An increasingly mobile clinical workforce rapidly adopting consumer devices to access mobile, cloud-based applications, complemented by the wide range of mobile storage devices and other portable electronics, such as digital cameras, MP3 players, can make it difficult to efficiently assure compliance without impacting user productivity. This article reviewed a number of healthcare use cases and...

Trends in the labor market, as a result of global economic recession, are characterized by reduction of manpower activity, decreased number of employed and increased number of unemployed persons. As the result of economic recession more then million workplaces are expected to be lost in the European Union. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of economic recession on labor market ...

ealthcare in the US is in the midst of dramatic reform driven by unsustainable healthcare costs. To maintain the traditional missions of clinical care, research, and education, academic pediatric departments must plan for change. Yet, planning is difficult because along with declining clinical revenue there is an increasing burden of chronic disease, a changing workforce, and decreasing Federal...

The US is in the middle of a workers compensation and healthcare crisis. If it were not for Sept 11 and its aftermath, the crisis would likely be on the front page of every newspaper. More than 40 million Americans are without health insurance. The impact of the unhealthy lifestyles and natural aging of 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 must not be underestimated. Businesses and A...

Healthcare professionals speculate about the effects of poses and pose manipulation in healthcare. Anecdotal observations indicate that patient poses and motion affect recovery. Motion analysis using human observers puts strain on already taxed healthcare workforce requiring staff to record motion. Automated algorithms and systems are unable to monitor patients in hospital environments without ...

Timely access to healthcare services requires the right number, mix and distribution of appropriately educated nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals. In Ontario, as in several other jurisdictions, changing demographics, patterns of health service utilization and an aging workforce have created challenges related to the supply of nurses available now and in the future to deliver ...

There will always be a need for visiting services to settlements where population size does not enable a full range of primary and specialist services. These services will vary according to need in different communities. For example, a remote Aboriginal community will have quite different needs to a remote mining community. However, the FIFO/DIDO label covers a multitude of sins. The non-reside...

Nurses constitute the largest proportion of the healthcare industry’s workforce. Understanding job factors that impact their health and subsequent working life is essential. In general industry, work is often performed where space is restricted. Understanding how this factor changes the demand on a worker is key to maintaining both a safe work environment and an efficient workplace. This study ...

The paper considers the overarching objectives of the UK healthcare system, and the ways in which commissioning was originally intended to contribute to the achievement of these objectives. It also reviews a number of existing frameworks describing the activities of commissioners and the competencies required to perform these tasks effectively. From this, fourteen domains of competency for worl...

Millions of Americans have unmet oral healthcare needs and profound oral health disparities persist in vulnerable and underserved populations, especially poor children, older adults, and racial and ethnic minorities. Nurses can play a significant role in improving the quality of oral health including access to care with appropriate education and training. The purpose of this paper is to describ...