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Ubiquitous Electronic Medical Record (Emr) For Developing Countries, Nasser Mohammed Alkathiri Oct 2016

Ubiquitous Electronic Medical Record (Emr) For Developing Countries, Nasser Mohammed Alkathiri

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Around the globe, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) has been evolved either by governments or healthcare providers. The utilization of these technologies has resulted in the improvement of healthcare services all over the world. This evolution has been characterized by availability, reliability, serviceability to patients, and has been enhanced with increased cost and time efficiency. As such, new systems and terms have been established. Electronic Medical Record (EMR), which can also be used interchangeably with Electronic Health Record (EHR) is considered to be the main transformation in healthcare information technologies. EMR has been aimed to reduce and eliminate existing paper based …


Mhealth Support System For Researchers And Participants, Taskina Fayezeen Jul 2016

Mhealth Support System For Researchers And Participants, Taskina Fayezeen

Master's Theses (2009 -)

With the proliferation of mobile technologies, there is a significant increase of research using mobile devices in the medical and public health area. Mobile technology has improved the efficiency of healthcare delivery effectively. Mobile Health or mHealth is an interdisciplinary research area which has been active for more than a decade. Much research has been conducted and many software research tools (mHealth Support System) have been developed. Despite the time length, there is a significant gap in the mHealth research area regarding software research tools. Individual research groups are developing their own software research tool though there is a significant …


Developing A Framework For Creating Mhealth Surveys, Veli Melih Bilen Apr 2016

Developing A Framework For Creating Mhealth Surveys, Veli Melih Bilen

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Various issues in the design of surveys for mobile health (mHealth) research projects yet exist. As mHealth solutions become more popular, new issues are brought into consideration. Researchers need to collect some critical information from participants in these mHealth studies. These mHealth studies require a specialized framework to create surveys, track progress and analyze user data. In these procedures, mHealth’s needs differ from other studies. Therefore, there has to be a new framework that satisfies needs of mHealth research studies. Although there are studies for creating efficient, robust and user-friendly surveys, there is no solution or study, which is specialized …