This paper documents the preliminary development of a framework for evaluating organisational change processes during the implementation of an electronic nursing documentation system in residential aged care facilities. It starts with a brief outline of organisational change processes. This is…

Engaging individuals to proactively manage their health is a hallmark of patient-centered care. Despite advances with health technology, there remains scant information using patient web portals that involve informal caregivers (family and friends) in health care. An accountable care organization…

This paper analyses outcomes associated with the adoption of digital mammography in Breastscreen Queensland’s mobile services to rural and remote parts of Queensland Australia. Using both quantitative secondary data from Queensland Health and qualitative workforce interviews the paper focuses on…

Nurses spend a substantial amount of their time documenting observations and care processes, leaving less time for patient-centred activities. This paper covers our study of the application of mobile-wireless laptop computers to clinical workflow within the nursing unit. An observational…

Health information technology (HIT) is one of the most significant developments in healthcare in recent years. However, there is still a large gap between how HIT could support clinical work versus how it does. In this project, we developed a…

Empowering people to play an active role in their own healthcare influences their health state positively. PHRs‘ features and functions are key factors for the empowerment of patients, but only little research has been done to date. This survey identifies…

In this paper the use of an electronic medical record (EMR) system in a general practice setting is analyzed. The concept of infrastructure helps shed light on its supposed role of invisibly supporting the work practices of medical and administrative…

The primary objective of this review is to provide an overview of the issues involved in balancing privacy and access in the context of health research.  Appropriate collection, management, linkage and interrogation of health data can play a vital role…

When developing a “smart healthcare” application that takes the participants beyond their experience of the conventional analogue of that application, a challenge is to gather the requirements for the application and to map those requirements onto a successful design.  Some…

Paper objectives or hypothesis: Queensland Health is in the process of rolling out a web-based, electronic discharge summary to hospitals which request a move from the status quo (usually paper-based, triplicate forms). This paper aims to test whether the move…