German healthcare provides a very comprehensive benefits catalogue, high quality standards, low access barriers and in particular healthcare which is independent from one's income. But at the same time it is one of the most expensive systems in the world. Reasons for the high costs of care are mainly due to the separation of the outpatient, inpatient and rehabilitation sectors, the poor informa...

The outbreak of chronic diseases such as COVID-19 has made a renewed call for providing urgent healthcare facilities to the citizens across globe. recent pandemic exposes shortcomings traditional system, i.e., hospitals and clinics alone are not capable cope with this situation. One major technology that aids contemporary solutions is smart connected wearables. advancement in Internet Things (I...

BACKGROUND Increasing prevalence of dementia is a major challenge for the German healthcare system. The study DelpHi-MV ("Dementia: life- and person-centered help in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania") aims to implement and evaluate an innovative subsidiary support system for persons with dementia (PwDs) living at home and their caregivers. METHODS DelpHi-MV is a GP-based cluster randomized contr...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the performance evaluation of healthcare system in macro-level is important. this paper evaluates performance of health service of asian countries in 2006. methods: in the first step, the initial data for performance evaluation has been collected from the site world health organization (who) and are weighted by analytical hierarchy pro...

empowering employees in specialized and general qualifications fields is required for urban management organization (tehran municipality). planning and establishment of comprehensive system of electronic learning is considered the main goal of human resource and educational managers. . this study tried to investigate the feasibility and execution of electronic learning courses for in-service st...

On July 23rd, 2010 a revised medical law (Article 58) was passed to change existing evaluation system of medical institutions to an accreditation system. The new healthcare accreditation system was introduced to encourage medical institutions to work voluntarily and continuously to improve patient safety and medical service quality. Changes regarding the healthcare accreditation system included...

UNLABELLED Comprehensiveness relates both to scope of services offered and to a whole-person clinical approach. Comprehensive services are defined as "the provision, either directly or indirectly, of a full range of services to meet most patients' healthcare needs"; whole-person care is "the extent to which a provider elicits and considers the physical, emotional and social aspects of a patient...