Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes Research Collaborative (NUTORC), Medical Humanities & Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Corresponding author: John S. Gill, jgi...

X. Li, E. Welch, A. Chakravarthy, I. Mayer, M. Kelley, I. Meszoely, J. Means-Powell, J. C. Gore, and T. E. Yankeelov Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN, United States, Philips Healthcare, Nashville, TN, United States, Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Medical Oncology, Vanderbilt Universi...

Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mongan Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Manageme...

The implementation of evidence-based treatments to deliver high-quality care is essential to meet the healthcare demands of aging populations. However, the sustainable application of recommended practice is difficult to achieve and variable outcomes well recognised. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Sustainability Model (SM) was designed to help healthcare teams recognise determi...

Inspired by Fusion, the theme of British HCI 2016, the workshop would integrate research, business and health investment together. Digital health is the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society. Digital health is empowering people to better track, manage, and improve their own and their family’s health, to live better, more productive lives...

While childhood immunisations are voluntary in the UK, healthcare staff strongly encourage uptake; this is endorsed by the Department of Health. While a few parents refuse immunisation outright, many more are uncertain about the risks and benefits. This uncertainty was exacerbated during the controversy over the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine. This prompted many studies exploring parents' v...

Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is one of the most studied areas of health information technology due to advocacy for its use by influential organizations such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In the United States, the federal government has played a significant role in encouraging use of e-prescribing technology and in stimulating associated research nationwide. The federal governmen...

We propose a new framework for development of modular computational methods to support processes of healthcare and health education in diverse settings. Motivated by an evaluation by The National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland the proposed framework aims to address challenges of analyzing knowledge concerning healthcare services and patient records with computational linguistics. T...

ICU patients are identified as targets for quality of care and patient safety improvement strategies. Critically ill patients are at high risk for complications due to the complex and invasive nature of critical care. Several reports in the literature describe initiatives aiming to zero the healthcare-associated infection rate. We discuss the results of a study assessing a systematic team appro...

Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (Drs Krystal, Petrakis, O’Malley, Krishnan-Sarin, Pearlson, and Yoon); Psychiatry Services, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut (Drs Krystal, Petrakis, and Yoon); Behavioral Health Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut (Drs Krystal, Petrakis, and Yoon)...