in this commentary, i argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (sdoh) and health inequities, the health in all policies (hiap) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing ...

Introduction: Most modern medical issues are inherently complicated and accurate decisions are not always likely to be made based on logical reasons. Furthermore, the huge volume of information relevant to a simple diagnostic area makes this decision making even more troublesome. Hence, with the advent of technology, there is an ever increasing need for the Clinical Decision Support System (CDS...

This paper examines the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in a multinational organization. In doing so, it evaluates and critiques the existing literature, and then provides an alternative analysis of ERP implementation based on the concept of knowledge integration, which involves the on-going interaction cross-functionally between organizational members. By examining ...

background: community pharmacies are considered as ideal settings to provide cardiovascular risk screening (crs). however, little is known about pharmacists’ views on providing such services in developing countries including iran. in the present study, we evaluated the pharmacists’ attitudes and perceived barriers to providing crs services. methods: in a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire i...

BACKGROUND Compositional mechanisms for the entry of clinically relevant controlled vocabularies have been suggested as a possible solution to providing adequate descriptive precision while keeping term vocabulary redundancy under control. As of yet, there are no widely accepted term navigators that allow physicians to enter problem lists utilizing controlled vocabularies with compositionality....

Telehomecare is one of the technological solutions used by older persons to remain living at home in their own community. A selection of 85 Dutch telehomecare projects was examined in terms of the barriers to their implementation. Three categories of telehomecare technologies were distinguished: (i) remote telecare, (ii) activity monitoring, and (iii) a category comprising telemedicine and e-he...