Intelligent Physical Robots in Health Care: Systematic Literature Review.

Background: Intelligent physical robots based on artificial intelligence have been argued to bring about dramatic changes in health care services. Previous research has examined the use of intelligent physical robots in the health care context from different perspectives; however, an overview of the antecedents and consequences of intelligent physical robot use in health care is lacking in the literature.

Objective: In this paper, we aimed to provide an overview of the antecedents and consequences of intelligent physical robot use in health care and to propose potential agendas for future research through a systematic literature review.

Elderly Forgotten? Digital Exclusion in the Information Age and the Rising Grey Digital Divide.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being spread at an unprecedented rate across the globe. Yet, new research suggests that digital divide is not only continuing but also deepening at the same time. After access to basic ICT equipment, it is now the lack of skills and quality of hardware and software that leads to a continuing digital divide.

Electronic prescription as a driver for digitalization in Finnish pharmacies.

Background: Finnish community pharmacies have undergone digitalization during the past decade. The introduction of the electronic prescription has had a significant impact on pharmacy workflows, such as the dispensing process. This inevitably has significant sociotechnical implications.

Eliminating medicine waste in a Finnish university hospital - a qualitative study.

Background: Medicine waste in hospitals leads to severe economic loss. This waste emerges for a number of reasons. Medicines are often ordered in too large quantities, which leads to stock expiring without being dispensed.

A process evaluation of a mobile cooperation intervention: A mixed methods study.

Background: A mobile cooperation intervention was developed to facilitate the cooperation of nursing students with nurse teacher and to improve the students' clinical learning outcomes. The intervention consisted of training in a mobile application's functionality and its use during clinical practicum cooperation procedures.

Objectives: To describe the development of a mobile application for student-teacher cooperation and to examine the acceptability of the mobile cooperation intervention for advancing intervention development.

Green Turning Brown - Domain Engineering for Social and Health Services in Finland.

Being able to design information systems to an untouched domain, without the burden of existing information systems, especially legacy systems, is often seen as a dream of most information system professionals. Uncharted domains are anyway scarce, and often such greenfield projects turn into brownfield projects, also to projects where existing structures severely constrain the development of new systems. In this article we discuss the concepts of greenfield and brownfield domain engineering and software development, and reflect their possible messages to the re-engineering of the Finnish health- and social care ecosystem currently under way.

Effectiveness of a mobile cooperation intervention during the clinical practicum of nursing students: a parallel group randomized controlled trial protocol.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe a study protocol for a study evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile cooperation intervention to improve students' competence level, self-efficacy in clinical performance and satisfaction with the clinical learning environment.

Background: Nursing student-nurse teacher cooperation during the clinical practicum has a vital role in promoting the learning of students. Despite an increasing interest in using mobile technologies to improve the clinical practicum of students, there is limited robust evidence regarding their effectiveness.

Effects of electronic prescription on pharmacy productivity.

Electronic prescriptions affect pharmacy workflows. In this study, we measure the workflow efficiency in pharmacies in 2006 and 2012: both, in traditional workflow when electronic prescription was not in use, and in new direct delivery workflow, which is the mandated workflow model in the case of electronic prescriptions.

Promoting health in virtual worlds: lessons from second life.

Background: Social media services can help empower people to take greater responsibility for their health. For example, virtual worlds are media-rich environments that have many technically advantageous characteristics that can be used for Health 2.0 purposes.

Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patient education and cost of care.

Purpose: To describe and compare ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' reported cost of care (out-of-pocket costs, use of time, and consultations with healthcare organizations) and nurses' cost of care (use of time and consultations with other professionals such as other nurses, physicians, and anesthesiologists) when patients receive 2 different types of patient education (Internet-based or face-to-face).

Method: Pretest/posttest design.

Sample: Random assignment of all ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients in a university hospital in Finland.

Towards a National Health Information System evaluation.

Most EU Member States have a documented policy on eHealth. Documented follow-up and evaluation strategies for assessing whether national level systems have reached their set aims and outcomes are, however, rare. Methodologies for large scale information system assessment and evaluation are poorly established.

The creation and evaluation of an ambulatory orthopedic surgical patient education web site to support empowerment.

The use and evaluation of Web sites in ambulatory surgery patients' education are rare; hence, innovative approaches to educate these patients should be adopted and evaluated. The aim of this study was to describe the creation of and evaluate the utility and usability of an ambulatory orthopedic surgical patient education Web site. A descriptive study design was used.

Planning for national health information system evaluation.

Most EU member states have a documented policy on eHealth. Documented follow-up and evaluation policies to assess reaching of the set aims, as well as evaluating outcomes of implemented systems at a national level are, however, rare. Methodologies for large scale information system assessment and evaluation are poorly established.