The Catholic Health Association (CHA) Leadership Task Force on National Health Policy Reform has offered a proposal that, if enacted by Congress, would result in profound changes in the way providers deliver healthcare in the United States. The proposal would result in fewer acute healthcare facilities, challenge some acute care facilities to provide additional services and require each Catholi...

Garrett, Sandra Kay Powers. Ph.D., Purdue University, May 2007. Provider Centered Coordination, Resource Foraging, and Event Management in Healthcare Tasks. Major Professor: Barrett S. Caldwell The increasing complexity of healthcare and recent awareness of deaths and injuries associated with system errors has made patient safety an issue of national concern. Improving the quality and efficienc...

Health information technology (HIT) offers great potential for supporting healthcare delivery, particularly collaborative care delivery that is provided across multiple settings and providers. To date much of HIT design has focused on digitizing data or processes on a departmental or healthcare provider basis. However, this bounded approach has not scaled well for supporting community based car...

OBJECTIVE To determine the types of access to care most strongly associated with facility-based delivery among women in Ghana. METHODS Data relating to the "5 As of Access" framework were extracted from the 2008 Ghana Demographic Health Survey and analyzed using multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS In all, 55.5% of a weighted sample of 1102 women delivered in a healthcare facility, whe...

mHealth is an emerging field that comprises the delivery of health through mobile technologies, being part of a broader concept: eHealth. With the rapid advances and adoption of mobile technologies and applications, mHealth opens new opportunities to deliver healthcare and wellness promotion through personal mobiles. This will transform the current delivery of services linked to particular plac...

This special issue addresses the area of Pervasive Health Management, which is beginning to challenge the twentieth century model of delivery, in which healthcare was organised in specialist locations and administered to patients by healthcare professionals. Thus primary care provides the initial contact, large hospitals administer specialist intervention and disease management, and long term h...