Recently, most healthcare organizations focus their attention on reducing the cost of their supply chain management (SCM) by improving the decision making pertaining processes' efficiencies. The availability of products through healthcare SCM is often a matter of life or death to the patient; therefore, trial and error approaches are not an option in this environment. Simulation and modeling (S...

Healthcare is an information rich industry where successful outcomes require the processing of multispectral data and sound decision making. The exponential growth of data coupled with a rapid increase of service demands in healthcare contexts today requires a robust framework enabled by IT (information technology) solutions as well as real-time service handling in order to ensure superior deci...

Typical healthcare organizations operate as adhocracies with multiple specialized departments. Therefore, effective healthcare decision-making relies on integrating knowledge from these multiple specialties. This study shows how knowledge integration practices can synthesize expertise in healthcare information systems models. Such models embedded in reports and dashboards can support medical de...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate how healthcare professionals relate to patients with different levels of knowledge and involvement in their disease and treatment. DESIGN Qualitative, exploratory approach based on semi-structured interviews. SETTING A hematologic outpatient clinic in Norway. SAMPLE 5 nurses and 5 doctors. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted, recorded on au...

Background and objectives:   MCDA is a decision-making tool with increasing use in the healthcare sector, including HTA (Health Technology Assessment). By applying multiple criteria, including innovation, in a comprehensive, structured and explicit manner, MCDA fosters a transparent, participative, consistent decision-making process taking into consideration values of all stakeholders. This pap...

The nature of decision making in healthcare is complex and crucial. It essential to have a tool that helps with accurate correct decisions based on real-time data. Moreover, the process itself complex, comprising various stages from primary palliative, closely related each other, different depending type disease. Each stage has crucial be made relying other stages’ decisions. Thus, an intellige...

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Use of the internet may provide tools and resources for better decision making, yet little is known about the association of internet use with decision making in older persons. We examined this relationship in 661 community-dwelling older persons without dementia from the Rush Memory and Aging Project, an ongoing longitudinal study of aging. Participants were asked to report if they had access ...