With the help of appropriate IT support, health care services can be executed in a more effective and secure way. In Sweden, the NPÖ (National Patients’ Översikt) stands for National Patients’ Overview. It is a platform where authorized health care providers can access comprehensive and continuous information about health care and patients’ situation, based on which care providers can offer saf...

Using an eight-dimensional model for studying socio-technical systems, a multidisciplinary team of investigators identified barriers and facilitators to clinical decision support (CDS) implementation in a community setting, the Mid-Valley Independent Physicians Association in the Salem, Oregon area. The team used the Rapid Assessment Process, which included nine formal interviews with CDS stake...

Appropriateness of AdvancedDiagnostic Imaging Ordering Before andAfter Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Systems Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) systems that match patient characteristics against appropriateness criteria to produce algorithmic treatment recommendations are a potentialmeansof improving care.1,2 TheProtectingAccess to Medicare Act of 2014mandates use of CDS...

Project Santa Fe was established both to provide thought leadership and to help develop the evidence base for the valuation of clinical laboratory services in the next era of American healthcare. The participants in Project Santa Fe represent major regional health systems that can operationalize laboratory-driven innovations and test their valuation in diverse regional marketplaces in the Unite...

Data on the ambulatory medical care provided during office visits to obstetriciangynecologists are presented. Individual practice profiles are drawn for different age groups of physicians, for those in the four major geographic regions, for those in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, and for those in solo and group practices. Patterns of medical care are also described according to the age...

Received 18 October 2005; accepted 19 October 2005; electronically published 20 December 2005. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Kathryn Maitland, The Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, PO Box 230, Kilifi, Kenya ([email protected]). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006; 42:383–4 2005 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights re...

Health services have the functions to define community health problems, to identify unmet needs and survey the resources to meet them, to establish SMART objectives, and to project administrative actions to accomplish the purpose of proposed action programs. For maximum efficacy, health systems should rely on newer approaches of management as management-by-objectives, risk-management, and perfo...