Publications in Medical Journals

O'Mahony B, Power L, O'Reilly C, Murray F. To IT or not to IT... characteristics of computerised general practices in the South East of Ireland. Forum, Joural of the Irish College of General Practitioners 2006; September.

O'Mahony B, O'Neill Y, Lynch C, Fennessy M, Lanigan AM, O'Reilly O. Morbidity Data Collection in General Practice: Experience in the South Eastern Health Board 1998-1999. Irish Medical Journal 2001: 94: 299-302. [fulltext]

Burke K, Clune B, O'Mahony B. Partnership approach to embracing email. Forum, Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners 2000; August; 22-23. [fulltext]

O'Mahony B. User Centered Health Care. Irish Medical Journal 2000; 93: 8. [fulltext]

O'Mahony B. GPIT Web: an Internet gateway for Irish General Practitioners. Forum, Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners 1999; Vol 16 November: 16.

O'Mahony B. Irish Health Care Web Sites: A Review. Irish Medical Journal 1999; 92: 334-337.

O'Mahony B. The Electronic Medical Record and the Internet. Journal of Informatics in Primary Care 1998; May: 7-11. [fulltext]

O'Mahony B, Arrigan M, Scanlan A. Influenza vaccination: a workload and cost study. Forum, Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners 1998; Vol 15 May: 43-44.

O'Mahony B, Culhane A, Rouse JM, Ryan F, Shannon W. Keeping up to date: a challenge for teaching practices. Irish Medical Journal 1995; 88: 170-1.

Culhane A, O'Mahony B. An on-line solution to clinical problems. Forum, Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners 1994; April: 21-22.

O'Mahony B. Interactions between a general practitioner and representatives of drug companies. British Medical Journal 1993; 306: 1649.

Ryan F, O'Reilly O, O'Mahony B. Investigation of a viral illness outbreak. Forum, Journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners 1993; Vol 9 June: 56-60.

Publications in the Irish Medical News

Listening to National Public Radio, published 8/1/2007 [fulltext]

The Trouble with SPAM, published 4/12/2006 [fulltext]

Doctors have yet to fully respond to the Internet, published 13/11/2006 [fulltext]

Learning from the UK IT experience, published 2/10/2006 [fulltext]

What information do clinicians want? published 24/7/2006 [fulltext]

Become your own media manager, published 8/5/2006 [fulltext]

Protecting your laptop and your peace of mind, published 27/3/2006 [fulltext]

A unique health identifier: opportunities and threats, published 27/2/2006 [fulltext]

SNOMED CT - a clinical coding system, published 30/1/2006 [fulltext]

Going beyond google - uptodate medical information online, published 1/11/2005 [fulltext]

Making the Most of Broadband, published 11/4/2005 [fulltext]

Common Sense Advice on Safe Computing, published 24/5/2004

Electronic Voting - digital democracy?, published 23/2/2004

Ultimate Christmas gift for that music lover in your life, published 1/12/2003

Coping with spam: how to deal with unwanted email, published 14/7/2003

Wireless networking comes of age, published 24/2/2003

Buying a new desktop computer in 2003, published 17/12/2002

The benefits of Acrobat Reader, published 11/11/2002

Health Level Seven: glue for information systems, published 19/8/2002

Infrequently-asked questions on handheld computers in healthcare, published 25/3/2002

Protecting your privacy on the web, published 21/5/2001

Papers and discussion documents

Irish Health Care and the Internet: Growing Pains
    Thesis for MSc in Health Informatics with University of Southampton [abstract]

Controlling Drug Costs in Irish General Practice: a spoonful of sugar
    Indicative drug budgeting, Irish style [abstract] [fulltext]

Reengineering Irish General Practice
    Applying the management theory of reengineering to general practice [fulltext]

International classification of primary care (ICPC): comments and comparisons
    The structure and development of ICPC [fulltext]

An analysis of a primary childhood vaccination information system
    The information system of a vaccination programme

The Newton: a palmtop computer for healthcare professionals
    Living and working with a palmtop

Working the seam: general practice epidemiology
    A description of the morbidity pattern in a rural Irish General Practice [fulltext]

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