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Impact of Facebook Ads for Sexual Health Promotion Via an Educational Web App
Conclusions: Facebook advertisements seem to be a good tool to promote an educational web app on sexual health targeting youth, and to reach a huge number of users rapidly and at a low cost. (Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications)
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - March 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Gabarron, Elia Luque, Luis Fernandez Schopf, Thomas Roger Lau, Annie Y.S. Armayones, Manuel Wynn, Rolf Serrano, J. Artur Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

The Cloud Gets Personal
Cloud computing, at its most fundamental level, is a technology that allows computing to occur as an on-demand utility. Personalized medicine is revolutionizing the field of medicine, and aims to provide individualized treatment for patients, based on their genetic material and medical history, through comparisons to genetic material from thousands of other patients. Better patient outcomes are expected in a personalized medicine domain as compared to more generic generalized options. In this paper the authors explore the use of cloud computing in the area of personalized medicine examining unique benefits and opportunitie...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - March 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Joseph, Rhoda Brown, Patrick Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Self-Management of Diabetes Mellitus with Remote Monitoring
Conclusion: Remote telemonitoring provided the opportunity to collect comprehensive data, allowing patients to be maintained at home, while showing significant improvement in their HbA1c and better overall management of their diabetes (Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications)
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mushcab, Hayat Kernohan, William George Wallace, Jonathan Harper, Roy Martin, Suzanne Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

REDAlert+
Each year, thousands of people in developing countries die due to delayed medical response. A common complaint is that emergency vehicles respond late and when they reach the hospital, precious time is lost in understanding the patient trauma before the doctors can get to work. A large number of deaths can be prevented if medical services can be provided to the victims in time, which can happen when the emergency wing of a hospital has advance information about the trauma before the patient reaches the hospital. Most hospitals lack communication infrastructure that allows them to coordinate with emergency vehicles bringing...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Shakdher, Arjun Pandey, Kavita Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Beyond Digital Human Body Atlases
In this study, an integrated (vector-raster) 3D model, which defines the external surface of the human body, is expanded by adding the corresponding anatomical structures. The reconstruction of the anatomical structures begins with their segmentation, performed on transverse RGB images of the body. The expanded model, built with explicit topological features, enhances the functionality of the input model by optimizing the identification function and developing an inclusion analysis in 3D. The features of the expanded model allow exploring more efficiently the human body information and representation. (Source: Internationa...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Barbeito, Antonio Painho, Marco Cabral, Pedro O'Neill, Jo ão Goyri Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Investigation on Healthcare Monitoring Systems
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) services and applications have emerged as one of the most attractive research areas and have become more and more widespread especially for healthcare use. Lots of researches have been carried out to specify innovative services and applications using healthcare monitoring systems (HMS). However, the WBAN requirements vary from one application/service to another. Furthermore, HMSs are expected to reduce healthcare costs by enabling the continuous remote monitoring of patients' health even during their daily activities and thus reduce the frequency of the patient's visits at hospital. From...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Manirabona, Audace Fourati, Lamia Chaari Boudjit, Sa âdi Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Collaborative Environment for Remote Clinical Reasoning Learning
Despite the significant advances achieved these recent last years in terms of technologies widespread use in medical education, clinical reasoning learning (CRL) remains an extremely hard task in which there are still many gray areas that should be enlightened to better understand it. Furthermore, while CRL is basically a collaborative task implying the participation of many students and tutors working simultaneously on a same case, it should be considered from a social perspective. The authors followed then a collaborative-based learning approach, which consists in designing a shared workspace to support collaboration and...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - September 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Ferradji, Mohamed Abderraouf Zidani, Abdelmadjid Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Hospital Service Quality from Patients Perspective
This study aims to identify and analyse strategic service quality as perception-minus-expectation from patient perspective using SERVQUAL-based Handayani et al.'s framework. The result from 297 respondents shows that the criteria gaps are given as follows in descending order from the biggest gap: (1) responsiveness, (2) assurance, (3) professionalism, (4) reliability, (5) empathy and (6) tangible. Apparently, the gap for each criterion transpires to be significantly different which straightforwardly indicates the quality of the service delivered by hospitals for each criterion is still below respondents' expectations. Reco...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - September 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Sandhyaduhita, Puspa Fajrina, Haya Rizqi Pinem, Ave Adriana Hidayanto, Achmad Nizar Handayani, Putu Junus, Kasiyah Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

An Efficient and Lossless Cryptosystem for Security in Tele-Ophthalmology Applications Using Chaotic Theory
Tele-ophthalmology has gained a lot of popularity as it involves retinal fundus images which can be analyzed for identification of severe diseases like diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. With this increasing popularity, requirement for medical data confidentiality and privacy has also increased during transmission or storage. To meet this challenge, this paper propose an efficient and lossless cryptosystem based upon chaotic theory for encryption of medical fundus images. In the proposed encryption scheme a strategic combination of scrambling and substitution architecture is proposed which complements each other. The propo...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - September 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mehta, Garima Dutta, Malay Kishore Kim, Pyung Soo Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Biometric Secured Electronic Health Record
Lot of Hospitals around the world are going through transformation from paper based to Electronic Health record system which can be accessed from anywhere. But with such Electronic health record, security is very much needed towards avoiding hackers and unauthorized personnel to access the medical record pretending as doctor or patient. Lot of research been conducted in regards to an authentication of the biometric system and security on the digital electronic health records of the health care organization. In such biometric system, there has been an increase in the false rejection ratio due to a slight difference in the p...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - September 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Sankaranarayanan, Suresh Udayasuriyan, Vigneshwaran Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

The Influence of National Factors on Transferring and Adopting Telemedicine Technology
Telemedicine has drawn increasing attention as a beneficial healthcare delivery medium, especially in developing countries that struggle with physician and health professional shortages, through providing health services in remote areas. This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted to investigate the national factors influencing the adoption of telemedicine technology in Iran, as a less developed country. Designing a self-administered questionnaire the data were collected from the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) of Iranian healthcare system. The findings indicate that political factors such as Information and C...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - June 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Latifi, Fariba Alizadeh, Somayeh Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Users' Satisfaction with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Today, many hospitals seek to adopt the latest and most sophisticated technologies in order to raise the service quality and users' satisfaction. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) had a substantial impact on the health sector and has enhanced the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare providers. The purpose of this research is to examine the factors that affect users' satisfaction with the current Health Record System in the Kingdom of Bahrain. A research model was built based on three popular models of users' satisfaction toward information systems. Toward achieving the research objective, a quantitative approach was...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - June 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Abdulla, Aysha Ebrahim Ahmed, Shurooq Yousif Alnoaimi, Maryam Abdulrahman Ali, Hayat Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Human-Factor-Based Risk Management in the Healthcare to Improve Patient Safety
‘Patient Safety' tries to increase safety and transparency within healthcare systems for both patients and professionals. Within the healthcare sector, workflows become more and more complex, while time and money become scarce. As a consequence, the risk awareness, fault management and quality asp ects become more important. One of the most well established risk assessment method is Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) – a reliability analysis and risk assessment tool widely used in various industries. The traditional FMEA is using a Risk Priority Number (RPN) ranking system to evaluate and identify the risk level o...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - June 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Streimelweger, Barbara Wac, Katarzyna Seiringer, Wolfgang Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Identifying Critical Changes in Adoption of Personalized Medicine (PM) in Healthcare Management
Among the emerging areas in health-care system, the implementation of Electronic Medical Record system and the discovery of Personalized Medicine are occupying top positions. While some of the personalized drugs have already been discovered, implementing this new medicare system requires a lot of changes in the traditional health-care system. This paper aims at identifying these critical changes required in the adoption of the Personalized Medicine system. A systemic attempt has been made to prepare a list of possible changes required for the adoption based on available literature. This research study shows that changes fr...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - June 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Misra, Subhas C. Bisui, Sandip Fantazy, Kamel Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research

Content Elements for Web-Based Health Promotion
This paper provides an analysis of the basic elements required for health promotion based on digital content. It covers the feedback from the respondents involved in a pilot study type; content interventions were examined among the respondents to analyze the most required content elements for health promotion programs for workplace community. These elements should be focused on to highlight the importance of content quality and interactivity features for health promoters using technology solutions to provide digital content. The findings of this research has attracted the interest of policy makers associates in Malaysia to...
Source: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications - March 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Noman, MarwanKoo, Ah ChooTee, Sim Hui Tags: Health Information Systems Medical & Healthcare IS Source Type: research