PURPOSE: The agent-oriented paradigm has emerged as a viable approach for the
development of autonomic systems in the healthcare domain. This paper reviews …

Healthcare informatics and analytics (HCI&A), also known as healthcare information
technology (HIT), healthcare IS (HIS), and so on, has rapidly evolved with the emerge of …

Access control models describe frameworks that dictate how subjects (eg users) access
resources. In the role-based access control (RBAC) model access to resources is based on …

The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) integrates heterogeneous information within a
Healthcare Institution stressing the need for security and access control. The Biostatistics …

The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a very important support tool for patients and
healthcare professionals but it has some barriers that prevent its successful integration …

Clinical decision making is a complex multi-stage process. Decision support can play an
important role at each stage of this process. At present, the majority of clinical decision …

Healthcare is information driven and knowledge driven. Good healthcare depends on
making decisions at the right time and place, using the right patient data and applicable …

In medical organizations, healthcare providers need to have fast access to patients' medical
information in order to make accurate diagnoses as well as to provide appropriate …

Objective: To demonstrate an architecture to automate the prehospital emergency process to
categorize the specialized care according to the situation at the right time for reducing the …

PURPOSE: The objective of this paper is to show that grounded theory (GT), together with
mixed methods, can be used to involve healthcare professionals in the design and …