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eICU
Electronic intensive care units
Definition
Online healthcare management refers to all activities that facilitate healthcare delivery and management by means of electronic data transmission, storage, and retrieval, primarily through the Internet in a private and secure fashion.
Introduction
Over the last couple of decades, the Internet has created a paradigm shift in how businesses operate. It has enabled the development of myriad technologies, such as web services and enterprise server applications, and as a result, industries increasingly use the Internet as a medium of secure data transmission and communication; it has become an essential component of most businesses. Even as most industries leverage the benefits of the Internet, a majority of healthcare delivery today is still carried out in the traditional brick-and-mortar infrastructure. This is primarily because healthcare delivery largely...
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Prof. Jaideep Srivastava, the research supervisor for this study, consults with Allina Health, the research sponsor. Their relationship has been reviewed and managed by University of Minnesota in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.
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Desikan, P., Sathyanarayana, A., Srivastava, J. (2016). Online Healthcare Management. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_82-1
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