conclusions the results showed that the use of information technology in hospitals had several effects on some aspects of organizational strategy such as organizational knowledge, medical economics, and organizational decisions. in order to set up the governance of information technology in health system, it is necessary to involve managers and personnel alike in redesigning information systems...

Traditionally, public health professionals have scorned hospitals as the antithesis of community health. Secondary care remains notably distant from public health practice and policy. Yet hospitals consume over 50 per cent of the health budget and over a quarter of the population have contact with hospital services every year. There is an important public health agenda in hospitals for promotin...

background: increasing of chronic patients who need permanent support andstaff who are daily exposed to psychological stress need to hospitals that note to health promotion programs. healthpromoting hospitals (hph)was expressed by the world health organization in the 1990s. so a large numberof hospitals in the world have implemented health promotion programs. but hospitalsin iran not implement ...

background changes in modern societies develop the perception that the external environment is essential in organization’s practices, especially in the way they deal with aspects such as human rights, community needs, market demands and environmental interests. these issues are usually under the umbrella of the concept of social responsibility. given the importance of this concept in the contex...

background: healthy lifestyle is a major strategy to promote current and subsequent health status. the aim of this study was to assess the status of health‑promoting the lifestyle and its determinants among students. methods: a stratified random sample of 500 students in a university in the city of sabzevar, iran participated in this cross‑sectional study. health‑promoting lifestyle was measure...

introduction: intellectual capitals in an organization are assets that their value is increased over time and with sharing with others. since hospitals are dominant in providing medical services, management of intangible assets could be very important for them. to avoid the waste of costs and efforts, it is necessary to identify the priority and importance of each dimension of intellectual capi...

introduction: undesirable exploitation of natural resources, resource shortage and increased hospital costs has resulted in increase in the hospital expenditure over revenue or made costs scale heavier than the income scale. the present research has been done by the aim of studying the effect of combining hospital wards on current expenses of bou ali medical & teaching center by the means of in...