Given the increased attention paid to the development of arts in healthcare settings, the need for a formalised training framework to enable artists to work comfortably and safely in healthcare settings has become pressing. This paper sets out a review of literature and best practice regarding the training of professional artists wishing to work in healthcare settings. The authors' research con...

The Internet and mobile networks have penetrated the healthcare sector due to their increased functionality, low cost, high reliability and easy-to-use nature. However, in such healthcare environment the privacy and security of the transmitted information must be preserved. When dealing with health sensitive information at times it is vital to protect the patient’s identity and their health sen...

I n 2003, the British Columbia Ministry of Health services contracted with the Centre for Health services and Policy Research at the university of British Columbia to conduct three years of work to establish a population-based information system to describe the primary healthcare (PHC) sector from temporal, geographic, population and provider perspectives. In this special issue of Healthcare Po...

The healthcare sector is growing rapidly and taking up a significant portion of the GDP in developed countries. The healthcare industry faces significant challenges such as ballooning costs, shortage of qualified personnel, rapidly aging population, and increase of chronic and epidemic diseases. Information technology (IT) has been suggested as a mitigator for some of these challenges. Particul...

In the USA, family planning clinics are primary providers of reproductive healthcare to young women and their male partners and have long provided quality sexually transmitted infection (STI) care and prevention. Chlamydia, an easily treatable STI that can lead to serious adverse outcomes if untreated, is the most common bacterial STI in the USA, and annual chlamydia screening is recommended fo...

Healthcare is an information intensive industry, yet Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been unable to infiltrate this sector successfully. With the growing trend towards a virtual health record, the healthcare sector is now trying to implement the electronic health record, which would contain all health and healthcare information relating to each patient. The aim of this pa...

T. W. Okell, P. Schmitt, X. Bi, M. A. Chappell, R. H. Tijssen, K. L. Miller, and P. Jezzard FMRIB Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, MR Application & Workflow Development, Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany, Cardiovascular MR R&D, Siemens Healthcare, Chicago, IL, United States, Institute of Biomedical Engineerin...

Participants 19 English speaking carers who attended the ward and 25 healthcare workers. Informal carers were those who provided physical or social care or assistance for another person. Without this help, the recipient would need health, social, or voluntary sector service intervention. Healthcare workers were nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, ambulance personnel, ...

What will the healthcare system and healthcare organizations look like in the year 2020? What requirements will they have for health human resources? This article is organized in five brief sections, beginning with looking backward to look forward and proceeding through key trends, organizational evolution by sector and future health organizations and concluding with 10 implications for health ...

CAIPIRINHA-DIXON-TWIST-VIBE-Based Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast Imaging For High Temporal and Spatial Resolution: Scanning Time Optimization Wen Hao, Bin Zhao, Hui Liu, Marcel D. Nickel, Elisabeth Weiland, and Guangbin Wang Magnetic resonance imaging, Shandong medical imaging research institution, Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China, MR Collaboration NE Asia, Siemens Healthcare, Shan...