A New Approach to Connecting Information Systems in Healthcare

Skilton, Alysia; Gray, W. A.; Allam, Omnia; Morrey, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73390-4_17

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“…However, this model focuses only on patient information aggregated in a centralized location. Skilton et al (2007) proposed to a model that connect HISs based on virtual organizations with service-oriented architecture aims to increase flexibility and extensibility of the system but this proposed model merely focuses on viewing patient information in a centralized location. Ruxwana et al (2010) studied five rural healthcare centers on how Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used more effectively to improve the health system based on the participant requirements looking at ICT solutions in achieving cooperation among medical staff sharing patient information in these hospitals.…”

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“…Challenges in doing so is due to factors: (1) each medical units wish to maintain autonomy in cooperative HISs environment, (2) a flexible cooperative approach is not the norm in sharing information in such an environment evidence from many models that was developed as centralized database to share patient information among units (Skilton et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2010).…”

Section: Cooperative His Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many cooperative HIS models (Aknine and Aknine, 1999); but, these models are developed as warehouses containing patient information (Skilton et al, 2008) and they are limited by their capability to react to system changes, especially in the circulation and updating of new data, knowledge and information (Kirikova, 2009). Over time, new requirements of cooperation among physicians will emerge to design cooperative HISs environment, where they need to Science Publications JCS maximize information sharing in order to provide accurate information in an appropriate and timely manner to support physicians' decisions, hence producing better healthcare services (Skilton et al, 2007). Thus, the cooperation among physicians becomes an important issue in a developing cooperative HISs environment; but such an environment needs to overcome many challenges, such as the difficulty of managing and controlling huge data in complex healthcare systems; the maintenance autonomy for each site; flexibility approach for cooperative requirement in accommodating the dynamic nature of health services; and acquiring real-time new knowledge from external environments to produce a multi-expert care team.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the cooperation among physicians becomes an important issue in a developing cooperative HISs environment; but such an environment needs to overcome many challenges, such as the difficulty of managing and controlling huge data in complex healthcare systems; the maintenance autonomy for each site; flexibility approach for cooperative requirement in accommodating the dynamic nature of health services; and acquiring real-time new knowledge from external environments to produce a multi-expert care team. These challenges are prominent factors affecting cooperation among physicians in sharing healthcare information (Dembo, 2010;Skilton et al, 2007;.…”

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Factors Affecting Cooperation Among Physicians in Sharing Information Within the Hospital Environment: A Study of Two Hospitals

Ahmed¹

2014

Journal of Computer Science

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Healthcare Information Systems (HISs) in hospitals have become an influential factor to provide cooperation among physicians in sharing healthcare information. Many cooperative HIS models were proposed. However, they focused on management of the patients' information and do not address the issue of improving the physicians' skills due to many factors. In this study, a mixed data collection approach is used first to determine the current levels of cooperation among physicians with regard to the sharing of information and skills in the patient treatment within selected hospitals in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The second, it is first used to determine factors affecting such cooperation and second to determine how the activities of Research and Development (R&D) units affect this cooperation. The results of this study showed that the cooperation among physicians in sharing information and skills is poor due to the six important factors. The study also founded that there is positive relation between R&D unit activities and cooperation among physicians in sharing patient information and their skills. The study findings provided that the development of cooperative HISs environment should be adapted based on an open, autonomic, flexible and cooperative model to support exchange of productive information among physicians in real time in order to improve their skills by acquiring new knowledge from each other within same and between different hospitals.

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Section: Cooperative His Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cooperative His Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors Affecting Cooperation Among Physicians in Sharing Information Within the Hospital Environment: A Study of Two Hospitals

Ahmed¹

2014

Journal of Computer Science

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“…Over time, new system requirements will emerge in collaborative HISs environment [6]. These requirements need to maximize information sharing among medical staff, such as physicians, to provide productive information in an appropriate and timely manner to support decisions of physicians and produce better healthcare services.…”

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Improvement the Cooperation Feature in Distributed Healthcare Information Systems Based on the Fractal Approach: An Empirical Study

Ahmed

Yasin

2012

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The cooperation becomes an important requirement in distributed Healthcare Information Systems (HISs). It is used to provide patients with a good and fast treatment. To achieve the cooperation feature, a fractal approach has been proposed by many researchers in different areas. Also, many approaches have been proposed in cooperative HISs to share patients’ information between different healthcare centres in order to provide a good treatment. However, most of these researches did not address the required improvement on physician skills and the possible enhancement on the healthcare services. This empirical study proposes a way to adjust fractal approach in HISs in order to improve the cooperation feature among physicians which may enhance both physician skills and healthcare services. The analysis of the collected data shows there are problems that associated with current system and therefore a set of requirements have been initiated. It has been found that there is a need to adapt the fractal features in current HIS environment.

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