The advancements in health informatics along with knowledge management practices present challenges in terms of adoption. This paper discusses the role of KM and issues of KM implementation in healthcare industry. KM practices have benefited many industries ranging from banking to retailing. It is widely believed that KM will also benefit the healthcare industry if KM implementation is properly...

In Today’s real world technology has become a domiant crucial component in every industry including healthcare industry. The benefits of storing electronically the records of patients have increased the productivity of patient care and easy accessibility and usage. The recent technological innovations in the health care is the invention of cloud based Technology. But many fears and security mea...

The discipline of ergonomics, or human factors engineering, has made substantial contributions to both the development of a science of safety, and to the improvement of safety in a wide variety of hazardous industries, including nuclear power, aviation, shipping, energy extraction and refining, military operations, and finance. It is notable that healthcare, which in most advanced societies is ...

The United States (US) healthcare organizations are continuously struggling to cope-up with evolving regulatory requirements e.g. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001: 2015. These requirements are not only affecting the US healthcare industry but also other industries as well e.g. software indus...

We believe the specific development of applications for mobile devices is the most important issue for ensuring the integration of mobile computing within the medical industry. This must reflect the individual device design and the individual user groups.

Objective: To discuss trends in information technology (IT) for the future of healthcare. Method: To report from the viewpoint of a global healthcare IT enterprise. Results: Healthcare IT consists of far more than electronic storage of information and automation of existing manual processes. It is the linchpin in an effective care process. Systems are available today that coordinate the complex...

The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging and therapy, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology, and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care from a single source – from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, and on to trea...

In this paper we propose Decision support system implementation for health care system with the use of decision support system. The system integrates the input data from relevant sources into an autonomous data warehouse, while the client frontend ensures adequate output presentation to the user so as reveal significant details and dependencies. Applying the system as an “on –the –fly” decision...

Background Environmental regulations on medical waste incineration have become more stringent at the same time as landfill capacities are diminishing in many parts of the country. These two circumstances are leading many healthcare facilities to reevaluate their medical waste generation and disposal practices. Although the typical healthcare waste stream can include infectious, radioactive, and...

system at an increasing rate. Merging companies often tout benefits including cost savings and increased care coordination, but serious concerns about market power also need to be raised. It is critically important to scrutinize future mergers because of their impact on an already excessively concentrated healthcare marketplace. This research brief looks at the types of consolidation, the facto...