responding to ruth mcdonald’s editorial on the rise of leadership and leadership development programmes in healthcare, this paper offers three arguments. firstly, care is needed in evaluating impact of leadership development, since achievement of organisational goals is not necessarily an appropriate measure of good leadership. secondly, the proliferation of styles of leadership might be unders...

The aim of this chapter is to introduce Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance as a paradigm to integrate Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) and e-health services. Healthcare professionals, patients, policymakers, and business partners increasingly require the utilization and enhancement of e-health services at a global scale. However, traditional approaches to integrate services in H...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education has introduced clinical gov­ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. this study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

OBJECTIVES To investigate healthcare professional perceptions of local implementation of a national clinical governance policy in New Zealand. DESIGN Respondent comments written at the end of a national healthcare professional survey designed to assess implementation of core components of the clinical governance policy. SETTING The written comments were provided by respondents to a survey d...

OBJECTIVE To determine what factors have a significant influence on the performance of medical device maintenance outsourcing, and to determine how the performance of external governance structures differs depending on whether a hospital is private or public. METHODS This was a longitudinal study of 590 maintenance transactions at 20 hospitals in Bogotá, Colombia, involving 764 medical device...

health reform is the outcome of dispersed policy initiatives in different sectors, at different levels and across time. policy work which can drive coherent health reform needs to operate across the governance structures as well as the institutions that comprise healthcare systems. building policy capacity to support health reform calls for clarity regarding the nature of such policy work and t...

General medical practices’ in Australia are vulnerable to information security threats and insecure practices. It is becoming well accepted in the healthcare environment that information security is both a technical and a human endeavour, and that the human behaviours, particularly around integration with healthcare workflow, are key barriers to good information security practice. This paper de...