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The Interplay Of Facilitating Conditions And Organizational Settings In The Acceptance Of Teleconsultation Technology In Public Hospitals In Malaysia, Nurazean Maarop, Khin Tan Win Dec 2012

The Interplay Of Facilitating Conditions And Organizational Settings In The Acceptance Of Teleconsultation Technology In Public Hospitals In Malaysia, Nurazean Maarop, Khin Tan Win

Dr Khin Win

This research explores users’ intention to use teleconsultation technology. The study also explores the influence of facilitating conditions on the acceptance of the technology in the health care environment in Malaysia. Further, the study compares the level of user acceptance in two organizational settings: (1) between emergency and non-emergency environment, and (2) between referring and referral hospital. This research presumes on the basis of exploratory and descriptive study engaging a survey of healthcare providers who practice in public hospitals in Malaysia. The study reports a high level of acceptance and acceptable extent of facilitating conditions of teleconsultation technology. Thus, some …


Applying The Modified Delphi Method To Identify The Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework And Instrument, Yung-Yu Su, Khin Than Win, Tieh-Chi Chung Dec 2012

Applying The Modified Delphi Method To Identify The Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework And Instrument, Yung-Yu Su, Khin Than Win, Tieh-Chi Chung

Dr Khin Win

The aim of this research is to design an appropriate conceptual evaluation framework with a draft instrument for validating the structure of the Taiwanese EHR systems evaluation framework. According to the knowledge of “Triangulation research method” and both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the modified Delphi method was applied to refine the proposed instrument into practicable for real medical environment based on a quantitative approach. In addition, by calculating content validity index for items (I-CVI) and content validity index for scales (S-CVI), it also indicates the degree of consensus between and within questions in the proposed instrument. In short, an appropriate …


Implementing Patient Accessible Health Information Site For Diabetes Management, Khin Than Win Dec 2012

Implementing Patient Accessible Health Information Site For Diabetes Management, Khin Than Win

Dr Khin Win

The focus of health care has changed from health care provider paternalistic approach to consumer focused approach. The aim of this study is to implement an online health information site for patient education of Diabetes. To achieve this, design criteria for effective patient education were considered and diabetes patients information site was implemented which includes patient information access, diabetes challenge, administrator module and the scheduler module. Implementing patients access for their health information with providing patients tailored health information according to their needs to enhance patient education is important. This project contributes vastly in consumer health informatics as it develops …


A Knowledge-Based Risk Advisor Model For Chronic Complications Of Diabetes, Mohsen Sangi, Khin Than Win, John Fulcher Dec 2012

A Knowledge-Based Risk Advisor Model For Chronic Complications Of Diabetes, Mohsen Sangi, Khin Than Win, John Fulcher

Dr Khin Win

Diabetes as an unprecedented epidemic is spreading all around the world. While one in every seven healthcare dollars in USA is spent on diabetes, 60% of direct costs and almost 80-90% of indirect costs of that are related to diabetic complications. The ultimate aim of this study is to develop a rule-based model for advising the risk of chronic diabetic complications. An extensive literature review has been carried out to gather actual knowledge about diabetic complications and their related predisposing factors. NVivo8 is used to organize and categorize the acquired knowledge. A rule-based decision support model is constructed from the …