REQUIRED) To facilitate superior healthcare delivery and address current challenges facing healthcare today a plethora of pervasive ehealth solutions are emerging. However, existing regulatory regimes are ill-equipped for dealing with them. This not only causes frustration to various stakeholders including patients, providers, healthcare organizations and payers, not to mention vendors but also...

Developing countries are increasing their reliance on technology to modernize their industries, and the healthcare industry is no exception. Their governments, healthcare ministries, and public health officials are utilizing IT solutions to improve health outcomes. International Health and Human Services (HHS) organizations such as the World Health Organization, the International Red Cross, and...

Ensuring the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products is one of the top challenges in healthcare today. With drug recalls continuing to make headlines, consumers and other stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem are demanding more oversight and regulators around the globe are responding to these pressures by increasing their scrutiny and compliance requirements fro...

The healthcare industry is facing increasing pressures to embrace new technologies that support greater patient access to, and higher quality of (but at the same time offer cost-effective), healthcare delivery. This pressure has spawned a plethora of initiatives to embrace the possibilities and potentials of technologies to develop and then diffuse new devices, new pharmaceutical products and s...

Globally, the healthcare services are considered to be the biggest service industry, and they are taking top priority, receiving enormous investments, and are growing at a rapid pace in most developed countries (Mitchell, 2000; Pan American Health Organization, 1999) E-health, which are basically enabled and driven by the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare have the ...

This article contrasts the application of preventive and predictive technologies in industry to those in healthcare. For years, risk managers have been discussing the rationing of care. This article presents the perspective of an engineering professional from the manufacturing industry who now consults with healthcare risk managers. The human being is often referred to as an "asset" in our soci...

Introduction: The history of case mix implementation in most of western countries during the 90s has been associated with several healthcare reforms, information technology development and managerial innovation in very different ways. Material and Method: We analyse the links between 4 different points in 10 countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Portugal, The N...

Student BLOCKINHandbook 2015‐2016 " Much of the healthcare industry is obsessed with developing a magic pill, faster scanner or new operation. What the world really requires today in healthcare is not innovation in products, but innovation in the process of delivering to the masses what is already available. " Bending the cost curve: Emerging international best practices, PWC, 2011

Ensuring the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products is one of the top challenges in healthcare today. With drug recalls continuing to make headlines, consumers and other stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem are demanding more oversight and regulators around the globe are responding to these pressures by increasing their scrutiny and compliance requirements fro...