Technology in Context

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Helle Sofie Wentzer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Context Free ◽  
Different Levels

The phrase “technology in context” contains a paradox, because much technology is assumed “context-free.” Information and communication technology (ICT) in health care, including telemedicine, electronic patient records, and other forms of ICT are often presented as virtual—free of time and space. This chapter argues that technology development and implementation, as drivers of modernity, make attention to context more relevant than ever in both practice and research. High-tech and information technologies transcend the traditional understanding of context to become something multilayered and relational, with the risk of blurring borderlines of tasks, roles, and responsibilities. Research into disrupted and decontextualized spaces of action offers insights into the dependencies and vulnerabilities of ICT-mediated health care practices. Here, surgery is chosen as a learning aid to understand the mediated character of context, its dependencies and vulnerabilities, and how it must be continuously reproduced at different levels of understanding and organization.

scholarly journals Promoting the use of health information and communication technologies in Spain: a new approach based on the ICT-H

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Blázquez Fernández ◽  
David Cantarero Prieto ◽  
Marta Pascual Sáez
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Care Expenditure ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Education And Employment

The rapid growth of the use of new technologies is having an important effect on individuals’ health knowledge and behavior. The objective of this paper is to study the potential reduction in health care utilization associated with the expansion of new technologies. Using Spanish micro data from the Survey on the Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT-H) in Households for 2014 we analyze information technologies equipment, availability of access and means of Internet connection per household. We model the probability of an individual being internet user in Spain as a function of a range of socio-economic characteristics, including individual’s gender, age, education and employment situation. Also, we hypothesized that a greater use of this communication technologies is related to a lesser health care expenditure.

E-Health Security and Privacy

2008 ◽  
pp. 580-588
Author(s):  
Yingge Wang ◽  
Qiang Cheng ◽  
Jie Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Heavy Loads

The widespread and fast-developing information technologies, especially wireless communications and the Internet, have allowed for the realization of greater automation systems than ever in health-care industries: E-health has become an apparent trend, and having a clinic at home or even anywhere at anytime is no longer a dream. E-health, including telemedicine featured by conducting health-care transactions over the Internet, has been revolutionizing the well-being of human society. Traditionally, common practices in the health-care industry place tremendous burdens on both patients and health-care providers, with heavy loads of paper-based documents and inefficient communications through mail or phone calls. The transmission of medical data is even messy for cases in which patients have to transfer between different health providers. In addition, the medical documents prepared manually are prone to errors and delays, which may lead to serious consequences. The time, energy, and resources wasted in such processes are intolerable and unimaginable in any fast-paced society. For these problems, e-health provides powerful solutions to share and exchange information over the Internet in a timely, easy, and safe manner (Balas et al., 1997). Incorporating fast and cost-efficient Internet and wireless communication techniques has enabled the substantial development of e-health. The use of the Internet to transmit sensitive medical data, however, leaves the door open to the threats of information misuse either accidentally or maliciously. Health-care industries need be extremely cautious in handling and delivering electronic patient records using computer networks due to the high vulnerabilities of such information. To this extent, security and privacy issues become two of the biggest concerns in developing e-health infrastructures.

scholarly journals EFFICIENCY OF APPLICATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilia Krinichko ◽  
◽  
Oleksiі Motaіlo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Communication System ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Care System

In modern conditions, the effectiveness of management of facilities largely depends on the quality of information support of the management of these facilities. The availability of reliable, timely and optimal information on the state of facilities and trends in their development should facilitate the development and adoption of the most optimal and effective decisions on health care management in both the industry and specific health care institutions. The article identifies the importance and significance of the use of information and computer technologies in public administration of the health care system. The place of public administration in the processes of application of information and computer technologies is considered. The levels of introduction of information and computer technologies in the state management of the health care system are characterized. The peculiarities of using the eHealth system for the purpose of digitalization of public administration and realization of medical services in Ukraine are determined. It has been proven that the implementation of eHealth in the health care system requires careful monitoring and communication process between healthcare professionals, patients, end users of health services. The characteristic of the technological accounting tool, which is the main component of the eHealth system, is given. The process of eHealth implementation in the modern healthcare system in Ukraine is analyzed. The main advantages and problems of the implementation and development of a single electronic health care system eHealth are described. The directions of improvement of the process of introduction of information and computer technologies in the information and communication system of public administration in the field of health care of different levels are investigated, namely: realization of the project of development of innovative information and computer system on communication between health care institutions concerning treatment patient, implementation of the project of development of the database on doctors and personnel reserves of different levels, implementation of the project of development and formation of the database on the state of public health.

E-Health Security and Privacy

2011 ◽  
pp. 385-390
Author(s):  
Yingge Wang ◽  
Qiang Cheng ◽  
Jie Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Heavy Loads

The widespread and fast-developing information technologies, especially wireless communications and the Internet, have allowed for the realization of greater automation systems than ever in health-care industries: E-health has become an apparent trend, and having a clinic at home or even anywhere at anytime is no longer a dream. E-health, including telemedicine featured by conducting health-care transactions over the Internet, has been revolutionizing the well-being of human society. Traditionally, common practices in the health-care industry place tremendous burdens on both patients and health-care providers, with heavy loads of paper-based documents and inefficient communications through mail or phone calls. The transmission of medical data is even messy for cases in which patients have to transfer between different health providers. In addition, the medical documents prepared manually are prone to errors and delays, which may lead to serious consequences. The time, energy, and resources wasted in such processes are intolerable and unimaginable in any fast-paced society. For these problems, e-health provides powerful solutions to share and exchange information over the Internet in a timely, easy, and safe manner (Balas et al., 1997). Incorporating fast and cost-efficient Internet and wireless communication techniques has enabled the substantial development of e-health. The use of the Internet to transmit sensitive medical data, however, leaves the door open to the threats of information misuse either accidentally or maliciously. Health-care industries need be extremely cautious in handling and delivering electronic patient records using computer networks due to the high vulnerabilities of such information. To this extent, security and privacy issues become two of the biggest concerns in developing e-health infrastructures.

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

IT IN STRATEGIC APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1377-1381
Author(s):  
Miodrag Trajković ◽  
Jasmina Jasmina
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Strategic Manager

The basic direction of the development of society is the development of technology, information flow, organization way, and management. Therefore, the need to use the latest knowledge in defining, selecting and implementing strategies with adequate information technologies is now an unimaginably successful business. Strategic management is a set of management decisions and actions that determine long-term functioning and business policy. The process of strategic management involves establishing a company's relationship with the environment and positioning in it. The strategic goal has a directing role from the existing to the desired position (optimal). The implementation of the strategy in our companies is based on two groups of factors. The first group consists of the organizational structure and the management system of companies, and the second group consists of the human factor in the broadest sense. We also know that at the present moment the economy is almost impossible to survive if it is based on one particular technology. This means that today an increasing number of industries whose technological base is based on a growing number of interconnected different technologies. What technology has to be implemented in order to achieve competitiveness? A complete response includes identifying critical products, processes, applications, and system technology. The key technology provides a competitive advantage, the factor of today's success, they are in the application phase, competitors with them have not implemented enough yet, and offer a significant opportunity for building differentiating properties and for expanding the application. Leading in technology, provides the company support to the existing competitive position, in relation to supporting upcoming technologies which are important for creating a future competitive position. The aim of the paper is to provide the strategic manager of the company a conceptual framework for formulating and implementing strategic options for the application of information technologies in making key decisions in the approach to technology making

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