Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2004
Electronic medical records in solo/small groups: a qualitative study of physician user types.
There is growing recognition that physician use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is critical for improving quality of care in outpatient settings. ⋯ Incentives and comprehensive support services for facilitating complementary process changes could be important for moving physicians from one user group to another. Additional research is needed to verify this user typology and to further define the relationship between user types and EMR-generated financial and quality benefits.
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The use of web-based education has increased significantly. As a result there is a need to focus on methods, employed to evaluate teaching and learning outcomes, when technology is used to enhance learning. This chapter provides an overview of what, how, and why to assess, test and measure learning. ⋯ Evaluation generates information which can be used for different purposes e.g. planning, implementing and guiding teaching and learning processes timely and for the future as well. Based on experiences of teaching health informatics, an evaluation model for web-based courses is described. The risks of dishonesty and misbehavior related to web-based education are recognized.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2004
A tale of two hospitals: a sociotechnical appraisal of the introduction of computerized physician order entry in two Dutch hospitals.
We compared the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in two Dutch hospitals, one being an academic medical center and the other a large regional non-academic hospital. Both implemented the TDS7000 system that was running on the same computer, located in the computing department of the academic medical center. ⋯ An appraisal of the different outcomes is possible when we consider the implementation of information as a thorough social process in which the technical and the social are closely interrelated. Our findings suggest that organizational change associated with CPOE implementation should not focus on individual physician behavior but on medical work as a collaborative professional effort
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This paper presents the results of an investigation into the design of low cost, four degree of freedom force/torque resolvers for use in compact haptic devices for surgical training. Two designs using piezo-resistive sensors are described and one using strain gauges. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are stated and conclusions presented.
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The work program of the French Language Virtual Medical University started about 2 years ago, and entered into a real active phase of development and implementation in 2002. Various national programs and organizational initiatives should accelerate and facilitate further appropriation of modem pedagogical approaches by knowledge providers and all users of the FSVMU, so as to advance on the way of virtual education. The French Language Virtual Medical University under the auspices of both the National Conference of Deans of Medical Schools and the International Conference of Deans of French-Speaking Medical Schools has been developed to create a major Internet portal for French-speaking distance medical learning and teaching. ⋯ To build a virtual space where individual patients, their families, patient associations as well as the general public, can obtain medical information of good quality for the purposes of both education and prevention. Providing such categories with reliable and validated sources of information, and offering an ethical basis for the increasing practice of e-medicine, represent in today's and tomorrow's world one of the great modern challenges for the medical community. Beyond the sole medical domain, the model offered by the FSVMU should be useful for the French-speaking Universities in all the fields of knowledge and training which are candidate to benefit from new educational means and methods.