The growing percentage of elderly population imposes an urgent need to develop new approaches to care provision. Integration of a number of technologies such as multi-agent systems...
: One of the biggest challenges facing European society in the years ahead is the fact that our population is aging at an alarming rate. If by the year 2020, current forecasts prov...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
Value creation from e-business for customers in healthcare is an important topic in academic and practitioner circles. This paper reports the findings from a two-year research stu...
Cross-language document retrieval systems require support by some kind of multilingual thesaurus for semantically indexing documents in different languages. The peculiarities of t...
Economies of scale, corporate partnerships and a need to increase the efficiency of Information Technology in the Healthcare sector are leading to the construction of Regional Hea...
Tyrone Grandison, Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta, Uri Bra...
Organizational knowledge management (KM) research studies the nature of knowledge, the scope of KM, the factors and mechanisms that affect KM outcomes, as well as theoretical KM f...
This paper presents a retrospective data analysis on how 75 clinicians searched for and accessed biomedical literature from an online information retrieval system to answer six cl...
In addition to the meaning as Health Informatics Society of Australia, HISA is the acronym used for the new European Standard: Health Informatics – Service Architecture. This EN...
Gunnar O. Klein, Pier Angelo Sottile, Frederik End...
The need of biomedical vocabularies is well known for various tasks, e.g., supporting structured data entry, decision support and electronic data exchange as well as retrieval and...