Much has been written about insufficient user involvement in the design of eHealth
applications, the lack of evidence demonstrating impact, and the difficulties these bring for …

Recently, the healthcare sector has shown a growing interest in information technologies.
Two popular health IT (HIT) products are the electronic health record (EHR) and health …

Objectives This study mainly integrates the mature Technology-Organization-Environment
(TOE) framework and recently developed Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit model …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) are questionnaire measures of patients' symptoms,
functioning, and health-related quality of life. They are designed to provide important clinical …

The recent rapid increase in the amount of medical information has pushed hospitals to
confront an essential issue which is how to utilize healthcare information technology to …

There is evidence to suggest that health professionals are reluctant to accept and utilise
information and communication technologies (ICT) and concern is growing within health …

Despite the possible benefits of implementing healthcare information technologies,
successful implementation of effective healthcare information technology is constrained by …

Background The increased use of medical therapies has led to increased medical costs. To
provide insight into the value of this increased spending, we compared gains in life …

OBJECTIVE: To reflect about medical informatics as a discipline. To suggest significant
future research directions with the purpose of stimulating further discussion. METHODS …