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Record Nr.

UNINA9910231237403321

Autore

Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

Titolo

Information Infrastructures within European Health Care [[electronic resource] ] : Working with the Installed Base / / edited by Margunn Aanestad, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2017

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-51020-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 263 p. 37 illus., 21 illus. in color.)

Collana

Health Informatics, , 1431-1917

Disciplina

502.85

Soggetti

Health informatics

Health administration

Public administration

Health Informatics

Health Administration

Public Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Overview of e-prescription and public patient-oriented web platforms -- Services supported aims-antecedents-the role of national and EU policies -- Information infrastructures and notions related to them, definition and role of the installed base -- Structure and process for infrastructural development -- e-prescription: Germany, Greece, Norway, Spain, UK -- Cross-country commentary -- Public patient-oriented web platforms: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK -- Cross-country commentary -- A framework for making sense and working with the installed base.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book consolidates experiences from across Europe on the design, development, implementation and evolution of inter-organisational information infrastructures for healthcare. It provides insights with practical relevance for those involved or interested in the planning and implementation of such infrastructures and includes 11 empirical cases



on the introduction of core infrastructural arrangements in different national settings: six cases investigate the use of e-prescriptions and five the public platforms for patient-oriented eHealth services. Both are linked to different types of aims. E-prescription initiatives are usually seen as opportunities to improve healthcare delivery by systematic change (controlling medication costs, improving patient safety and providing rich information for policy making and performance management). Public platforms for patient-oriented eHealth services are seen as opportunities for change and innovation, aiming to strengthen the patients’ role and facilitate a shift from provider-centered healthcare towards patient-centeredness. For both types of initiatives, there is a requirement to mix novelty with pre-existing infrastructural components. The cases are analysed by leading experts in health information systems through a common theoretical framework, exploring the role of the pre-existing sociotechnical basis, i.e. the installed base, and how it fundamentally impacts the evolution of information infrastructures. The book advances an “installed base sensitivity” in decision-making both at the policy/strategy level and at the concrete eHealth design level and shows how practitioners and policy-makers can address the complexity of infrastructures that facilitate information flows across organisational boundaries.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557323203321

Autore

Prestipino Santi

Titolo

Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Soggetti

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals" that was published in Entropy (MDPI). The articles collected in the book deal with some topical trends in the statistical physics of condensed-matter systems. Such contributions provide an indication of the variety of problems that can arise in the study of strongly correlated particles, giving at the same time a representative account of the methods employed in this widespread field of research.