OBJECTIVE To analyze the breadth of care coordination by Primary Health Care in three health regions. METHODS This is a quantitative and qualitative case study. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews with municipal, regional and state managers were carried out, besides a cross-sectional survey with the administration of questionnaires to physicians (74), nurses (127), and a representative samp...

16 Journal of Healthcare Information Management — Vol. 20, No. 3 In November 2004, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued a Request for Information for the purpose of soliciting public comment on the development and adoption of a National Health Information Network. Since then, the alphabet soup has thickened. What do terms like LHII, NHIN, EHR and RHIO mean to provid...

BACKGROUND The orthopaedic unit at a university teaching hospital hired an osteoporosis coordinator to identify patients with a fragility fracture and to coordinate their education, assessment, referral, and treatment of underlying osteoporosis. We report the results of an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the use of a coordinator (in comparison with the use of no coordinator) in avoiding f...

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On behalf of AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request for comment. AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics and is dedicated to the development and application of informatics in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA s...

In April 2004, President Bush signed Executive Order 13335, which called for the establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The President charged ONC with the critical responsibility of ensuring that every American had access to his or her electronic health information and establishing co...

This research aims to describe the perception PHBS post employee doing socialization. study uses qualitative phenomenological methods with semi-structured interview data collection methods. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. consisted of 4 employees Puskesmas sumber, one person served as head puskesmas, a public health instructor, coordinator midwife, accountant puskesmas. anal...

objectives this study is the first of its kind to determine the framework, advantages, and limitations of bot contracts for health care projects in selected countries. background advantages and limitations of build-operate-transfer (bot) contracts in various forms of public-private partnership (ppp) arrangements have not been studied. conclusions this study suggests that more information transp...

among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. the concept itself is not widely understood. although policy capacity is concerned with the gathering of information and the formulation of options for public action in the initial phases of policy consultation and development, it also touches on all stages of the policy proces...