The Institute of Medicine reports a growing demand in recent years for quality improvement within the healthcare industry. In response, numerous organizations have been involved in the development and reporting of quality measurement metrics. However, disparate data models from such organizations shift the burden of accurate and reliable metrics extraction and reporting to healthcare providers....

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability. The clinical microsystem provides a conceptual and practical framework for approaching organisational learning and delivery of care. Tensions exist between the conceptual theory and the daily practic...

With the rapid merger of healthcare business and information technology, more healthcare institutions and medical practices are sharing information. Since these records often contain patients’ sensitive personal information, Healthcare Information Systems (HISs) should be properly designed to manage these records in a secure manner. We propose a novel security design for the HIS complying with ...

Healthcare management operates in an environment of aggressive pricing, tough competition, and rapidly changing guidelines. Computer simulation models are increasingly used by large healthcare institutions to meet these challenges. However, small healthcare facilities serving the poor are equally in need of meeting these challenges but lack the finances and personnel required to develop and imp...

A pervasive healthcare monitoring system (PHCMS) is an intrusive technology designed to provide supports to assist people with health problems. PHCMS could eventually lead to a fully monitored and supervised life within a home and thus reduce dependency of people towards healthcare institutions. Following implementation of such monitoring devices, elements of privacy, emotions and personal valu...

Planning effective and well targeted actions to manage and improve the local and national healthcare services requires institutions to understand and analyse the real needs of the population based on reliable and timely statistical analysis on citizens’ health state. This is particularly important in developing countries in which healthcare facilities lack ICT infrastructures and network connec...

INTRODUCTION: The Covid-19 pandemic has made a student dependent on their phones as result of which, these students were glued to for various tasks. AIM: To assess the level mobile phone dependence (nomophobia) healthcare colleges and institutions in around South Indian city. MATERIALS AND METHOD: study was cross-sectional nature. Mobile obtained from Raines ML et al. modified accordingly. Scor...

This paper analyses the developments of the separate Jewish and Arab health systems and health realities. It is found that the activities of charitable institutions, the attitude of the British mandate government and different traditions of medical policy all played a part in the emergence of two separate health worlds. The influx of foreign funding for private health institutions, in particula...