Many healtcare organizations face the challenge of scaling up effective health care delivery. There is a growing agreement that a better understanding of the structure of the healthcare system is needed to achieve that goal. Networks analysis provides the formal framework of thought to understand such systems. Given the definition of health care system as as a network of actors who aim to provi...

BACKGROUND E-health is an essential information sharing tool in healthcare management and delivery worldwide. However, utilization of e-health may only be possible if healthcare professionals have positive attitudes towards e-health. This study aimed to determine the relationships between healthcare professionals' attitudes towards e-health, level of ICT skills and e-Health use in healthcare de...

In the past decade, technology growth in healthcare has exploded, and along with the tide of newly emerging technology comes the smartphone and accompanying applications. A smartphone is a cellular telephone with additional features including cameras, video playback, MP3 player, built-in applications, and Internet access for Web browsing and e-mail. Smartphone sales are predicted to reach 1.5 b...

BACKGROUND The current systems of healthcare delivery in the United States suffer from problems that often leave patients with inadequate quality of care. In their report entitled "Crossing the Quality Chasm," the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified reasons for poor and/or inconsistent quality of healthcare delivery and provided recommendations to improve it. The purpose of this review is to...

The field of healthcare delivery is a large one, and neurosurgical health services research can be said to have only just begun. This chapter briefly addresses 3 components of excellence in health care delivery-quality, access, and cost-from a neurosurgical perspective.

We are surrounded today by “connected things.” While it was little more than five years ago that the internet of things (IoT) was an intriguing new concept, it is now well-entrenched in virtually every sector of the economy — including healthcare. A fast-emerging sub-sector of the phenomenon is the internet of medical things (IoMT). According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, $22.5 billion was...

abstract background: the number of women who select cesarean section due to fear of childbirth has increased. role play education seems to be a helpful method to remove or reduce the fear of childbirth. therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of role play education on primiparous women’s fear of natural delivery and their decision on the mode of delivery. materials and methods: in...

Population aging, rapidly increasing costs of healthcare and the growing burden of chronic disease are challenges to health systems worldwide. To meet these challenges will require new approaches to healthcare delivery and comprehensive population health management. Within the context of healthcare reform initiatives, important innovations in delivery system organization in the United States ar...

The year is 2009, and America is once again grappling with ‘‘healthcare reform.’’ Health costs are climbing at an unsustainable rate, already consuming 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product, nearly twice that of other industrialized nations. An estimated 46 million US citizens are without any healthcare insurance at all, and another 25 million do not have sufficient insurance to adequately...