Guy Paré

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..The use of mobile computing had positive and significant effects on the quality of care provided by home nurses...

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..Home telemonitoring figures among the various solutions that could help attenuate some of the problems associated with aging populations, rates of chronic illness, and shortages of health professionals...

..To do so, we built upon our own previous work to relate the level of HIT innovativeness to organizational capacity characteristics...

..02), and the percentage of time spent by nurses providing direct care (p = 0.003). In summary, the telehomecare intervention produced several positive effects that were related to nurses' quality of documentation and productivity...

..We use the case of recent changes in the structure of Quebec's health care organizations and a change in the commercial policies of a key vendor to illustrate our conclusions regarding barriers to adoption of open source products...

..The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the risk factors influencing the success of clinical information system projects...

..This study presents a systematic review of the nature and magnitude of outcomes associated with telemonitoring of four types of chronic illnesses: pulmonary conditions, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases...

..Based on a prevalent framework in the information systems field, this study proposes and describes an integrated model for evaluating picture archiving and communication system (PACS) success from multiple users' perspectives...

..Findings add a number of new perspectives and empirical insights to the existing body of knowledge in the fields of IT implementation and medical informatics...

..We situated the construct within a nomological net using a prevailing and dominant information technology adoption behavior model as a logical starting point...

..M. Wang, Roadblocks to web technology adoption? Commun. ACM, 42 (1) (1999) 98-101], this study seeks a better understanding of challenges faced in PACS implementations in hospitals and of the strategies required to ensure their success...

..Such instrument should provide hospital managers with a diagnostic tool capable of indicating the profile of their respective institutions in regard to IT use and comparing this profile to those of other similar health institutions...

..Financial advantages of the program could have been more pronounced had it not been for the cost of technology that effectively erased a good portion of the savings...

..However, it is important not to underestimate the challenges related to change management in the course of implementation of such a new technology...

..To assess the impact of a home telemonitoring technology on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in terms of care satisfaction, patient empowerment, improved quality of life, and utilization of hospital and home care...

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..To identify factors that influence the initial plan and final decision to choose a rural area as first employment location in final-year nursing students or newly graduated nurses...

..The objective of this study is to provide a systematic review of this approach and its effect at the informational, clinical, behavioural, structural and economical levels...

..The telepathology project involves 17 hospitals located in five regions of eastern Quebec, Canada. This paper describes the study protocol that will be used to evaluate the benefits associated with the project...

..In recent years, most industrialized countries have made substantial investments in this area. Nevertheless, the sad truth is that far too many of these IT projects have failed...

..9 out of 10. Moreover, the scores for Intended future use of the system were very high for both intra-hospital use (8.9) and inter-hospital use (8.7). We also found significant differences in perceptions among user groups...

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..PACS benefits, namely, shortened dictation turnaround time and increased productivity, are evident 1 year after PACS implementation. In the immediate post-PACS period, results vary with the different imaging modalities...

..Conclusions: While the present economic analysis led to positive results, additional assessments should be conducted to confirm the cost-effectiveness of this mode of care delivery...

..The main goal of this study is to confirm the coexistence of three logics of personal empowerment through health information found on the Internet...