Health System Articles & Analysis

Most traditional African cultures believe that, to maintain the health and vitality of human beings, they have to address forces in both the natural and the spiritual world. This paper uses a participatory approach to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the traditional health system. It presents some concepts and practices, some characteristics of indigenous knowledge ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Innovation in information technology and changes in health care delivery have converged to create opportunities for quality improvement through enhanced information access and utilisation. This exploratory paper reviews the literature on IT and QI in order to address two key research questions: 1. What is the relationship between the availability and use of IT in QI applications in the health ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Primary care (PC) is a form of organisation from the public health assistance structure that plays a key function for the local systems of healthcare, which guarantees the principles of the health system in Brazil. Based on the theories that sustain the concepts of innovation, this research has the main objective to identify the innovations which occur in the PC of the health system of Caxias do ...

By Inderscience Publishers

In Spain, the social security (i.e., the public health system) budget relays on the local administrations of every region. From this budget, a very important amount of money goes to finance, totally or partially and medicines for people. If the administrations do not take this issue seriously, the expenses can be overwhelming. In this paper, a Spanish region called Asturias is analysed in terms ...

By Inderscience Publishers

The aim of this case study is to compare the performance of the Pharmacy Department in the Women Hospital of the Hamad Hospital Corporation (HMC) of Qatar, with that of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) national survey in terms of prescribing and transcribing of drugs that was conducted in 2001. The methods used in this case study include observation, secondary data ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Industry: Healthcare Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Founded: 1916 Employees: 4,700 Objectives: Strengthen compliance Modernize & standardize leave management Improve employee-management relationship As a public, nonprofit health network, DCH Health System counts family among its highest values. That’s why the community of West Alabama trusts the DCH team to provide vital ...

By Presagia

The nuclear cardiology department at Ochsner Health System, a New Orleans-­based multi-­ hospital organization with facilities peppered throughout southern Louisiana, is revising its cardiac imaging model and implementing a flow-­based imaging program. Leveraging the Positron Attrius cardiac PET system, the new model is characterized by highly accurate patient diagnosis and treatment ...

By Positron Corporation

The article discusses the case study analysis of economic efficiency of health service processes in the context of the so–called day hospital. The day hospital model is the result of gradual development. Its evolutionary background takes shape in health systems, typical for developed Western countries. This framework is a popular approach towards increasing economic efficiency of hospitals. ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Erlanger Health System is a nationally acclaimed, multi-hospital health system anchored by a leading academic medical center. Each year, more than 600,000 people are treated by a team of healthcare professionals at seven medical centers across Tennessee and North ...

By Arbutus Medical Inc.

We review the key determinants of health in Ucayali, Peru, identified by researchers, and, according to these, propose a set of tools to improve health in this area. Women and indigenous peoples are recognized as two vulnerable groups in the region that face greater health risks, and these are the main focus of the development of tools for health improvement. Also, the growing economic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

In Massachusetts, the public health delivery system is mainly decentralized with 351 municipalities providing a large array of environmental and public health services through their local health agencies (boards of health or health departments). In many other states these services are delivered at the county or state agency levels, but in Massachusetts they are provided by each city and town. In ...

By National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)

The main objective of this paper is identification of current service quality of healthcare delivery of public sector hospitals to assess the quality determinants of healthcare delivery and to suggest policies and strategies to improve service quality of healthcare delivery. This study was conducted in Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts in Western Province in Sri Lanka. A structured ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Sustainability is becoming more important for all industries, sectors, and organisations. Sustainable health systems are even more critical as they play a crucial role in achieving societal health and welfare. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an environmentally sustainable health system as one that improves, maintains, or restores health while minimising the negative impact on the ...

By B Medical Systems

Information that is available on the World Wide Web (WWW) is already more vast than can be comprehensibly studied by individuals and is increasing at a staggering pace. Health consumerism is fuelled by knowledgeable patients. A key to health consumerism is locating reliable health information on the WWW. Unfortunately, much health information on the web is of suspect quality. Differences between ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Interview With Horst Nowosad, Sales and Project Engineer at Inmatec Medical oxygen is used in emergency care and vaccine production. With their own O2 generation, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers secure supplies and reduce costs. Mr. Nowosad, Inmatec GaseTechnologie is a leading manufacturer of oxygen and nitrogen generators. What developments do you see in the area of oxygen ...

By Inmatec GaseTechnologie GmbH & Co. KG

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world’s health system and organization. To control and prevent this virus and others of its kind, vaccination has been adopted as an effective way to protect public health. Vaccines are chemical and biological products, which means they are sensitive to both cold and heat and must be kept in cold storage throughout the vast cold ...

By MadgeTech, Inc.

Developing countries can benefit from conducting innovative research and development in science and technology prioritised to their own specific health and development needs. Here, the role of the domestic private sector in utilising its knowledge, expertise, resources and relationships is critical for translating R&D results into tangible health products and services for individuals. We have ...

By Inderscience Publishers

There has been a major shift in burden of disease in developing countries. Although traditionally associated with industrialised nations, epidemic levels of non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, now threaten the developing world and are straining health systems that are still struggling with persisting levels of infectious disease. Developing countries ...

By Inderscience Publishers

While parceling out functions to one or more outside providers can facilitate growth, insourcing other elements of a home sleep testing workflow provides control. CleveMed CEO Hani Kayyali doesn’t think the myriad home testing solutions will go away post-pandemic either, but he does think the post-pandemic sleep testing landscape will likely look different than what preceded it. ...

By Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.

People who live with trauma symptoms—and the people who care for them—know how challenging the condition can be to treat. Medications and talk therapy help many patients, but are ineffective for many others. The search continues for treatments that work and offer lasting benefits for the millions of Americans who live with PTSD. Sources of trauma Though PTSD is linked with ...

By Freespira, Inc.