introduction: information technology might have some potential effects, such as influencing treatment process, rate and easiness of information retrieval, and information availability for making clinical decisions based on conditions and management, educational and research activities on health service systems. recognizing these effects can be concerned as a foundation to strategic planning in ...

a major constraint to the application of any form of knowledge and principles is the awareness, understanding and acceptance of the knowledge and principles. systems thinking (st) is a way of understanding and thinking about the nature of  health systems and how to make and implement decisions within health systems to maximize desired and minimize undesired effects. a major constraint to applyi...

Acknowledgments We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of those who helped us develop this framework. We would particularly like to thank the CORE group for allowing us to present an earlier version of the framework at their fall meetings in Washington, D.C. Tsuma and their colleagues at the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program office in Washington, D.C., and from Nahed Ma...

OBJECTIVE This report presents national estimates on the adoption and use of electronic health records and mobile technology by home health and hospice care agencies, as well as the agency characteristics associated with adoption. METHODS Estimates are based on data from the 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Cent...