Structuring and designing web information system for stroke care

Abstract

The rapid development of information technology is a powerful instrument for organizational problem-solving to help with establishing general information systems behavior. The choice of medium is important to insure the success of message delivery. The Internet plays an important role in providing information in a timely manner and in a way that can reach a large geographical area. Internet/web systems mean that business, government, or consumers can access the information (Walter and Scott, 2006). Nowadays, an important use of the Internet is to spread information with an emphasis on health. For more than thirty years, clinicians, health service researchers and others have been investigating the use of advanced telecommunications and information technologies to improve healthcare as mentioned by Hawkey et al. (2007). Health information includes stroke and cancer awareness to inform the public about how to detect and cope with situations related to these two diseases.