Managing healthcare performance in analytical framework

Managing healthcare technology in quality management framework

Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an integ...

Paying for Performance in Healthcare Organisations

Aligning Financial Incentives (FIs) to health policy goals is becoming increasingly popular. In many cases, such initiatives have failed to deliver anticipated benefits. Attributing this to the actions of self-interested and resistant professionals is not an entirely helpful approach. It is important to avoid simplistic assumptions to build knowledge of how and why schemes are implemented in pr...

Analytical Framework for the Performance Analysis of Multiple Antenna Systems

An Analytical Framework for Managed Lane Facility Performance Evaluation

BY XIAOYUE CATHY LIU, E.I.T., YINHAI WANG, PH.D., BASTIAN J. SCHROEDER, PH.D., AND NAGUI M. ROUPHAIL, PH.D. Introduction According to the 2011 Urban Mobility Report,1 roadway congestion cost a total of $101 billion and induced a total delay of 4.8 billion hours in the United States in 2010, with approximately 60 percent of the congestion occurring on freeways. Strategies have been implemented t...

Managing Socio-technical Interactions in Healthcare Systems

We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, exhibit interactions between humans (social components) and technical components (devices, computer-based systems, and so on) that are critical for the domain in which they operate. Our framework is based on a new class of archi...