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Informatics, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2017 - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,864 Views
8 Pages

User-based research is strongly recommended in design for older adults. The aim of this paper is to focus the attention on the poorly explored role of medical and para-medical personnel’s perspective on home health care technologies using data that h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,442 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of the Omaha System Prototype Icons for Global Health Literacy

  • Karen A. Monsen,
  • Yu Jin Kang,
  • Taylor A. Maki,
  • Annika E. Stromme,
  • Elizabeth G. Weirich,
  • Emily C. Lawrence,
  • Ryan N. Schneider and
  • Barbara E. Martinson

Omaha System problem concepts describe a comprehensive, holistic view of health in simple terms that have been represented in a set of prototype icons intended for universal use by consumers and clinicians. The purpose of this study was to evaluate O...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,573 Views
14 Pages

Limited adoption of mobile technology for informal learning and continuing professional development within Australian healthcare environments has been explained primarily as an issue of insufficient digital and ehealth literacy of healthcare professi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,369 Views
20 Pages

The visual exploration of large and complex network structures remains a challenge for many application fields. Moreover, a growing number of real-world networks is multivariate and often interconnected with each other. Entities in a network may have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,023 Views
14 Pages

Social media has become ubiquitous to modern life. Consequently, embedding digital professionalism into undergraduate health profession courses is now imperative and augmenting learning and teaching with mobile technology and social media on and off...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,630 Views
8 Pages

Social Media Providing an International Virtual Elective Experience for Student Nurses

  • Paula M. Procter,
  • Juliana J. Brixey,
  • Fern Todhunter and
  • Michelle L. L. Honey

The advances in social media offer many opportunities for developing understanding of different countries and cultures without any implications of travel. Nursing has a global presence and yet it appears as though students have little knowledge of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,816 Views
10 Pages

ICNP® R&D Centre Ireland: Defining Requirements for an Intersectoral Digital Landscape

  • Pamela Hussey,
  • Melissa Corbally,
  • Daragh Rodger,
  • Anne Kirwan,
  • Elizabeth Adams,
  • Paula Kavanagh and
  • Anne Matthews

The apparent speed and impact of creating a global digital landscape for health and social care tells us that the health workforce is playing catch-up with eHealth national programmes. Locating how and where the profession of nursing fits with future...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,119 Views
5 Pages

The increasing use of social media is revolutionizing the way students learn, communicate and collaborate. Many of the skills used with social media are similar to those needed to work in a knowledge-based society. To better understand student nurses...

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