he health care industry is enduring tumultuous upheaval as hospitals, insurers, physician practices and other industry participants reconfigure themselves to thrive in the 21st century. At the same time, health care systems face pressing near-term challenges: deteriorating payer mix, hospital admission declines, reimbursement pressures and the need for massively expensive technology investments...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of literature examining the perceptions of Canadian pharmacists toward drug promotion by the pharmaceutical industry and pharmacist-industry interactions. OBJECTIVES To determine whether hospital pharmacists perceive their interactions with the pharmaceutical industry as influencing their clinical decision-making or that of their colleagues and whether hospital p...

Background: A lack of information on the overall characteristics of work-related diseases in the printing press industry in Ghana holds back the development of effective disease prevention strategies in the industry. Objective: To identify the commonest disease conditions and factors that influence workers in the printing press industry to visit the hospital. Study design: A prospective descrip...

The input prices indexes used in part to set payment rates for Medicare inpatient hospital services in both prospective payment system (PPS) and PPS-excluded hospitals were rebased from 1982 to 1987 beginning with payments for fiscal year 1991. In this article, the issues and evidence used to determine the composition of the revised hospital input price indexes are discussed. One issue is the n...

Given the complexities of supply chain networks, the firms consider modern technologies as a potential factor to improve their supply chain performances. One of these technologies is the Internet of Things (IoT). Hence, the main purpose of this study has been to achieve the conceptual model of the IoT implementation in hospital supply chains. Considering the qualitative nature of the study, rel...

background and objectives: hospitalbranding is a new concept in iran that requires focused attention in order to enhance economic performance of health care delivery system. this study aimed to develop a conceptual framework for initiation and promotion of public teaching hospital brand in an iranian context. methods: a comparative study of hospital branding in eight pioneer countries revealed ...

For many years after the introduction of universal health insurance physicians in Canada enjoyed a relatively high level of professional autonomy. They admitted patients to hospitals, ordered diagnostic tests and therapies and then discharged patients based on their clinical judgement with little supervision or “second-guessing” by government or other third-party payers. The “appropriateness” o...