title: The role of methodologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery processes for the year 2013.
abstract: This paper aims at further expanding the vision of future health care delivery systems presented by Haux et al. (2002). Starting from the observation that information and communication technology (ICT) is deeply transforming the shape of organizations as expected, we argue that the coordination of work activities is a fundamental need for any organization. This is even more important for health care organizations since there is an increasing pressure to increase quality of care they deliver without further increasing its costs. However ICT by itself will not cause the desired changes without rethining the way of managing best practice biomedical knowledge and care delivery processes. Thus the paper focuses on the need of developing intense research efforts in the fields of knowledge management and workflow modelling, which have been identified as fundamental to provide suitable solutions to the problems of designing and building innovative health care information systems. Moreover, the paper discusses the role of mobile communication systems. Moreover, the paper discusses the role of mobile communication and speech understanding technologies to support a satisfactory user-system interaction in daily work.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy. mstefa@aim.unipv.it
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008297:Male; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012984:Software