Scalable office-based health care

Health care of adolescents by office-based physicians: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1980-81.

The Oregon Health Plan: predictors of office-based diabetic quality of care.

OBJECTIVE In 1994, the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) expanded basic Medicaid insurance to residents under the federal poverty limit, adopted a prioritized limited benefits package, and converted to managed care. The quality of care in predominantly Medicaid populations with diabetes has not been previously described. In OHP enrollees, we examined predictors of diabetes care based on American Diabete...

Office-based nursing staff management of hypertension in primary care.

A family medicine practice in a large multi-specialty clinic undertook a quality improvement initiative focusing on blood pressure control. Current rooming procedures were reviewed, including obtaining accurate and reliable blood pressures. All rooming staff were instructed how to take an accurate blood pressure and were observed at random over a 3-month period to ensure continued accuracy. Roo...

Smart RFID Based Design for Inventory Management in Health Care

 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is used to identify the characteristics of an object wirelessly using radio waves. The purpose of this technology in this study is mainly focused on healthcare for inventory management and theft control replacing the manual logs. The storage and tracking of high-cost inventory items is developed. Automatic reordering and billing interfaces are designed for...

A Methodology for Modeling Front Office and Patient Care Processes in Ambulatory Health Care

Although discrete event simulation has made significant progress in the health care field, it has been tested primarily in hospitals and specialty clinics. Our mission was to assess the effectiveness and economics of simulation in free standing ambulatory health care settings. Our findings to date indicate a good fit of simulation tools for the objective of total business process improvement. I...