The impacT of governmenT funding on chariTy donaTions keeping them sweet: behavioural economics field trials choice and competition: a case of better healthcare? can performance pay work in the public sector?

From a healthcare viewpoint, BPR is a management approach that rethinks present practices and processes in business and its interactions. It attempts to improve underlying process efficiency by applying fundamental and radical approaches by either modifying or eliminating non-value adding activities and redeveloping the process/structure/culture. However, in the health sector, a wide variety of...

OBJECTIVES The Web-based integrated public healthcare information system (PHIS) of Korea was planned and developed from 2005 to 2010, and it is being used in 3,501 regional health organizations. This paper introduces and discusses development and performance of the system. METHODS We reviewed and examined documents about the development process and performance of the newly integrated PHIS. Th...

OBJECTIVES THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO FIND ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1) Can we predict whether a patient will revisit a healthcare center? 2) Can we anticipate diseases of patients who revisit the center? METHODS For the first question, we applied 5 classification algorithms (decision tree, artificial neural network, logistic regression, Bayesian networks, and Naïve Bayes) and the stackin...

Recent evaluations of the impact of Turkish healthcare reforms on the efficiency of public hospitals suffer from simultaneous structural changes in the healthcare sector as well as from lack of data on some of the key ingredients of the reform. In this note, we analyze the major obstacles in a fair evaluation of the efficiency of public hospitals taking Sulku(2011)’s data envelopment analysis a...

The present article describes the history of risk management, how it was born and how it has evolved, with a specific focus on healthcare. Risk management was a strategy initially used primarily in the economic and business sector. We analysed how the continuous increase of medical malpractice lawsuits involving demands for compensation led to the adoption of risk management strategies in healt...

Several firms encourage employees' silence because they think it is secure for them, but are ignorant that may eventually lead to staff members' outbursts or serve as a sign of stagnation. Employees occasionally choose keep quiet at work in order avoid bringing attention themselves and risking the reputation being terrible worker, which can job stress, low morale, disengagement. The current inv...