In the super-aging society, daily healthcare monitoring has become increasingly emphasized as a possible approach for the early diagnosis and timely treatment of lifestyle-related diseases. A wide variety of information transfers and platforms have been developed for daily healthcare monitoring. Using these techniques, the commercially available devices for home healthcare are also networked. H...

As the saying goes, health is wealth, and as the number of various diseases have increased in the past few decades, it is very important to monitor the health of the patients on daily basis. Internet of Things(IoT) has become one of the popular area for various applications. IoT will create technological revolution in a large number of applications, such as, smart living, smart home, healthcare...

An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. Yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. Arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

Healthcare systems in countries throughout the developed world are faced with the problem of limiting the growth in spending on health services while ensuring that their populations have access to appropriate care. The United Kingdom is no different in this respect, and the past 20 years have seen the introduction of numerous initiatives aimed at improving the efficiency of the NHS. Approaches ...

background :breast cancer is the most common cancer among females that will cause death ifit does not be recognized and cured. one out of eight iranian women in 40-55years old is likely to develop breast cancer. early detection of breast cancerby screening programs is a useful approach in controlling the disease. methods :in this descriptive study, 196 female healthcare providers were selected ...

sweden and spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. as the analysis of saltman and duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. in our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

Over the last few years there has been tremendous growth in the field of healthcare monitoring systems in hospitals and outside of it. Developing wireless health care monitoring devices employing various technologies has become a keen area of interest in India and as well as in other Nations. This proposed work aims to integrate artificial neural intelligence in domain of healthcare monitoring....

This paper proposed an approach of intelligent healthcare services to support health monitoring of old people through the project named SAAPHO. Here, definition and architecture of the proposed healthcare services are presented considering six different health parameters such as: 1) physical activity, 2) blood pressure, 3) glucose, 4) medication compliance, 5) pulse monitoring and 6) weight mon...