Background Healthcare is a knowledge driven process and thus knowledge management and the tools to manage knowledge in healthcare sector are gaining attention. The aim of this systematic review is to investigate knowledge management implementation and knowledge management tools used in healthcare for informed decision making. Methods Three databases, two journals websites and Google Scholar w...

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. Despite, the concept is relatively new in Iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. Thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

UNLABELLED Knowledge management imposes itself as a pressing need for the organizations of several sectors of the economy, including healthcare. OBJECTIVE to evaluate the perception of healthcare institution collaborators in relation to knowledge management in the institution where they operate and analyze the existence of differences in this perception, based on the institution's management ...

Ali Janati, Homayoun Sadeghi-bazargani, Edris Hasanpoor, Mobin Sokhanvar, Elaheh HaghGoshyie. Associate professor, PhD of Healthcare Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Professor, PhD of Epidemiology, Road Traffic Injury Prevention Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PhD can...

background and objectives: there is a growing tendency in iran’s health sector for adoption of standard excellence models for improving quality in healthcare organizations. the european foundation of quality management (efqm) model is a widely used framework for continuous quality management within healthcare facilities. the purpose of this article is to extend the view of current status of qua...

evaluation and improvement of drug management process is essential for patient safety. the present study was performed whit the aim of assessing risk of drug management process in women surgery department of qeh using hfmea method in 2013. a mixed method was used to analys failure modes and their effects with hfmea. to classify failure modes; nursing errors in clinical management model, for cla...

Introduction: One of the essential skills which helps healthcare management students succeed in leadership is development of critical thinking skills during their education. Our study objective was to assess critical thinking skills among healthcare management students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in 2016. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among 9...

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate technology management competency required by healthcare IS professionals and its impacts on IT-healthcare partnerships. Technology management competency, at the broad level, comprises the business strategic thinking, external knowledge resources linkage, healthcare technology integration capability as well as management and interpersonal ski...

Healthcare issues continue to pose huge problems and incur massive costs. As a result there are many challenging problems still unresolved. In this paper, we will carry out an extensive scientific survey of different areas of management and planning in an attempt to identify where there has already been a substantial contribution from management science methods to healthcare problems and where ...