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Impact of Outsourcing Healthcare Services Management on the Quality of these Services

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. Despite, the concept is relatively new in Iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. Thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

Identification of the Healthcare Services with Potential Induced Demand

Background and Objectives: Induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. Apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

e-Healthcare Interconnection Networking Services

The research effort for a national e-Health interconnection infrastructure and for the needs of supporting design guidelines is in great demand. Additional researches in eHealthcare network services are critical to universal deployment in operational and security service management aspects. This paper presents our solution framework for e-Healthcare interconnection infrastructure, operational m...

Epidemiology in primary healthcare services

• The EU/EAA influenza season started in week 1/2015, with 26% of sentinel specimens positive for influenza. • Subtype A(H3N2) viruses are dominant in almost all reporting European countries, and the majority of genetically characterised A(H3N2) viruses belong to subgroups distinct from the currently recommended vaccine-strain A/Texas/50/2012. • As a consequence of the mismatch between vaccine ...

Military ombudsman to again review mental health services.