Semantic interoperability within the health care sector requires that patient data be fully available and shared without ambiguity across participating health facilities. Ongoing discussions to achieve interoperability within the health care industry continue to emphasize the need for healthcare facilities to successfully adopt and implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Reluctance by...

Healthcare systems in many developing countries do not have enough healthcare providers or healthcare facilities to service their populations. In recent times, nations and groups are setting up health insurance programmes as one way of addressing the myriad of problems that confront healthcare delivery. Develtere et al., discussed the role of mutual health insurance in helping address the situa...

Editorials Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge? Citation style for this article: Suetens C. Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge?. At the same time, healthcare systems are striving for cost optimi-sation, which results, among other things, in shorter hospital stays and early ...

Background Training courses in integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) have been conducted for health workers for nearly one and half decades in Afghanistan. The objective of the training courses is to improve quality of care in terms of health workers communication skills and clinical performance when they provide health services for under-5 children in public healthcare facili...