introduction: health information systems have the potential of improving the quality of healthcare and treatment procedures and supporting the physicians in their clinical diagnoses. nowadays, evaluating the usability is widely accepted as a crucial factor in the acceptance and success of the interactive healthcare systems. the present study aimed to evaluate the usability of ulite software bas...

Methods of economic evaluation, especially cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis, are widely used to examine new healthcare technologies. However, few economic evaluations of pharmacogenomics have been conducted, and pharmacogenomic researchers may be unfamiliar with how to review or conduct these analyses. This review provides an overview of the methods of economic evaluation a...

educational evaluations reveal degrees of value creation for stakeholders. the evaluation results can help to improve the quality of teaching and prevent to wasting educational efforts. in this study, using the kirkpatrick model (1994), the effectiveness on management development curriculums of the levels behavioral / applicable in descriptive and quasi- experimental method has been studied. sh...

performance-based budgeting adds effectiveness and economizing factors to traditional aspects of budgeting. this system distinguishes efficiency from effectiveness. efficiency emphasizes on the useful utilization of the resources concerned while effectiveness considers the performance. categorization of operations in performance-based budgeting is in a way that goals are expressed more transpar...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between different types of organisation and the results from economic evaluations. DESIGN Retrospective pairwise comparison of evidence submitted to the technology appraisal programme of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) by manufacturers of the relevant healthcare technologies and by contracted university based assessment groups. DATA ...

introduction: evaluation of human resources requires proper indicators for its performance measurement. in fact, compiling indexes consider as the basic source of information evaluation. the aim of this study was to compiling the basic human resources indicators in health system to provide enough information to evaluate human resource management in this sector. this work developed by designing ...

The concept of the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) provides a simple technical tool for summarising the impact a medical condition has on someone's life and the impact a health care intervention can have on that medical condition. In the former case, QALYs (and related concepts, such as disability-adjusted life years, DALYs) have been useful in producing summary statistics on the burden of di...

This article provides an overview of what system effectiveness means and how it should be measured. It is the first of two articles to appear in consecutive issues of the MIS. Quarterly. Starting with a definition of system effectiveness, this article examines evaluation of system effectiveness in terms of a conceptual hierarchy of system objectives. The hierarchy is used to discuss problems in...