New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes ...
Digital health interventions refer to the use of digital technology and connected devices to improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery. This includes telemedicine, electronic health records, wearable devices, mobile health applications, and other forms of digital health technology. To this end, sev...
Today, the healthcare monitoring is not limited to take place in primary care facilities simply due to deployment of ICT. However, to support an ICT-based health monitoring, proper health parameters, sensor devices, data communications, approaches, methods and their combination are still open challe...
Contact tracing,remote patient monitoring, and telemedicinebecame integral components of healthcare delivery during the crisis, allowing healthcare professionals to provide essential services while minimizing the risk of infection and ensuring the safety of both patients and providers. E-commerce platforms t...
e-Health has played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic in primary health care. e-Health is the cost-effective and secure use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support health and health-related fields. Various stakeholders w
Enlarging data pipes aims to make video pervasive in work and life, for example, in communication, troubleshooting, education, or healthcare. People want video to do various tasks, and no longer just rely on voice and data services.
and contributing to environmental sustainability using renewable energy sources. In addition, ICT may play a catalytic role in achieving social sustainability by providing better opportunities for education, healthcare, and public services (Goswami2014) that enable individuals with disabilities to acquire ne...
Carriers outside China are also rapidly scaling their 5G business in the B2B market. Between 2022 and 2023, 5G private networks for enterprise customers also doubled to 222, spanning industries like media, healthcare, education, ports, manufacturing, oil & gas, and mining. ...
4.2. Healthcare Industry: A healthcare provider implemented ICTCore's Cloud Communications Platform to automate appointment reminders and enable patients to communicate with doctors via SMS. This resulted in fewer missed appointments, improved patient engagement, and optimized scheduling processes. ...
a more integrative approach can be taken if researchers approach IPV using a virtual community framework. A virtual community (VC) is defined as a community of individuals cooperating using online tools to attain an objective [126]. Health VCs have been used in healthcare to provide patients wit...