Search for dissertations about: "integrated health systems"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 151 swedish dissertations containing the words integrated health systems.

2. 1. Health Information Systems Interoperability: Towards a Managing as Designing Approach

   Author : Grace Kobusinge; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Health Information Systems HIS ; Managing as Designing MaD ; Interoperability Implementation; Contextual Understanding; Context of Interaction;

   Abstract : Integrated digital healthcare systems promise improved quality public healthcare and patient continued care among others. However, these have been hampered by various challenges including limited data exchanges between health information systems (HIS) and inadequate collaboration among healthcare centers and healthcare professionals. READ MORE

4. 2. Analysis of prerequisites to introduce computer-based information systems in health care : a developing country study

   Author : Khalid Moidu; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : health; information systems; computers; end-users; decision support systems; expert systems; systems development; systems evaluation; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : To attain a state of global health requires integrated efforts of many professionals. The lingua franca for the many professionals involved in health care is data and information. For example, information on the extent of an infectious disease found in a community is required by the health care management, to mobilize appropriate resources. READ MORE

5. 3. Social Challenges when Implementing Information Systems in a Swedish Healthcare Organization

   Author : Lina Nilsson; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Applied Health Technology; Health Informatics; Healthcare Organizations; Information Systems; Implementation; Institutional ethnography; Health and Caring Sciences;

   Abstract : When the Swedish National IT Strategy for Health and Social Care was introduced in 2006, intensive work started in implementing Information Systems (IS) in Swedish healthcare organizations. To follow up on the requests for more research with a combined socio-technical focus on challenges, the overall aim of this thesis was to identify social challenges when implementing IS in a Swedish healthcare organization. READ MORE

6. 4. Towards a functioning retail health market : Evaluating the integrated Community Case Management Intervention for Pediatric Febrile Illness in Drug Shops in Rural South Western Uganda

   Author : Freddy Eric Kitutu; Andreas Martensson; Ib Bygbjerg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Integrated community case management; Malaria; Pneumonia symptoms; Drug shops; Retail health markets; Uganda; Under-five; Evaluation; Mixed-methods; Febrile illness; Universal Health Coverage; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

   Abstract : Objectives: This thesis examined the health systems effects of implementing the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) intervention for paediatric febrile illnesses in a retail health market in South Western Uganda. More specifically, it evaluated drug seller interpretation of malaria Rapid Diagnostics Test (RDT) results (study I), adherence to iCCM guidelines (study II) and the intervention effect on households’ perceived quality of drug seller fever care and care-seeking choice. READ MORE

7. 5. Involving professionals in research. In the field of ageing and health

   Author : Christine Etzerodt Laustsen; Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Ageing and health; Health systems; Knowledge co-creation; Older People; Mode 2; Participatory research; Professionals;

   Abstract : Involving professionals in research can ensure the acquisition of knowledge, that is relevant, applicable and sustainable. Professionals are people who work in health systems, or organisations that contribute to health systems, such as practitioners, managers or other decision-makers. READ MORE