Reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. Adopted from the Toyota Production System (TPS), the Lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. In the context of health care, Lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

In this chapter, a comparison of organizational performances representing team reciprocity, communication accuracy, and performance reliability was made with participants’ competence of emotional regulation, communication type, and also with the appreciation level of professional work based on our empirical studies on healthcare organization. The results in case study 1 suggest that team recipr...

Background: Societies are characterized by evolving health needs, which become more challenging throughout time, to which health system should respond. As such, a constant monitoring and a periodic review and reformation of healthcare systems are of fundamental importance to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services delivery, equity, and sustainable funding. The establish...

BACKGROUND Nurse practitioners (NPs) have been registered in New Zealand (NZ) since 2002. This article describes a sample of their practices and outcomes across a variety of healthcare specialties. The PEPPA model was used as a guide for the organization of data, the discussion of findings, and recommendations for the future. METHODS Two e-mailed surveys of registered NPs (including qualitati...

Data mining is one of the essential areas of research that is more popular in health organization. Data mining plays an effective role for uncovering new trends in healthcare organization which is helpful for all the parties associated with this field. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world over the past 10 years. Heart disease is a term that assigns to a large number of medic...

In the scramble to prepare their organizations for HIPAA compliance, healthcare financial managers may believe they must commit significant funds to overhauling information systems and hiring consulting firms. But security and confidentiality policies required by HIPAA cannot be implemented solely by upgrading computer systems. HIPAA compliance requires a wholesale change in staff attitudes and...

Outcomes research in healthcare has been a topic much addressed in recent years. Efforts in this direction have been supplemented by work in the areas of guidelines for clinical practice and computer-interpretable workflow and careflow models.In what follows we present the outlines of a framework for understanding the relations between organizations, guidelines, individual patients and patient-...

This study was undertaken in partnership with a publicly funded reproductive healthcare organization to better understand barriers to utilization of its services as perceived by low income African American women in its community and how those barriers might be managed. The study uses a place-based, ecological perspective to theorize privacy challenges across different levels of the communicatio...