RFID-BASED BUSINESS PROCESS AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

Patients want their personal needs to be taken into account. Accordingly, the management of care has long involved some degree of personalization. In recent times, patients’ wishes have become more pressing in a moving context. As the population ages, the number of patients requiring sophisticated combinations of longterm care is rising. Moreover, we are witnessing previously unvoiced demands, ...

Although business models have been widely implicated as key influences on the performance of firms, empirical studies investigating the relationship between business models and performance are limited. In this study, we theorize and propose to empirically examine the influence of two elements of a business model: organizational form and revenue model on the sustainability of new ventures. We co...

Business Process Management (BPM) systems are becoming the runtime governance of emerging Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. They provide tools and methodologies to design and compose Web services that can be executed as business processes and monitored by BPM consoles. Ontology, as a formal declarative knowledge representation model, provides semantics upon which machine underst...

Healthcare organisations are looking at strategies and activities to improve patient outcomes, beyond clinical interventions. Increasingly, health organisations are investing significant resources in leadership, management and team work training to optimise professional collaboration, shared decision-making and, by extension, high quality services. Embedded clinical aca...

Internal and external coalition functioning is an important predictor of coalition success that has been linked to perceived coalition effectiveness, coalition goal achievement, coalition ability to support evidence-based programs, and coalition sustainability. Understanding which aspects of coalition functioning best predict coalition success requires the development of valid measures of empir...

Across the nation, states are placing their faith in managed care as the solution to the rising health care costs associated with the Medicaid program. Historical providers of care to the vulnerable and uninsured are competing in this new price-sensitive market while struggling to remain faithful to their missions. In Maryland, a unique partnership between an academic health center (Johns Hopki...