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The aim of this paper was to report patient valuation of usability with our telemedicine system and to explore the effect of pandemic in its behavior. We conducted a cross-sectional study based on the prospective recollection of the results of the Spanish abbreviated version of the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ), from October 2019 to July 2020. We observed an inflection point of growth of answers during the pandemic era and a trend of decrease in usability valuations coinciding with the massive and forced implementation of the system after lockdown. This effect was transitory, evidencing an improvement over time. These results might be explained with a sociotechnical approach that includes considering the learning curve and suggest the importance of a telemedicine usability tool to guide decision-making. In conclusion, tools to assess telemedicine services may identify facilitators and barriers to its use in a highly changing social and technological context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telehealth is available world-wide and in addition to clinical uses, it can also be used to provide education for health professionals, supporting e-Networking. However, within New Zealand the uptake and widespread use of telehealth remains low, and why telehealth is not used more is not understood. This study describes nurse educators use of telehealth for education and identifies barriers and facilitators to increase the uptake of telehealth amongst nurse educators. An on-line survey administered using Survey Monkey had a response rate of 57% (n=19). Equipment that was not user friendly and a lack of initial training were recognised as barriers to their uptake of telehealth. Telehealth training and support, and local champions were identified facilitators to increase the uptake of telehealth. Recommendations include the need for early adopting nurse educators to be recognised and encouraged, to role model good practice in telehealth, and mentor and support others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficient and secure cross-border eHealth data exchange has been recently identified by the European Commission as one of the top-three priorities for the digital transformation of health and care in the European Union. To this end, various organizational, legal, ethical, and technical challenges, related to citizens’ privacy and health data security arise. This paper discusses an online survey that was conducted with the participation of European citizens, aiming to identify how they feel about exchanging their health data with healthcare professionals or eHealth service providers and to what extent they are aware of the privacy, legal, security, and technology acceptance issues (e.g. use of biometrics, mobile apps, etc.). The survey rationale, structure, and results are presented, while potential barriers and facilitators regarding crossborder health data exchange and the adoption of eHealth solutions at large are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open access provides an alternative opportunity of publishing research articles besides the traditional subscription-based publication model. Facilitating higher visibility, accessibility, and dissemination, among others, open access addresses modern needs of our information and communication society. Though these factors are vital, there also do exist initial problems to become prevalent. Especially, costs like article publication charges seem to have an impact on the author's decision not to publish open access. In order to gain a deeper insight on incentives for open access publishing (as well as on barriers for not publishing open access), we developed a specific survey within the scope of our Trans-O-MIM project. Conducted at HEC2016, we primarily involved participants of the Annual General Assembly of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). As main incentives and motivation for open access publishing had been identified: article indexing, impact factor, accessibility/availability, dissemination, and visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To address current key problems of medical documentation: lack of transparency, overwhelming amount of medical contents to be documented and missing interoperability, the Portal of Medical Data Models (http://medical-datamodels. org/) was established in 2012. Constantly evolving, four years later, the portal displays more than 8900 medical data models with more than 250000 items, of which 84 % have been semantically annotated with UMLS codes to support interoperability. Giving an update on new functions and contents of the portal, two additional export formats have been implemented, allowing the reuse of forms such as HL7's framework Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Questionnaires, as well as the OpenDataKit format. Future projects include the implementation of an ODMtoOpenClinica converter, as well as supporting the reuse of forms with Apple's ResearchKit and Android's ResearchStack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increased focus on and use of citizen/patient generated health data has spurred a wide range of personal health technology projects within digital intervention in health, e.g. telehealth. These developments are focused on objectives of improving health, but also claiming to provide health services at a lower cost. However, the question is: do the ways healthcare technologies are designed and developed support and improve healthcare services for those who need it the most? Survey data from our study point toward health informatics challenges in reaching the people who are considered in 'health risk' group, who, in this study, are interpreted as people with low level of education. The study shows that this group is less likely to use and communicate through health information technologies (HIT) and is generally more sceptical towards the benefits of HIT. We conclude that there is a need to pay specific attention to the patient groups that are socio-economically and health wise weakest during HIT design and development. It would also provide equality and equity in digital health intervention and access to healthcare for them in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report our experiences from the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC),"eHealth – Opportunities and Challenges", run by Karolinska Institutet using the edx platform both as session-based and self-paced versions between 2015 and 2016. In total, 13,302 students from 162 different countries were enrolled in our courses during the two-year period whereof 573 completed them. 331 students answered an exit survey after finishing the course which was analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods. As positive outcomes of the course, students highlighted set-up and content of the course, the pedagogical approach and the consistent international focus. Students lacked more practical case studies, more interactive discussions and proposed advanced follow-up courses on certain topics. Faculty lacked better functions for management of the discussion forum. Major advantages of the MOOC were mutual learning and exchange of health informatics experiences from around the world that would have been difficult to achieve in traditional learning contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research was to record the differences in picture archiving and communication system (PACS) settings in hospitals. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 261 hospitals that used the PACS system in Japan. As a result, the image deletion method in the PACS server, and other rules were different among hospitals. Furthermore, these variations were dependent on settings of each medical institution. It seemed necessary to define standardized rules for safe image management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this preliminary study is to present the usage behaviour of mHealth applications. A survey was conducted among 352 Smartphone users; 109 of them had used mHealth applications as well. The usage of these applications seemed to be quite low. Young people had used mHealth applications more than the elders. Also, there was not found a statistically significant relationship between the gender and the usage of mHealth applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]