Since I have begun to use ICTconsequences Bibliography I have collected 161 references and I`m sure that I will increase this number. Anyway if you are interested in search the database I recommend you to search the literature database by: Simple Search – search the main fields of the database Advanced Search – search all… Read more »
Posts Categorized: ICT
ICT and e-Business in Hospital Activities
eHealthNews EU has announced ICT and e-Business in Hospital Activities – ICT adoption and e-business activity in 2006: This document is a sector study by e-Business W@tch, focusing on Hospital Activities (see section 2 for an introduction to this sector). It describes how hospitals use information and communication technologies (ICT) for conducting business, assesses the… Read more »
Patient Opinion
I think Patient Opinion is a great example of a Web 2.0 and a business model on the Web at the healtcare sector. Patient Opinion is all about enabling patients to share their experiences of health care, and by doing so help other patients — and perhaps even change the NHS. As well as allowing… Read more »
Who is empowered in e-health?
‘Jakob Nielsen’s Digital Divide: The Three Stages’ posted by Ismael Peña talking about Empowerment Divide and a conversation with him make me think about empowerment in health and the consequences of Internet in this topic. Roma Harris and Tiffany Veinot wrote The Empowerment Model and Using E-Health to Distribute Information. In this working paper they… Read more »
Pervasiveness of computing in healthcare
Heath et al. (2003) “discuss the ways in which Sociology of Health and Illness has provided a forum for the analysis of these new technologies in healthcare”. It’s a great article that allow us to review the literature about some topics related to healthcare and ICT.As well as recommend the reading of the article I… Read more »
The 2007 Digital Future Report
The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has presented the results of the fifth year project: The 2007 Digital Future Report. I have read the highlights of the report (the full report is available for purchase) and obviously they have consequences on the health field as far as they talk about:… Read more »
New Web-based tools, health education and health communication
It looks like the Web 2.0 has arrived to the field of health education as far as we can find articles talking about it. I have read Boulos, M., et al. (2006). “Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education.” BMC Medical Education 6(41): 8 [link]… Read more »
Internet health information seekers and the Politics of search engine
Most of the Internet health informations seekers use search engines to find what they are looking for on the Web. See: Diaz, J. Griffith, R. et al. (2002). Patients’ Use of the Internet for Medical Information. J GEN INTERN MED 17:180-185 Fox, S. (2002). Vital decisions. [online article]. PEW Internet & American Life Project. [5/10/2006]…. Read more »