OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to suggest an acceptable and generic theoretical framework for involving various types of users in the medical device technology (MDT) development process (MDTDP). METHODS The authors propose a theoretical framework suggesting different routes, methods and stages through which various types of medical device users can be involved in the MDTDP. RESULTS Th...

In role-based access control (RBAC) permissions are associated with roles, and users are made members of appropriate roles thereby acquiring the roles' permissions. The principal motivation behind RBAC is to simplify administration. An appealing possibility is to use RBAC itself to manage RBAC, to further provide administrative convenience. In this paper we introduce a role-based administrative...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which college students are intermixing mood-altering herbs with prescription medications and whether they are disclosing this information to their health care providers. DESIGN AND SETTING A nonrandom sample was drawn from the student body of a Northwestern state university (n=305). METHODS In November 2008 participants completed an online survey detail...

introduction: nowadays, the widespread distribution of hospital information systems (his) in healthcare institutions requires professional evaluation to assess the practical usefulness of these applications. nursing staff are the largest group of staff in a hospital and play an important role in the adoption and evaluation of hiss. methods: this was a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional stud...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications, and assess healthcare costs in menopausal women using an estradiol transdermal system versus oral estrogen therapy (ET). METHODS Health insurance claims from 60 self-insured US companies from 1999 to 2011 were analyzed. Women at least 50 years of age, newly initiated on transdermal o...

The number of healthcare organizations that require targeted cost reduction due to state and federal budget shortfalls demands intense senior leader accountability. Leaders are discovering that traditional methods for curbing expenses have been largely exhausted, and they seek fresh approaches to meet their strategic imperatives. This study of more than 200 U.S. healthcare organizations, which ...

A pervasive healthcare monitoring system (PHCMS) is an intrusive technology designed to provide supports to assist people with health problems. PHCMS could eventually lead to a fully monitored and supervised life within a home and thus reduce dependency of people towards healthcare institutions. Following implementation of such monitoring devices, elements of privacy, emotions and personal valu...

Despite leadership roles being critical, we persist with outmoded models of organisations and pay inadequate attention to developing individual leaders and new models of leadership within the medical profession. New forms of leadership are required. Among many important roles, leaders are called on: to enhance the meaningful identity of a profession; to create effective linkages with other heal...

Research on collaborative information retrieval (CIR) has shown the positive impact of collaboration on retrieval effectiveness in the case of complex or exploratory tasks. The synergic effect of accomplishing something greater than the sum of its individual components is reached through the gathering of collaborators’ complementary skills. However, these approaches often lack the consideration...