The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) promises to revolutionize the delivery of health care by enabling seamless and secure electronic exchange of clinical information within the NHS. Challenges to NPfIT highlighted in the media and academic commentary are common to such initiatives worldwide. This paper offers key messages and recommendations derived from a comparable electronic clinical commu...

In this article we critically examine the principle of equivalence of care in prison medicine. First, we provide an overview of how the principle of equivalence is utilized in various national and international guidelines on health care provision to prisoners. Second, we outline some of the problems associated with its applications, and argue that the principle of equivalence should go beyond e...

background: in some primary health care settings, even where the health services are not available, provisions are not made to ensure continuity of care. this study aimed to determine the availability and level of continuity of care for maternal health services in the primary health centers (phcs) in nnewi, nigeria. methods: this was a cross‑sectional survey. using multistage sampling technique...

INTRODUCTION The American health care system is in a period of historic change that is certain to impact all health care professions and provider organizations. These changes are the result of the rapid transition from a delivery system based on indemnity insurance that pays submitted charges to individual physicians, pharmacists, and hospitals to one that is founded on capitated contracts with...

Whether as an invited speaker, board member, or expert panelist, my frequent travels afford me excellent opportunities to observe how health care reform is unfolding on the ground in real time. After delivering a favorite lecture – Population Health: Is It the Secret Sauce? – this spring, I had the pleasure of hearing, and seeing first hand, how one midsize integrated health care delivery syste...

The increasingly diminished role of the state in Latin America has been accompanied by decentralization of health care delivery and an enhanced role of the private sector in delivery of services. Simultaneously, in the process of regional democratization, the number of organized civil society groups, NGOs, has expanded, increasing the alliances formed between NGOs and governments in the process...

Quality assurance (QA) in higher medical education involves the development, sustenance, improvement, and evaluation of the standard of training of medical professionals. In health care delivery, QA focuses on guaranteeing and maintaining a high standard of the service provided in different health care systems. When the service delivered by the care provider is in accordance with what the recip...

As in many areas of health-care delivery, nursing practice is being transformed by technological advances such as artificial intelligence (AI). Nurses play an integral role delivery system and it essential for nurses to integrate these new technologies into practice. Nursing students, practicing nurses, faculty, nurse leaders need be aware AI its implications nursing. This paper presents the si...

A healthy workforce is critical to the success of an organization or a society. Properly managing the delivery of health care is thus an important function of modern health care systems. However, health care delivery today is rife with waste and inefficiency. Kohn et al. (2000) estimated 50,000 to 100,000 lives are lost each year because of medical errors. Schoen et al. (2006) found that 42 per...