Human resources are the single largest budget line in any healthcare organization. But employees are not costs; rather, they must be viewed by managers, boards, and governments as the core assets of the system.

A malpractice claims analysis by an insurer, Healthcare Providers Service Organization, provides recommendations for avoiding errors and injuries. Case examples relate these suggestions to situations that are common in health care settings.

Typical healthcare organizations operate as adhocracies with multiple specialized departments. Therefore, effective healthcare decision-making relies on integrating knowledge from these multiple specialties. This study shows how knowledge integration practices can synthesize expertise in healthcare information systems models. Such models embedded in reports and dashboards can support medical de...

BACKGROUND Knowledge capital is becoming more important to healthcare establishments, especially for hospitals that are facing changing societal and industrial patterns. Hospital staff must engage in a process of continual learning to improve their healthcare skills and provide a superior service to their patients. Internal marketing helps hospital administrators to improve the quality of servi...

Titan Healthcare was founded in 1975 by a group of doctors who wanted to do healthcare differently. They realized that the Fee-ForService model of providing healthcare was inefficient and didn’t accurately address the total healthcare needs of the patient. Rather, it increased the costs by encouraging doctors to perform more services than necessary, and to not pay close attention preventative m...

Analyzing health conditions using sensors is one of the daily activities in a healthcare organization. The purpose of this research is to improve the e-healthcare formulated through the integration of wearable smart sensors and miniaturized devices. In this research, monitoring glucose level of the diabetic is considered as an example of the non-linear problem in which we show that accuracy and...

Spain’s Transition to Democracy set the stage for the organization of a national healthcare system. The adoption of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 was a political milestone that led to the recognition of every citizen’s right to healthcare and the right of autonomy of the various regions that make up the Spanish State. The most distinctive characteristic of the healthcare model set up in thos...

In developing countries, few data are available on healthcare-associated infections. In Burkina Faso, there has been a failure to take into account risk management and patient safety in the quality assurance program. The main objective of our study was to carry out an assessment of healthcare-associated infection in a first level hospital. We conducted a cross-sectional study in June 2011 in th...

Laboratories provides insight on ways to enhance hospital alarm management, reflecting upon innovative alerting systems utilized by the Navy to improve warfighter awareness and capabilities. Safety Innovations Permission to Copy We encourage you to share this paper with your colleagues. You may freely reproduce this publication for educational purposes only, provided that proper attribution is ...

This study focuses on healthcare for the elderly under the Family Health Strategy in three municipalities (counties) in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, specifically analyzing the organization of the healthcare network and the knowledge of six health teams, using interviews and focus groups. The study emphasized the central role of work by community health agents, the prioritization of prog...