CMS has recently launched a series of initiatives to control Medicare spending on durable medical equipment (DME) and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS). An important question is how these initiatives will affect beneficiary satisfaction. Using survey data, we analyze Medicare beneficiary satisfaction with DMEPOS suppliers in two Florida counties. Our results show that beneficiaries ...

Health technology, according to WHO is the application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicine, vaccines, procedures and systems development to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives4. When used in this paper, the term healthcare technology means the different types of devices or equipment used in health facilities. Its encompasses: medical equipment for ...

The main objective of this research paper is to ascertain the problems and causes related to the failure of health care equipment and devices in Hyderabad public sector hospitals and to recommend policies and strategies to develop a procedure or mechanism for better management of health care equipment to improve health care delivery and to minimize wastage of scarce public resources. A structur...

shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...

Studies have proposed that wireless local area networks (WLAN) can be applied in medical applications to enhance the quality of patient care, such as patient monitoring systems and hospital admission systems. However, there has been concern regarding the effect of electromagnetic interference (EMI) on medical equipment from wireless communication devices, especially those at close proximity to ...

Background: The number of studies available on the performance of on-site medical waste treatment facilities is rare, to date. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of onsite medical waste treatment equipment in hospitals of Tabriz, Iran. Methods: A various range of the on-site medical waste disinfection equipment (autoclave, chemical disinfection, hydroclave, and dry thermal tr...