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Hospital Managers’ Need for Information on Health Technology Investments

OBJECTIVES There is growing interest in implementing hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) as a tool to facilitate decision making based on a systematic and multidisciplinary assessment of evidence. However, the decision-making process, including the informational needs of hospital decision makers, is not well described. The objective was to review empirical studies analysing the...

Do Middle Managers Contribute to Their Organisation’s Strategy?

This paper presents an empirical study on the contribution made by middle managers to the development of strategy in an organisation. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with middle-managers and top-managers in companies large enough to have the middle management layer in the organisational hierarchy. The data was analysed using a qualitative approach. Previous studies in th...

What Do District Health Managers in Ghana Use Their Working Time for? A Case Study of Three Districts

BACKGROUND Ineffective district health management potentially impacts on health system performance and service delivery. However, little is known about district health managing practices and time allocation in resource-constrained health systems. Therefore, a time use study was conducted in order to understand current time use practices of district health managers in Ghana. METHODS All 21 dis...

Health information technology: A new world for pharmacy.

OBJECTIVES To provide a health information technology (HIT) primer for pharmacists, including the current state of HIT, future expectations, basic information and vocabulary, HIT vendors, communication standards, barriers to implementation, and strategies for pharmacists to ensure success. DATA SOURCES By the authors. SUMMARY HIT is expected to provide integrated electronic health care with...

Managers and Their Wives