Despite a good general understanding of the need to ensure provider adoption and use of electronic health record (EHR) systems, many implementations fall short of expectations, and little is known about effective approaches in the ambulatory care area. We aimed to comprehensively study and synthesize best practices for ambulatory EHR system implementation in healthcare organizations, emphasizin...

In this work a simulation–based optimization model is considered in the framework of the management of hospital services. Given specific parameters which describe the hospital setting, the simulation model aims at reproducing the hospital processes and evaluating their efficiency. The use of a simulation–based optimization approach is necessary since the model can not be expressed as closed–for...

background recommendations to immunize healthcare workers (hcws) against hepatitis b are well known. however, a proportion of individuals do not respond to the primary standard three-dose hb vaccination schedule. conclusions both the single- and double-dose hb vaccines were adequately immunogenic, and the double-dose hb vaccine was not significantly more immunogenic than the single-dose vaccine...

for TAR 2015 Optimization of prosthetic alignments with a mobile gait analysis system Thiele, Julius, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany [email protected] Westebbe, Bettina, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany [email protected] Oehler, Simone, Otto Bock HealthCare, Germany [email protected] Kraft, Marc, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany [email protected]

The U.S. healthcare industry is a large enterprise accounting for over 14.1% of the national economic output in 2001. It has been under pressure for cost containment and providing quality health care services to consumers. Its record of investing heavily on development of sophisticated drugs and diagnostic systems does not match that of technologies to manage its day-to-day operations. In order...

background: this paper considers a range of issues related to the financing of health care system and relevant government policies in iran. methods: this study used mixed methods. a systematic literature review was undertaken to identify relevant publications. this was supplemented by hand searching in books and journals, including government publications. the issues and uncertainties identifie...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The healthcare industry has been slower to adopt Business Process Management (BPM) than other industries. However, The Chester County Hospital (CCH) has distinguished itself by not only implementing workflow management technology in a healthcare setting, but by customizing and supplementing that technology with its own home-grown applications. The result is a workflow system t...