Internet In Workplace Research Articles

Internet use for patient care and health research: A cross-sectional study among physicians in a teaching hospital of Eastern India.

Background:Internet is the world's largest network of information and communication services. The internet is widely used in medicine and had a significant impact on research, training, and patient care.Objectives:(1) To assess internet use to obtain health information for patient care among physicians of a medical college hospital. (2) To investigate the utilization of the internet during their daily practice and to know the reasons for its use and nonuse.Materials and Methods:A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted for a period of 2 months of May and June 2015 in a Medical College Hospital of Eastern India. A convenient sample of 200 physicians was included in the study. Data regarding access of internet in workplace, time spent on the internet for medical and nonmedical purposes, opinions regarding use of the internet to update medical knowledge, obstacles that affect its use, etc., were collected. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20.Results:It was seen that 47% doctors use laptop for accessing internet, followed by mobiles (34%). E-mail was the main purpose (41%) of internet use, followed by research (32.5%). Majority told that e-mail was the main purpose of last internet use (46.5%), followed by browsing medical resources (23%), research (15.5%), and patient care (12.5%). 97.5% agreed that they had ever browsed internet for patient care and 85.5% doctors agreed that they had obtained relevant information. 26.5% told that they need training for accessing free full-text electronic journals and 25% need training to access the sources for best clinical evidence for patient care. Other training needs were literature search (18%), downloading textbooks and other resources (15.5%), and searching internet sites for medical information (10%).Conclusion:Providing training for improvement of searching skills for obtaining up-to-date medical information, and evidence-based medicine from internet will improve their practice of medicine.

What Do Human Resources Managers Think About the Employee’s Internet Usage ?

Despite the many advantages of internet usage in organizations, in recent years misuse of internet in work place has been seen as a potentially serious problem. This topic is also interesting for Turkey, which is a developing Eurasian Country in e-revolution. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the current state of internet usage in firms from the perspective of human resource managers and to try to find out their perceptions about non-work related internet usage, their internet usage policies, methods and applications The data included in this study were obtained from 130 company which were ranked in Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s, “ 250 Top Companies in Bursa” Index. The results show that human resource managers perception’s regarding the employees non-limiting internet usage is positive, on the other hand descriptive analysis show that 77.6 percentage of the firms are using monitoring software system in order to cope with non-work related internet usage. Detailed findings and contributions have been discussed.

The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology is Transforming Work

The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology is Transforming Work

The Internet in the workplace

The Internet in the workplace