background: increasing hospital costs and its social and cultural problems has led to the idea of providing healthcare services at home. because of infrastructural and implementation problems, providing healthcare at home in iran has not been initiated yet. therefore, this study set out to elaborate the need for a comprehensive system in order to provide this service in iran. methods: all artic...

Background and Objectives: Induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. Apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

The research effort for a national e-Health interconnection infrastructure and for the needs of supporting design guidelines is in great demand. Additional researches in eHealthcare network services are critical to universal deployment in operational and security service management aspects. This paper presents our solution framework for e-Healthcare interconnection infrastructure, operational m...

• The EU/EAA influenza season started in week 1/2015, with 26% of sentinel specimens positive for influenza. • Subtype A(H3N2) viruses are dominant in almost all reporting European countries, and the majority of genetically characterised A(H3N2) viruses belong to subgroups distinct from the currently recommended vaccine-strain A/Texas/50/2012. • As a consequence of the mismatch between vaccine ...

Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an integ...

health care management in disasters is one of the main parts of disaster management. health in disasters is affected by performance of various sectors, and has an interactive impact on various aspects of disaster management. the aim of this study was to identify the most important themes affecting the healthcare management in disaster.in this qualitative study with a content analysis approach, ...