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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...