Paying attention to the health of people in the community is one of the main challenges that has received much attention in recent years. Regarding the importance of the healthcare sector in the life of the community, evaluation of the performance of this sector is important. One of the most practical methods for evaluating performance is the use of data envelopment analysis approach. In this p...

A mobile patient monitoring system makes use of mobile computing and wireless communication technologies for continuous or periodic measurement and analysis of biosignals of a mobile patient. In a number of trials these systems have demonstrated their user-friendliness, convenience and effectiveness for both patients and healthcare professionals. In this paper we propose a generic architecture,...

With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. This could fulfill the vision of “Pervasive Healthcare” or healthcare to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and the quality. In ...

Physiological parameters are often considered as critical information to assess initial health condition and underlying health issues. These signs can contribute towards early detection, early diagnosis and risk reduction of fatal incidents. Today‟s advanced monitoring systems incorporate the balanced combination of clinical and technological aspects to give an innovative healthcare outcome. Re...

The past several years have brought intensive scrutiny to all aspects of our healthcare system’s performance. While other industries have widely deployed continuous improvement cycles and adopted waste-reducing lean production methods, the U. S. healthcare sector lags far behind. The growing cost of healthcare in the U.S. in the face of increasingly documented lackluster quality and daily harmf...

OBJECTIVES The Web-based integrated public healthcare information system (PHIS) of Korea was planned and developed from 2005 to 2010, and it is being used in 3,501 regional health organizations. This paper introduces and discusses development and performance of the system. METHODS We reviewed and examined documents about the development process and performance of the newly integrated PHIS. Th...

OBJECTIVE To determine what factors have a significant influence on the performance of medical device maintenance outsourcing, and to determine how the performance of external governance structures differs depending on whether a hospital is private or public. METHODS This was a longitudinal study of 590 maintenance transactions at 20 hospitals in Bogotá, Colombia, involving 764 medical device...

Current demand for accountability and efficiency of healthcare organizations, combined with the greater availability of routine data on clinical care and outcomes, has led to an increased focus on statistical methods in healthcare regulation.We consider three different regulatory functions in which statistical analysis plays a vital role: rating organizations, deciding whom to inspect and conti...

In recent years, there has been growing demand for wearable chemosensors for their important potential applications in mobile and electronic healthcare, patient self-assessment, human motion monitoring, and so on. Innovations in wearable chemosensors are revolutionizing the modern lifestyle, especially the involvement of both doctors and patients in the modern healthcare system. The facile inte...

Introduction In healthcare, as in other areas, performance evaluation and outcomes monitoring are an ever increasing priority. This can be accomplished using quality indicators: monitoring and benchmarking tools which allow spatial and temporal comparisons. In the 1990’s, following the work of John Billings and colleagues, the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), developed a set o...