Time to disrupt health care or is that impossible?

Disrupt Health Care*

Patient Choice Has Become the Standard Practice in Healthcare Provision: It is Time to Extend its Meaning; Comment on “Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?”

The key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. In increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. However, health care users refer to a wide ...

Why Health Care IS Succeed or Fail

................................................................................................................................... 1 A. BACKGROUND: HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM SUCCESS AND FAILURE .............................. 2 A1. Understanding HCIS Success and Failure .......................................................................... 3 B. DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE: CONCEPTION—REALITY ...

coeliac disease: to classify or not to classify – that is the question!

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to give or not to give fluids, artificially: that is an ethical dilemma!

abstract eating and drinking are essential for life. there are clinical situations that artificial hydration is necessary. for dying patients artificial hydration looks useless and in many conditions could even be harmful (e.g. pulmonary edema in hypoalbuminemic patients). in our medical culture artificial hydration is a symbol of care to the patient and withholding it, is a very emotive issue,...