Tina Deignan, Michael P. Curry, Derek G. Doherty, Lucy Golden-Mason, Yuri Volkov, Suzanne Norris, Niamh Nolan, Oscar Traynor, Gerry McEntee, John E. Hegarty, Cliona O’Farrelly* Education and Research Centre, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland Liver Unit, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Institute of Immunology & Department of Biology, National Unive...

Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Microbial Ecology Group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System David Geffen School of Medi...

With advances in clinical sciences and medical technology, people are living longer and there is a greater demand for healthcare services. The Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human (Kohn et al., 2000) describes serious concerns in health care owing to undesirable outcomes related to safety and quality issues. These issues have been attributed to breakdowns in processes embedded in the ...

This paper and its presentation at Complexity Science in Practice: Understanding & Acting to Improve Health and Healthcare (Plexus Institute, 2003) is a result of a structured conversation among public health leaders and human systems dynamics practitioners in Minnesota. The effort was supported by the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, which would like to express appreciation to the persons who...

The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) gratefully acknowledges grants and conference support from the following organizations and agencies: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Susan G. Komen For The Cure; American Society of Clinical Oncology; US National Cancer Institute, Office of International Affairs; American Cancer Society; Lance Armstrong Foundation; US Agency for Healthcare Rese...

Regardless of where health reform efforts lead, the major stakeholders of the U.S. health system – patients, providers, payers, employers, communities, and government – will continue to demand greater value. The value concept relates to the quality of benefits and outcomes received for the price that is paid. Essentially, better value emerges with improvements in quality, delivery, access, and ...

background: increasing hospital costs and its social and cultural problems has led to the idea of providing healthcare services at home. because of infrastructural and implementation problems, providing healthcare at home in iran has not been initiated yet. therefore, this study set out to elaborate the need for a comprehensive system in order to provide this service in iran. methods: all artic...

INTRODUCTION The increasing spread of software components in the healthcare context renders explanatory guides relevant and mandatory to interpret laws and standards, and to support safe management of software products in healthcare. METHODOLOGY In 2012 a working group has been settled for the above purposes at Italian Electrotechnical Committee (CEI), made of experts from Italian National In...

The Institute of Medicine reports a growing demand in recent years for quality improvement within the healthcare industry. In response, numerous organizations have been involved in the development and reporting of quality measurement metrics. However, disparate data models from such organizations shift the burden of accurate and reliable metrics extraction and reporting to healthcare providers....

Introduction: In March of 2001, the Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, exposed the gap in the US healthcare system, pointing out the chasm between the way healthcare “is” and the way that healthcare “should be.” The authors reported that scientific knowledge about the best care is not applied systematically or expeditiously to clinical practice. It takes an average of 17 ...