A model of home-based coordinated care deployed recently in the United Kingdom offers promise in reducing hospital admissions in a relatively low-cost manner. The “virtual ward” program provides multidisciplinary case management services to people who have been identified, using a predictive model, as high risks for future emergency hospitalization. Virtual wards use the systems, staffing, and ...

The purpose of this project is to increase the security that customer use the ATM machine. Once user's bank card is lost and the password is stolen, the criminal will draw all cash in the shortest time, which will bring enormous financial losses to customer, so to rectify this problem we are implementing this project. The chip of LPC2148 is used for the core of microprocessor in ARM7, furthermo...

The reported study was conducted to compare and contrast current sustainable procurement (SP) practices including the main opportunities of, and barriers to, engagement with SP between two countries, Australia and Malaysia. The results are based on data collected from surveys using a standard questionnaire in both countries. The result shows that some SP practices are evident in public sector p...

This article examines the causes of financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. corporations between 1995 and 2004. The findings support organizational-political embeddedness theory, which suggests that differential social structures create dependencies, incentives, and opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance. The historical analysis shows that neoliberal policies enacted between 1986 an...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) impact on employee job satisfaction. METHODS The study presents a case study over six years following the implementation of the SCQM programme in a public hospital. A validated questionnaire was used to measure employees' job satisfaction. The impact of the intervention was measured by comparing the pre-i...

BACKGROUND South Africa has large public and private sectors and there is a common perception that public sector hospitals are inefficient and ineffective while the privately owned and managed hospitals provide superior care and are more sustainable. The underlying assumption is that there is a potential gap in management capacity between the two sectors. This study aims to ascertain the skills...

introduction: hospital managers, as one of the most important health care workers, are the subject of continuous education. in some countries around the world, health management education is an important part of health reforms. the aim of present research is to perform evidence-based studies based on assessing hospital managers’ needs. therefore, it should be considered that educational need as...

'Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; 4Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mas...

aPublic Health Institute, Oakland, CA bEmory University, Atlanta, GA cGeorgia State University, Department of Public Management and Policy, Atlanta, GA dGeorgia State University, Georgia Health Policy Center, Atlanta, GA eUniversity of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA fCalifornia Department of Public Health, Genetic Disease Screening Program, Richmond, C...