, to investigate nurses' adoption of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Methods: Data was collected from 197 nurses in a survey and data analysis was carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. Results: In contrast to findings in prior studies that used TPB to investigate clinicians' adoption of technologies in Canada and elsewhere, this study found no statistical significance for the relationships between attitude and subjective norm in relation to nurses' intention to use HIS. Rather, facilitating organizational conditions was the only TPB variable that explained sampled nurses' intention to use HIS at work. In particular, effects of computer habit and computer anxiety among older nurses were signified. Conclusion: To encourage nurses' adoption of HIS, healthcare administrators need to pay attention to facilitating organization conditions at work. Enhancing computer knowledge or competence is important for acceptance. Information presented in the study can be used by administrators of healthcare facilities in the research location and comparable parts of the world to further improve HIS adoption among nurses. The management of nursing professionals, especially in certain contexts (eg, prevalence of older nursing professionals), can make use of this study's insights. Implications for policy makers • Healthcare information systems (HIS) are expensive. Evidence shows that administrators around the world spend millions of dollars to acquire such tools. • The benefits of HIS will probably not be fully realized if healthcare professionals, such as nurses who are expected to use such tools to serve patients, underutilize them. This is a major challenge to healthcare policy-makers and administrators. • Encouraging clinicians, including nurses, to adopt HIS and similar technologies is deserving of attention. • Empirical studies of nurses' adoption of HIS has the potential to influence policy-making and the management of nurses who use such technologies at work. • Facilitating organizational conditions where nurses work positively affect their intention to use implemented HIS, so do their computer habits and anxiety (lack thereof). • Computer knowledge or skills is an important antecedent to acceptance of HIS. Implications for the public In recent years, healthcare researchers across the world have employed antecedent factors such as attitude, subjective norm, and facilitating organizational conditions (perceived behavioral control) to explore nurses' intention to use implemented healthcare systems and applications. In this study, we used similar factors and others (ie, computer anxiety and computer habit) to examine factors influencing nurses' intention to use healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada. The study demonstrated that facilitating organizational conditions, computer anxiety, and computer habit meaningfully explained nurses' intention to use HIS in the research setting. Additionally, computer knowledge mattered for nurses' acceptance of HIS. The results offer an opportunity for policy-makers and managers of healthcare facilities in the research location to develop appropriate strategies and policies that enhance nurses' adoption of HIS and similar technologies.

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This paper used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which was extended, to investigate nurses' adoption of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Data was collected from 197 nurses in a survey and data analysis was carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. In contrast to findings in prior studies that used TPB to investigate clinicians' adoption of technologies in Canada and elsewhere, this study found no statistical significance for the relationships between attitude and subjective norm in relation to nurses' intention to use HIS. Rather, facilitating organizational conditions was the only TPB variable that explained sampled nurses' intention to use HIS at work. In particular, effects of computer habit and computer anxiety among older nurses were signified. To encourage nurses' adoption of HIS, healthcare administrators need to pay attention to facilitating organization conditions at work. Enhancing computer knowledge o...

Over the past two decades, HCIS has grown from a conceptual and academic research area to a major growing market segment that spans primary scientific and medical research to point-of-care precision medical treatment. Each year, trade and medical organizations like HIMSS, AMIA, and AHIMA, and clinical organizations in fields like cardiology, laboratory medicine, ophthalmology, pathology and radiology attract hundreds of thousands of attendees to discuss and display innovative HCIS projects and products. What was once a field dominated by the US and Europe is now being matched by similar programs in India, China, and throughout Latin America. For this panel we have assembled a well-seasoned group of speakers, educators, researchers, and practitioners to advance our collective ability to teach “state of the art” courses in this critically important area.