An e-Healthcare Mobile Application

Abstract

This chapter presents a longitudinal study on the implementation of an e-health mobile application, DITIS, which supports network collaboration for home healthcare. By adopting the stakeholders’ analysis, the study explores the various groups that have directly or indirectly supported the system during its implementation. The system was originally developed with a view to address the difficulties of communication and continuity of care between the members of a home healthcare multidisciplinary team and between the team and oncologists often hundreds of kilometers away. DITIS evolved to be much more than that and even though it was introduced 5 years ago, it is considered a novel application. Despite this, its implementation has been slow, and several challenges, including the system’s sustainability, have to be faced. This chapter aims to understand these challenges and the results of the study point to a diversity of interests and different degrees of support.

Classification of Pharmaceutical Policy Measures During the Portuguese Financial Crisis

“…2 The hierarchical classification resulting from the MoU was compared to frameworks that were used to classify and evaluate the impact of policy measures during the same period of time. 8-13 The MoU was able to reproduce the most commonly used descriptors, with the exception of the individualization of “Generic policies.” Though not considered as an individual category, the majority of the specific measures included in the MoU focused on such policies. To improve reproducibility, “Generic policies” was included in our hierarchical classification.…”

“…Based on published literature 8,10-17 the first six descriptors were further divided into a second level, including whether or not they could be classified as austerity measures.…”