background & aim : nurses are exposed to the changing demands in technology as they execute their patient-related duties in the workplace. integration of information technology (it) in healthcare systems improves the quality of care provided. nursing and midwifery students with prior exposure to computers tend to have a positive influence of it. this study was carried out to determine the attit...

health systems across the world are concerned with the quality and safety of patient care. this includes investing in research and development to progress advances in the treatment and management of individuals and healthcare organisations. the concept of evidence- based healthcare has gained increasing currency over the last two decades; yet questions persist about the time it takes for new re...

the challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. this commentary reflects on an earlier paper by ferlie and colleagues that proposes the resource-based view (rbv) of the firm as a useful theoretical lens through which to study knowledge mobilization in healthcare. spe...

a recent international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm) article by fadi el-jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries (lmics) about systems thinking (st). the study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

in the last two decades, the trend in healthcare information technology has been towards digital and multimedia concepts. the next generation of healthcare information systems will consist of a vast network of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed imaging scanners, hospital information systems (his), medical information from clinical departments such as radiology information systems (ris), ...

BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – represent 40% of the world’s population, including a growing aging population and middle class with an increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Their healthcare systems increasingly rely on prescription drugs, but they differ from most other healthcare systems because healthcare expenditures in BRIC nations have exhibited the highest revenue gr...

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