As the utilization of geospatial techniques continues to surge, spatial information has become an integral part of decision-making. In Uganda, the use of geospatial techniques in provision of health services planning has gained momentum after a comprehensive survey of health units and the development of a national health services geodatabase. Planning for the provision of health infrastructure ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of medical home infrastructure among primary care practices for children and identify practice characteristics associated with medical home infrastructure. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of restricted data files from 2007 and 2008 of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. We mapped survey items to the 2011 National Committee on Quality Assurance's P...

designing a minimum data set for national cancer registry in iran     sadoughi f [1] , safdari r [2] *, meraji m [3] , ramzan ghorbani n [4] , ghazisaeedi m [5]     received: 9 jul , 2013 accepted: 21 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims : due to the widespread increase of cancer diseases, cancer registries as foundations for a struggle plan against the disease have been established. the...

This paper "revisits" distance learning by addressing its past achievements, its present state, and its future in the face of the rapidly converging computer and communications technologies and the goals and potential that underlie the creation of the proposed National Information Infrastructure (NW. The analysis was undertaken recognizing that new demands are being placed on our educational in...

In the supply of mental health services to communities, data and information are managed not only by clinical organizations, but also by welfare state agencies and charities. The aim of this study is to use methods of analysis from actor network theory to identify organizational interventions necessary for the development of an information infrastructure for inter-organizational mental health s...

Electronic health records (EHRs) have potential quality and safety benefits. However, reports of EHR-related safety hazards are now emerging. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently sponsored an Institute of Medicine committee to evaluate how health information technology use affects patient safety. In this article, we propose the creation of a national...

Two new electronic transition systems, namely, the [14.0](2)Phi(7/2)-Chi (2)Delta(5/2) and the [15.7](2)Phi(5/2)-Chi (2)Delta(5/2) transitions were observed and analyzed using laser vaporization/reaction supersonic free jet expansion and high resolution laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy. In addition, the (v, 0) bands with v=6-10 of the [14.6](2)Delta(5/2)-Chi (2)Delta(5/2) transition were...