First of all I would like to thank Gustavo Cardoso, Miquel Angel Mayer and indeed Rita Espanha and Michael Hardey for the marvellous working days we had in Barcelona. It was a honour to have the opportunity to share during three days thoughts, reflections, past researches and ideas about health and the Internet. I’m sure… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Healthcare Organizations
Health in the Information Age – A Saúde na Era da Informaçao
On 23th and 24th of April I was at Lisbon invited by Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha to the presentation of the research project Health in the Information Age supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Brief description: The first objective of the study is to analyse in what way and in what measure the ICT’s, especially… Read more »
E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia at eHealth News EU
I would like to thank indeed Ruslan David, eHealthNews.EU Portal Administrator/Editor, for his help to disseminate the results of the research project E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia and also for his wonderful job as Editor of eHealthNews.EU – the First European eHealth News Portal.
Rating Physicians and Hospitals and Web 2.0: Could it really change health demand?
Checking my RSS I have found a interesting post titled Health Care’s Broke: Physician Rating and Quality Indicators where the author mentions some physicians’ and hospitals’ opinions about Web 2.0 rating tools: You’re only going to get the extreme patients to evaluate you (and often the unhappy ones) The unhappy patients will have the opportunity… Read more »
E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia
Between 2005 and 2007 I worked in a research project titled Project Internet Catalunya – Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health System (PIC Salut) directed by Prof. Castells and supported by Catalonia Government. I’m glad to announce that the English summary is already available: E-HEALTH AND SOCIETY: An Empirical… Read more »
PROJECT INTERNET CATALONIA HEALTH (PIC Salut)
After two years of hard working, I’m glad to announce the research Project Internet Catalonia about Health directed by Prof. Castells and titled “Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health System” has been published (PIC Salut) This study analysed the interaction between organizational change, cultural values and technological change in… Read more »
Health and Social Care Information: the role of the Internet and the pharmacist
Health and Social Care Information: A review of provision in the North East is a research report written by Suzanne Lockyer and Elizabeth Blenkinsopp. The authors state “There are currently many drivers for change in the provision of health and social care information to the public” and mention that “the aims of this review were… Read more »
Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 – Health and the Internet: still Web 1.0
During last week (5-6 September) I was attending to the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 conference at the University of York. It was a wonderful meeting because on the organization and the participants who met there. There are many bloggers who have been covering the conference. Thanks to all of them, specially ICTlogy… Read more »
Understanding ICT as Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
I have been studying some issues related with Innovation and with Telemedicine (if you follow the links you can see some references about them). In my case the key issue of both items is Information and Communication Technologies. To tackle the complex of these three concepts (Innovation, Telemedicine and ICT) I am following the Conceptual… Read more »