Observational clinical studies play a pivotal role in advancing medical knowledge and patient healthcare. However, to lessen the prohibitive costs of conducting these studies and support evidence-based medicine, results emanating from these studies need to be shared and compared with one another. This paper explores how semantic interoperability of clinical data can be achieved by integrating t...

the health sector, a foremost service sector in nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

the purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, iran. this is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. the population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of khuzestan, iran(n=315). one hundred and seventy five people wer...

it is of no doubt that social media sites have become the most dominated subject in today life. however, the effect of those websites has widely disseminated not only into social life but into the business world as well. recruitment is one of the topics that have influence by social networking sites. previous studies have shown growing use of social networking sites such as facebook, twitter an...

In Japan, the practice of infection control in healthcare settings has a short history of less than 3 decades. Before that, infection control practices were far from perfect and even ignored. This review summarizes changes in infection control in Japan since the 1980s and offers some comparisons with practices in foreign countries, especially the United States. Infection control is far better n...

1 Management can profoundly affect the quality of healthcare delivery. Certain public management processes in healthcare institutions lacking flexibility, budgetary autonomy and performance based incentives, have become associated with poor health outcomes, and inefficiency. However, new management models that emphasize autonomy in contracting, human resources, and budgeting can improve efficie...

Resource allocation and staff scheduling has been a long studied topic, and there is a growing amount of research addressing such issues in the healthcare industry. Few studies, however, have focused on a visualization system to assist emergency department (ED) healthcare personnel perform patient assignment. This project provides an initial prototype tool to help medical staff make patient sch...