The article reports on experiences in e-Health platforms and services for supporting medical research into the causes and relationships among physiological parameters and health problems concerning different chronic diseases. The Personal Health Record (PHR) is a way of standardizing electronic management of medical information between patients and their physicians, including medical bodies col...

introduction: to assess efficiency as a relative concept, the difference between real and expected values must be determined by comparing the productivity of economic units of industry and the efficiency in potential production conditions. as economic units, hospitals need to utilize efficiency analysis in order to make optimal use of their available resources. therefore, the present study comp...

OBJECTIVES We sought to find racial differences in the effects of trust in the health care system on preventive health service use among older adults. METHODS We conducted a telephone survey with 1681 Black and White older adults. Survey questions explored respondents' trust in physicians, medical research, and health information sources. We used logistic regression and controlled for covaria...

Personal telehealth is in rapid development with innovative emerging applications like disease management. With personal telehealth people participate in their own care supported by an open distributed system with health services. This poses new end-to-end security and privacy challenges. In this paper we introduce new end-to-end security requirements and present a design for consent management...

aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

certain conditions limit the independence of deprived people. however, those conditions do not limit the right of these people to receive dental care. portable dental units may make it possible for the deprived and elderly to receive the care they deserve in more areas. this study aimed to explore dentists' perceptions of the use of portable dental units in community outreach programs as a prec...

From the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and the Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital — both in Boston (N.A.C.); the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (N.A.C.); and the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (P.D.A.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Christakis at the Depar...

The PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES RESEARCH UNIT undertakes social and health care research, supported mainly by the United Kingdom Department of Health, and focusing particularly on policy research and analysis of equity and efficiency in community care, long-term care and related areas — including services for elderly people, people with mental health problems and children in care. The PSSRU was es...