This handbook presents the science and practice of eHealth evaluation based on empirical
evidence gathered over many years within the health informatics discipline. The handbook …

Abstract Information Technology (IT) is increasingly seen in policy and academic literature
as key to the modernization of healthcare provision and to making healthcare patient …

Actor‐Network Theory is a research lens that has gained popularity in the nursing and
health sciences domains. The perspective allows a researcher to describe the interaction of …

Objective In healthcare system, it is necessary to have exact and accurate information in
order to address health care needs and requirements of society members as well as …

Background Modelling is an important part of information science. Models are abstractions
of reality. We use models in the following contexts:(1) to describe the data and information …

Background As EHR adoption in US hospitals becomes ubiquitous, a wide range of IT
options are theoretically available to facilitate physician-nurse communication, but we know …

Background MSmonitor is an interactive web-based program for self-management and
integrated, multidisciplinary care in multiple sclerosis. Methods To assess the utilization and …

Technological advances, coupled with a shift toward patient-centered care and
unprecedented consumer access to information, have created a new era of consumer …

Today, Health information systems (HIS) constitute a crucial part of medical and health
studies in the literature, and HIS studies have been expanded by the development of health …

As Bath (2008) observes, health care is an information-intensive process. Such information
includes patient information for clinical care and management, secondary data for health …