Success Dimensions of ICTs in Healthcare

New Technologies ◽

Clinical Care ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Global Scale ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Preventative Care ◽

Record Keeping ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Cost Efficient

During the last decades, the call for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in healthcare has been augmented to endow with healthcare services at a global scale and to trim down medical errors that cost human lives. Enriched with explosive computing and high communicating power, ICTs like Internet, mobile telephony, and other enabled gadgets plays a prominent role in our day-to-day activities. With the potential to provide access to service for patients in difficult-to reach areas and facilitating medical record keeping and information sharing are the main considerations of leveraging ICTs in realm of clinical care. The insurgence of these innovating technologies into healthcare sectors is not only blurring the boundaries for the emergence of other new technologies but also causing a paradigm shift in providing acute and preventative care in public health. The main goal of this chapter is to offer readers an insight into how the emergence of ICTs have transformed healthcare sector by delivering cost-efficient and quality of care to patients.

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Emerging Issues and Prospects in African E-Government ◽

E-Government for Health Facilities in Africa

10.4018/978-1-4666-6296-4.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 21-27

Author(s):

Paul Macharia ◽

Davies Kimanga ◽

Onesimus Kamau

Keyword(s):

Clinical Care ◽

Health Financing ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Bring Your Own Device ◽

Workplace Flexibility ◽

Middle Income ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face healthcare worker shortages, skill mix imbalances, and maldistributions; there is concern in their quality and productivity. Africa's infrastructural developments also are way behind the rest of the world, and this gap is widening. Scalable, cost-effective, and long-term strategies in healthcare services are greatly needed. This chapter explores how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) could play an important role in improving healthcare. Components of e-health, an emerging field in medicine, clinical care, and public health are discussed. The role of m-health is explored, identifying the benefits of integrating mobile phone technologies in healthcare. To meet the health financing deficiencies, the chapter also explores how Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) could drive healthcare professionals' productivity through increased workplace flexibility.

Adoption of Mobile Technology by Public Healthcare Doctors

Health Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-988-5.ch048 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 773-789

Author(s):

Nesaar Banderker ◽

Jean-Paul Van Belle

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Public Healthcare ◽

Western Cape ◽

Adoption Factors ◽

Public Healthcare Sector ◽

Doctors working in the South African public healthcare sector are faced with the unique resource constraints prevalent in a developing country. Mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) hold the promise of improving the quality of healthcare, but this potential can only be unlocked if individuals decide to adopt the new technologies. Understanding the factors that influence the doctor’s adoption of a technology is therefore vital. This chapter reports on an investigation into the factors influencing the adoption of mobile devices by doctors in the public healthcare sector in the Western Cape, South Africa. The research methodology was shaped by qualitative enquiry and described through thematic analysis. The authors confirmed the key adoption factors identified in prior research: job relevance, usefulness, perceived user resources and device characteristics. However, some additional adoption factors were uncovered in this research, namely patient influence, support structures from national government and hospital administration, and unease in respect of malpractice legal suits.

E-Government for Health Facilities in Africa

E-Health and Telemedicine ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8756-1.ch045 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 893-899

Author(s):

Paul Macharia ◽

Davies Kimanga ◽

Onesimus Kamau

Keyword(s):

Clinical Care ◽

Health Financing ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Bring Your Own Device ◽

Workplace Flexibility ◽

Middle Income ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face healthcare worker shortages, skill mix imbalances, and maldistributions; there is concern in their quality and productivity. Africa's infrastructural developments also are way behind the rest of the world, and this gap is widening. Scalable, cost-effective, and long-term strategies in healthcare services are greatly needed. This chapter explores how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) could play an important role in improving healthcare. Components of e-health, an emerging field in medicine, clinical care, and public health are discussed. The role of m-health is explored, identifying the benefits of integrating mobile phone technologies in healthcare. To meet the health financing deficiencies, the chapter also explores how Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) could drive healthcare professionals' productivity through increased workplace flexibility.

Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications ◽

Adoption of Mobile Technology by Public Healthcare Doctors

10.4018/978-1-60566-030-1.ch022 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 368-383

Author(s):

Nesaar Banderker ◽

Jean-Paul Van Belle

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Public Healthcare ◽

Western Cape ◽

Adoption Factors ◽

Public Healthcare Sector ◽

Doctors working in the South African public healthcare sector are faced with the unique resource constraints prevalent in a developing country. Mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) hold the promise of improving the quality of healthcare, but this potential can only be unlocked if individuals decide to adopt the new technologies. Understanding the factors that influence the doctor’s adoption of a technology is therefore vital. This chapter reports on an investigation into the factors influencing the adoption of mobile devices by doctors in the public healthcare sector in the Western Cape, South Africa. The research methodology was shaped by qualitative enquiry and described through thematic analysis. The authors confirmed the key adoption factors identified in prior research: job relevance, usefulness, perceived user resources and device characteristics. However, some additional adoption factors were uncovered in this research, namely patient influence, support structures from national government and hospital administration, and unease in respect of malpractice legal suits.

How New Technologies Could Help Improve Healthcare, Teaching, and Sensitization During Pandemics Like COVID-19

10.4018/978-1-7998-8202-2.ch006 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 86-104

Author(s):

Najib Kissani ◽

Abdelaati El Khiat ◽

Musa Mamman Watila ◽

Ismail El Aarroumi ◽

Hoda Mohamed Farid Wahba ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Healthcare Professional ◽

Continuing Education ◽

New Technologies ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Epidemic Period ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Remote Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has, over the last few months, forced us to modify the way we interact with each other both in the delivery of healthcare services and in medical education. Nowadays, telehealth has globally emerged as the most appropriate approach for care, teaching, healthcare professional meetings, and advocacy. This chapter outlines the value of telemedicine, information and communication technologies during such critical situations. The authors draw in this report various experiences from countries belonging to different economic categories and describe how ICT could be a convenient solution in care, monitoring of symptom, treatment management, teaching, sensitization, and continuing education during the epidemic period of COVID-19. In conclusion, with countries facing challenges in dealing with the current situation, they need to encourage the use of ICT in remote health services and to share relevant data for the prevention, mitigation, and monitoring of the pandemic.

Recent Developments of Ambulatory Assessment Methods

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000143 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 279-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Stefan Hey ◽

Panagiota Anastasopoulou ◽

André Bideaux ◽

Wilhelm Stork

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

New Technologies ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Ambulatory Assessment ◽

Emotional States ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Potential Applications ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Physiological Sensors

Ambulatory assessment of emotional states as well as psychophysiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions constitutes an approach, which is increasingly being used in psychological research. Due to new developments in the field of information and communication technologies and an improved application of mobile physiological sensors, various new systems have been introduced. Methods of experience sampling allow to assess dynamic changes of subjective evaluations in real time and new sensor technologies permit a measurement of physiological responses. In addition, new technologies facilitate the interactive assessment of subjective, physiological, and behavioral data in real-time. Here, we describe these recent developments from the perspective of engineering science and discuss potential applications in the field of neuropsychology.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM «PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION»: EXPERIENCE, PROBLEMS, PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Pedagogicheskiy Zhurnal Bashkortostana ◽

10.21510/1817-3292-2020-88-3-55-67 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 88 (3) ◽

pp. 55-67

Author(s):

Lucia V. Vakhidova ◽

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Elvira M. Gabitova ◽

Lira R. Saitova ◽

Oksana G. Startseva ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

Professional Education ◽

Social Order ◽

New Technologies ◽

Educational Process ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Education Experience ◽

The article describes the process of training future specialists under the program "Professional education", its features, conditions for implementation, aspects of further development, as well as some of the difficulties that arise during its organization. The focus of the department on how to create a new architecture of the educational process within the program "Professional education" is set by the leading principles: modularity, integrability, flexibility and dynamism, and methodological approaches - competence, activity-based, subject-oriented, environmental – were the basis for its development. As a result the authors presented a model for training a modern specialist with formed professional skills and personal and professional qualities, capable of being in demand in the labor market. The research results can be used in the educational process in the context of how to implement relevant programs in accordance with the new requirements in the educational services market. The rapid technologization of the socio-economic development of our society was reflected in the system of vocational education, designed to prepare highly qualified and competent specialists for the modern economy, science and industry. The transformation of the educational sphere is taking place under the influence of new technologies and human practices that change the social order. The determined infrastructural spheres have the greatest impact on this transformation, we are talking about "Communication Infrastructure": the sphere of information and communication technologies that affect all processes of accumulation and transmission of information; "Infrastructure of production and consumption": a financial and investment sphere, which sets the general rules for interaction in the economic and educational system. The above said made it possible to determine the further vector of educational activities of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Vocational Education in training the specialists in "Professional Education" field both at the bachelor and master degrees.

The Digitalization of the European Agri-Food Cooperative Sector. Determining Factors to Embrace Information and Communication Technologies

Agriculture ◽

10.3390/agriculture11060514 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 514

Author(s):

Javier Jorge-Vázquez ◽

Mª Peana Chivite-Cebolla ◽

Francisco Salinas-Ramos

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

New Technologies ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Food Sector ◽

Technological Adoption ◽

Synthetic Index ◽

Determining Factors ◽

The digitization of the agri-food sector is a strategic priority in the political agenda of European institutions. The opportunity to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of the sector offered by new technologies comes together with its potential to face new economic and environmental challenges. This research aims to analyze the level of digitalization of the European agri-food cooperative sector from the construction of a composite synthetic index. Such an index is to be based on a diverse set of variables related to electronic commerce and the services offered through the internet. It also evaluates how European cooperatives influence the degree of technological adoption depending on their size or the wealth of the country where they carry out their activity. The empirical analytical method is thus used, through the analysis of frequencies and correlations. The results obtained reveal the existence of a suboptimal and heterogeneous degree of digitization of European agri-food cooperatives, clearly conditioned by their size and the wealth of the country where they operate. In this situation, it is recommended to promote public policies that guarantee high-performance digital connectivity, an improvement in training in digital skills and the promotion of cooperative integration processes.

Bibliometric Study of Technology and Occupational Health in Healthcare Sector: A Worldwide Trend to the Future

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17186732 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (18) ◽

pp. 6732

Author(s):

Esther Vaquero-Álvarez ◽

Antonio Cubero-Atienza ◽

Pilar Ruiz-Martínez ◽

Manuel Vaquero-Abellán ◽

María Dolores Redel Mecías ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Occupational Safety ◽

The United States ◽

Bibliometric Study ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Hospital Epidemiology ◽

Health Measures ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Since the eighties, technological tools have modified how people interact in their environment. At the same time, occupational safety and health measures have been widely applied. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers that information and communication technologies are the main methods to achieve the goals proposed to improve working life and the dissemination of good practices. The principal objective was to determine the trends of publications focused on these technologies and occupational safety in the healthcare sector during the last 30 years. A bibliometric study was carried out. The 1021 documents showed an increased trend per country, especially for the United States (p < 0.001) and year (p < 0.001). The citations per year showed significant differences between citations of articles published before 2007 (p < 0.001). The year was also linked to the increase or decrease of articles (72.2%) and reviews (14.9%) (p < 0.001). The analysis of journal co-citations also showed that the main journals (such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology) were linked to other important journals and had a major part in the clusters formed. All these findings were discussed in the manuscript and conclusions were drawn.