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 ...

Health care systems nowadays are affected by quality problems, most of which occur in developing countries due to the lack of adequate infrastructural, human, and financial resources. This has also caused the data quality generated in developing countries to be often poor. As a result, most governments in developing countries are in the process of improving quality in their health care systems through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an evaluation of implementing LabCraft to the Bloodbank at UNN Tromsø, based on a qualitative method, interviewing different users. Most challenges were directly or in- directly caused by the struggle between the top-down and the socio-technical approach. The topdown management-controlled approach used at hospitals where standardizations, cost saving and efficiency is key factors, is ...

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. ...

Purpose The purpose of this research was to develop a mobile phone-based educational game for children with type 1 diabetes. The game was expected to provide basic diabetes-related knowledge and help children improve their self-management skills. Motivation Diabetes as one of the most common non-communicable diseases worldwide is rapidly increasing in children and adolescents in many ...

The aim of this study was to review the different papers and articles that discuss applications of telemedicine in the dental field. This study is qualitative narrative review of literature Research of teledentistry literature was conducted in order to identify the relevant articles. The research focused on the electronic database of US National library of medicine .National institute of health ...

This thesis is an interpretive study examining national electronic Nursing and Care Messages (NUC messages) implemented into a local setting. From the outset the messages were created to support and enhance efficiency and quality for cross level communication when exchanging health information related to shared care. The study focuses on theory of standards and standardization as the NUC messages ...