background: the family physician program has been carried out to provide easy and appropriate access to health services in towns with populations under 20,000 people. the purpose of the present study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and satisfaction toward the family physician program in rural regions of isfahan, iran. methods: in this descriptive, analytical study, 1200 people from th...

Despite a good general understanding of the need to ensure provider adoption and use of electronic health record (EHR) systems, many implementations fall short of expectations, and little is known about effective approaches in the ambulatory care area. We aimed to comprehensively study and synthesize best practices for ambulatory EHR system implementation in healthcare organizations, emphasizin...

BACKGROUND The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply and demand of medical services. However, little is known about this new workforce entity from the patient's perspective. The objective of this study was to assess the willingne...

Most computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems have built-in support for order sets (collections of orders grouped by a clinical purpose). Evidence and experience suggest that order sets are important tools for ordering efficiency and decision support and may influence ordering. Developing and maintaining order sets is costly, so hospitals often must prioritize which order sets can be c...

Payment is in nature an act of money transfer from one entity to another, and it is obvious that a payment method will be valued as long as the transaction can be completed with safety no matter what technology was used. The key to U-payment is convenience and security in the transfer of financial information. The purpose of this paper is to find a desirable U-payment scheme promoting seamlessn...

Reputation of a venture capitalist (VC) is based on experience, expertise and past performance. We investigate the relation between VC reputation measures and both the probability of future IPOs and their long-run performance. We measure long-run firm performance following three widely used approaches, namely industry-adjusted operating performance, market-to-book ratio, and long-run listing su...

For physicians, burnout is the inevitable consequence of the way that medical education is organised and the subsequent maladaptive behaviours that are reinforced in healthcare organisations via the hidden curriculum. Thus, burnout is an important indicator of how the organisation itself is functioning. A central theme in this paper will be the degree to which the organisational systems are res...

BACKGROUND: Implementation of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) can fail or meet high levels of user resistance for a variety of reasons, including lack of attention to users' needs and the significant workflow changes induced and required by CPOE. End-user satisfaction is a critical factor in IT implementation. OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to identify criteria to select a valid...

Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narrative...