Eight Key Components of Disease Management Web Sites

Web-based disease management services is a hot sector of e-health. Health Industries Research Companies has identified 8 components of DM Web sites that qualified the online resources for HIRCO's top ten list.

Web-enabled documentation system helps individual physicians and clinicians - Read Agreement closely!

For all of you who are considering the use of medical records over the internet be careful that you read the fine print in any contract you sign. For example, Medicalogic's Logician agreement specifically prohibits physicians from taking their data with them when service is terminated. Excerpted from their contract..."Upon any expiration or termination of this Agreement, Customer shall immediately discontinue the use of the Software and Services and MLI shall retain any Patient Data stored by Customer in the MLI Data Facilities.

Information Security Program - "Top Ten" logical requirements for protecting important information

Visa U.S.A. Cardholder Information Security Program has been created specifically for mail-order/telephone-order and Internet merchants and their agents but also applies to traditional merchants who accept transactions via mail, telephone, or Internet. While created by Visa, it makes a lot of sense and should be "posterized" within the Information Systems department of everyone dealing with important computer-based information.

Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology - Draft Strategic Plan for the American Association of Medical Informatics

The mission of the American Medical Informatics Association is to improve healthcare through innovation in the use of information by advancing the field, fostering scientific exchange, educating professionals and the public, and influencing decision makers and policy makers. 

Ó 2000 The Informatics Review

Informatics-Review > Vol. 3 No. 17 - Sep 1 2000

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