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Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words Health care Information Technology dissertations.

  2. 1. eMedication – improving medication management using information technology

    Author : Tora Hammar; Göran Petersson; Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; eMedication; eHealth; medication; ePrescribing; electronic prescribing; information technology; drug-related problems; clinical decision support system; health care; pharmacy; patient; Health Informatics; Hälsoinformatik;

    Abstract : Medication is an essential part of health care and enables the prevention andtreatment of many conditions. However, medication errors and drug-relatedproblems (DRP) are frequent and cause suffering for patients and substantial costsfor society. READ MORE

  4. 2. Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people’s everyday lives

    Author : Frida Andréasson; Elizabeth Hanson; Tina Mattsson; Lennart Magnusson; Anna Strömberg; Anna Dunér; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Informal care; carers; older people; carer identity; ill bodies; social health; couplehood; Information and Communication Technology ICT ; ethnography; co-design; Health and Caring Sciences; Hälsovetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis has been a) to analyse how informal care influences the identity of carers and care recipients, their sense of couplehood and social health, and b) to explore the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the context of informal care and the everyday lives of older people. Study I focused on how older carers conceptualised their identity as carers on a Swedish online social forum, using a netnographic methodology. READ MORE

  5. 3. Data-driven personalized healthcare : Towards personalized interventions via reinforcement learning for Mobile Health

    Author : Alexander Galozy; Sławomir Nowaczyk; Mattias Ohlsson; Fredrik Johansson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Information Driven Care; Electronic Health Records; Machine Learning; Reinforcement Learning;

    Abstract : Medical and technological advancement in the last century has led to the unprecedented increase of the populace's quality of life and lifespan. As a result, an ever-increasing number of people live with chronic health conditions that require long-term treatment, resulting in increased healthcare costs and managerial burden to the healthcare provider. READ MORE

  6. 4. Performance Measurement Systems in Swedish Health Care Services

    Author : Beata Kollberg; Jens Jörn Dahlgaard; Per-Olof Brehmer; Evert Gummesson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Quality management; Health care; Performance measurement; Innovation management; Qualitative research; Health and medical services in society; Hälso- och sjukvård i samhället;

    Abstract : In the quality management literature, measurements are attributed great importance in improving products and processes. Systems for performance measurement assessing financial and non-financial measurements were developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. READ MORE

  7. 5. Information and Communication Technology : mediated support for working carers of older people

    Author : Stefan Andersson; Elizabeth Hanson; Lennart Magnusson; Erlingsson Christen; Sävenstedt Stefan; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Working carers; family carer support; information- and communication technology; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Science;

    Abstract : Despite a growing awareness of the importance of support for carers who combine paid work with care of an older relative, so called ‘working carers’, there remains a lack of empirical knowledge about more innovative ways to support this largest group of carers of older people. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming more readily available. READ MORE