Presently, there is a growing demand from the healthcare community to leverage upon and transform the vast quantities of healthcare data into value-added, 'decision-quality' knowledge, vis-à-vis, strategic knowledge services oriented towards healthcare management and planning. To meet this end, we present a Strategic Knowledge Services Info-structure that leverages on existing healthcare knowle...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to identify predictors of general and medication adherence in women with fibromyalgia (FM). METHODS Participants were 142 women recruited from tertiary care hospitals or the community and 10 rheumatologists. Participants' demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics, as well as patient-physician discordance, were assessed at the index visit. Ad...

It is estimated that by the year 2005, the majority of healthcare facilities will have implemented some type of electronic health records (EHR) and electronic documentation systems. In 2003, Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), asked two prestigious organizations, the Institute of Medicine and Health Level 7 (HL7), to form a national task force to ...

In many industries, such as manufacturing and logistics, semi-formal process models have become a common means to reason and communicate about business processes. However, in a dynamic and flexible environment the suitability of semiformal process models as an instrument of process documentation may be challenged. Hospital processes are typical examples of business processes that are characteri...