What Technologies Based on Unique Patient Identifiers Are Used for Patient Identification in Healthcare?

Ensuring the correct identification of the patient is key to matching the correct patients with the proper care (e.g. correct administration of medications and treatments), but it is also applied, for example, to monitoring the patient's movement in the hospital environment.

Internet of Medical Things Security Frameworks for Risk Assessment and Management: A Scoping Review.

Background: The massive expansion of the Internet of medical things (IoMT) technology brings many opportunities for improving healthcare. At the same time, their use increases security risks, brings security and privacy concerns, and threatens the functioning of healthcare facilities or healthcare provision.

Purpose: This scoping review aims to identify progress in designing risk assessment and management frameworks for IoMT security.

Adoption of a COVID-19 Contact Tracing App by Czech Youth: Cross-Cultural Replication Study.

Background: During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the role of digital contact tracing (DCT) intensified. However, the uptake of this technology expectedly differed among age cohorts and national cultures. Various conceptual tools were introduced to strengthen DCT research from a theoretical perspective.

On the Current Connection and Relation Between Health Informatics and Social Informatics.

Scholars from the health and medical sciences have recently proposed the term social informatics (SI) as a new scientific subfield of health informatics (HI). However, SI is not a new academic concept; in fact, it has been continuously used in the social sciences and informatics since the 1970s. Although the dominant understanding of SI was established in the 1990s in the United States, a rich international perspective on SI has existed since the 1970s in other regions of the world.

Usage of eHealth/mHealth Services among Young Czech Adults and the Impact of COVID-19: An Explorative Survey.

Various mHealth/eHealth services play an increasingly important role in healthcare systems and personal lifestyle management. Yet, the relative popularity of these services among the young population of the Czech Republic was not known. Therefore, we carried out an on-line survey with a convenience sample ( = 299) of young adults aged 18-29 and living in the Czech Republic.

RUDO: A Home Ambient Intelligence System for Blind People.

The article introduces an ambient intelligence system for blind people which besides providing assistance in home environment also helps with various situations and roles in which blind people may find themselves involved. RUDO, the designed system, comprises several modules that mainly support or ensure recognition of approaching people, alerting to other household members' movement in the flat, work on a computer, supervision of (sighted) children, cooperation of a sighted and a blind person (e.g.