As disease management for chronically ill people proliferates, providers are moving toward programs that incorporate computers with telecommunication features and other technology. Although these technologies hold promise for improving care coordination and delivering timely information more...

As a result of growing economic pressures, collaborations and process orientation are rapidly gaining importance for hospitals. With organisation and software landscapes which have grown over time in line with specific professional groups and functions, the paradigm shift places high demands on...

The research into agent-based intelligent decision support systems is important to the medical industry because these systems can be used to improve the quality of healthcare in many ways. The areas these systems can be used in are diverse from the storage of medical records to the examination...

This article presents ideas for the development of a health information system in Costa Rica. These series of political guidelines were developed as part of a workshop, held in Costa Rica in the beginning of 2011, in which officials from the Ministry of Health and the Costa Rican Social Security...

Telecare systems are increasingly being seen as a means of providing a cost-effective response to the increasing demands placed on healthcare provision. However, in order to meet all levels of stakeholder need, there is a requirement to adopt from the very beginning an integrated, system based...

Reviewer: Stacey, Dawn