Denmark is facing a reduction in clinical trial activity as the pharmaceutical industry has moved trials to low-cost emerging economies. Competitiveness in industry-sponsored clinical research depends on speed, quality, and cost. Because Denmark is widely recognized as a region that generates high quality data, an enhanced ability to attract future trials could be achieved if speed can be impro...

A group of consumers of private hospital services and their carers collaborated with staff of a Melbourne private hospital and with industry representatives to develop a consumer-driven performance report on cardiac services. During the development process participating consumers identified situational and structural barriers to their right to be informed of costs, to choice and to quality care...

objective: salmonellosis is a bacterial disease with a rising prevalence in the cattle industry. it is most common in dairy calves one to ten weeks of age. salmonellosis has a serious economic impact on the cattle industry worldwide. methods: in may 2013, a three months old male holstein calf with the history of lateral recumbency was referred to veterinary hospital with severe depression, cach...

As the designated hospital for public health emergency in Tianjin, China, Tianjin Haihe Hospital’s strategic mission is to handle health emergency situations. Its IT system must not only support daily routine works, but also be able to accommodate explosive growth in case of the emergency. Therefore, Tianjin Haihe Hospital launched an IT system upgrade and reconstruction project and selected Hi...

introduction: policy makers and decision makers of medical tourism must identify stakeholders who can be affected by and can affect this industry and determine their status for partnership. the aim of this study was to identify and analyze the main stakeholders of medical tourism in isfahan, and provide strategies for developing this industry. methods: a qualitative study was conducted in 2011....

Eben Donges Hospital (EDH) is a regional hospital in the Boland/Overberg region of the Western Cape. It serves a diverse community whose economic stability is reliant on the intensive fruit-farming industry. This farming is heavily dependent on organophosphate (OP)-containing insecticides for pest control, often to the detriment of labourers’ health. The combination of accessibility, limited le...

Does it sound familiar? Resources are scarce, competition is tough, and government regulations and a balanced budget are increasingly hard to meet at the same time. This is not the automobile or oil industry but the health care industry, and hospital managers are facing the same problems. And, maintains the author of this article, they must borrow some proven marketing techniques from business ...

introduction: hospitals as important sector of health care system has special location in health economic science. increasing of the operational costs in hospital and limitation in financing cause that hospital as an economic firm use cost analysis and prepare effective using of resource and boost productivity. therefore this study was conducted to calculate daily- patient hotel cost in hospita...

Business Process Management (BPM) is an important discipline for organisations that are desiring quality improvement. Many models for assessing, comparing and improving the maturity of organisational BPM are found in literature. An effective BPM Maturity Model should contain a validated set of capability areas specific to the application domain. We attempt to fill a gap by providing a model spe...

Hospital regulators use certificate-of-need (CON) licensing for multiple purposes and objectives. In an attempt to relieve financial distress of acute care hospitals in Florida, CON restrictions on skilled nursing home care were relaxed during much of the 1990s to allow hospitals to provide lucrative post-discharge care under Medicare. The consequences of this policy for freestanding skilled nu...