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pdf Building Standard-Based Nursing Information Systems  Published Popular

2512 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Heimar F. Marin, Roberto J. Rodrigues, Connie Delaney, Gunnar H. Nielsen, Jean Yan.

144,p.

"As the information age evolves into the knowledge age, the enabling technologies will give us access to the data, information, and knowledge we need, whatever our discipline or field. Within nursing and across the healthcare team, we will look to these enablers to strengthen our ability to act knowledgeably on behalf of ? and in concert with ? the patient. Although informatics has already changed the way we practice our professions, we will continue our journey of transformation daily.

pdf Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare. Critical Issues in Data Protection for Health Services Information Systems  Published Popular

729 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Peter Ramsaroop, Roger Stull, Roberto J. Rodrigues, Antonio Hernandez

92,p.

"The reliable and safe operation of the myriad of technological solutions, information systems, and support infrastructure requires that far-reaching concerns about security issues are effectively addressed by governments, business concerns, organizations, and individual users who develop, own, provide, manage, service, and use those information systems, resources, and networks.

pdf Information Systems and Information Technology in Health. Challenges and Solutions for Latin America and the Caribean  Published Popular

1104 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Daniel López Acuña, Roberto J. Rodrigues

120,p.

"Rightly designed and deployed, health information systems have the potential of producing valuable management-oriented administrative and clinical information for service and program operation and patient care. Such systems are critical to many areas: effective and efficient decisions for individual and collective healthcare activities, planning, operation, supervision and control, in the evaluation and monitoring of the health status of human groups, etc.

pdf Information Technology in the Health Sector of Latin America and the Caribbean. Challenges and Opportunities for the International Technical Cooperation.  Published Popular

1205 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Roberto J. Rodrigues

50,p.

Reflects the vision of the Regional Office when reviewing the challenges and opportunities for technical cooperation in the area of information technology. An initiative has been underway in the Essential Drug and Technology program to define indicators to measure the diffusion and impact of information technology in health care services and organizations.

pdf Integrated Circuit Health Data Cards (Smarth Cards) A Primer for Health Professionals  Published Popular

1547 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Otto Rienhoff, Roberto J. Rodrigues, Ursula Piccolo, Antonio Hernández, Nora Oliveri

110,p.

"Resume the international evolution, the use of electronic technology solutions ?smart cards? for recorder and transport the clinical and administrative data. Data is associated with either monetary value or information or both and is stored and, in specific types of cards, processed within the card?s integrated-circuit chip read-and-write memory or microprocessor. The card data is transacted via a card reader.

pdf Setting Up Healthcare Services Information Systems. A Guide for Requirement Analysis, Application Specification, and Procurement.  Published Popular

2771 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Roberto J. Rodrigues, Cesar Gattini, Gisele Almeida, Carlos Gamboa, Antonio Carlos Azevedo, David Taylor, Ana Rita González, Eduardo Guerrero, Dale Ifill, Gerald Lucas, Antonio Hernández, Carlos Albuquerque, Hugo Chacon, Oscar Salinas, Rosanne Marchesich

612,p.

"A Guide for Requirement Analysis, Application Specification, and Procurement contains practical guidelines and suggestions to be used by healthcare and systems professionals when embarking in the initial stages of planning and developing healthcare services information systems and information technology (IS&T) applications. Setting up information systems in healthcare involves some key preparative technical tasks: requirements analysis; technical specification of computer-based applications; preparation of Request of Proposals (RFP) for information systems, technology, and services; evaluation and selection of providers; and contracting aspects when acquiring IS&T for healthcare services.

pdf Telehealth in the Americas: CD.  Published Popular

1126 downloads

Autor(es): Cesar Gaviria, Luigi R. Einaudi, Martha Elena Pinto de De Hart, Hector Mario Carril, Xavier Urtubey, Edgar Prieto, Hallam Hope, Roberto Rodrigues, Richard Van West, Fernando Picado, Mariano Galante, Marcelo Petrich, Natalia Amore, Verónica Soria, Natacha Dinsmann. 

64,p.

The priority criteria of the information technology industry are innovation, productivity, access to data and information, and competitiveness. Its central objective accords more priority to combining diversity with principles of cost efficiency than it does to the pursuit of global (telecommunications) interoperability or the prevention-treatment of disease and its potential (health) complications. There three worlds, with their different language and codes, are complementary, and are essential to the development and implementation of telehealth networks, services and solutions. The Book on Telehealth in the Americas seeks to bring these three communities together by including in a single work the contributions made in this area by the different regional and international organizations involved, and by providing a compendium of some of the numerous telehealth experiences in the countries of the region: references, definitions, and proposed standards, guidelines, and practices.

pdf The Regulation of Privacy and Data Protection in the Use of Electronic Health Information. An international Perspective and Reference Source on Regulatory and legal Issues Related to Person- Identifiable Health Databases  Published Popular

1072 downloads

Autor Corporativo: PAHO

Autor(es): Roberto J. Rodrigues, Petra Wilson, Stephen J. Schanz

218,p.

"The ethical and legal issues of data protection and privacy have been the focus of attention of lawmakers in many countries and there is manifest feeling of urgency in ensuring that privacy rules apply to personal data. Health professionals and other will find a valuable, carefully researched, and extensively referenced source or information on the present status of health data protection regulation.