Biomaterials are omnipresent in today's healthcare services and employed various applications, including implants, sensors, accessories, drug delivery systems. Unfavorable host immunological responses frequently jeopardize the efficacy...

Personalized healthcare (pHealth) is a collective term aiming to reflect all modes of patient-centric healthcare delivery via advanced technology means. Personalized health involves the utilization of micro and nanotechnology advances, molecular biology, implantable sensors, textile innovations and mobile information & communication technology (mICT) to create individualized monitoring and trea...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed at finding out clients' perceptions of the quality of healthcare delivery at the district level in rural Ghana, using the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem District as a case study. DESIGN 803 patients were purposively selected and interviewed after visits to health facilities using a pretested questionnaire, while focus group discussions were held in 13 communities. The st...

Due to demographic changes, European healthcare systems face two serious threats: healthcare delivery may become inadequate to perceived needs of the citizens or the cost may spiral out of control. With the decrease in the labour force, there is an urgent need to make more health services mobile allowing citizens with chronic diseases stay longer in the labour markets, reduce the number of lost...

Personalised nutrition (PN) has the potential to reduce disease risk and optimise health and performance. Although previous research has shown good acceptance of the concept of PN in the UK, preferences regarding the delivery of a PN service (e.g. online v. face-to-face) are not fully understood. It is anticipated that the presence of a free at point of delivery healthcare system, the National ...

Upcoming changes to the healthcare delivery system, detailed in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; Public Law No: 111–148, March 23, 2010), focus on the growing expectation that interprofessional organizations (institutional practices such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient center healthcare homes) will become the nexus of the delivery of efficient, cost effe...

background although iranian women increasingly attend hospitals for childbirth, no information is available on programs and practices related to infection control in labor and delivery units. conclusions the results of this study revealed a need for development of appropriate policies and protocols for infection control practices in labor and delivery units and also midwives training on clean d...

In this paper, we highlight the involvement of Knowledge Management in a healthcare enterprise. We argue that the 'knowledge quotient' of a healthcare enterprise can be enhanced by procuring diverse facets of knowledge from the seemingly placid healthcare data repositories, and subsequently operationalising the procured knowledge to derive a suite of Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Servic...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether rural consumer preferences for health services have changed over time or vary across communities with different models of health service delivery. DESIGN Questionnaire survey replicating a 1989 study, with ranking of seven different healthcare services. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Adult occupants from a 20% sample of private residences, in towns and on farms, in t...

BACKGROUND Healthcare providers operate in a unique industry characterized by pursuit of perhaps the most noble of missions: the delivery of vital health and medical services to those in need. Distinguishing features abound, differentiating the healthcare industry from others, with such facets having the potential to compel those serving in health and medical establishments to focus exclusively...