background: musculoskeletal diseases are quite common among healthcare professionals including medical laboratory technicians. this cross-sectional study aimed to identify the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and ergonomic risk factors in indian medical laboratory technicians.   materials and methods: the study sample comprised of 130 male and female laboratory technicians from the indian...

India is known for our knowledge in medical history right from the Vedic times. Ayurveda one of oldest forms medicine dates back to more than 3000 years. After Independence, India's advancement modern has accelerated immensely with making strides Healthcare and Pharmaceutical products. industry comprises hospitals, devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, tourism, health insurance, ...

This thesis surveys the current state of U.S. healthcare industry and discusses issues regarding business strategies for a hypothetical startup vendor in the healthcare IT field. Key growth drivers and current industry trends are outlined to lay the foundation for the need of integrated health information system. Industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces is performed to demonstrate the attra...

OBJECTIVES To assess the current culture of cooperation between healthcare providers (HCPs) and the healthcare industry (HCI) in the domain of Health-IT and Engineering (HITE) and identify possible strategies for improvement. METHODS Based on reports in the literature and personal experience, major challenges were identified, the current ways of cooperation defined and their relation to each ...

OBJECTIVES The healthcare industry continues to have a high number of reported injuries. The purpose of this study was to characterize healthcare industry injuries by patient contact status, identify the occupations associated with healthcare injuries by patient contact status, and determine healthcare injury rates by occupation to gain a better understanding of healthcare industry-compensated ...

In any healthcare sector, the medical device industry plays an important role in reducing overall healthcare costs and ensuring effective access to healthcare. However, in developing countries such as India compared to the success of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, the medical device industry has not witnessed similar growth. In this context this paper studies factors and issues ...

Healthcare has became a popular issue as its scope involves different sciences, people, and knowledge including medicine, patients, nursing, doctors, various life controlling systems, and information technologies. Healthcare industry connects different complicated events from inputs to outputs of the healthcare system, these events escalate in different situations, and thus they become problems...