Systems and Causal Loop Thinking in Medicine: From Healthcare Delivery to Healthcare Policy Making

Making Human-Computer Interaction Usable: Thinking from Healthcare Perspective

The effectiveness of Human Computer Interation depend upon certain important parameters such as usability and comfortability, which would encourage the end-users to get the services safely and more reliably. It becomes essential to understand the various usability factors under different perspectives which are highly essential to be considered by the healthcare system designers. As such, to the...

Using Evidence to Improve Healthcare Delivery Systems

If pressed to identify the person or persons who has most directly affected their health and healthcare, most people would name their family members and friends, along with doctors, nurses, and others they’ve encountered at clinics or hospitals. Few would identify a politician or other policymaker because health policy is made far from the bedside. Yet the enactment of health policies can be tr...

Empirical Study of Nova Scotia Nurses’ Adoption of Healthcare Information Systems: Implications for Management and Policy-Making

Background This paper used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which was extended, to investigate nurses’ adoption of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada.   Methods Data was collected from 197 nurses in a survey and data analysis was carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) technique.   Results In contrast to findings in prior studies that used TPB to investig...

What’s Needed to Develop Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare? Policy Lessons from a Realist Review

Background In the context of serious concerns over the affordability of healthcare, various authors and international policy bodies advise that strategic purchasing is a key means of improving health system performance. Such advice is typically informed by theories from the economics of organization (EOO). This paper proposes that these theories are insufficient for a full understanding o...

decision-making in australia’s healthcare system and insights from complex adaptive systems theory