Variations in service delivery have been identified as a major challenge to the success of process improvement studies in service departments of hospital such as radiology. Largely, these variations are due to inherent system level factors, i.e., system variations such as unavailability of resources (nurse, bed, doctors, and equipment). These system variations are largely unnecessary/unwarrante...

The design requirements for current heavy-particle accelerators operated within a hospital to deliver radiation therapy must satisfy both clinical and research needs. Advances in dedicated beam delivery systems for clinical utilization and biological studies add requirements that previous accelerators did not have. Eight years experience using the Loma Linda University proton facility has empha...

This paper presents a new model for online decision making. Motivated by the health care delivery application of dynamically allocating patients to procedure rooms in outpatient procedure centers, the online stochastic extensible bin packing problem is described. The objective is to minimize the combined costs of opening procedure rooms and utilizing overtime to complete a day’s procedures. The...

An Emergency Department visit that ended tragically prompted my yearlong journey to Washington, DC, and emergency rooms across the country to search for solutions to the national crisis in emergency care. I reached the conclusion that the crisis is entirely solvable, and I developed a three-part solution that includes 1) nationally standardizing and coordinating care, 2) prioritizing resources ...

background: stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. in this study, we aimed to investigate the level of occupational stress in operating room staffs working in the hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sci...

BACKGROUND In 2011, the Bangladesh Government introduced the National Nutrition Services (NNS) by leveraging the existing health infrastructure to deliver nutrition services to pregnant woman and children. This study examined the quality of nutrition services provided during antenatal care (ANC) and management of sick children younger than five years. METHODS Service delivery quality was asse...

Automatic surgical activity recognition enables more intelligent devices and a efficient workflow. Integration of such technology in new operating rooms has the potential to improve care delivery patients decrease costs. Recent works have achieved promising performance on recognition; however, lack generalizability these models is one critical barriers wide-scale adoption this technology. In wo...

The widespread use of the internet is transforming the delivery health information and communication. In particular, the inherent socio-technical attributes of computer-mediated communication (CMC), such as online open forums, chat rooms and blogs provide a novel opportunity for offering personalized health information and social support. However, to date, little research has been carried out t...