Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies

Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies

Khalil Khoumbati, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Aradhana Srivastava, Banita Lal
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Release Date: July, 2009|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 628
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-030-1
ISBN13: 9781605660301|ISBN10: 1605660302|EISBN13: 9781605660318
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Description & Coverage
Description:

In the healthcare field, there is limited literature published on the subject of global deployment, diffusion, adoption, use, and impact of information communication technologies in the context of health informatics and electronic healthcare applications. Due to a lack of such literature, those involved in healthcare spend a great deal of time searching and gathering information from various sources.

The Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies for the first time brings to the healthcare community a comprehensive resource elucidating the adoption and usage of health informatics. Gathering an in-depth collection of research articles and case studies from leading experts worldwide, this Handbook of Research provides a global understanding of the advances in health informatics and electronic applications in healthcare delivery and management.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Application of emerging ICT in e-healthcare
  • Barriers to health informatics adoption
  • Benefits to health informatics
  • Clinical data repositories
  • Clinical systems
  • Cultural issues in health informatics
  • Data management for patient care
  • Developed countries case studies of health informatics
  • Developing countries case studies of health informatics
  • E-health development
  • E-Healthcare
  • Electronic Medical Records
  • Health informatics adoption
  • Health informatics efficiencies
  • Health informatics infrastructure
  • Health informatics tools and technologies
  • Health informatics transparency
  • Health informatics usage models
  • Health Sector
  • Hospital strategies
  • Impact of emerging ICT in e-healthcare
  • Implementation of health informatics
  • Political issues in health informatics
  • Privacy and security in health informatics
  • Quality management in health informatics
  • Small-sized hospitals
  • Social Exclusion
  • Social issues in health informatics
  • Strategy of health informatics
  • Telecommunication technologies in healthcare
Reviews & Statements

"This handbook is an excellent resource for readers/audiences who wish to learn more on how to encourage the successful adoption of emerging information and telecommunication technologies in healthcare, both in the context of developed and developing countries."

– Khalil Khoumbati, University of Sindh, Pakistan
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Khalil Khoumabti (khalil.khoumbati@gmail.com) is a professor with the Institute of Information and Communication Technology University of Sindh, Jamshoro (Sindh, Pakistan). He received his PhD in “Evaluation the Adoption of Enterprise Application Integration in Healthcare Organizations” from the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University (UK); and his MSc in computer technology and BSc in electronics from the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro (Pakistan). His current research focus is on the adoption of enterprise application integration health informatics and e-government applications. He is on the editorial board of several international journals such as Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. He has published 25 research papers in internationally refereed journals such as the Journal of Management Information Systems and the Journal of Computer and Information Systems. He has presented 16 papers in international conferences such as HICSS, AMCIS, ECIS and EMCIS.
Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a lecturer at the School of Business and Economics at Swansea University in the UK. He was awarded his MSc and PhD by Brunel University in the UK, receiving a Highly Commended award for his doctoral work by the European Foundation for Management and Development. His research focuses on the adoption and diffusion of ICT in organisations and in addition to authoring a book and numerous conference papers, has co-authored papers accepted for publication by journals such as Communications of the ACM, the Information Systems Journal, the European Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society. He is Senior Editor of DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Managing Editor of Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Assistant Editor of Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy and a member of the editorial board/review board of a number of other of other journals, and is a member of the Association of Information Systems, IFIP WG8.6 and the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, New Delhi.
Aradhana Srivastava (ara.sriv@gmail.com) is a geographer with a keen research interest in the geography of health. She holds a PhD in geography of health from Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, one of the premier national universities in India. She has to her credit several publications in health and social development on issues in health status, morbidity analysis, ageing and healthcare, social morbidity, nutrition, maternal and child health, and information and communication technologies in the health sector. She is currently working with Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), a premier national Non-Governmental Organization, on issues of urban poverty and access to healthcare among the poor in India’s cities.
Banita Lal is a lecturer in the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK. She obtained her PhD and MSc in Information Systems from the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University. Her research interests involve examining the individual and organizational adoption and usage of ICTs and technology-enabled alternative forms of working. She has published several research papers in internationally refereed journals such as Industrial Management and Data Systems,Information Systems Frontiers, Electronic Government, International Journal of Mobile Communications, and Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, and has presented several papers at several international conferences.
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Editorial Advisory Board

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Abdul Karim Baloch, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
  • Asadullha Shah Bukhari, ISRA University, Pakistan
  • Rajiv Kohli, Mason School of Business at The College of William & Mary, USA
  • Rajiv Ranjan Tewari,University of Allahabad, India
  • Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia
  • Marinos Themistocleous, Brunel University, UK
  • Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK
  • Michael D. Williams, Swansea University, UK
  • E. Vance Wilson, The University of Toledo, USA

    List of Reviewers

  • Hamid Alalwany, Brunel University, UK
  • Sarmad Alshavi, Brunel University, UK
  • James Anderson, Purdue University, USA
  • Wasana Bandara, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Nesaar Banderker, Information Systems Consultant, PBT Group, South Africa
  • Herbert Daly, Brunel University, UK
  • Kiran Deep, Brunel University, UK
  • Schmitz Dominik, Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, Augustin, Germany
  • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
  • Tillal Eldabi, Brunel University, UK
  • Sigurd Eskeland , University of Agder,. Norway
  • Ing. Vincenzo Gullà, Digital Technologies, Italy
  • Raj Gururajan, University of Southern QueenslandToowoomba, Australia
  • Michael I. Harrison, University of Pennsylvania
  • Dr Yu-An Huang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
  • Geoffrey Jalleh, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
  • Geoffrey Jalleh, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
  • Ulrika Josefsson, IT-University of Göteborg, Sweden
  • Stefanie Kethers, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
  • khalil Khoumbati, University of Sindh, Pakistn
  • Hans Kyhlbäck, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden
  • Banita Lal, Swansea University, UK
  • Shahid Hussain Larik, University of Sindh, Pakistn
  • Chad Lin, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  • Vasiliki Mantzana, University of Athens, Greece
  • Nisar A Memon, Sindh University, Pakistan
  • Shazad Ahmed Memon, Brunel University, UK
  • Syed Misbahuddin, UoH, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr Masoud Mohammadian, School of Information Sciences and Engineering Australia
  • Maryati Mohd, University Kebangsaan, Malaysia
  • Navonil Mustafee, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
  • Aisha Naseer, Brunel University, UK
  • Vladimir Oleshchuk, University Agder, Norway
  • Sevgi Ozkan, Brunel University, UK
  • Dim Pet, University of Athens, Greece
  • Luisa Piris, Brunel University, UK
  • Dominik Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, Augustin, Germany
  • Asadullaha Shah, ISRA University, Hyderabad Pakistan
  • Ghullam sarwar shah, Brunel University, UK
  • David Sier, Mathematical and Information Sciences,Clayton MDC, Clayton, Australia
  • Hardeep Singh, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, USA
  • Inger Dybdahl Sorby, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Aradhana Srivastava, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • Bernd Carsten Stahl, Computing Sciences and Engineering, Irland
  • Lampros K. Stergioulas, Brunel University, UK
  • Imran Tasadduq, National University of Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
  • Simon J.E. Taylor, Brunel University, UK
  • Jean-Paul Van Belle, Centre for IT and National Development in Africa
  • Medical College of Cornell University, USA
  • Norhayati Zakaria, Universiti Utara, Malaysia
  • Kai Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Junaid Ahmed Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, USA