Health care organization in French hospitals has become an increasingly important issue, as efforts to ensure better cost control have increased financial constraints, as patients have demanded ever better results and quality, and as nurses' expectations for better working conditions have grown. Organizing a health care unit requires an articulation between individual efforts--necessary both fo...

Introduction by the column editors: This is the second contribution to our column, which is based on the use of an electronic mailing list (e-list) to generate a collaborative problem-solving process. The process is mod-eled on a module of the academic curriculum of the Columbia University Public Psychiatry Fellowship (PPF) (ppf.hs.columbia.edu) in which PPF alumni who encounter a management pr...

background avante zambéziais an initiative of a non-governmental organization (ngo), friends in global health, llc (fgh) and the vanderbilt institute for global health (vigh) to provide technical assistance to the mozambican ministry of health (moh) in rural zambézia province. avante zambézia developed a district level health management mentorship (hmm) program to strengthen health systems in t...

background: low birth weight (lbw) is considered as an  important outcome of birth and pregnancy, which is associated with long-term consequences and health-care problems. maternal lifestyle and health care during pregnancy are powerful predictors of bw of infants. the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a self-care educational program based on the health belief model (hbm) on red...

introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...

one of the ways to manage human resources is performance management. with a systematic approach, this sort of management determines strategic goals, identifies indexes, collects, analyzes and reports data and ultimately improves the organization performance. performance management is a process that calls for the interaction of factors such as administrative goals, accountability standards and e...

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...

radio frequency identification (rfid) is used to identify the characteristics of an object wirelessly using radio waves. the purpose of this technology in this study is mainly focused on healthcare for inventory management and theft control replacing the manual logs. the storage and tracking of high-cost inventory items is developed. automatic reordering and billing interfaces are designed for ...

Most developed countries are facing the problem of increasing number of elderly. In an aging society, it is highly desirable to reduce the need for medical services by maintaining the health of the population. The need of health care and management for the elderly is an urgent issue. Home has become the centerpiece of health delivery system today. Intensive monitoring of health parameters in th...