A pilot study of a medical information service using mobile phones in Sweden

Recent developments in information and communication technologies have helped to accelerate the diffusion of electronic services in the medical industry. Health information services house, retrieve, and make use of medical information to improve service quality and reduce cost. Users—including medical staff, administrative staff, and patients—of these systems cannot fully benefit from them unless they can use them comfortably. User behavior is affected by various factors relating to technology characteristics, user characteristics, social environment, and organizational environment. Our research evaluated the determinants of health information service adoption and analyzed the relationship between these determinants and the behavior of the user. Health information service adoption was found to be influenced by service characteristics, user characteristics, intermediary variables, facilitating conditions, and social factors.

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Application of Information Engineering in Hospital Management

ITM Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/itmconf/20192602005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 02005

Author(s):

Na Wang ◽

Jinguo Wang

Keyword(s):

System Integration ◽

Medical Information ◽

Information Service ◽

Health Resources ◽

Clinical Work ◽

Utilization Rate ◽

Hospital Data ◽

Service Platform ◽

Core System ◽

Technology Application

In order to realize cross-hospital data sharing and solve the problem of system interconnection, an information service platform was set up to build homogeneity of the core system, unify the basic standard, and recreate the business process, so as to achieve integration of multiple hospital systems. The system integration of thi information service platform realizes the interconnection and interworking of the systems of the two chambers. It facilitates the inter-hospital inspection appointment, bed appointment and inter-hospital transfer of patients, with strong scalability. This platform and technology application which has realized the system connectivity is reasonable. The hospitals of the same patient can share the medical information, improve the utilization rate of health resources and the patient’s clinic experience. It can further improve the utilization rate of hospital beds and efficiency of clinical work. The unification data for fine management advancement will also provide more data to support.

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“Glocalization” of Health Information: Considering Design Factors for Mobile Technologies in Malaysia

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ◽

10.1177/0047281620906131 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 187-206

Author(s):

Evelyn H. Saru ◽

Patti Wojahn

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Medical Information ◽

Medical Intervention ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Diverse Populations ◽

Experience Design ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Design Factors ◽

Small Screen

Mobile phones offer promising solutions to basic health-care provisions for developing countries like Malaysia. However, for such technologies to be useful for health and medical intervention, information designers must make information shared via small-screen usable for diverse cultural audiences within a nation. In this entry, we use the international patient experience design framework to propose a heuristic for addressing this situation. This approach can provide insights that can facilitate the “glocalization”—or creating materials to address specific cultural contexts and make health and medical information more usable to diverse populations living in the same country.

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