نتایج جستجو برای: healthcare delivery
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“We’re at the eye of the storm,” said Nancy Koenig, general manager of Merge, an IBM Company, referring to the three major trends she believes are hitting healthcare at exactly the same moment. The trends she believes will transform healthcare and, with it, diagnostics, are: • Payment reform, • More attention to appropriateness of use criteria, and • A renewed focus on quality and outcomes. And...
Population aging, rapidly increasing costs of healthcare and the growing burden of chronic disease are challenges to health systems worldwide. To meet these challenges will require new approaches to healthcare delivery and comprehensive population health management. Within the context of healthcare reform initiatives, important innovations in delivery system organization in the United States ar...
In the past decade, technology growth in healthcare has exploded, and along with the tide of newly emerging technology comes the smartphone and accompanying applications. A smartphone is a cellular telephone with additional features including cameras, video playback, MP3 player, built-in applications, and Internet access for Web browsing and e-mail. Smartphone sales are predicted to reach 1.5 b...
BACKGROUND E-health is an essential information sharing tool in healthcare management and delivery worldwide. However, utilization of e-health may only be possible if healthcare professionals have positive attitudes towards e-health. This study aimed to determine the relationships between healthcare professionals' attitudes towards e-health, level of ICT skills and e-Health use in healthcare de...
The year is 2009, and America is once again grappling with ‘‘healthcare reform.’’ Health costs are climbing at an unsustainable rate, already consuming 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product, nearly twice that of other industrialized nations. An estimated 46 million US citizens are without any healthcare insurance at all, and another 25 million do not have sufficient insurance to adequately...
BACKGROUND The current systems of healthcare delivery in the United States suffer from problems that often leave patients with inadequate quality of care. In their report entitled "Crossing the Quality Chasm," the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified reasons for poor and/or inconsistent quality of healthcare delivery and provided recommendations to improve it. The purpose of this review is to...
For more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. Decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. Jalal Mohammed, Nicola North, and Toni Ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...
If pressed to identify the person or persons who has most directly affected their health and healthcare, most people would name their family members and friends, along with doctors, nurses, and others they’ve encountered at clinics or hospitals. Few would identify a politician or other policymaker because health policy is made far from the bedside. Yet the enactment of health policies can be tr...
An efficient, integrated health services delivery enterprise requires the ability to coordinate service delivery across the provider network and avoid duplication of services. It must be able to associate relevant clinical information with patients regardless of which facility delivered the services. There are significant challenges in collecting, organizing, and extracting value from data coll...
Rheumatic diseases are often chronic and involve a lifetime of suffering. The focus of rheumatology care is to support patients to manage their lives and master their disease. Healthcare providers and patients have different views on the consequences of living with rheumatic diseases and patients are reporting unmet healthcare needs. There is a need to integrate providers' perspective to develo...
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