Managing population healthcare

Managing Socio-technical Interactions in Healthcare Systems

We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, exhibit interactions between humans (social components) and technical components (devices, computer-based systems, and so on) that are critical for the domain in which they operate. Our framework is based on a new class of archi...

Managing Patients with Complex Healthcare Needs

Managing Healthcare Records via Mobile Applications

In this paper, a mobile application that facilitates users in managing healthcare records is proposed. Patient’s important medical information such as measurements of vital signs can be easily captured and automatically uploaded to the care-giver’s medical information system. The application is able to readily capture vital readings such as blood pressure, pulse rate, blood glucose level and bo...

Managing healthcare technology in quality management framework

Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an integ...

Managing the risks: healthcare reform's challenge to hospitals.

Three big risks for hospitals under healthcare reform are: The inevitable deficit reduction initiatives beginning in FFY12. The estimated one-third increase in Medicaid enrollment. The dramatic increase in regulation of private health insurance.