responsibility in demand networks is one of the most important measures of performance. the concept of agility and flexibility in service and production. variety and changes in demand need more flexible network design that can cope with potential shortage and delay. this paper presents new mathematical model to optimize the design of demand network when there are highly variable demands. it als...

Governance and compliance of health care networks gain more and more attention in the IS research. The configuration of medical care workflow systems and the compliance check of care processes according to national and international guidelines is the motivation for this paper. We are following a process model based approach for the management of health care networks. We present a service-based ...

introduction: management is a specialized science and most of the health managers are not familiar with scientific management methods and direct their organization on the basis of their own experiences and assumptions, it is necessary to devise comprehensive educational programs according to the results of needs assessment in order to promote the quality of health care services. materials and m...

assessing quality of family health services in view points of service users in urmia health posts   nabilou b[1],farokh eslamlou hr[2]*   received: 1 may , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013   abstract background & aims:  community health largely depend on the primary health care sector of each country and primary healthcare including family health, as first contact services have basic role in health ...

Background. Providing equitable access to the full range of reproductive health services over wide geographic areas presents significant challenges to any health system. We present a review of a service provision model which has provided improved access to abortion care; support for complex issues experienced by women seeking nonjudgmental family planning health services; and a mechanism to col...

The work reported here presents a methodology based on a two-fluid model to assess the degree of influence of various geometric and control features of an urban network on the quality of traffic service. The two-fluid model gives a curvilinear relation between the trip time and stop time per unit distance and its parameters characterize the quality of traffic service in urban networks. Any Chan...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...