The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...

We investigate the implications of a personal health record (PHR) platform on the adoption and sharing of electronic health records (EHR). Through our analysis, we find evidence that health care providers may not have an incentive to share patients’ records electronically even though EHR...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Stand der Digitalisierung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im internationalen Vergleich und entwickelt Empfehlungen für ihre weitere Gestaltung. Dafür werden die Entwicklung der Digitalisierung über die letzten beiden Jahrzehnte nachgezeichnet, Ursachen...

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has developed into one of the most significant tools at India’s disposal for confronting challenges of development and poverty alleviation. In particular, ICT has proven useful when applied to the fields of agriculture, education, health,...

The low level of health literacy skills often found in elderly people has been associated with a significant risk of poor access to health services and poor health status and makes it more likely that they will be prevented from obtaining and understanding the basic health information and...

A global and growing shortage of medical doctors and nurses, exacerbated by increasing life expectancy, is generating greater cost pressures on health care around the world. Many industry analysts and health care professionals have argued that early detection and preventive care, as well as...

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

This research aims to examine the impact of IT launch, technical support regarding IT, and the length of IT usage on healthcare outcomes including patient safety and quality of care. This study examines health information technology adoption as a mediator in this research model. To accomplish...

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

With the prevalence of digital devices and internet access, telemedicine (visiting physicians through real-time telecommunication) is becoming an important mode of service. In this work, we study whether the adoption of telemedicine has an impact on physicians' behavior in terms of scheduling...

The demand for healthcare is increasing globally. In India, a dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases along with an ageing population is affecting the demand for healthcare. Concerns for providing efficient and effective healthcare to the vulnerable population has led to the...

Electronic health record (EHR) systems allow physicians to automate the process of entering patient data relative to manual entry in traditional paper-based records. However, such automated data entry can lead to increased reimbursement requests by hospitals from Medicare by overstating the...

Background: In today's environment, health professionals are overwhelmed by the rapid pace of advancement in both information technology and medical practice. Objectives: This paper aims to point out the importance of developing an electronic health record system that will meet the needs of all...

One of the main goals at the European level is that healthcare systems must be accessible but at the same time cost-effective and sustainable in the long term. The implementation of eHealth is one way to contribute to this goal. The presented paper is focused on the evaluation of the usage of...

In both the popular media and scholarly literature, breaches of health privacy, confidentiality, and security are often associated with unlawful or unethical actions that result in disclosures of health information to individuals or entities with no right to access them. Although it is important...

Die Corona-Warn-App kann Menschenleben retten. Das Grundprinzip solcher Smartphone-Apps zur digitalen Kontaktnachverfolgung ist einfach: Infizierte melden ihre Infektion in der App. Andere Nutzer, die jüngst über längere Zeit in Ansteckungsnähe zu diesen Infizierten waren, werden über ihr...

Purpose: This article intends to present and discuss two promising business models for deploying international patient summary standards in mobile health (mHealth) apps, enhancing the value brought by standards, in particular by HL7 (Health Level Seven International) FHIR (Fast Healthcare...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Stand der Digitalisierung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im internationalen Vergleich und entwickelt Empfehlungen für ihre weitere Gestaltung. Dafür werden die Entwicklung der Digitalisierung über die letzten beiden Jahrzehnte nachgezeichnet, Ursachen...

Background: World Health Organization, through a partnership with European Union, encourages the implementation e-health systems. E-health is a relatively old concept that is upgraded with new technologies and is directed toward monitoring different health conditions with the help of technology....