PURPOSE: Implementations of health information technologies are notoriously difficult,
which is due to a range of inter-related technical, social and organizational factors that need …

Objectives: Hospital information systems are evolving towards health information systems.
This article aims at identifying both proven benefits and critical issues, and at discussing …

The last decade has seen an exponential growth in the quantity of clinical data collected
nationwide, triggering an increase in opportunities to reuse the data for biomedical research …

Genomic medicine aims to revolutionize health care by applying our growing understanding
of the molecular basis of disease. Research in this arena is data intensive, which means …

Effective canine health surveillance systems can be used to monitor disease in the general
population, prioritise disorders for strategic control and focus clinical research, and to …

Workflow Management Systems integrate domain and organisational knowledge to support
business processes. When applied to the medical environment, they can be termed …

The authors describe a pragmatic approach to the introduction of clinical decision support at
the point of care, based on a decade of experience in developing and evolving Vanderbilt's …

Objectives: To present a summary of the state of the art in Health Information Systems (HIS),
as discussed during the Heidelberg HIS Working Group Conference, and to examine …

Objective The study measured whether nurses' situation awareness would increase and
task completion time decrease when they used an integrated information display compared …

Objective: Ontology in clinical domains is becoming a core research field in the realm of
medical informatics. The objective of this study is to explore the potential role of formal …