introduction: health care is considered as one of the basic needs of human societies. health insurance is the most appropriate option for all individuals to enjoy equal health care. however, today, different types of health insurance are facing with various problems which need to be solved through new laws. therefore, health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa) was approved to s...

Many European governments are endeavouring to use IT to improve the efficiency of their public sectors. Healthcare is at the forefront of this 'revolution', with increasing investment in large-scale information systems (IS) projects. However, the widespread implementation of IS in the UK National Health Service (NHS) has proved very unsuccessful. In order to improve this established history of ...

Within the healthcare system, health services have been categorized into different levels to enhance management. The concept of service leveling involves provision in a sequential and adaptable manner. In event that specialized environment's client requires more advanced are not available within facility, patient is transferred an associated unit at same or higher level offers required services...

conclusions it is suggested that the steward of health in iran, the ministry of health, develops an appropriate infrastructure and finally puts a high priority on the implementation of the health information management system for elderly health sector in iran. background there are increasing change and development of information in healthcare systems. given the increase in aging population, man...

Introduction RTI International has worked on enhancing health information and disease surveillance systems in many countries, including The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Strengthening these systems is critical for all three of the Prevent, Detect and Respond domains within the Global Health Security Agenda. ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: although health system management is one of the main roles of health care providers, medical sciences students are not properly trained for it. the first national scientific olympiad for managerial reasoning and problem solving was designed to motivate students for acquiring managerial knowledge and skills, imp...