Author Archives: mariahagglund

Building usability into national eHealth strategies

Posted on June 18, 2013 by mariahagglund

Last week, I (together with my good friend and former colleague Isabella Scandurra, @isadurra on twitter) presented a paper at the 4th international workshop on Infrastructures for Healthcare: Action Research, Interventions, and Participatory Design. The paper describes results from a … Continue reading →

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Shortlisted for competition to find the most innovative public initiatives in Europe!

Posted on June 5, 2013 by mariahagglund

I am very proud of one of the projects I am currently involved in – My Healthcare Flows (or My Care Pathways as we called it before). The European Commission has shortlisted 18 public authorities for its competition to find … Continue reading →

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User-Centered Design – is everyone doing that?

Posted on May 31, 2013 by mariahagglund

I read a post on twitter recently saying that the main difficulty for advocates of patient-centered care today is that everyone believes they are doing patient-centered care. The essence of the challenge in achieving pt-centered care: most doc think they're … Continue reading →

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Health Informatics – our students’ website

Posted on April 3, 2013 by mariahagglund

I haven’t written in a long time, mostly because I have been so busy teaching at the international master programme in health informatics here at KI. This year we have a great group of students, and in their spare time … Continue reading →

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Patient Engagement Framework from the National eHealth Collaborative

Posted on November 20, 2012 by mariahagglund

The Patient Engagement Framework is a model created by the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) to guide healthcare organizations in developing and strengthening their patient engagement strategies through the use of eHealth tools and resources. The framework describes patient engagement as different stages; (1) … Continue reading →

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Moving clearance – free copies of PhD thesis for all!

Posted on November 19, 2012 by mariahagglund

In January our whole department will be moving to a new building. There’s a sense of excitement and anticipation in the air, but in my corner of our office I am sometimes overwhelmed by a feeling of despair as I … Continue reading →

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Why should I read my health records?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by mariahagglund

Yesterday I was at a network meeting for women working with IT and at dinner of course everyone got interested when I said I do research in health informatics (it’s definitely an area that everyone can relate to but don’t … Continue reading →

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