BACKGROUND By means of the ICONAS project, the Healthcare Agency of an Italian Region developed, and used a standardised questionnaire to quantify the organisational climate. The aims of the project were (a) to investigate whether the healthcare institutions were interested in measuring climate, (b) to estimate the range of applicability and reliability of the instrument, (c) to analyse the dim...

BACKGROUND With the availability of more healthcare courses and an increased intake of nursing students, education institutions are facing challenges to attract school leavers to enter nursing courses. The comparison of career choice influences and perception of nursing among healthcare students can provide information for recruitment strategies. An instrument to compare the influences of healt...

Over the past decades, healthcare institutions adopted Picture Archive and Communication Systems in their workflows. The exchange and interaction between different equipment is performed with Digital Imaging Communication in Medicine (DICOM), which is a very extensive protocol covering many areas of the imaging laboratories. However, the communication of a wide domain composed by several medica...

planned human resource development is critical to educating a skilled and efficient workforce. the present study aimed at identifying the main factors of planned human resource development in iranian social security organization hospitals. the study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after identification of the main variables. iran social security organisation hospitals (the m...

During the planning and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies solutions in the healthcare system, attention should be focused on the interests of citizens, healthcare employees, and the public. The project „Development of the Healthcare Information System for Basic Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Services“ demands the implementation of Electronic Healthcare Documentation in...

Inadequate availability of patient information is a major cause for medical errors and affects costs in healthcare. Traditional information integration in healthcare does not solve the problem. Applying the classic diagnostic-therapeuthic cycle as the model for a documentoriented information exchange protocol allows to foster inter-institutional information exchange in healthcare. The goal of t...

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