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    • Telemedicine to support health care delivery in Nepal: a case study in Kathmandu Model Hospital 

      Rai, Sabitri (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-08-15)
      The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare termed as Telemedicine has acted as a tool to improve access and quality in healthcare. In developing countries where a majority of the population resides in remote areas with no essential health care facilities, telemedicine seems to be a solution. Telemedicine has the potential to not only improve access but also to improve ...

    • To use, or not to use, that is the question 

      Hagen, Oddvar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-31)
      Video conferencing is used as communication between smaller institutions and hospital to access emergency specialists.What are the reasons for using a video-congerence solution compared with traditional communication between institutions. Professional health workers are interviewed according their preferences after more than one year after the implementation at their institution.

    • Twenty years with teledermatology in North Norway 

      Ali, Md. Eunus (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-05-15)
      ‘A picture is worth more than a thousand words’ - (Mann & Colven, University of Washington Medical School), that simply can justify the necessity of teledermatology. In this paper, five information technology (IT) efforts in the field of teledermatology that based on skin image transmission procedure and their historical transformations in context of the notions of information infrastructures and ...

    • The use of cell phone for maternal health: the Abiye project 

      Oyeyemi, Sunday Oluwafemi (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-12-15)
      Background: Maternal health is a public health concern worldwide, especially in the sub-Saharan African countries, where the burden of maternal death is the highest in the world. A woman dies of pregnancy or childbirth related complications about every 90 seconds every day, and more than 95 per cent of these deaths occur in the sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The rapidly growing presence of cell ...

    • The Use of Context Data in Elective Surgery Scheduling and Planning. A literature review 

      Knutsen, Marie (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine how the use of context data in scheduling tools can contribute to the reduction of elective surgery cancellations. A literature review, following the recommendations to systematic reviews, was conducted in order to gather information on what context data could be used to improve elective surgery scheduling, and how the use of these data could affect elective ...

    • Use of Mobile health applications in obstetric care: A review 

      Pradhan, Neha (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-15)
      Introduction: Mhealth is a medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants, and other wireless devices. Mhealth technology has many important usage in obstetric care such as access to emergency obstetric response and point of care support, health promotion, maternity records into a mobile application, and ...

    • Users’ experiences with clinical video conferencing at a resource centre for rare disorders 

      Hagen, Kari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-14)
      The ambulatory consulting service is a corner stone in the services of a resource centre for rare disorders. Videoconferencing is considered an alternative way of meeting, to decrease costs and time spent on travelling and to increase the number of professionals from Frambu participating at the conference. Additionally, it can lead to a broader multidisciplinary scope. The Technology Acceptance ...

    • Visualization of contagious disease outbreak information for primary care physicians 

      Aronsen, Gudleif (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-07-12)
      This thesis is a part of an ongoing project at NST. This ongoing project has the intention to make a system for early detection of contagious diseases based on symptoms and diagnosis. The main goal of this project is to develop a system that will help detect outbreaks of contagious diseases. The system intends to create a logic model based on collected data from symptoms and diagnosis entered into ...

    • Writing electronic nursing care plans. An approach to facilitate navigating the standardized Nursing vocabularies NANDA and NIC 

      Igesund, Harald (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-06)
      The introduction of the standardized nursing languages NANDA and NIC to write electronic care plans is hard for nurses, as reported by several projects. Both the need to relate to a new software tool and to the totally unknown domains of the standardized languages contributes to this. With an existing tool for care plan writing as basis, we have used the unified process to develop an improved tool, ...