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    Big Data Skills Sustainable Development in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

    Big Data technology is one of the most promising organizational processes within the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry and crucial for any company that wants to preserve the competitive advantage in the m...

    António Pesqueira, Maria José Sousa, Álvaro Rocha in Journal of Medical Systems (2020)

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    VLC, OCC, IR and LiFi Reliable Optical Wireless Technologies to be Embedded in Medical Facilities and Medical Devices

    New, emerging technologies, transform every day our life and have direct consequence on our health and well-being. More and more wearable medical devices (MD) with wireless communication technologies embedded ...

    Simona Riurean, Tatiana Antipova, Álvaro Rocha, Monica Leba in Journal of Medical Systems (2019)

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    Decision-Making based on Big Data Analytics for People Management in Healthcare Organizations

    Big data analytics enables large-scale data sets integration, supporting people management decisions, and cost-effectiveness evaluation of healthcare organizations. The purpose of this article is to address th...

    Maria José Sousa, António Miguel Pesqueira, Carlos Lemos in Journal of Medical Systems (2019)

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    Exploratory Study of Psychosocial Therapies with Text Messages to Mobile Phones in Groups of Vulnerable Immigrant Women

    Various experimental studies on psychosocial therapy have been carried out through text messages with groups of people suffering from depression, anxiety, alcoholism, addictions, etc., but without distinguishi...

    Yolanda García, Carlos Ferrás, Álvaro Rocha, Adrián Aguilera in Journal of Medical Systems (2019)

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    The Impact of Perioperative Data Science in Hospital Knowledge Management

    Conservative practices, such as manual registry have limited scope regarding preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative decision making, knowledge discovery, analytical techniques and knowledge integration...

    Márcia Baptista, José Braga Vasconcelos, Álvaro Rocha in Journal of Medical Systems (2019)

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    Maturity Assessment Methodology for HISMM - Hospital Information System Maturity Model

    Maturity models have been adopted in organizations from different sectors of activity, as guides and references for information system (IS) management. In the healthcare field, maturity models have also been u...

    João Vidal Carvalho, Álvaro Rocha, António Abreu in Journal of Medical Systems (2019)

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    Healthcare Workers: Occupational Health Promotion and Patient Safety

    The purpose of the present study was to explore the relation of work-related risk factors and well-being among healthcare workers and the impact on patient safety, using the Health and Work Survey (INSAT) and ...

    Pilar Baylina, Carla Barros, Carla Fonte, Sónia Alves in Journal of Medical Systems (2018)

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    How Can Geography and Mobile Phones Contribute to Psychotherapy?

    Interdisciplinary relationships between Geography and Psychotherapy are an opportunity for innovation. Indeed, scientific works found on bibliographic databases and concerning this theme are scarce. Geographic...

    Carlos Ferrás, Yolanda García, Adrián Aguilera, Álvaro Rocha in Journal of Medical Systems (2017)

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    Development and Validation of a Health and Work Survey Based on the Rasch Model among Portuguese Workers

    The purpose of this study was to develop the Health and Work Survey (INSAT) and examine the validity of the discomfort rating scale. Data were collected from 706 Portuguese workers from six economic sectors wi...

    Carla Barros, Liliana Cunha, Pilar Baylina in Journal of Medical Systems (2017)

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    Mobile Phones and Psychosocial Therapies with Vulnerable People: a First State of the Art

    Mobile phones are becoming a communication tool commonly used by people all over the world; and they are started to be adopted in psychosocial therapies involving vulnerable people. We are herein presenting th...

    Maria Yolanda García Vázquez, Carlos Ferrás Sexto in Journal of Medical Systems (2016)

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    Maturity Models of Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: a Literature Review

    The maturity models are instruments to facilitate organizational management, including the management of its information systems function. These instruments are used also in hospitals. The objective of this ar...

    João Vidal Carvalho, Álvaro Rocha, António Abreu in Journal of Medical Systems (2016)

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    Information Architecture for Quality Management Support in Hospitals

    Quality Management occupies a strategic role in organizations, and the adoption of computer tools within an aligned information architecture facilitates the challenge of making more with less, promoting the de...

    Álvaro Rocha, Jorge Freixo in Journal of Medical Systems (2015)

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    A Clinical Support System Based on Quality of Life Estimation

    Quality of life is a concept influenced by social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state factors. More specifically, the perceived quality of an individual’s daily life is an assessment of their ...

    Brígida Mónica Faria, Joaquim Gonçalves, Luis Paulo Reis in Journal of Medical Systems (2015)

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    Towards an Encompassing Maturity Model for the Management of Hospital Information Systems

    Maturity models are tools that favour the management of organizations, including their information systems management task, and hospital organizations are no exception. In the present paper we put forth a prel...

    João Vidal de Carvalho, Álvaro Rocha, José Vasconcelos in Journal of Medical Systems (2015)