To share healthcare information and to promote cooperation among healthcare providers and customers (patients) under computerized network environment, a non-profit organization (NPO), named as OCHIS, was established at Osaka, Japan in 2003. Since security and confidentiality issues on the Internet have been major concerns in the OCHIS, the system has been based on healthcare public key infrastr...

OBJECTIVE To describe the results of different measures implemented to improve adherence to the healthcare worker (HCW) influenza immunization program at BJC HealthCare during the period from 1997 through 2007. DESIGN Descriptive retrospective study. SETTING BJC HealthCare, a 13-hospital nonprofit healthcare organization in the Midwest. METHODS We reviewed and analyzed HCW influenza vacci...

Safety Innovations Pump integration requires pervasive and reliable wireless coverage—if pumps can't communicate with the server via a wireless network, no integration can occur. Permission to Copy We encourage you to share this paper with your colleagues. You may freely reproduce this publication for educational purposes only, provided that proper attribution is made as follows: Copied with th...

Public Health Innovations on the Way to Interruption of Poliovirus Transmission in Nigeria Rui G. Vaz, Pascal Mkanda, Peter Nsubuga, Muhammad Ado, and Andrew Etsano World Health Organization, Nigeria Country Office, and National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria; World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo; an...

For over a decade, people have been looking at and thinking about the role of the electronic medical record (EMR) in healthcare. Historically, other industries have proven that information technology (IT) can improve productivity and contribute to a safer environment. Today, widespread adoption of the EMR is at the forefront of President Obama’s healthcare reform strategies as evidenced by the ...

Affordance theory has promise for studying technology’s role in organizational change. By distinguishing properties of technology and their affordances in relation to its users, it facilitates the examination of technological consequences whilst avoiding technological determinism. This paper argues that it is useful to explore affordances and consequences of their actualization (or the lack of)...

Aims: Atypical immature metaplasia (AIM) refers to a full-thickness intraepithelial basaloid lesion in the uterine cervix that features both metaplasia and atypia and is therefore difficult to distinguish from high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN III). p16 is a marker for human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced dysplasia. Cytokeratin (CK) 17 is a marker for cervical reserve (stem) cell...

The Allergology Hospital Network and Regional Register for Severe Allergic Reactions (Regional Observatory) is the Piemonte Health Authority new challenge. It satisfied the need to promote and monitor the best practice among a variegated pool of specialists and to define both state of the art and evolution of efficiency and efficacy of standard working process. Harmonization in clinical daily a...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the performance evaluation of healthcare system in macro-level is important. this paper evaluates performance of health service of asian countries in 2006. methods: in the first step, the initial data for performance evaluation has been collected from the site world health organization (who) and are weighted by analytical hierarchy pro...