chapter contribusion

Portable Health Records in a Mobile Society

 Empower Patients with Portable Health Records

chapter contribution;

Privacy

How do we maintain privacy while allowing

access to authorized users? Timed access /

automatic access expiration?

 2 pages and 3  references.

5.4. FITT Model

Healthcare information technologies,

including mobile ones are being used by

providers and patients at different levels.

Research shows various rates of adaption

and usage of information technologies, as

well as successful, marginal or failed

implementations of such technologies.

While there are a number of theories that

explain variation in adaption and usage, this

chapter presents a theory that explains

adaption of technologies in healthcare from

a perspective of Fit between Individual,

Task, and Technology. ( 3 pages and 3 pages)