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The health status of women and children is considered as a reflection of the present society and a predictor of the future generations. Unfortunately, numerous challenges emanating from poverty, inadequate resources, illiteracy and cultural barriers contribute to poor health and high mortality rate in low-resource settings. To address these challenges, there are numerous mHealth interventions seeking...
This article proposes to create and evaluate a software prototype that uses the idea of telemedicine to send an electronic medical record along with the patient's ECG, using tablets with Android as operating system and a 3G network, helping the specialist on his decisions on the emergency procedures, treatment and transport of the patient. This scenario sets the use of new technologies as an ally...
Recently, there has been a remarkable upsurge in activity surrounding the adoption of Personal Health Records (PHRs). Since PHRs contain global patient information and not certain pieces collected by individual healthcare providers, they can be used as basic infrastructures for building and operating several important systems for both healthcare and the tax payers. Emergency medical systems (EMS)...
Health information services deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Medical staff, administrative staff and patients are typical users of such services. Behavior of these adopters is influenced by technology and user characteristics, social and organizational environment. This paper evaluates the determinants of Health...
Diffusion of electronic services in the medical industry has gather speed with the help of recent developments in the information and communication technologies. Health information service is one of these services that deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Users - including medical staff, administrative staff and patients...
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