Quality healthcare is one of the most important factors in how individuals perceive their quality of life. In most countries, alongside the economy, it is the major political issue. In some countries, the healthcare delivery organization is a part of the national identity. CGI believes it is time for a new enlightenment in every aspect of the healthcare ecosystem, where every player, from gover...

Background Patient, public, consumer, and community (P2C2) engagement in organization-, community-, and systemlevel healthcare decision-making is increasing globally, but its formal evaluation remains challenging. To define a taxonomy of possible P2C2 engagement metrics and compare existing evaluation tools against this taxonomy, we conducted a systematic review.   Methods A broad search strate...

background: business process management systems (bpm) can automate all processes in an organization. these systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. as far as the authors know, no related research has been ...

Many providers have already become facilitators of reform by enhancing their organizations' key relationships—with patients, physicians, and the community. Healthcare professionals recently gathered in Chicago at a conference of the Academy for Health Services Marketing to discuss their organizations' efforts to reform the U.S. healthcare delivery system. One healthcare organization has transfo...

The past five decades have witnessed immense coevolution of methods and tools of information technology, and their practical and experimental application within the medical and healthcare domain. Healthcare itself continues to evolve in response to change in healthcare needs, progress in the scientific foundations of treatments, and in professional and managerial organization of affordable and ...

Data Mining is one of the most motivating area of research that is become increasingly popular in health organization. Data Mining plays an important role for uncovering new trends in healthcare organization which in turn helpful for all the parties associated with this field. This survey explores the utility of various Data Mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association, reg...

How to instill compassion in a healthcare organization? In this article, I respond to Marianna Fotaki's proposals in her piece, 'Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?' by drawing on insights from organization studies. Following Fotaki, I argue that to instill targets and formal measures for assessing compassion would be problematic. I conclude by drawing on psy...

THE PROSPECT OF HEALTH REFORM HAS UNLEASHED A FRENZY OF activity in healthcare: mergers, consolidations, alliances, physician-hospital organization development, practice acquisition, and the like. These strategies assume managed care-based reform, in which funding for those who are newly enfranchised will flow not to individual providers, but to systems and networks. This assumption is probably...

S. Emani1; D.Y. Ting2; M. Healey1,3; S.R. Lipsitz1; A.S. Karson4; J. S. Einbinder1; L. Leinen5; V. Suric1; D.W. Bates1,6 1Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 3Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization, Bri...