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Societal changes are forcing us to reconsider how healthcare is delivered. Connected Health, which involves the application of ICT to support healthcare delivery, is an emerging trend in this space. A robust evaluation technique that considers the impact of Connected Health on society is a vital enabler for this growing area. For this reason, we developed an exploratory framework for the evaluation...
Users' acceptance of a new information technology (IT) is a determining factor of its market success. A solid understanding of the users' adoption process and use behavior enables a more robust definition of user requirements and better market alignment. This is especially important in markets characterized by rapid technological change such as smartphones. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is...
The Medical Device and Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) industries have not achieved safe PNP cross-manufacturer (heterogeneous) interoperability although it has been achieved decades ago in other safety critical industries. We believe that the Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model (LCIM) [1] offers an essential account of the disparity and thereby offers insight for how to achieve safe...
In a context where healthcare costs are increasing exponentially worldwide, both developed and developing countries and making e-health a priority. However, reducing the disparity in healthcare quality and delivery by way of pervasive e-health solutions remains elusive. At least in part, this is attributed to the inherent complexity that characterizes modern healthcare environments. In order to improve...
Living Lab is an emerging user-driven open innovation approach. Although innovation adoption has been an active research area for quite a long time, it seems that little empirical studies have been done on the Living Lab innovation adoption research. In this paper, we present empirical results from a study of Living Lab ageing care innovations adoption in Chinese healthcare industry. Our empirical...
Paradoxes and tensions are ubiquitous to innovation and change in socio-technical systems in a wide range of contexts including but not limited to open innovation, e-health, mobile platforms, and integrated supply chains. Conflicting demands, contradictory practices, and competing views create fiction that can energize or inhibit the performance of a complex socio-technical system. There is a growing...
In order to deal with continuous drastic increases in healthcare spending and major demographic changes, governments in industrialised countries are initiating major reforms aimed at improving the efficiency and the quality of care services provided to their citizens. These reforms along with increasing requirements for accountability tend to "corporatize" these institutions by exposing...
Existing requirements elicitation approaches have proven insufficient to record complete, consistent, and correct requirements. Studies conducted have shown that 40% of defects in software projects are due to incorrect recorded requirements. Therefore, some innovative approaches have been developed to deal with the lack of addressing the above-mentioned issues including video-based methods. Recent...
In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan, Department of Biomedical Engineering engaged industry representatives to introduce a new framework designed to teach graduate level engineering students about biomedical ethical issues in business situations. This framework was built on real-life case studies regarding quality problems in the medical device industry. Students were first introduced to...
Although compared to other industries the utilization of information technology (IT) has slowly increased in many healthcare organizations, a variety of IT systems in the forms of clinical information systems, personal digital assistants, electronic patient records and other applications have gradually become established in the healthcare industry. IT has been enhanced as a means to advance healthcare...
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