Usage and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare Delivery

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Kong ◽  
Hessam Sadatsafavi ◽  
Rohit Verma
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

scholarly journals Current State of ICT in Healthcare Delivery in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebayo Omotosho ◽  
Peace Ayegba ◽  
Justice Emuoyibofarhe ◽  
Christoph Meinel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Current State ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Information And Communication

Electronic health is one of the most popular applications of information and communication technologies and it has contributed immensely to health delivery through the provision of quality health service and ubiquitous access at a lower cost. Even though this mode of health service is increasingly becoming known or used in developing nations, these countries are faced with a myriad of challenges when implementing and deploying e-health services on both small and large scale. It is estimated that the Africa population alone carries the highest percentage of the world’s global diseases despite its certain level of e-health adoption. This paper aims at analyzing the progress so far and the current state of e-health in developing countries particularly Africa and propose a framework for further improvement.

Managing technology risks in the healthcare sector: disaster recovery and business continuity planning

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja K. Iyer ◽  
Kakoli Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Continuity Planning ◽  
Information And Communication

The relentless onslaught of computers and communications technologies has recently descended on the healthcare industry. Fortunately, however, the utilization of technologies in healthcare delivery and administration could not be timelier because of the need to control escalating health costs. While the proliferation of information and communication technologies in healthcare, referred to as health management information systems (HMIS), is certainly long overdue in healthcare organizations (HCOs), it is important to recognize and be prepared for the vulnerabilities of these technologies to natural, technological, and man‐made disasters. This paper describes how HCOs have justifiably become dependent on HMIS and how these organizations may proactively plan for disasters which can impact on HMIS. A phased approach, referred to as the disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) planning model, is presented in the paper as an approach to develop and implement business continuity plans in HCOs.

scholarly journals Telemonitoring and remote counseling in hypertensive patients. Looking for new ways to do old jobs

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
М. V. Ionov ◽  
N. Е. Zvartau ◽  
I. V. Emelyanov ◽  
A. О. Konradi
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factor

XXI century emphasized humanity to embrace the digital era after a reality of Third and Fourth Industrial Revolutions, nowadays dictating new terms of social networking. It is expected that information and communication technologies integrated with value-based medicine will significantly impact healthcare delivery to tremendous number of patients with socially important noncommunicable diseases. Cardiovascular illnesses comprise the greatest part of such pathologies. Hypertension (HTN) being the most prevalent cardiovascular disease is also the key modifiable cardiovascular risk factor yet seems to be an attractive target for both value-based concept and telehealth interventions. Present review addresses up-to-date science on telehealth, sets out the main well-known, but yet unsolved challenges in management of HTN along with the new approaches involving telemedicine programs, digital health outlooks. The main barriers of telehealth implementation are also considered along with the possible solutions.

RFID as the Critical Factor for Superior Healthcare Delivery

2010 ◽  
pp. 823-832
Author(s):  
A. Dwivedi ◽  
T. Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
Administrative Expenses

Innovations in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have transformed the manner in which healthcare organizations function. Applications of concepts such as data warehousing and data mining have exponentially increased the amount of information that a healthcare organization has access to. Work flow and associated Internet technologies are being seen as instruments to cut administrative expenses. Specifically designed ICT implementations, such as work flow tools, are being used to automate the electronic paper flow in a managed care operation, thereby cutting administrative expenses (Dwivedi, Bali, & Naguib, 2005, p. 44; Latamore, 1999). These recent innovations in the use of ICT applications in a healthcare context have altered the manner in which healthcare institutions exploit clinical and nonclinical data. The pendulum has shifted from the early 1980s, wherein the emphasis of ICT solutions for healthcare was on storage of data in an electronic medium, the prime objective of which was to allow exploitation of this data at a later point in time. As such, most of the early 1980s ICT applications in healthcare were built to provide support for retrospective information retrieval needs and, in some cases, to analyze the decisions undertaken. Clinical data that was traditionally used in a supportive capacity for historical purposes has today become an opportunity that allows healthcare stakeholders to tackle problems before they arise (Dwivedi et al., 2005).

Next Wave of Tele-Medicine

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Kelvin J. Bwalya
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Healthcare Delivery Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
To Come ◽  
Application Developers

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being embedded into healthcare system front-end and back-end platforms both in the developing and developing world contexts in ways unimaginable 20 years ago. This trend has brought about ubiquity culminating into spatial-temporal healthcare delivery models where health practitioners and patients do not need to be simultaneously in the same physical domain in order for healthcare to be delivered. This chapter presents a development projectile of healthcare systems and explores interventions and current trends in pervasive healthcare delivery systems and makes a prognosis of what is to come in future. The first parts of the chapter generally present formulaic concepts about telemedicine. The chapter is hinged on literature and document reviews focussing on innovations in telemedicine and gives a commentary on what needs to be done to achieve true ubiquity in healthcare delivery systems both in the developing and developed world contexts. The chapter posits that pervasiveness will be highly enshrined into healthcare systems to a point where physicians will not have to leave their working space to provide a service. The design of the Defibrillator Drone, for example, provides an opportunity for healthcare application developers to develop information system applications which do not only carry medical supplies from one place to the other, but are able to reason and prescribe medications. With acute advances in the science of robotics and ICTs in general, this is a reality in the foreseeable future.

E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykanen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

E-health refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. E-health broadens the scope of healthcare delivery; citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter e-health systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and e-health systems to search for medicine or health-related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and e-health systems in physician-patient communication due to the power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the sociotechnical nature of e-health should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

Next Wave of Tele-Medicine

2017 ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Kelvin J. Bwalya
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Healthcare Delivery Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
To Come ◽  
Application Developers

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being embedded into healthcare system front-end and back-end platforms both in the developing and developing world contexts in ways unimaginable 20 years ago. This trend has brought about ubiquity culminating into spatial-temporal healthcare delivery models where health practitioners and patients do not need to be simultaneously in the same physical domain in order for healthcare to be delivered. This chapter presents a development projectile of healthcare systems and explores interventions and current trends in pervasive healthcare delivery systems and makes a prognosis of what is to come in future. The first parts of the chapter generally present formulaic concepts about telemedicine. The chapter is hinged on literature and document reviews focussing on innovations in telemedicine and gives a commentary on what needs to be done to achieve true ubiquity in healthcare delivery systems both in the developing and developed world contexts. The chapter posits that pervasiveness will be highly enshrined into healthcare systems to a point where physicians will not have to leave their working space to provide a service. The design of the Defibrillator Drone, for example, provides an opportunity for healthcare application developers to develop information system applications which do not only carry medical supplies from one place to the other, but are able to reason and prescribe medications. With acute advances in the science of robotics and ICTs in general, this is a reality in the foreseeable future.

RFID as the Critical Factor for Superior Healthcare Delivery

2008 ◽  
pp. 1191-1198
Author(s):  
A. Dwivedi ◽  
T. Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
Administrative Expenses

Innovations in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have transformed the manner in which healthcare organizations function. Applications of concepts such as data warehousing and data mining have exponentially increased the amount of information that a healthcare organization has access to. Work flow and associated Internet technologies are being seen as instruments to cut administrative expenses. Specifically designed ICT implementations, such as work flow tools, are being used to automate the electronic paper flow in a managed care operation, thereby cutting administrative expenses (Dwivedi, Bali, & Naguib, 2005, p. 44; Latamore, 1999). These recent innovations in the use of ICT applications in a healthcare context have altered the manner in which healthcare institutions exploit clinical and nonclinical data. The pendulum has shifted from the early 1980s, wherein the emphasis of ICT solutions for healthcare was on storage of data in an electronic medium, the prime objective of which was to allow exploitation of this data at a later point in time. As such, most of the early 1980s ICT applications in healthcare were built to provide support for retrospective information retrieval needs and, in some cases, to analyze the decisions undertaken. Clinical data that was traditionally used in a supportive capacity for historical purposes has today become an opportunity that allows healthcare stakeholders to tackle problems before they arise (Dwivedi et al., 2005).

E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 2314-2322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykänen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

E-health refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. E-health broadens the scope of healthcare delivery; citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter ehealth systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and e-health systems to search for medicine or health-related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and e-health systems in physician-patient communication due to the power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the sociotechnical nature of e-health should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

Healthinfo Engineering

2016 ◽  
pp. 537-550
Author(s):  
Anpeng Huang ◽  
Linzhen Xie
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Strategy System ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Care Project ◽  
Information And Communication

Driven by the commission to proliferate information and communication technologies to health services globally, a new multidisciplinary direction is born, which can be named as Health Information (termed as a new word, Healthinfo) Engineering. To highlight the significances of Healthinfo Engineering, the evidence-based mHealth study in the WE-CARE project demonstrates technology perspectives. In this project, the authors built up a WE-CARE system, which integrate various necessary information and communication technologies to fulfill online healthcare services, even including advances from related math/modelling, physics sciences, etc. Without any doubt, such a system is a promising tool to change healthcare delivery. But this project also reveals there are many explicit and implicit factors left when using system-level integration in order to perform healthinfo applications. In general, in contrast to an explicit factor, an implicit factor is hidden from practical applications, which is the critical risk that may break down a healthinfo system. This phenomenon motivates us to investigate what's real bottlenecks in healthinfo systems. Based on the motivation, this paper summarizes healthinfo challenges from evidence study in the WE-CARE project, for instance, scheduling strategy, system light-loading, virtual clinical perception, privacy protection, etc. This technology summary shows that more extensive attention should be needed for healthinfo study not only in mobile and medical areas, and also in computer science, maths, physics, even including ethic, law, etc. In return, the new interdisciplinary cutting-edge science, Healthinfo Engineering, can make contributions to offer a practical life-cycle health management for all human being, including cancer supportive care.

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