Legal Problems Facing Modern Hospitals

Legal and political issues facing telemedicine.

Weakness of Modern Hospitals

IntroductIon Until some decades ago, health care services were primarily supplied inside hospitals. The patient had to move from his or her home to the hospital, where various diagnostic and therapeutic treatments were provided. Moreover, inside the same hospital, the various tools and processes were insulated and autonomous. Patients and doctors had to move from one tool to another, often plac...

1 Problems Facing Theory

Current theory-guided learning systems are innexible, in that they are committed to performing one particular class of theory corrections ; this is problematic because in some cases special-purpose theory-guided learning systems can dramatically outperform general-purpose ones. To address this problem , we describe a new system in which theory-guided learning is separated into two phases. The r...

Issues and challenges facing rural hospitals.

Australia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services. Future opportunities include more formal integration with community service throu...

Challenges facing modern automated laboratories' robotic applications

published in Journal of Automatic Chemistry, Vol. 12, No. 6. have doubts about the reliability of laboratory robots, while many others have become more comfortable with the technology and the degree of sophistication it achieved. Laboratory robots have provided the means to automate a variety of applications, especially within the pharmaceutical industry. Robots, like many other sophisticated i...