Human-Centered Design Lessons for Implementation Science: Improving the Implementation of a Patient-Centered Care Intervention

Design and Implementation of a User-Centered Content Distribution Network

Replicating Web documents at a worldwide scale can help reduce user-perceived latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper presents the design and implementation of Globule, a platform that allows Web server administrators to organize a decentralized replication service by trading Web hosting resources with each other. Globule automates all aspects of such replication: document replication...

Assessing and Increasing Readiness for Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation

PCMH is being implemented in many settings, and the concept even appears in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 6 However, implementing the PCMH model can be a major challenge, and many primary care practices may not be ready to undertake such a significant change in care delivery. This study evaluates the readiness of primary care practices for implementing PCMH and provides guidel...

Patient-centered care with the Patient Rights Charter approach: A qualitative study

  Introduction Patient-centered care is one of the major priorities of the health system to improve patient safety and satisfaction, but in many cases it is not provided in accordance with the Patient Rights Charter. Therefore, the present study aimed to design a patient-centered model of care with the approach of the Charter of Patient Rights in Arbitrary Hospitals of the Ministry of Health o...

Improving personal health records for patient-centered care

OBJECTIVE To assess the patient-centeredness of personal health records (PHR) and offer recommendations for best practice guidelines. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews were conducted in seven large early PHR adopter organizations in 2007. Organizations were purposively selected to represent a variety of US settings, including medium and large hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, insurers an...

Patient Centered Care Model