Tendency for data mining application in healthcare today is great, because healthcare sector is rich with information, and data mining is becoming a necessity. Healthcare organizations produce and collect large volumes of information on daily basis. Use of information technologies allows automatization of processes for extraction of data that help to get interesting knowledge and regularities, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050, non-Hispanic whites will be in the numerical minority. This rapid diversification requires healthcare organizations to pay closer attention to cross-cultural issues if they are to meet the healthcare needs of the nation and continue to maintain a high standard of care. Although scorecards and benchmarking are widely used to gauge healthcare organiza...

Enterprise architecture (EA) plays significant role in public, private as well as other organizational systems, such as health care organizations , educational institute, cloud computing and e-government. EA can be use in any organization where IT and organization functionality (business functions) alignments are required. This paper investigates the role of EA in healthcare organizations. Fina...

In this paper, we present an overview of cloud computing, examine the potential uses for cloud computing in healthcare environments, and propose a framework to guide architectural selection decisions regarding information systems in both large and small healthcare organizations. The framework provides insight to both practitioners and academics by extending our understanding of the decisions re...

BACKGROUND There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report the psychometric properties, establish benchmarking data, and discuss emerging areas of research with the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. METHODS Six cross-sectional surveys of health care...

Bioethics, clinical ethics, and professional ethics are mature, welldeveloped fields of applied ethics that focus on medical research, patient autonomy and patient care, patient– healthcare professional relationships, and issues that arise in clinical and other medical settings. However, despite these developments, little attention has been paid to the organizational aspects of healthcare in th...

Employment of the Internet Things (IoT) technology in healthcare field can contribute to recruiting heterogeneous medical devices and creating smart cooperation between them. This leads an increase efficiency entire system, thus accelerating diagnosis curing patients, general, rescuing critical cases particular. In this paper, a large-scale IoT-enabled architecture is proposed. To achieve wide ...