OBJECTIVE: Health care is entering the age of information society. It is evident that the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) offers tremendous opportunities to improve health care...
Keywords: Health Informatics, technology assessment, Evaluation
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: During the last years the significance of evaluation studies as well as the interest in adequate methods and approaches for evaluation has grown in medical informatics...
Keywords: evaluation studies, health and medical informatics, technology assessment, information technology, health care, Health information systems, inventory, Review
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerObjectives: The paper uses the example of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) in Austria (where some of the earliest large PACS projects were realised and led to a high penetration with state-wide networked PACS installations) to discuss success criteria and success factors of medical information systems. Methods: The paper describes the development of digital imaging in medicine and classifies the impact of systems according to their first or second order effects on patient care...
Keywords: PACS, success criteria, success factors, technology assessment
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer