Tele-emergency services provide immediate and synchronous audio/video connections, most commonly between rural low-volume hospitals and an urban "hub" emergency department. We performed a systematic literature review to identify tele-emergency models and outcomes. We then studied a large tele-emergency service in the upper Midwest. We sent a user survey to all seventy-one hospitals that used th...

Background and Objectives: A blood distribution network orchestrates distribution of safe blood products to hospitals. Blood shortage and blood wastage are two important factors which may affect efficiency of blood distribution network. Service delivery time is another factor that refers to the time interval between blood request by a hospital and transfusing it to the patient....

All the pressures on the health service are converging on that part of the service that cannot say no. The buck stops with the emergency health care system. It is the first place that the media and the public sees the pressure and points the finger. The accident and emergency (A&E) department sits on the fault line where the "tectonic plates of primary and secondary care meet,"' where the world...

All the pressures on the health service are converging on that part of the service that cannot say no. The buck stops with the emergency health care system. It is the first place that the media and the public sees the pressure and points the finger. The accident and emergency (A&E) department sits on the fault line where the "tectonic plates of primary and secondary care meet,"' where the world...