In order to improve the quality and performance of healthcare services, healthcare information technology is among the most important technology in healthcare supply chain management. This study sets out to apply and test the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), to examine the factors influencing healthcare Information Technology (IT) services. A structured questionnaire ...

professional equipment of Clinic staffs and to ascertain if standards could be formulated with regard to the minimum qualifications considered essential for psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers. In a pamphlet recently published, the recommendations arising out of this enquiry are given, and the following summarises what, in the opinion of the Committee, should be the mini...

Article history: Received April 17, 2012 Accepted 11 June 2012 Available online June 14 2012 One of the key challenges of nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is the number of constraints placed on preparing the timetable, both from the regulatory requirements as well as the patients’ demand for the appropriate nursing care specialists. In addition, the preferences of the nursing staffs related to th...

Introduction: Spiritual Leadership is essential due to various issues among leaders. To meet the changing and challenging demands of their environment in the twenty – first century. This research was aimed to determine the relationship between spiritual leadership and organizational commitment of staffs in the headquarter sections of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). Methods: The pr...

In this paper, outpatient clinics’ systems are addressed and their common issues were discussed. As a case study, the private clinics in Egypt are used, and a designed service solution was synthesized. In the case study, the system and application was mainly physician-oriented rather than patient-oriented. With such physician-oriented systems alongside with the current design approaches, waitin...

MusicT~X is a set of TEX or LATEX macros initially posted three years ago and now used by dozens of music typesetters which are fit to typeset polyphonic, instrumental or orchestral music. It is able to handle an important number of instruments or voices (up to nine) and staffs (up to four for each instrument). Many of the usual ornaments have been provided, including several note sizes whch ca...

The present paper has reported a case study of the “Electronic Doctor’s Bag” which is a telemedical tool for home-visit medical services using the mobile communications environment in an isolated island and a disaster area hit by the tsunami. Clinical trials performed for 20 patients around a clinic in Miyako Island indicated that the communication functions of the proposed system were highly e...