With recent work in the field of workflows it is possible to define more flexible business models. With the standardization of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL4WS) a new implementation method is available. The medical services domain, complex and highly structured, provides the background for our research. This paper analyzes a highly relevant medical services workflow: the Create ...

Much of the discussion about prison health care in the past few years has focused on whether the prison medical service* should be incorporated into the National Health Service. Some critics have tended to see this as an answer to all the ills of the service, and the prison department has taken the threat seriously enough to devote most of the part of its 1981 annual report dealing with health ...

assessing quality of family health services in view points of service users in urmia health posts   nabilou b[1],farokh eslamlou hr[2]*   received: 1 may , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013   abstract background & aims:  community health largely depend on the primary health care sector of each country and primary healthcare including family health, as first contact services have basic role in health ...

this article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by lunt and marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. the commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. the commentary als...

background: patient satisfaction has a key role in reducing side effects and patient complaints. it also increases the efficiency of treatment. this study was performed to investigate patient satisfaction from health services provided by educational hospitals in isfahan, iran. methods: in a descriptive study, 350 outpatients in educational hospitals of isfahan were non-randomly evaluated in 200...