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Ruba, Wael Abdulhafeeth (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-des-2010)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Using mobiles for health related purposes have been studied for a while and new concepts such as mhealth have been introduced. The latter is believed to have a great potential in taking health related applications to a higher level especially with the introduction of a high-tech mobile phones called “smartphones”. This research presents different aspects of mobile’s potentials that have been employed in ActiveTeen which is a Mobile Social Networking Mapping and Gaming Application that intends to help adolescents in doing at least 1 hour of physical activity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2956 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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Chomutare, Taridzo Fred (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 10-jun-2008)[+][-]
Sammendrag: PURPOSE The aim of this research is to develop a mobile-based framework for using context information to create an intelligent environment within which applications for diabetes self-management operate. MOTIVATION Mobile applications are emerging as a preferred method for diabetes self-management. This increases the number of interruptions that the patient will get from the phone and can easily become annoying. Using context information holds a potential for enhancing usability. METHODS A prototype was constructed that uses a step-counter, calendar, microphone, camera, battery and onboard clock as sources of potentially useful context information. Controlled experiments were conducted to test the accuracy of context detection and the use of limited mobile resources. RESULTS The framework provided an efficient way of detecting contexts within an acceptable level of accuracy. The effect on mobile resources was almost insignificant; with effect on battery less than 15% and occupying less than 1% of main memory. CONCLUSION Context information can be used to enhance usability of disease management applications on mobile phones. Modelling context information using the proposed generalizable, reusable and extensible abstraction in combination with an event-driven architecture was suitable for mobile phones because it lowered the time and space complexity and also solves the problem of modelling context information from heterogeneous data sources. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1632 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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Olsen, Odd-Arne (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 21-jun-2007)[+][-]
Sammendrag: The projects Self-help through a mobile ICT tool and The ICT Lifestyle and Health Motivation Project at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) have designed and built a prototype smart sensor system. Just days before the hand-in of this thesis, the second version of the prototype was ready for testing. Central for this thesis is the hardware and software debugging process of this first prototype. The result of this process is a number of suggestions for changes in the microcontroller’s software and the hardware generally. The suggestion for changes does not introduce any new features, but rather tries to direct the functionality towards the project group’s intention. The main suggestions involve how to avoid loss of data, and also let the user take charge over when the step-counter should report to the mobile base. The thesis starts with an introduction to the main project and a revision of similar projects. The direction then changes towards the theory and tools necessary to perform the intended task are presented. A somewhat large part is devoted to design of movement sensors. As a part of this there were done some tests. The results of some of these plus suggestions for some new are presented. As wireless communication carrier the project group has chosen Bluetooth. The thesis gives a revision of the module chosen plus some alternatives. In addition there is also some suggestions regarding the setup of the module. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1432 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Nilsen, Olav (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 16-jun-2008)[+][-]
Sammendrag: It is a national aim to increase the pedagogical utilization of ICT in higher education and to use ICT to promote learning and innovation. E-learning tools and projects are prime examples for meeting this aim. Much research in this area seems to focus on economical, organizational and user satisfaction issues. Less is focusing on which type of knowledge the tools represent, and it seems to be a tradition of choosing a technological platform prior to its intended use in teaching. This study investigates a project, Fysio-nett, made to support a decentralized study program in physiotherapy at Tromsø University College, Norway through a qualitative, interpretative approach. The research material is analyzed with theories on knowledge perspectives, Communities of Practice and Actor Network Theory with the objective to analyze how knowledge and learning is represented in the project. It is also an objective to look at how sustainability can be created for the project. The study shows that Fysio-nett is a different approach to creating and implementing an e-learning tool in that knowledge can be identified as the driving force for its creation. Knowledge creation has occurred both in the creation and utilization phase of the project, mainly through interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge. It is also shown that the tool is highly dependent on being an integrated piece of technology in a Community of Practice. Finally, utilization and sustainability for the project is suggested improved through the recognition of that the flexible design of the tool demands that organizational measures are taken to compensate for this flexibility. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1672 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Alobwede, Sinclair Njikang (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, mai-2012)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Telemedicine implementation in Africa is increasingly becoming am important topic of discussion; in and out of Africa, investigated, and implemented, yet the term lacks conceptual clarity and definition to health workers within the African continent itself. The primary purpose was to examine perceived susceptibility, some common barriers, and self-efficacy associated with the implementation put in place. Furthermore, the components, process, and outcomes of telemedicine as it is delivered in the African health structure have not been clearly expressed. This report provides an exemplary analysis concept, through available literature; even though very insufficient. During the study, a qualitative finding method was employed. Whereby the interpretative research method has been the key method to interpret all phenomena, it provides a useful tool with which to analyze existing literature on the development, scope and the extent to which telemedicine is used within Africa and other low income countries. From the finding, it was basically identified that the high cost of telemedicine infrastructure tools is so far the greatest challenge African have in the effort put in place to sustain the implementation of telemedicine. This is compared to the economic situation of the nation. Other related factors are technical and organisational challenges, infrastructural difficulties, cost distribution and cost recovery policies put in place, the direct benefit of telemedicine, African health policies and educational challenges. Despite the successes as well as failures within the African nations, telemedicine programs are still working to achieve the results needed to propel this new approach of health care forward, telemedicine today is outstandingly from many other studies very promising due to the great value that can be brought by its implementation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4700 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Dawson, Joanna Adobea (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 01-jun-2011)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Rationale: Attempts to successfully develop telemedicine solutions by specifying the require-ments and critical success factors of these solutions are on-going in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries as a means of improving access to high-quality healthcare. European Space Agency (ESA) (Dario et al. 2005) have explored the challenges and benefits of telemedicine solutions in these regions in the domains of eGovernment such as billing and administrative data management to support the healthcare process, aggregation and reporting of administrative data including quality, clinical outcomes, improving decision making through access to information and ad-vocacy through modern technology. This thesis builds on from the comparative analysis of the healthcare systems in Ghana and Nigeria, in order to specify the system requirements for teleme-dicine solutions supporting health governance in these countries. Motivation: Relevant literature in the domains of public health and information systems (IS) which studies requirements and success factors of telemedicine solutions in SSA countries sug-gests specific attention to be paid to the ability of such solutions to support health system gover-nance. This is due to the complex institutional context involving technical, legal, organizational, and financial issues to be solved which makes it difficult to transfer decision-making, planning, budgeting, management and resource allocation from the national level to the country-regional, district, sub-district and community levels (Braa et al. 2001). Method: This thesis performs a thorough review of published evidence to acquire information on the governance structures of healthcare systems in Ghana and Nigeria as well as successful operative telemedicine applications and services in these countries. UML modeling of the struc-tures is used to describe the processes which link the national level to the level of the (Regional Economic Communities) RECs of which these two countries are part. The open source District Health Information System 2 (DHIS 2) developed by Jørn Braar and collaborators is analyzed to assess functionalities it has to support health governance and health system management. The system is also analyzed in terms of what it stores, its extensibility and scalability by functions. A structured interview on health system governance in Ghana and Nigeria is conducted with key respondents such as health workers, persons dealing with statistics and training, system users, Health Information System (HIS) managers and planners. The research questions are tailored towards decision making processes in the running of healthcare system from national level to community level. Issues around funds, budgets and resource allocations are discussed. Decisions made with regard to the implementation of health policies such as the implementation of new types of healthcare services (i.e. eHealth services) are also discussed. Results: A main finding in the thesis is that the development of information systems at district and Primary Health Care (PHC) levels in Ghana and Nigeria needs to be an integrated effort across health sectors. With this focus, requirements and critical success factors of telemedicine solutions for Ghana and Nigeria have been specified by assessing the governance structures of health services in the two countries and by analyzing the DHIS 2 to identify scenarios in health-care that need telemedicine support. In the case of Ghana, the local control and empowerment of information at lower levels should be embedded into PHC. This is due to the fact that the man-agement of the source of healthcare information is usually a top-down approach (from national level to lower level) toppled with the differences that exists in the collection of healthcare data. This causes delays in healthcare decision making and duplications and omission of key data sets for performance assessment by the government. As such, the DHIS 2, although being used for information reporting in the Ghanaian healthcare system extended in terms of functionalities it is proposed as a system to support healthcare governance. In the case of Nigeria, there exists a Na-tional Health Management Information System (NHMIS) as a management tool for informed decision making at all the levels of government in Nigeria. However, there is no clearly defined role of the different tiers of government which affects the proper functioning of the NHMIS in terms of data input and data quality. As such, integrating the DHIS 2 to be used alongside the NHMIS at the Local Government Areas (LGAs) may enhance data quality and improved infor-mation reporting in healthcare decisions. Conclusion: Telemedicine and eHealth activity around developing countries is increasing, and this fact cannot be denied. Although such activities could be a daunting task, they are emerging as a promising means for achieving quality healthcare. The specific healthcare situations in Ghana and Nigeria have resulted in the specification of seven requirements regarding to the utili-zation of a HIS (specifically the DHIS 2). This is hoped to assist in the effective governance of healthcare systems in these countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3522 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Enerlan-Aas, Gloria (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-mai-2008)[+][-]
Sammendrag: This paper attempts to provide an understanding of the intricacies in surgical operation planning and coordination; it followed the pre and post-implementation of DIPS ASA ─ an electronic surgical module introduced at UNN, Tromsø. Organizations are opting to grasp the promised benefits of IT. However, studies in past have showed that introduction of IT in large organisations are seemingly deemed to fail if integration of socio-technical aspects are not highly considered. Moreover, it is but natural, that changes in work practices are likely to follow. As such, the theoretical undertaking of the heterogeneous work practices of the different groups, i. e. surgeons, anaesthesiologist, nurses and other collaborating personnel were inspired by CSCW and ANT perspectives. The intricate micro-elements in work practices were examined thru the lenses of CSCW; likewise perspectives in ANT guided the wider arena in the interplay of the socio- technical aspects. Drawing on the participant observations, open-ended interviews, and literature reviews as source of research materials, the author will show how work boundaries justified and manifested by (physicians and nurses) at both micro and macro level affecting their daily work practices as they utilize DIPS ASA surgical planning module. Key word: CSCW, ANT, IT, DIPS, Surgical planning, Coordination, Coordination URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1566 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Kalam, Abul (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-aug-2011)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Developing countries are leisurely adopter of new technologies, particularly with regards to the health services of these countries. This study explores the current health information infrastructure and future prospects of information and communication technology in health system of Bangladesh using an interpretative case study approach and proposes apply Telemedicine system to ensure health for all. This study almost certainly the first of its variety in Bangladesh; there have been some inadequate studies of Telemedicine early trials in some developing countries assessing the challenges of implementation. This study briefly mentions one of such; the Indian Telemedicine system. Some confronts that would obstruct the implementation of Telemedicine in Bangladesh are the initial huge start up costs, poor ICT culture of healthcare professionals and people embedding political meanings into the system. The weak state of information infrastructure at the hospital would be another challenge in implementation Telemedicine. Here Telemedicine could potentially reduce waiting times for patients, reduce the cost of the health system’s operations, improve interdepartmental, inter-hospital communication and collaboration, provide opportunity for sharing best practices among physicians within Bangladesh and international hospitals, and enhance better resource allocation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3627 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Ravuri, Ashok Babu (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 23-sep-2010)[+][-]
Sammendrag: This Master thesis is based on an ongoing project work titled ―Context-Sensitive systems for mobile communication in hospitals‖ at Norwegian Centre for Integrated care and Telemedicine (NST), University Hospital of North Norway (UNN). The project group is working on context-sensitive communication in hospitals based on Ascom/trixbox experimental (ATE) platform. The ATE based protocol system designed/developed to manage mobile communication interruptions in hospitals presents a new context-sensitive communication system for hospitals. The intended ATE based mobile communication work is based on different context information, in this case it is location information. This Master thesis is intended to provide a motivation for researchers and developers to develop/implement a context-sensitive mobile communication in hospitals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2969 Tilhørende fil(er): 3
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Gebeyehu, Leykun Melkamu (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 07-jun-2012)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Purpose: The aim of the thesis is to providing a high quality research repository based on openEHR platform and assessing the feasibility. This involves transforming the data to openEHR data format, annotating, and visualizing data. Method: We used the design paradigm rooted in the engineering discipline to build the system and assessed the feasibility using a criteria which uses the effect of the solution and the effort needed to build the system. Result: We mapped the extracted data to openEHR platform using flat archetype. We queried back this data and transformed it to another composition instance based on design archetypes, which can be used as a gateway to annotate data. The data in the repository was visualized using windows form application. Conclusion: The overall feasibility of developing a research repository using openEHR platform showed high potential effect, but also medium effort attached to it. The system provides a standardized and structured high quality data. However, developing the system in addition to internal resource needs a strong collaboration with healthcare workers. The process of annotating and expanding the data using archetypes could also need some time, but this approach is easier when compared with traditional methods used to annotate data. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4244 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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Vitola, Ieva (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 01-jun-2007)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Western healthcare is provided in various levels in different organizations. Fragmented information flow and the need to improve the continuity of care has been a serious concern in healthcare system. Fragmented healthcare can result in medication errors that could have been avoided if information flow was organized better. Use of IT services in healthcare organization is seen as possible solution to reduce these mistakes. Common medication card project in Norway was initiated as a part of national strategy for electronic cooperation in health and social sector. Two similar projects in Tromsø and Trondheim were studied. The intentions of these projects are to reduce medication errors and improve the information flow between primary and secondary healthcare levels. This thesis is an interpretive study and has addressed the potential challenges with implementing the common medication card service. Interviews were the main data source. The main challenges that could be met when implementing the common medication card are dealing with the distributed character of healthcare work and interdependency of medication information, as well as obtaining the sustainable use of this service. Changes in work routines and responsibility are likely to appear but the consequences of these changes are hard to foresee. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1172 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Tanko, Abdulai (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-mai-2009)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Developing countries are slow adopters of new technologies, particularly with regards to the health services of these countries. This study explores the data collection and management challenges in a Ghanaian hospital using an interpretative case study approach and proposes implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as a solution to these challenges. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) are used in discussing the acceptance and the collaborative use of a prospective EHR system in the light of the present work practice at the hospital. This study is probably the first of its kind in Ghana; there have been some limited studies of EHR early trials in some developing countries assessing the challenges of implementation. This study briefly mentions two of such; the Cameroonian and Kenyan EHR projects. Some challenges that would impede the implementation of EHR in a Ghanaian hospital are the initial huge start up costs, poor computer skills of healthcare professionals, poor maintenance culture, and people embedding political meaning(s) into the system. The weak state of information infrastructure at the hospital would be another challenge in an EHR implementation. EHR could potentially reduce waiting times for patients, reduce the cost of the hospital’s operations, improve interdepartmental communication and collaboration, provide opportunity for sharing best practices among physicians within Ghanaian hospitals, and enhance better resource allocation. The data an EHR could primarily capture would be patients’ demographics, care plans, laboratory results, billing and NHIS claims information. Keywords: ANT, CSCW, EHR, Ghana, Implementation, Information Infrastructure. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2080 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Dhakal, Sanjaya Babu (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 03-jun-2009)[+][-]
Sammendrag: The aim of this research was to develop an interactive disease map framework and integrate Silverlight map support for the research project developing the Snow Agent System. The interactive disease map can be used for visualizing information on the map during disease outbreak situations. An engineering approach was used for system design, development and testing. Three different inputs, Microsoft Virtual Earth, population data and epidemiological data formed the interactive map system. The interactive disease map framework extract data from database and was integrate with geo‐spatial information and presented as an interactive map system. The system integrates population data and epidemiological data with virtual earth and is present in a Silverlight presentation. The system user can interact with the system during run time and search zip code area of Norway, once the system match the zip code of Norway, the area is located on a map. The interactive maps integrate the population and epidemiological data with zip code and presents it as a Silverlight presentation. We have demonstrated the interactive disease map by integrating the population and epidemiological data with Microsoft Virtual earth and present it using a Silverlight presentation. The Microsoft .NET framework was used to implement a prototype. The interactive disease map framework may be used as a generic framework to create interactive maps in other areas with heterogeneous data sources. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2006 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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Johnson, Beatrice Bella (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 30-mai-2011)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Quality patient’s information has been proven to enhance the quality of care the patients receive as well as the guarantee of their safety. This is because information would be available to inform others and subsequently aid appropriate decision making concerning patients care. On the other hand, nurses being the professionals who spend twenty-four hours with the patients have a lot of information to capture from patients observation and care. Hence Nursing Documentation provides a lot of information to guide decision-making, and it therefore needs to be efficient in order to be effective. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of nursing documentation as a communication tool among health professionals involved in patients care. Other aims were the extent to which nursing documentation fosters communication in the care setting and also to exploit ways in which nursing documentation could be improved upon to enhance efficiency. The study was conducted within a period of two months at the Volta Regional Hospital, Ho, in Ghana. Qualitative research method particularly case study was used to find answers to the research question. Also Actor Network and Information Infrastructures theories guided the study. 27 nurses with different work experience and ranks, 2 physicians and 1 information officer were interviewed to exploit their divergent viewpoints on nursing documentation. In addition, participant observation was done in 4 of the wards on health personnel during work practice. The findings of the study indicated that work overload resulting from scarcity of nurses prevents the nurses from making time for documentation. Also there were too many sources of documentation with some levels of duplication without any definite structure. Further, a standard to guide nursing documentation was absent. In addition, nurses are trained in nursing care plan but had to use other types of documentation style at the work setting. Also the nurses make use and rely more on oral account of patient care than the written documentation. In conclusion the study revealed that at times the information captured was not adequate to communicate to others. However deployment of electronic nursing documentation at the wards was found to be appropriate in addressing this problem. Also the study provides insight into issues in the nursing documentation and accordingly would inform the Nursing Body in Ghana. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3545 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Hurley, Joseph (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 23-jan-2009)[+][-]
Sammendrag: This thesis covers the design, implementation, and evaluation of a search engine which can give each user a customized index based on the documents they are authorized to view. A common solution available today for this situation is to filter the results of a query based on the list of documents a user has access to. In this scenario, it is possible for information to leak from the search engine because the filtering takes place after the results are ranked. Ranking algorithms are usually based on information which considers characteristics of the entire corpus when calculating the score a document will receive. This type of information in the index must be cleaned before it is used to judge the relevant documents for a user query, otherwise data leakage is possible. Cleaning this information at query time might have a dramatic effect on query performance which would discourage use. The work presented here takes this sensitive information and calculates it for every user authorized to view the documents at index time. At query time, the search engine uses a filtered global index for selecting relevant results, but ranks the results using the information stored for the individual user’s authorized view of the index. Different designs are compared, but the same concept is present in all implementations. An open source index, Apache’s Lucene, was used as a starting point for this work. All modifications were made to Lucene and then compared to an unmodified Lucene for performance evaluations. The findings are that it is feasible to include access control in a basic search engine without incurring dramatic loss in performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1827 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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Piya, Rudeep (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-mai-2010)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Telemedicine is not a new technology today, but it is a novel approach for many developing countries, and in fact, it may have more profound impact on these countries than developed nations due to unmet demands for health and unprecedented health related challenges. In the health context of Nepal, telemedicine is rising and currently being implemented, though on a pilot scale – most of them by private health institutions. The main purpose of this study is to explore the practicability of telemedicine application in Nepal, with particular reference to challenges and scope regarding its implementation and use. In this study, a qualitative research method was used. As such, interpretive research approach was employed in order to explain the phenomenon of interest. Multiple data collection tools were used to investigate and find possible explanations to the research questions considered. The empirical data gathered from the study were analyzed using the theories of Information Infrastructures (II) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) from the information systems field. The notion of II is used to establish telemedicine as an infrastructural tool while ANT is used to describe the interaction and negotiation processes among diverse actors identified during the study. From the empirical findings, issues related to funding, sustainability, technical acquisition, low resources and underdeveloped infrastructures were found to be major challenges to ICT growth. Important findings related ICT infrastructure and its sustainable development are discuses and implications are given with particular reference to telemedicine. Finally, it is concluded that funding and sustainability are the core issues, including other sociological and political issues, for telemedicine development in the context of Nepal, and hence calls for more research in this area. Key words: Actor-Network Theory, Challenges, Developing Countries, ICT, Information Infrastructures, Nepal, Sustainability, Telemedicine URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2577 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Røed, Kristoffer (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 01-jun-2007)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Information Technology (IT) has for several decades been seen to be a key enabler to achieve improved efficiency and quality in work processes, and so also within health care. Thus, even though many parts within the health care sector have high expectations, the desired benefits are not seen to large extent in practice, at least not until present. A lot of the work flows within health care are still paper based. Several authors claim that the mismatch between the goals and the real situations as today might be caused by the fact that social aspects are not included in design to large extent. Implementation processes has had a tendency to be far more technology oriented than social and communication oriented, thus indicating that technological processes rely on technological deterministic views. This thesis applies an implementation process of a new technology called Well Interactor, a system which is developed to let general practitioners choose laboratory services electronically and additionally enables interactive possibilities. The thesis is aimed to show to which extent existing work practices influence on the outcome of the technology. The findings documented are based upon an interpretive case study, including field observations and interviews. A study of 21 interviewed subjects has been carried out. The thesis concludes that existing work practices and existing infrastructures are quite complex. Such complexity makes it difficult to plan the outcome of the technology. It should therefore be seen implicit to map complex work practices before vision of drastic improvements caused by the use of Information Technology is created. The goals must be realistic based on the current situation. Then, both, social and technological aspects should play a role in how technology will and can be used. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1173 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Lee, Eunji (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, jul-2011)[+][-]
Sammendrag: The main research problem in this thesis project was to develop a mobile phone application which can help people with diabetes to make right choices in selecting food items for better nutrition management. The major challenge was minimizing the information displayed and finding a way to persuade the users to change their food habits. Smart Carb, a simple application was developed to solve this problem and tested by 27 Type 2 diabetics in Norway and South Korea. The Norwegian participants who had experience with the 'Few Touch application' expressed their strong willing to use this application. However the Korean participant who did not have experience with kind of application and the smart phone itself, were more sceptical or afraid of using this application. Nevertheless most of the participants agreed that it is important to track the amount of carbohydrate intake, and expressed that it is difficult to estimate the amount of carbohydrate. Therefore they wanted to have a tool to help them to estimate carbohydrate amounts. The impact or effectiveness of this system was positive to the participant, specially the Norwegian participants who had experience with mobile diabetes self-help tool. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4233 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Østhaug, Anita Amyla Abueg (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-mai-2012)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Mobile technology can profoundly enhance healthcare services even in some areas where medical services are least heard of, and where there are inequitable distributions of healthcare workers. The use of SMS application in mobile phones is one technology that could solve these problems especially in underdeveloped and developing countries the Philippines. It may eliminate the “gap” between individuals and institutions that can lead to easy and effective sharing of medical information and knowledge. Through the familiarity and popularity of SMS usage in the Philippines, the University of the Philippines Manila- National Telehealth Center has launched a telemedicine service program in 2007 and they involved the Department of Health “Doctor-to-the- Barrio” (DTTB) or Doctor to the rural area program. One of these telemedicine services is the Short Messaging Service (SMS) Telereferrals, which is the main topic of my study. Thru this service, the DTTB refers problematic cases to clinical expert in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine- Philippine General Hospital with the use of SMS application. The main aim of my study is to assess the DttB`s perspectives in utilizing SMS, as well as those of the other involved users (telehealth physicians, telehealth nurses and domain experts or DEs); their satisfaction and the challenges they encounter in using SMS Telereferrals in their everyday works. In this study, the qualitative research method was applied in the research design and interpretive research approach was employed so as to understand the social context of this phenomenon of interest. Multiple data collection tools were put to use to look into and obtain likely explanations to the research questions considered. The theories of Information Infrastructures and Actor Network guided the study, too. The findings of this study primarily revealed that most of the DttBs were satisfied with the SMS Telereferrals and found it useful in their clinical work, specifically if this was their last resort to help them in decision-making for their patients’ medical management. At the end of the study, however, despite the fact that SMS Telereferrals had proven its potential, still its limitations were found to be greater than the benefits. Based on the findings and conclusions, it was highly recommended that it should be used only in simple referrals with other healthcare providers (rural nurse, rural midwives), and not for the doctor-to-doctor exchange of relevant information and knowledge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4697 Tilhørende fil(er): 1
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Yigzaw, Kassaye Yitbarek (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-jun-2012)[+][-]
Sammendrag: Objective: This thesis mainly focused on construction of an integrated infectious disease prediction service that predicts and visualizes prediction results in time and space. Methods: We have used weekly aggregated laboratory confirmed cases of various diseases collected from the Snow system, which is an infectious disease surveillance system that covers Troms and Finnmark counties of north Norway. Influenza A dataset is applied for modeling SIR(S) model and various diseases datasets applied to a Bayesian model. The infectious disease prediction service prototype was constructed following an iterative and incremental approach where the entire development process was composed of four activities. Results: The prediction service framework facilitates the process of integrating various models and allows their evaluation. Currently, the system contains two mathematical models that demonstrate the effectiveness of the architecture in integrating new models. Conclusion: The framework can significantly improve the status of disease prediction systems, investment and time of development. It also speeds up mathematical modeling through its integrated environment for testing and evaluating different mathematical models against other existing models. Thus, the project contributes to improve the overall disease prediction accuracy and increase the benefits from prediction. Keywords: Infectious disease, Influenza, Mathematical model, Prediction, Mathematical model evaluation, Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, Visualization, Integrated infectious disease prediction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4402 Tilhørende fil(er): 2
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