The implementation of electronic health records has resulted in a rapid accumulation of data. Healthcare organizations can use business intelligence (BI) technologies to leverage the data and improve operational and clinical efficiency. Approaches to understanding BI readiness are needed for organizations to develop an overall BI strategy. While there are a number of BI maturity models, they ar...

BACKGROUND Recent advances in the measurement of health literacy allow description of a broad range of personal and social dimensions of the concept. Identifying differences in patterns of health literacy between population sub-groups will increase understanding of how health literacy contributes to health inequities and inform intervention development. The aim of this study was to use a multi-...

The United States stands virtually alone among leading industrialized nations in its heavy and increasing reliance on the private insurance sector to intermediate health care for its residents. The assumption underlying this system is that fierce competition among private insurers yields more efficient outcomes, broadly writ (Alain C. Enthoven 1978). However, a comprehensive survey on the state...

In order to improve the health status of their populations, many countries have turned to a mix of both public and private health insurance plans. There is concern, however, that the private insurance market may cover the healthier in the population, leading to adverse selection for public insurance programs. This paper presents a model of insurance choice for the case of Chile, where workers m...

The objective of this study was to determine the responsiveness of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) (oral health impact profile [OHIP] and oral impact on daily performance [OIDP]) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) (World Health Organization quality of life scale, brief [WHOQOL-BREF]) in dental caries restoration treatment. The study also aimed to assess the influence of tre...