abstract purpose of this paper: this paper presents an analysis toward understanding the business value components that a health care organization can drive by adopting rfid technology into its system. this researcher proposes a framework for evaluating the business value of rfid technology. to do so, emphasis is put on delivering business value through refining business processes and expanding...

BACKGROUND In Senegal, traditional supervision often focuses more on collection of service statistics than on evaluation of service quality. This approach yields limited information on quality of care and does little to improve providers' competence. In response to this challenge, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has implemented a program of formative supervision. This multifaceted, problem...

BACKGROUND An aging population poses significant challenges to health care in China. Health management has been implemented to reduce the costs of care, raise health service utilization, increase health knowledge and improve quality of life. Several studies have tried to verify the effectiveness of health management in achieving these goals worldwide. However, there have been insufficient rando...

OBJECTIVES To assess differences in services associated with mental health status and prescriptions among Medicaid patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. DESIGN Secondary data analyses of South Carolina (SC) Medicaid enrollees. PARTICIPANTS SC Medicaid enrollees with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (N = 555) continuously enrolled in either managed care (MC) or fee for service (FFS) pro...

BACKGROUND The current financial crisis is pressing health systems to reduce costs while looking to improve service standards. In this context, the necessity to optimize health care systems management has become an imperative. However, little research has been conducted on health care and pharmaceutical services cost management. AIM Pharmaceutical services optimization requires a comprehensiv...

Service-Oriented Architecture enables service combination and makes it possible to develop new services in a cost-effective and time-efficient way. As a service combiner, All-in-One e-Health Service, which is described in this paper, empowers e-health organizations and consumers through embracing a holistic paradigm in which consumers, intermediaries, and e-health service providers establish on...

Background: Health & Well-being is one of the most important fundamental human requirements and the main indicators of development and social welfare. However, with rising health costs and unlimited needs and dwindling health system resources, it is necessary to rethink new remedial behavior. Paraclinical services are an important and costly part of health services, it appears crucial to unders...

Medical schools curricular planning aim to obtain a physician trained to work as general practitioner and the Chilean health reform, considers ambulatory primary care as the main axis of health care. However there is still a low interest among physicians to work in primary health care, where there are problems related to a low level of clinical resolution, clinical and administrative management...