i Driven by advancing technologies and new forms of healthcare and clinical applications , the emerging field of healthcare information systems and informatics is still searching for coherent directing frameworks to advance healthcare and clinical practices and research. Conducting scientific inquiries into these areas is both promising and challenging due to a host of factors, including rapidl...

The safe administration of medicines within the home is an often-overlooked area use. focus most safety initiatives has been on prescribing, dispensing and healthcare settings​[1]​. This resulted in a situation where relatively little known about how are administered family home. When […]

O ur goal with this column is to provide a useful, practical introduction to competency modeling, a practice that is already a mainstay in many health professions and that is likely to find expanded use within health administration in the coming years. The competency model recently made available by the Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) will serve to frame subsequent installments of this col...

People have a love/hate relationship with rapidly changing healthcare technology. While consumer demand for medical apps continues to grow as rapidly as does supply (there are over 100,000 health, wellness and medical applications, or ‘apps’ on the market), healthcare professionals and safety experts worry about the impact of these apps on the health consumer. In response to the rapidly growing...

An advanced CMII-based engineering change management framework: the integration of PLM and ERP perspectives Wen-Hsiung Wu, Lung-Ching Fang, Wei-Yang Wang, Min-Chun Yu & Hao-Yun Kao a Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohs...

The nature of today’s healthcare practice makes interruptions, distractions and multi-tasking commonplace, even during complex and high risk tasks.[1,2,3] Interruptions are often cited as a problem in medication safety, particularly in relation to nurses administering medication.[1,4] Previous studies [5,6] suggest an association between interruptions and medication administration errors. While...

Copyright © 2010 Frederick Furness Publishing 14 Oral delivery continues to be the most popular route of administration due to its versatility, ease of administration and probably most importantly patient compliance. In a recent New England Healthcare Institute report, the cost of non-compliance in the US alone was estimated to be as much as $290 billion, or 13% of total annual health care expe...

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