Background: Many eHealth technologies are not successful in realizing sustainable
innovations in health care practices. One of the reasons for this is that the current …

Background Thorough holistic development of eHealth can contribute to a good fit among
the technology, its users, and the context. However, despite the availability of frameworks …

Background Electronic health (eHealth) has the potential to improve health outcomes.
However, eHealth systems need to match the eHealth literacy needs of users to be equitably …

The healthcare sector is a highly regulated environment that is subject to numerous
constraints. Standards around medical protocol, medical device certification, and data …

As life expectancy increases, so does the number of elders. This increase poses a challenge
regarding the ability of maintaining the costs for providing services to this group. In search of …

Background: Requirements development is a crucial part of eHealth design. It entails all the
activities devoted to requirements identification, the communication of requirements to other …

A growing global population of older adults is potential consumers of a category of products
referred to as smart technologies, but also known as telehealth, telecare, information and …

Background Personas are a canonical user-centered design method increasingly used in
health informatics research. Personas—empirically-derived user archetypes—can be used …

While agile approaches can be extremely effective at a project level, they can impose
significant complexity and a need for adaptiveness at the project portfolio level. While this …

Sensors and systems within rapidly expanding smart cities produce citizen-centered big
data which have potential value to support citizen-centered urban governance decision …