Mehrdad Kargari

[ 1 ] - Iran’s Medical Tourism Development Model in Cardiac Surgery

Introduction: Since medical tourism is considered as an incremental activity in this sector and proper infrastructures in country to make medical tourism are lacking, announcement by authorities to provide perquisites of medical tourism to make the first clinic hotel and health town are necessary for the purpose of developing medical tourism in Iran, all of these side issues sh...

[ 2 ] - A Business Model to Detect Disease Outbreaks

Introduction: Every year several disease outbreaks, such as influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and other contagious illnesses, impose various costs to public and non-government agencies. Most of these expenses are due to not being ready to handle such disease outbreaks. An appropriate preparation will reduce the expenses. A system that is able to recognize these outbreaks can earn ...

[ 3 ] - Patient Relationship Management Method, an Approach toward Patient Satisfaction: A Case Study in a Public Hospital

Introduction: The aim of this project is to investigate the concepts of patient relationship management (PRM), patient satisfaction and their relationship. As healthcare industry has its own complexity, the so well defined idea in marketing which is CRM could not be implemented directly in health industry. Consequently the concept of PRM has been introduced. Metho...

[ 4 ] - میزان درخواست و تزریق خون در بخش زنان وزایمان

چکیده سابقه و هدف منابع خون تنها انسانها هستند. چگونگی درخواست خون دارای اهمیت به سزایی است تا علاوه بر نجات جان‌ انسان‌، با درخواست غیر ضروری، زندگی بیماران دیگر به مخاطره نیفتد. هدف این پژوهش، ...

[ 5 ] - Identification of parameters affecting the success of the hospital information system & presentation of a model for user satisfaction improvement

Complex institutions comprising several divisions and departments such as hospitals need access to information. Hospital information system has many capabilities and in case this system is acceptance by hospital staff, it leads to a revolution in the health care delivery industry. The identification of effective determinants and measures on the success of hospital information systems could sign...

[ 6 ] - بهینه یابی سبد سرویس در مسائل مسیریابی چند سطحی - چند محصولی و چند قرارگاهی وسایل نقلیه با هدف حداقل نمودن هزینه‌های توزیع

Optimizing the service card in multi-depot, multi-product and multi-level vehicle routing problem is one of the most important and at the same time, the most complex problems in the transportation problems contexts. Numerous exact heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms have been developed for different vehicle routing problems. In this paper, a binary linear programming (BLP) based model for o...

[ 7 ] - Providing a model based on Recommender systems for hospital services (Case: Shariati Hospital of Tehran)

Background and objectives: In the increasingly competitive market of the healthcare industry, the organizations providing health care services are highly in need of systems that will enable them to meet their clients' needs in order to achieve a high degree of patient satisfaction. To this end, health managers need to identify the factors affecting patient satisfaction focus. T...

[ 8 ] - Detecting frauds using customer behavior trend analysis and known scenarios

In this paper a fraud detection method is proposed which user behaviors are modeled using two main components namely the un-normal trend analysis component and scenario based component. The extent of deviation of a transaction from his/her normal behavior is estimated using fuzzy membership functions. The results of applying all membership functions on a transaction will then be infused and a f...

[ 9 ] - A Disease Outbreak Prediction Model Using Bayesian Inference: A Case of Influenza

Introduction: One major problem in analyzing epidemic data is the lack of data and high dependency among the available data, which is due to the fact that the epidemic process is not directly observable. Methods: One method for epidemic data analysis to estimate the desired epidemic parameters, such as disease transmission rate and recovery rate, is data ...