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Latest issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT no 57, Autumn  2008)

This special issue, edited by Jeff Loos (a Doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), examines a variety of eHealth solutions which facilitate new forms of communication between clinicians and between clinicians and patients. The authors in this issue are all optimistic about the prospect of building systems which will make life better for patients and clinicians. A recurrent theme is the need to meet changing patient expectations. The overall message in this issue is that text messaging, PDAs, ubiquitous medical devices and Web 2.0 applications will allows patients and professionals to "do the previously impossible". What remains to be seen is whether these technologies may have any adverse, negative, harmful, or disadvantageous effects.

Jeannette Murphy
Senior Editor

Table of Contents:

• Putting ICT into STI Management by Dr Anatole S Menon-Johansson PHD, MRCP, MPH, Specialist Registrar Genitourinary Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• EpiSurveyor: An Open Source Revolution in Data Collection by Joel Selanikio, MD, FAAP, Director, DataDyne.org
• Using Ajax for Cleaner Software by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, MB BCHIR CANTAB
• Text Messaging for Health Promotion Among Adolescents by Devashish Saini MD MSHI, Resident Physician, General Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Designing for the Hospital Environment: Focusing on the Context by Yunan Chen, PHD, Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine
• Exploring the Role of Metadata in Health Information Applications by Erik Mitchell, Assistant Head for Technology Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
• Application of Mobile Computers and Wireless Technologies in Clinical Dentistry by Adesina Iluyemi, B. CH.D, MSC, PhD Candidate, Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, University of Portsmouth
• Mobile Computing References
• Diary - Health Informatics Conferences

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