Over 90% of children with chronic conditions survive into adulthood necessitating primary care teams to care for adults with pediatric-onset chronic conditions. This study explores practice supports and barriers to care for this population via qualitative techniques. Using in depth interviews with twenty-two healthcare providers practice supports identified include: formalizing intake processes...

Advancing technologies in the healthcare industry has led to the idea of an electronic health record. This form of document will allow healthcare institutions to store patient information more efficiently. The technology that allows hospitals to create such a document is XML. This paper discusses the emergence of XML in the healthcare field and also the HL7 standard, which provides guidelines f...

health systems, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (lmics), need stronger management and leadership capacities. management and leadership are not synonymous, yet should be considered together as there can be too much of one and not enough of the other. in complex adaptive health systems, the multiple interactions and relationships between people and elements of the system me...

Interoperability of health information systems will enable clinicians to communicate with their patients and each other using information and communication technology to enable safer, effective, and efficient care, and improve population health. Health information technology (HIT) standards are the key to interoperability. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has been ...

Imagine a future of integrated clinical information systems that transcend the physical boundaries of clinical units, institutions and community care, providing nurses with comprehensive access to information and knowledge to support the delivery of care to individuals and families. Imagine not having to gather the same information repeatedly, ask the same questions over and over again, or stru...

Objective. To investigate and share the major challenges and experiences of building a regional health information exchange system in China in the context of health reform. Methods. This study used interviews, focus groups, a field study, and a literature review to collect insights and analyze data. The study examined Xinjin's approach to developing and implementing a health information exchang...

ver the past decade, local, state, and national public health agencies in the United States have, to varying degrees, started using electronic disease surveillance systems. Some systems rely on traditional reporting mechanisms, but others use automatically generated electronic clinical and nonclinical health-indicator data to discern unusual disease patterns in the community. In many instances,...

in this research we have presented a local model for implementing systems engineering activities in optimized acquisition of electronic systems in electronic high-tech industrial. in this regard, after reviewing the literature and the use of documents, articles and latin books, we have collected system acquisition life cycle models from different resources. after considering the criteria of the...

the instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the millennium project. in asking, ‘how to facilitate social contagion?’, karl blanchet of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...

the study of decentralization in fiji shows that increasing capacities is not necessarily related to increasing decision space of local officials, which is in contrast with earlier studies in pakistan. future studies should address the relationship among decision space, capacities, and health system performance.