E-Health is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication, dating back to at least 1999. E-Health is greatly impacting on information distribution and availability within the health services, hospitals and to the public. E-health was introduced as the death of telemedicine, because in the context of a broad availability of medical informati...

Replacement of traditional fee-for-service health care with capitation, the rising costs of new medical technologies, the duplication of health services among competitors, and the need to attract physician networks and managed care contracts, are some of the factors that necessitate collaborative efforts among health care facilities. Although the Ethical and Religious Directives for Health Care...

Wireless sensor networks consist of a large number of tiny devices capable of executing sensing, data processing and communication tasks and as such can be applied in numerous user scenarios. Various military, security and environment monitoring applications are the most frequent examples. Another area that can also significantly benefit from advanced features of this technology is health-care ...

Social network is a social structure made of individuals or organizations associated with one or more types of interdependence (friendship, common interests, work, knowledge, prestige, etc.) which are the "nodes" of the network. Networks can be organized to exchange information, knowledge or financial assistance under the various interest groups in universities, workplaces and associations of c...

BACKGROUND Large multispecialty physician group practices, with a central role for primary care practitioners, have been shown to achieve high-quality, low-cost care for patients with chronic disease. We assessed the extent to which informal multispecialty physician networks in Ontario could be identified by using health administrative data to exploit natural linkages among patients, physicians...

Purpose: To make a plan evaluation of projects being part of major mental health care reform process in Belgium. It emphasizes on the logic, underlying considerations and choices for network configurations developed to provide adequate mental health care. Background: In 2011 a large-scale reform process in mental health care was launched in Belgium. The reform aims at deinstitutionalization and...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...

background :breast cancer is the most common cancer among females that will cause death ifit does not be recognized and cured. one out of eight iranian women in 40-55years old is likely to develop breast cancer. early detection of breast cancerby screening programs is a useful approach in controlling the disease. methods :in this descriptive study, 196 female healthcare providers were selected ...

results local level of primary health care system in iran had mechanical structure, but in contextual dimensions the results showed different types. there was a significant relationship between structural and contextual dimensions (r = 0.642, p value < 0.001). goals and culture dimensions had strongest effects on structural dimensions. background in recent years, family physician plan was estab...

This paper reports on an effort to create a network of both developers and users of a public health information system. Through an analysis of capacity, recruitment, and power in the network, issues related to choice of technologies, global-local tensions, and parameters of institutional collaboration, we illustrate a number of challenges. Comparing OSS principles to a "Networks of Action" appr...