Annotated Bibliography



Annotated bibliography

Calif, A.P. (2011), VMware, Healthcare Organizations Accelerate Adoption of EMR with VMware View, Data retrieved from http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/healthcaremomentum2011.html dated on 30th July, 2013.

This article is written by Calif, and it was published in 2011. As electronic medical records are newer applications in the health care system, this article evaluates their importance in the healthy care system. The article has adopted the method of comparative analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of this application in the health care organization. The author has taken various hospitals and explained the benefits of implementation of Electronic medical records in them the author Calif himself is an active prominent figure of virtualization and cloud infrastructure.

Wang, W.S., Chen, H.W., Ong, S.C., Liu, L., Chuang, W.Y (2006|), RFID Application in Hospitals: A Case Study on a Demonstration RFID Project in a Taiwan Hospital, Data retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1579665&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D1579665 dated on 30th July, 2013.

This article has taken the newer application called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the health care system for the assessment of its effectiveness. The research article evaluated the effectiveness of this application in terms of reducing the health care costs and improvement in the patient related medical services. The researchers used the method of case study to measure the effectiveness in a hospital located in Taiwan. The research also studied how the project was planned and implemented to evaluate its effectiveness in a cost effective manner accordingly.

Singer, A.P., Martin, K.D., Purdy, L. (2000), Priority setting for new technologies in medicine: qualitative case study, BMJ, vol.25; 321(7272), pp.1316-1318, Data retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC27534/ dated on 30th July, 2013.

In this article Singer, Martin, Purdy, have described how a standard is set once a new technology or application is introduced in the market. Prioritization is essential in terms of measuring effectiveness, as this process helps in evaluating the reimbursement of the innovative application. The methods used in this study are qualitative case study with incorporation of grounded theory.

Goldzweig, L.C., Towfigh, A., Maglione, M., Shekelle, G.P. (2009), Costs And Benefits Of Health Information Technology: New Trends From The Literature, vol. 28 no. 2 w282-w293, Data retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/2/w282.short dated on 30th July, 2013.

As information technology is the newest and most well adopted innovation in the health care system, in this article, the authors have taken it as their main topic. In order to measure its effectiveness in terms of cost and implementation, the authors have selected systemic review of the publication that was published in between the year 2004-2007. The researchers concluded that although the newer application is beneficial, yet is requires better communication and partnership between the public and private sectors for its implementation.

Kaplan, B. (2001), Evaluating informatics applications-some alternative approaches: theory, social interactions, and call for methodological pluralism, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol. 64, Issue 1, pp. 39-56, Data retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505601001848 dated on 30th July, 2013.

Kaplan in his research has stated that in order to measure the effectiveness of the newer health care technologies, or to evaluate the health care process, randomized control trials holds gold ...