given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the ministry of health and medical education in iran. iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. this charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. t...

We discuss a systems engineering approach for comprehensive reform of the healthcare system of the United States. The goal is to improve both the quality and cost performance of the entire healthcare system when compared to other leading industrialized nations. We identify three main sources of variability impacting both the healthcare system performance and total costs, and propose how to addr...

background and objectives: public-private partnership (ppp) is a well-established model to alleviate the risk of investment in health domain. while the model is widely applied in the developed countries, the adoption of the model in many developing countries is hampered partly by the lack of knowledge on dimensions and requirements of its local implementation. the present study, thus, aimed to ...

in 2014, a series of reforms, called as the health sector evolution plan (hsep), was launched in the health system of iran in a stepwise process. hsep was mainly based on the fifth 5-year health development national strategies (2011-2016). it included different interventions to: increase population coverage of basic health insurance, increase quality of care in the ministry of health and medica...

Healthcare is of great importance to any country, and especially so for Pakistan. Unfortunately, majority of health care domains in Pakistan are operating at a sub-optimal level, as the use of Information Systems is almost non-existent. There is an utmost needs to improve the current healthcare services by introducing Information Technology. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, ...

With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. This could fulfill the vision of “Pervasive Healthcare” or healthcare to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and the quality. In ...

Big data have attracted significant attention in recent years, as their hidden potentials that can improve human life, especially when applied healthcare. is a reasonable collection of useful information allowing new breakthroughs or understandings. This paper reviews the use and effectiveness analytics healthcare, examining secondary sources such books, journals, other reputable publications b...