Healthcare executives regularly encounter a variety of ethical issues—from organizational issues, such as interactions with suppliers, to the complex clinical issues of end-of-life patient care decisions. To ensure these wide-ranging ethical decisions are being made effectively and in the best interest of patients, employees and the community, healthcare leaders need to set the ethical tone of ...

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA; Division of Clinical Decision Making, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center; Department of Economics, Harvard University,...

Globally, the healthcare services are considered to be the biggest service industry, and they are taking top priority, receiving enormous investments, and are growing at a rapid pace in most developed countries (Mitchell, 2000; Pan American Health Organization, 1999) E-health, which are basically enabled and driven by the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare have the ...

By using information technology, the healthcare industry is rising rapidly, through automating number of processes such as analyzing records, organizing the huge data, and developing workflow by extraction and maintain knowledge. In the last few years, Decision Support System (DSS) considered as the most outstanding system, which is crucial for any healthcare organization. The aim of this paper...

Numerous challenges confront managers in the healthcare industry, making it increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Contemporary management challenges in the industry have many different origins (e.g., economic, financial, clinical, and legal), but there is growing recognition that some of management's greatest problems have organizationa...

A health information system (HIS) is the intersection of between healthcare’s business process, and information systems to deliver better healthcare services. The nature of healthcare industry, which is highly influenced by economic, social, politic, and technological factors, has changed over time. This paper will address some important concepts of healthcare and related terminologies to provi...

Definitions of "urban" and "rural" developed for general purposes may not reflect the organization and delivery of healthcare. This research used cluster analysis to group Local Health Areas based on the distribution of healthcare spending across service categories. Though total spending was similar, the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Victoria were identified as distinct from non-metropoli...

1 Cross infection risk: Healthcare associated infection is defined as an infection that occurred in a patient in the healthcare setting in whom the infection was not present, or incubating, at the time of admission [1]. The World Health Organization reported in 2002 that the problem of nosocomial-acquired infection affects 1.4 million people worldwide. Annually, in the United Kingdom approximat...

12 Reflections ■ Volume 6, Number 4/5 reflections.solonline.org Are Healthcare Organizations LearningDisabled? In our work, my colleagues and I have found that the organizational dynamics in hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations tend to include an overemphasis on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, blame, and other fear-based dynamics. Although it is true that...