The growing digitization of healthcare institutions and its increasing dependence on Internet infrastructure has boosted the concerns related to data privacy confidentiality. These have been challenged with specific issues, namely sensitivity data, specificity networked equipment, heterogeneity professionals (nurses, doctors, administrative staff other) IT skills they have. In this paper we pre...

The presence of robots in the medical and healthcare fields is increasing. Commercially available medical and healthcare robots are in use by hospitals and nursing homes. Many more assistive, rehabilitation, and surgical robots are being developed at research institutions. In this paper, we examine the awareness of medical and healthcare professionals with respect to robotic applications and th...

One of the major problems confronting healthcare professionals is the control of pathogenic organisms. This is because microorganisms are present in our environment and may contaminate healthcare instruments from time to time. An autoclave was designed and constructed to sterilize materials/items used in such healthcare institutions. The autoclave has a liquid capacity of 2 litres and is heated...

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Despite substantial investments in information technology (IT), organizations have not been able to exploit the advantages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution to the desired extent. This is also true for the healthcare sector. Twenty first century healthcare practitioners face the challenge of transforming large amounts of data into information, which then has to be...

This paper describes the system of medical hygiene and health care adopted by the Croatian section of Yugoslav Railways in the aftermath of World War Two until 1953, based on archival information. In 1945, the human resources section of the Railway Administration in Zagreb included the Department of Social Welfare with offices that managed health insurance in cases of illness and accidents, wor...

Advancing technologies in the healthcare industry has led to the idea of an electronic health record. This form of document will allow healthcare institutions to store patient information more efficiently. The technology that allows hospitals to create such a document is XML. This paper discusses the emergence of XML in the healthcare field and also the HL7 standard, which provides guidelines f...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify the effects of community-based home healthcare projects that influence service performances with regard to Korean national long-term care insurance services in older adults. METHODS The project's applicants were 18 operational agencies in national long-term care institutions in Korea, and participants were care recipients (n = 2263) registered ...

By reflecting their systemic nature, the Production Development Partnerships (PDP) in Healthcare represent a shift in healthcare policy and constitute the main instrument of public action on the part of the healthcare development policy community. Considering the importance of healthcare to a national development trajectory that combines economic competitiveness and social inclusion, this artic...