in fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of itc. the evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. e-health is consi...

INTRODUCTION The USA lags behind other high-income countries in many health indicators. Outcome differences are associated with differences in the relative spending between healthcare and social services at the national level. The impact of the ratio and delivery of social and healthcare services on the individual patient's health is however unknown. 'Reframing Healthcare Services through the L...

Background & aim: The practice of institutional delivery services utilization is reported to be very low in Ethiopian pastoral community. In this regard, health programmers should gain an insight into factors influencing the utilization of institutional delivery to improve health facility delivery among these women. Methods:<...

This paper discusses telemedicine and the employment of advanced mobile technologies in smart healthcare delivery. It covers technological advances connected healthcare, including roles artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G IoT platforms, other enabling technologies. also presents challenges potential risks that could arise from delivering services. Healthcare delivery is witnessing rev...

OBJECTIVE Most countries in Europe and the USA are increasingly using an electronic medical record (EMR) to help improve healthcare quality. Unfortunately, most developing countries face many challenges ranging from epidemics and civil wars to disasters: they also lack a robust healthcare infrastructure in the form of information and communications technology (ICT) to ensure continuity of patie...

for more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. jalal mohammed, nicola north, and toni ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...

BACKGROUND Weak health systems in low- and middle-income countries are recognized as the major constraint in responding to the rising burden of chronic conditions. Despite recognition by global actors for the need for research on health systems, little attention has been given to the role played by local health systems. We aim to analyze a mixed local health system to identify the main challeng...

The principal conclusion of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human“ is that the major cause of adverse events, rather than being negligent individuals, is actually the result of poorly designed systems.1 A major and foundational implication of this and all subsequent Institute of Medicine reports pertaining to healthcare transformation is that healthcare providers (physicians, n...

Policymakers no longer question that healthcare system reform will occur; rather they differ on the timing and direction of change. The Washington Business Group on Health envisions a future healthcare delivery system called an organized system of care (OSC). An OSC is an integrated financing and delivery system that uses a panel of providers selected on the basis of quality and cost management...