Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

Introduction: India is the world’s largest democratic country, and second most populous country in the world. Despite recent successes in the economic front, India still faces many social challenges like poverty, illiteracy, sanitation, gender inequality, and lack of healthcare for all. The healthcare disparity is mainly due to shortage of trained health care professionals and lack of necessary...

Consumer satisfaction with healthcare is an important quality and outcome indicator. Satisfaction may be at the crux of survival for healthcare delivery systems because it creates the competitive edge in healthcare. To better understand patient satisfaction by examining consumer healthcare experiences and expectations, a study was conducted. An important concept identified in the data, MY CARE,...

the health sector, a foremost service sector in nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

The healthcare industry, with more than one trillion dollars in revenue, accounts for about one-seventh of the U.S. economy. A significant portion of this revenue is lost to escalating healthcare system costs. This article examines the shortcomings of the traditional healthcare delivery system in terms of information flow, communication standards, case collections, and IT spending. It makes the...

The 21 century promises to usher in an era of online healthcare services, i.e. Tele-Healthcare, inspired by the emergence of sophisticated, ‘intelligent’ information systems/agents working in tandem with the Internet/WWW. Currently, world-wide healthcare delivery is undergoing a paradigm shift—patient centred services as opposed to provider centred services and wellness maintenance as opposed t...

The notion of controlling performance in modern healthcare constitutes a key justification for implementing large IT systems. By examining the relationship between healthcare performance and IS cost we significantly improve our understanding of healthcare delivery profile. In the absence of an appropriate fit between the goals of IS projects and smooth healthcare delivery, this research satisfi...

Primary healthcare offers significant benefits to Canadians and to the healthcare system as a whole. The Taber Integrated Primary Healthcare Project (TIPHP) was a three-year primary healthcare renewal initiative involving rural physicians and the Chinook Health Region in Taber, Alberta, Canada. The goal of the project was to improve healthcare services delivery through integration of the servic...

Academic health centers (AHCs) have struggled in recent years to redefine their special position in healthcare delivery. This article presents a description of structural and process features at AHCs to serve as a framework for redesigning healthcare delivery at AHCs. We review and synthesize the literature regarding health system performance. In addition, we address attributes of healthcare de...

Many healtcare organizations face the challenge of scaling up effective health care delivery. There is a growing agreement that a better understanding of the structure of the healthcare system is needed to achieve that goal. Networks analysis provides the formal framework of thought to understand such systems. Given the definition of health care system as as a network of actors who aim to provi...