BACKGROUND Consumer e-Health is a potential solution to the problems of accessibility, quality and costs of delivering public healthcare services to patients. Although consumer e-Health has proliferated in recent years, it remains unclear if patients are willing and able to accept and use this new and rapidly developing technology. Therefore, the aim of this research is to study the factors inf...

(More information is available at pcmh.ahrq.gov.) In 1996, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Primary Care observed that “primary care is the logical basis of an effective health care system....[P]rimary care is essential to reaching the objectives that constitute value in health care: high-quality care (including achieving desired outcomes), good patient satisfaction, and e...

Medical assistants (MAs) have always been vital to the effective operation of our primary care clinic. Each physician in our university-based, hospital-run clinic has an assigned MA, and a good MA can make a clinic day run smoothly. One who is not efficient or does not understand the physician’s work process, however, can slow down the whole clinic and make a workday very frustrating. Surprisin...

Rapid HIV testing was approved in Australia in December 2012. Data was collected to describe the early experience of using rapid testing in Australia but as the information was collected, the authors noted that there appeared to be a high rate of HIV diagnoses amongst rapid testers. Further analysis confirmed this impression, when the rate was compared to a baseline rate of HIV diagnoses over t...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: reforms in inpatient care are critical for the enhancement of the efficiency of health systems. it still remains the main costly sector of the health system, accounting for more than 60% of all expenditures. inappropriate and ineffective use of the hospital infrastructure is also a big issue. we aimed to analyze statistical data on healt...

Background and Objectives: Parents do not have the sufficient perception of the care their suffered children receive. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between barriers to care with parents’ perceptions of primary care and quality of life in thalassemia major children in Kerman, Iran. Methods:  The study was Descriptive-analytical and Cross...

In America, mental health needs surpass the availability of specialized providers. This vulnerable population also has other obstacles for comprehensive care including gaps in medical coverage, stigma, economic barriers, and a geographical mal‑distribution of qualified mental health professionals. A wide availability of primary care providers, including primary care and family nurse practitione...

reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...