How Research Technology and Innovation helps improve primary health care through tele medicine

Transforming Biomedical Research & Health Care Through Technology Innovation

The mission of the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) is toconduct, catalyze and enable multiscale biomedical research by harnessing advancedcomputation and data cyberinfrastructure through multidiscipline and multi-institutionalintegrative research and development activities. Here we report some recent advances enabledby tools from NBCR at multiple scales of biolog...

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

How to Improve the Quality of Morning Report; Department of Internal Medicine, An action research

Background: Morning reports (MRs) are commonly used as an efficient technique in Medical Education. This study was intended to assess the developmental process following Iranian definable standards in the Internal Medicine Department, Imam Reza General Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. Methods: Following an initial one-month assessment through direct observation of morning reports held in Imam Reza Hosp...

Public health medicine and primary care.

Primary Health Care and Narrative Medicine.

Primary health care has received a lot of attention since the Alma Ata Conference, convened by the World Health Organization in 1978. Key to the strategy to improve health care outlined at the Alma Ata conference is citizen participation in every phase of service delivery. Although the goals of primary health care have not been achieved, the addition of narrative medicine may facilitate these e...