~| cmember the good old days? When R hospitals were viewed as a unique communi ty benefi t , placed on a pedestal by a grateful public? When educating business and government leaders about hospital operations and healthcare issues seemed unnecessary? Those days are but a memory'. Today, the public is chopping away at that pedestal, challenging healthcare providers as never before. Employers, at...

This article describes the first government social franchise initiative in the world to deliver a 'brand' of quality primary healthcare (PHC) clinic services. Quality and standards of care are not uniformly and reliably delivered across government PHC clinics in North West Province, South Africa, despite government support, numerous policies, guidelines and in-service training sessions provided...

Business intelligence is a subject of business information whose purpose to make strategies that include new technologies, applications, and practices collect the targeted information. Data mining one most motivating areas research it become gaining popularity in healthcare organization day by day. based on several techniques such as classification, clustering, association, regression health do...

We take a cross-layer optimization approach to study energy efficient data transport in coalition-based wireless sensor networks, where neighboring nodes are organized into groups to form coalitions and sensor nodes within one coalition carry out cooperative communications. In particular, we investigate two network models: (1) many-to-one sensor networks where data from one coalition are transm...

K e y w o r d s A n t a g o n i s t i c game, Coopera t ive game, Core of a coopera t ive game, Noncoopera t ive game wi th cons t an t sum, T h e Shapley vector. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N I t is well known tha t every firm acting in a marketplace by supplying goods or services (or both) tries to do it in a manner which allows it to gain the best possible (in a particular sense) result or at l...

We briefly outline some of the paths being explored within two recently initiated research projects on Computer Supported Mobile Adaptive Business Processes (CosmoBiz) and Trustworthy Pervasive Healthcare Services (TrustCare) to provide flexible process languages and models that allow seamless, trustworthy distribution and mobility of workflows and business process. In particular, we consider h...

Healthcare Toward greater access, efficiency and quality develops fact-based strategic insights for senior business executives around critical industry-specific and cross-industry issues. This executive brief is based on an in-depth study by the Institute's research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Business Consulting Services to provide analysis and viewpoints that help compani...

One major cause that dramatically impacts patient safety is the use of unclean reusable medical equipment (RME), delivered from a sterile processing department (SPD). Unfortunately, current reprocessing practice is mostly driven by human labor and control, which is error-prone and inefficient. In this paper, business process management is proposed to support modeling, automating, monitoring, an...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between polymorphisms of XbaI and MspI loci of apolipoprotein B (ApoB) gene and -75 bp, +83 bp loci of apolipoprotein AI (ApoAI) gene and coronary heart disease (CHD) in Kazaks of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. METHODS These loci were analyzed by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-PFLP). Two hundred and five patients with CHD and...