Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Innovation and Process Considerations in the Role of IS/IT in e-Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Improving e-Performance Management in Healthcare Using Intelligent IT Solutions

      • Fatemeh Hoda Moghimi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 3-15

   3. An Intelligence e-Risk Detection Model to Improve Decision Efficiency in the Context of the Orthopaedic Operating Room

      • Fatemeh Hoda Mogihim, Hossein Zadeh, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 17-32

   4. Healthcare Information Systems Design: Using a Strategic Improvisation Model

      • Say Yen Teoh, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 33-48

   5. Assimilation of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis and Critique

      • Hidayah Sulaiman, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 49-70

   6. e-Health in China: An evaluation

      • Yu Yun, Wilfred Huang, Juergen Seitz, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 71-85

   7. Improving the Process of Healthcare Delivery in an Outpatient Environment: The Case of a Urology Department

      • Chris Gonzalez, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 87-97

   8. Adaptations for e-Kiosk Systems in Germany to Develop Barrier-Free Terminals for Handicapped Persons

      • Manuel Zwicker, Juergen Seitz, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

      Pages 99-112

3. Design and Organisation Designing Supportive and Collaborative Electronic Health Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-114

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   2. Collaborative Approach for Sustainable Citizen-Centered Health Care

      • Pirkko Nykänen, Antto Seppälä

      Pages 115-134

   3. Strategies and Solutions in eHealth: A Literature Review

      • Marco De Marco, Francesca Ricciardi, Jan vom Brocke

      Pages 135-147

   4. Online Discussion Forum as a Means of Peer Support

      • R. Halonen

      Pages 149-161

   5. Designing Persuasive Health Behavior Change Interventions

      • Tuomas Lehto

      Pages 163-181

   6. Accessibility in the Web for Disabled People

      • Irene Krebs, Arnim Nethe, Reetta Raitoharju

      Pages 183-189

4. The Importance of People in E-Health: Lest We Forget

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-193

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   2. Knowledge Management: Often Neglected but Crucial to eHealth

      • Juerg P. Bleuer, Daniele Talerico, Kurt Bösch, Vincent Lampérière, Christian A. Ludwig

      Pages 195-201

   3. Patient Empowerment: A Two Way Road

      • Lodewijk Bos

      Pages 203-227

   4. Citizen eMPOWERment

      • Amir Hannan

      Pages 229-242

   5. E-Health: Focusing on People-Centric Dimensions

      • Rajeev K. Bali, Michael C. Gibbons, Vikraman Baskaran, Caroline De Brún, Raouf N. G. Naguib

      Pages 243-258

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to a variety of pressures on healthcare systems, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for healthcare services, independent of time and place. Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare. This book proposes to define the emerging area of pervasive health and introduce key management principles, most especially knowledge management, its tools, techniques and technologies. In addition, the book takes a socio-technical, patient-centric approach which serves to emphasize the importance of a key triumvirate in healthcare management namely, the focus on people, process and technology. Last but not least the book discusses in detail a specific example of pervasive health, namely the potential use of a wireless technology solution in the monitoring of diabetic patients.

• ICT
• e-health
• ehealth
• electronic medical record
• health informatics

From the reviews:

“The book presents the impact of ICT globally and discusses the potential sustainability of such systems. The intended audience is academics, healthcare practitioners, and graduate students interested in technologies and their application to healthcare. … no comparable book on the market that presents this difficult material in such a user-friendly way. … There is also a good discussion of the electronic health record and its relationship to meaningful use as well as its return on investment that is not found in many e-health books.” (Carole Ann Kenner, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2012)

• RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

  Nilmini Wickramasinghe

• Coventry University, Health Design and Technology Institute (, COVENTRY West Midlands, United Kingdom

  Rajeev Bali

• Dept. Management, Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Turku, Finland

  Reima Suomi

• Lehrst. Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim Fak. Wirtschafts-/Sozialwissenschaften, Stuttgart, Germany

  Stefan Kirn

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, who currently holds the Epworth Chair Health Information Management was appointed in Dec 2009 as a Professor to RMIT University’s School of Business IT and Logistics after being a professor in the US for 15 years. She researches and teaches in several areas within information systems including knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce, and organizational impacts of technology with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe is well published with more than 200 referred scholarly articles, several books and an encyclopedia. She has collaborated with many large organizations such as NASA and GE as well as leading healthcare organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Kaiser and NorthWestern Memorial Hospital. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australia. Professor Wickramasinghe is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals: International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO - www.inderscience.com/ijnvo ) and International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET- www.inderscience.com/ijbet) and the Springer Series editor for Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age.

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