-Body Area Sensor Network Mobile Healthcare System (BASNmHealth) is the use of sensors and actuators to monitor and improve patients’ physical and mental conditions in a networked system. It encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies integrated within mobile and wireless health care delivery systems. BASNmHealth system deploys different sensors and actuators to ...

From the 1970s to the 1990s, the WHO, United Nations and other agencies mooted the idea of formally training and recognising community health workers (CHWs) to complement efforts to improve primary healthcare delivery in low and middle income countries. Recently, CHWs have been recognised as important players in the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Despite ...

Global cleft surgery missions have provided much-needed care to millions of poor patients worldwide. Still, surgical capacity in low- and middle-income countries is generally inadequate. Through surgical missions, global cleft care has largely ascribed to a vertical model of healthcare delivery, which is disease specific, and tends to deliver services parallel to, but not necessarily within, th...

BACKGROUND Pay-for-performance (P4P) is increasingly implemented in the healthcare system to encourage improvements in healthcare quality. P4P is a payment model that rewards healthcare providers for meeting pre-established targets for delivery of healthcare services by financial incentives. Based on their performance, healthcare providers receive either additional or reduced payment. Currently...

Increasing application of information technology in the healthcare delivery system helps healthcare industry gain valuable knowledge from data, and use this insight to recommend action or guide decision making, and improve quality of patient care and practice of medicine. There is more data available than ever before. How can it truly benefit patients, payers and healthcare providers? Analytics...

background: the users’ satisfaction is a method for evaluating the efficacy of healthcare system. we aimed to evaluate the association between the users’ socioeconomic status (ses) and satisfaction with the healthcare system in shiraz, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from december, 2013 to march, 2014, in shiraz, iran. 3400 households were recruited by multi-stage cluste...

BACKGROUND When a country's health system is faced with fundamental flaws that require the redesign of financing and service delivery, primary healthcare payment systems are often reformed. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted with the purpose of exploring the experiences of risk-adjusted capitation payment of urban family physicians in Iran when it comes to providing primary health care (PHC)...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

since its establishment in 1948, the history of the national health service (nhs) has been characterized by organisational turbulence and system reform. at the same time, progress in science, medicine and technology throughout the western world have revolutionized the delivery of healthcare. the nhs has become a much loved, if much critiqued, national treasure. it is against this backdrop that ...