BACKGROUND Regulations and privacy concerns often hinder exchange of healthcare data between hospitals or other healthcare providers. Sharing predictive models built on original data and averaging their results offers an alternative to more efficient prediction of outcomes on new cases. Although one can choose from many techniques to combine outputs from different predictive models, it is diffi...

This study is aimed at determining the effect of managerial human factors on business performance of hospital services. For this purpose a neural networks-based model is employed. A checklist tool for evaluation of human factors from management viewpoint was applied. It consists of input checklist items like role of hospital top management, employee relations, process management and data collec...

Since 2007, all Romanian hospital discharges are validated based on the clinical data sent by hospitals. Consequently, the Ministry of Health developed a set of indicators, in order to evaluate the hospital management performance. This evaluation was first done in 2008, based on the new legal regulations that introduced Hospital Management Contracts between hospital managers and Ministry of Hea...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to evaluate and visualize the classifier performance in two-class imbalanced domains. This method defines a two-dimensional space by combining the geometric mean of class accuracies and a new metric that gives an indication of how balanced they are. A given point in this space represents a certain trade-off between those two measures, which will be exp...

productivity of hospital beds: evaluation of inpatient bed days in the west azerbaijan selected hospitals     nabilu b [1] , mohebbi i [2] , alinezhad h [3]     received: 19 apr, 2012 accepted: 20 jun , 2012    abstract  background & aims: all over the world, healthcare systems are under intense pressure to improve their performance . the cost of healthcare is a critical issue for employers and...

Home-based consistency model, a variant of lazy release consistency model (LRC), is a recent development in the DSM field that has open out many areas for further research and development. In this paper, we present 2 adaptive schemes for home-based DSM systems: home migration and dynamic adaptation between write-invalidation and writeupdate protocols. The two fully automatic schemes are in line...

The emergency department (ED) is one of the most important departments in hospitals, which provides care to patients who need rapid medical treatment. configuration ED's interior spaces impacts their functioning and determines hospital complex's performance. This study proposes a Performance-Based Building Design (PBBD) approach ED layouts Erbil city hospitals determine types achieve more funct...