Although the Institute of Medicine of the USA has recommended elements for healthcare reform, the optimal means for incorporation of these elements into a healthcare setting remain undefined. A process for the implementation of potentially better practices is described that incorporates a computerized medical record into an evidence-based, multidisciplinary continuous quality improvement effort...

Healthcare expenditure is increasing exponentially, and reducing this expenditure (i.e., offering effective and efficient quality healthcare treatment) is becoming a priority not only in the United States, but also globally (Bush, 2004; Oslo Declaration, 2003;Global Medical Forum, 2005). In the final report compiled by the Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America (Institute of Medicine...

1Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH; 2Veterans Administration (VA) Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington; 4Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City; 5National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD; a...

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, ...

Shift in Health Care of This Century Rachel Haddock, MS, GlaxoSmithKline; Sheng Lin-Gibson, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Nadya Lumelsky, PhD, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health; Richard McFarland, PhD, MD, Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute; Krishnendu Roy, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Krishanu Saha, ...

Dr. Mitchell is chairperson, Department of Biomedical Ethics, School of Graduate Medical Education, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. He is also director, Institute for Ethics, a division of the Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey. I n 1999 the Institute for Ethics, a division of the Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey, launched a program to assist institutional ethic...

The Canadian Pharmaceutical Bar Coding Project was a multi-year, multi-stakeholder national initiative designed to establish a pan-Canadian approach to automated identification of medications along the entire supply chain and medication-use system, from pharmaceutical manufacturers to the patient’s bedside. The project was co-led by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canad...

227 Received December 13, 2010; revision accepted for publication February 16, 2011. doi: 10.1620/tjem.223.227 Correspondence: Goh Eun Chung, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Healthcare Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center, 39FL., Gangnam Finance Center 737, Yeoksam-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-984, Korea. e-mail: [email protected] Elevated P...