Title:
The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science : regenerative medicine in transition / Herbert Gottweis, Brian Salter, and Catherine Waldby.
Health, technology, and society
Author:
Gottweis, Herbert, 1958-
Salter, Brian, 1946-
Waldby, Cathy.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalization, stem cell markets and national interests -- Embryos, ocytes, cell lines : HESC science and the human tissue market -- Global regulation and local policy narratives : making sense of Dolly -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making I : the United Kingdom and the United States -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making II : Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea -- Bioethics and the global moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science -- Human ESC science and the cultural politics of the EU's framework programmes -- Contested governance : uncertainty and standardization in research and patenting.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780230002630 (hardback)
0230002633 (hardback)
Subject:
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies.
Human embryo -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies.
Regenerative medicine -- Cross-cultural studies.
Cloning -- Cross-cultural studies.
Series:
Health, technology, and society
Contents:
Globalization, stem cell markets and national interests -- Embryos, ocytes, cell lines : HESC science and the human tissue market -- Global regulation and local policy narratives : making sense of Dolly -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making I : the United Kingdom and the United States -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making II : Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea -- Bioethics and the global moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science -- Human ESC science and the cultural politics of the EU's framework programmes -- Contested governance : uncertainty and standardization in research and patenting.
Physical Description:
ix, 225 p. ;
Publication Date:
2009.
Title:
Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Innovating with Care / edited by Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors.
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Author:
Boenink, Marianne. editor.
van Lente, Harro. editor.
Moors, Ellen. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors -- Part I. Biomedical Research on AD Diagnostics: Background and Trends -- Chapter 2. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?; Peter J. Whitehouse -- Chapter 3. On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease; Annette Leibing -- Chapter 4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic; Marianne Boenink -- Chapter 5. Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer's Disease Research; Richard Milne and Shirlene Badger -- Part II. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices -- Chapter 6. Grey matters. Emergent biomarkers and good Alzheimer's diagnostics; Anna Laura van der Laan -- Chapter 7. Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice; Julia Swallowds Responsible Health Technology Assessment; Ellen Moors and Alexander Peine -- Chapter 14. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: How to Innovate with Care; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors.
This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions emerging diagnostic technologies can be considered a responsible innovation. The initial chapters in this edited volume provide an overview and a critical discussion of recent developments in biomedical research on Alzheimer's disease. Subsequent contributions explore the values at stake in current practices of dealing with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, both within and outside the biomedical domain. Novel diagnostic technologies for Alzheimer's disease emerge in a complex and shifting field, full of controversies. Innovating with care requires a precise mapping of how concepts, values and responsibilities are filled in through the confrontation of practices. In doing so, the volume offers a practice-based approach of responsible innovation that is also applicable to other fields of innovation. .
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9781137540973
Subject:
Social sciences.
Health promotion.
Geriatric nursing.
Social medicine.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Social sciences.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology of the Body.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Geriatric Care.
Series:
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors -- Part I. Biomedical Research on AD Diagnostics: Background and Trends -- Chapter 2. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?; Peter J. Whitehouse -- Chapter 3. On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease; Annette Leibing -- Chapter 4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic; Marianne Boenink -- Chapter 5. Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer's Disease Research; Richard Milne and Shirlene Badger -- Part II. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices -- Chapter 6. Grey matters. Emergent biomarkers and good Alzheimer's diagnostics; Anna Laura van der Laan -- Chapter 7. Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice; Julia Swallowds Responsible Health Technology Assessment; Ellen Moors and Alexander Peine -- Chapter 14. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: How to Innovate with Care; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors.
Physical Description:
XXVII, 286 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54097-3
Publication Date:
2016.
There are no items available
Title:
Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Innovating with Care / edited by Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors.
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Author:
Boenink, Marianne. editor.
van Lente, Harro. editor.
Moors, Ellen. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors -- Part I. Biomedical Research on AD Diagnostics: Background and Trends -- Chapter 2. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?; Peter J. Whitehouse -- Chapter 3. On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease; Annette Leibing -- Chapter 4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic; Marianne Boenink -- Chapter 5. Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer's Disease Research; Richard Milne and Shirlene Badger -- Part II. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices -- Chapter 6. Grey matters. Emergent biomarkers and good Alzheimer's diagnostics; Anna Laura van der Laan -- Chapter 7. Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice; Julia Swallowds Responsible Health Technology Assessment; Ellen Moors and Alexander Peine -- Chapter 14. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: How to Innovate with Care; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors.
This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions emerging diagnostic technologies can be considered a responsible innovation. The initial chapters in this edited volume provide an overview and a critical discussion of recent developments in biomedical research on Alzheimer's disease. Subsequent contributions explore the values at stake in current practices of dealing with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, both within and outside the biomedical domain. Novel diagnostic technologies for Alzheimer's disease emerge in a complex and shifting field, full of controversies. Innovating with care requires a precise mapping of how concepts, values and responsibilities are filled in through the confrontation of practices. In doing so, the volume offers a practice-based approach of responsible innovation that is also applicable to other fields of innovation. .
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9781137540973
Subject:
Social sciences.
Health promotion.
Geriatric nursing.
Social medicine.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Social sciences.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology of the Body.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Geriatric Care.
Series:
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors -- Part I. Biomedical Research on AD Diagnostics: Background and Trends -- Chapter 2. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?; Peter J. Whitehouse -- Chapter 3. On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease; Annette Leibing -- Chapter 4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic; Marianne Boenink -- Chapter 5. Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer's Disease Research; Richard Milne and Shirlene Badger -- Part II. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices -- Chapter 6. Grey matters. Emergent biomarkers and good Alzheimer's diagnostics; Anna Laura van der Laan -- Chapter 7. Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice; Julia Swallowds Responsible Health Technology Assessment; Ellen Moors and Alexander Peine -- Chapter 14. Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: How to Innovate with Care; Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente and Ellen Moors.
Physical Description:
XXVII, 286 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54097-3
Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
Rethinking the Clinical Gaze Patient-centred Innovation in Paediatric Neurology / by John Gardner.
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Author:
Gardner, John Author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.
This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology. It addresses key questions, including: How are promising and potentially disruptive new health technologies integrated into busy resource-constrained clinical contexts? What activities are involved in establishing a new clinical service? How do social and cultural forces shape these services, and importantly, how are understandings of ‘health’ and ‘illness’ reconfigured in the process? The book explores how the ideals of patient-centred medicine influence innovation in the clinic, and it introduces the concept of patient-centred proto-platforms. It argues that patient-centred innovation can constitute an expansion of medical power, as the clinical gaze is directed not only towards the body but also towards the patient as a social being. This will be an innovative and insightful read for academics and advanced students, as well as health service researchers with an interest in technology adoption processes.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319532707
Subject:
Social sciences.
Management.
Industrial management.
Pharmaceutical technology.
Social medicine.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Social sciences.
Science and Technology Studies.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology of the Body.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.
Series:
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Contents:
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.
Physical Description:
XVII, 250 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53270-7
Publication Date:
2017.
There are no items available
Title:
Rethinking the Clinical Gaze Patient-centred Innovation in Paediatric Neurology / by John Gardner.
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Author:
Gardner, John Author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.
This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology. It addresses key questions, including: How are promising and potentially disruptive new health technologies integrated into busy resource-constrained clinical contexts? What activities are involved in establishing a new clinical service? How do social and cultural forces shape these services, and importantly, how are understandings of ‘health’ and ‘illness’ reconfigured in the process? The book explores how the ideals of patient-centred medicine influence innovation in the clinic, and it introduces the concept of patient-centred proto-platforms. It argues that patient-centred innovation can constitute an expansion of medical power, as the clinical gaze is directed not only towards the body but also towards the patient as a social being. This will be an innovative and insightful read for academics and advanced students, as well as health service researchers with an interest in technology adoption processes.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319532707
Subject:
Social sciences.
Management.
Industrial management.
Pharmaceutical technology.
Social medicine.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Social sciences.
Science and Technology Studies.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology of the Body.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.
Series:
Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Contents:
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.
Physical Description:
XVII, 250 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53270-7
Publication Date:
2017.
Title:
Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads edited by Juan E. del Llano-Señarís, Carlos Campillo-Artero.
Author:
del Llano-Señarís, Juan E. editor.
Campillo-Artero, Carlos. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Health Technology Assessment and its Interface with Regulation, Policy and Management -- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and the Incentives to Innovation in the Life Cycle of a Health Technology -- The Wisdom Tooth of Health Technology Assessment -- Regaining Health Technology Assessment from Oblivion: Improving and Integrating Regulation of Drugs, Medical Devices, Diagnostic Tests and Surgical Innovations -- Four Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Technology Assessment: a View from the Touch-line -- Measuring QALYs for HTA and Health Policy Decision Making: Bridging the Gap Between Power and ACT -- What Health Technology Assessment System Do we Really Need? A Critical Review of the Current Situation of Health Technology Assessment in Five European Countries -- The Final Stretch? How Shared Decision Making Extends Health Technology Assessment to Meet Patient Preference -- Dissemination of Health Technology Assessment.
This book disentangles the issues in connection with the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its interface with health policy. It highlights the factors that should shape its progress in the near future. Interdisciplinary and critical views from a number of professionals are put together in a prescient order to cast some light and make recommendations as to the next steps HTA should take to be fit for purpose. A wealth of documents dealing with HTA have been published over the last three decades. HTA allegedly is one of the bedrocks of regulation and medical decision making. However, counter vailing visions contend that geographical variations in the role that HTA is actually playing within countries pinpoints specific room for improvement. Given our social preferences, cherry-picking HTA’s features and successes over the last decades moves it away from its possibility frontier. Some of the most noteworthy hindrances that HTA faces, in several countries, to making headway towards its consolidation as an efficient tool for regulation and decision making are as follows: insufficient resources, delays in assessment, inadequate priority setting, regulatory capture, public distrust, actual influence on regulatory decisions, the need for strengthening international cooperation and harmony, the lack of sound and consistent assessments of diagnostic tests, medical devices and surgical innovations and limited dissemination. Time has come for HTA to take a renewed stand. There is a pressing need to submit HTA to in-depth critical scrutiny.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Adis,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319150048
Subject:
Medicine.
Health administration.
Health economics.
Medical economics.
Economics.
Health economics.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Health Administration.
Contents:
Health Technology Assessment and its Interface with Regulation, Policy and Management -- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and the Incentives to Innovation in the Life Cycle of a Health Technology -- The Wisdom Tooth of Health Technology Assessment -- Regaining Health Technology Assessment from Oblivion: Improving and Integrating Regulation of Drugs, Medical Devices, Diagnostic Tests and Surgical Innovations -- Four Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Technology Assessment: a View from the Touch-line -- Measuring QALYs for HTA and Health Policy Decision Making: Bridging the Gap Between Power and ACT -- What Health Technology Assessment System Do we Really Need? A Critical Review of the Current Situation of Health Technology Assessment in Five European Countries -- The Final Stretch? How Shared Decision Making Extends Health Technology Assessment to Meet Patient Preference -- Dissemination of Health Technology Assessment.
Physical Description:
XVI, 156 p. 7 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15004-8
Publication Date:
2015.
There are no items available
Title:
Health technology assessment (HTA) in Jordan / by Mira Samer Al-Amer ; supervised by Prof. Dr. Raeda Jyad Al-Qutob. تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية في الأردن
تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية في الأردن تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية في الأردن
Author:
Al-Amer, Mira Samer, author.
Al-Qutob, Raeda Jyad, supervisor.
The University of Jordan. School of Medicine. Department of Family and Community Medicine.
.
General Notes:
Thesis (M. Sc. in Public Health)--The University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan), School of Medicine
, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
كعضو وموقع في الاتفاق العالمي للتقدم نحو التغطية الصحية الشاملة، يلتزم الأردن بزيادة فرص الحصول على الرعاية الصحية وضمان الحماية المالية وتحسين جودة الرعاية الصحية.
هذا ليس بالأمر السهل، لا سيما مع الزيادة المتسارعة في أعداد السكان، والموارد المالية المحدودة، والافتقار إلى الشفافية في عملية صنع القرار في القطاع الصحي، والتقدم السريع في التقنيات الصحية المتاحة وارتفاع تكاليفها، والعديد من التحديات الأخرى.
في ظل هذه الظروف، نحن بحاجة نهج يسمح لنا باتخاذ القرارات المثلى القائمة على الأدلة العلمية. هذا النهج هو تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية (HTA)، الذي أصبح ضرورة لصناع القرار للمساعدة في التغلب على التحديات التي تواجه القطاع الصحي في الأردن.
الأهداف
كانت أهداف هذه الدراسة هي استكشاف المعرفة بشأن تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية بين صنّاع القرار في القطاع الصحي، واستكشاف مدى الحاجة لتقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية في الأردن، واستكشاف تفضيلاتهم وآرائهم لعملية التنفيذ، فيما يتعلق بالتمويل، والشموليّة، وتوافر البيانات، والهيكل المؤسسي، والتعاون الدولي فيما يخص تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية.
منهجية البحث
كانت هذه دراسة مقطعية، استهدفت صنّاع القرار في القطاع الصحي، حيث قام واحد وثلاثون منهم من أصل سبعة وأربعين شخصاً تم تحديد اسمائهم من قبل المجلس الصحي العالي، بتمثيل وزارة الصحة والسلطات التنظيمية والتأمين الصحي العام والخاص والمنظمات الأكاديمية والباحثين، ومقدمي الخدمات من القطاعين العام والخاص، والخدمات الطبية الملكية، وخدمات الأونروا، والمستشفيات التعليمية، وقطاع الصناعة الدوائية والمنظمات غير الحكومية، والإجابة على استبيان في مقابلة منظمة.
النتائج
كانت هناك معرفة عالية بتقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية بين صنّاع القرار، بالإضافة إلى ارتفاع الحاجة لها. كما تم تفضيل تأسيسها داخل وزارة الصحة، بتمويل مشترك من القطاعين العام والخاص لعنصر البحث كجزء من تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية، والتمويل العام لمكون التقييم. كما تم دعم تطوير الموارد البشرية لتقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية من خلال التدريب الداخلي والتعليم، وأظهر المشاركون اهتمامًا كبيرًا بالتعاون الدولي في هذا المجال.
الخاتمة
يمكن تأسيس تقييم التكنولوجيا الصحية في الأردن وفقًا لتفضيلات صناع القرار بعد دراسة جدوى تلك التفضيلات.
As a member and signatory of the Global Compact for Progress towards Universal Health Coverage, Jordan is committed to increasing access to healthcare, guaranteeing financial protection and improving the quality of healthcare. This is challenged by the proliferation of the population, limited financial resources, lack of transparency in the decision-making process, accelerated progress in available health technologies and its rising costs. In consideration of these conditions, an approach that would allow us to take optimal evidence-based decisions is needed. This approach is the Health Technology Assessment (HTA), which became a necessity for decision-makers to aid in overcoming the challenges facing the health sector in Jordan.
Objectives
The objectives of this study were to explore knowledge on HTA among decision-makers in the health sector, to explore their demand for HTA, and to explore their preferences for the implementation process, regarding financing, scope, availability of data, institutional structure, and the international collaboration.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional study, which targeted the top-level decision-makers in the health sector. Thirty-one respondents out of 47 assigned by the High Health Council, representing Ministry of Health, regulatory authorities, public and private health insurance, academic organisations and researchers, public and private sector providers, Royal Medical Services, UNRWA services, teaching hospitals, healthcare industry and non-governmental organisations, answered a questionnaire in a structured interview.
Results
There was high knowledge of HTA among decision-makers, as well as high demand. An entity within the Ministry of Health was favoured, with combined funding from the private and public sectors for the research component of the HTA and public funding for the appraisal component. Capacity building for HTA through internal training and education has been strongly supported, and respondents have shown considerable interest in international collaboration.
Conclusion
An HTA entity could be implemented according to decision-makers preferences after studying the feasibility of those preferences.
The electronic version is available in theses database \\ University of Jordan.
Includes abstracts in Arabic and English.
Subject:
Health
Medical technology -- Evaluation
Dissertation Note:
Thesis (M. Sc. in Public Health)--The University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan), School of Medicine
, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2019.
Physical Description:
1CD-ROM : PDF.
Publication Date:
2019.
Title:
Health, the individual, and integrated medicine revisiting an aesthetic of health care / David Aldridge.
Author:
Aldridge, David, 1947-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Publication Place:
New York ; London :
ISBN:
9781846426445
1843102323
Subject:
Alternative medicine.
Integrated delivery of health care.
Medical anthropology.
Medicine -- Research -- Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Contents:
Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research.
Physical Description:
224 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10064433
Publication Date:
2004.
Title:
Health Web Science Social Media Data for Healthcare / by Kerstin Denecke.
Health Information Science
Health Information Science
Author:
Denecke, Kerstin. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
The Medical Web and Its Authors -- Applications of Social Media in Healthcare -- Objectives and Structure of the Book -- Types of Medical Social Media -- Excursus: Content and Language in Clinical Narratives -- Content and Language in Medical Social Media -- Text analytic-Enabled Healthcare Applications: Requirements and Architecture -- Information Extraction from Medical Social Media -- Relation Extraction -- Sentiment Analysis from Medical Texts -- Social Media for Health Monitoring -- Diversity-aware Search -- Implementation obstacles -- Ethics in Health Web Science -- Integrating Clinical and Social Media Data -- Concluding Remarks -- Glossary.
This book introduces the field of Health Web Science and presents methods for information gathering from written social media data. It explores the availability and utility of the personal medical information shared on social media platforms and determines ways to apply this largely untapped information source to healthcare systems and public health monitoring. Introducing an innovative concept for integrating social media data with clinical data, it addresses the crucial aspect of combining experiential data from social media with clinical evidence, and explores how the variety of available social media content can be analyzed and implemented. The book tackles a range of topics including social media’s role in healthcare, the gathering of shared information, and the integration of clinical and social media data. Application examples of social media for health monitoring, along with its usage in patient treatment are also provided. The book also considers the ethical and legal issues of gathering and utilizing social media data, along with the risks and challenges that must be considered when integrating social media data into healthcare choices. With an increased interest internationally in E-Health, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0 and the recent birth of the discipline of Web Science, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners investigating this emerging topic.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319205823
Subject:
Computer science.
Health informatics.
Computer science.
Health Informatics.
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).
Health Informatics.
Series:
Health Information Science
Health Information Science
Edition:
1st ed. 2015.
Contents:
The Medical Web and Its Authors -- Applications of Social Media in Healthcare -- Objectives and Structure of the Book -- Types of Medical Social Media -- Excursus: Content and Language in Clinical Narratives -- Content and Language in Medical Social Media -- Text analytic-Enabled Healthcare Applications: Requirements and Architecture -- Information Extraction from Medical Social Media -- Relation Extraction -- Sentiment Analysis from Medical Texts -- Social Media for Health Monitoring -- Diversity-aware Search -- Implementation obstacles -- Ethics in Health Web Science -- Integrating Clinical and Social Media Data -- Concluding Remarks -- Glossary.
Physical Description:
XII, 168 p. 20 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20582-3
Publication Date:
2015.
Title:
Health Without Borders Epidemics in the Era of Globalization / by Paolo Vineis.
Author:
Vineis, Paolo. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
An overview of what global health is. - Food -- Climate change. - The chemical and physical environment. - A time-bomb in poor countries -- The epigenetic landscape. - Public health as a common good.
This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world’s population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience– at least locally – crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industrial food and lack of governance will lead to a deterioration in the health of large sectors of the population. In low-income countries, while many of the traditional causes of death (infectious diseases) are still highly prevalent, other threats typical of affluent societies (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are increasing. Africa is not only affected by malaria, TB and HIV, but also by skyrocketing rates of cancer. The book argues that the current situation requires effective and coordinated multinational interventions guided by the principle of health as a common good. An entirely competition-driven economy cannot – by its very nature – address global challenges that require full international cooperation. A communal global leadership is called for. Paolo Vineis is Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College. His current research activities focus on examining biomarkers of disease risk as well as studying the effects of climate change on non-communicable diseases. “From morality to molecules, environment to equity, climate change to cancer, and politics to pathology, this is a wonderful tour of global health – consistently presented in a clear, readable format. Really, an important contribution.” Professor Sir Michael Marmot Director, Institute of Health Equity University College London Author of “The Health Gap” “This book is a salutary and soundly argued reminder that the ‘common good’ is not simply what remains after individuals and groups have appropriated the majority of societal resources: it is in fact the foundation on which any society rests and without which it collapses.” Rodolfo Saracci Senior Visiting Scientist International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319524467
Subject:
Popular works.
Health promotion.
Epidemiology.
Medicine.
Health.
Statistics.
Environmental health.
Health economics.
Medical economics.
Popular Science.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
Epidemiology.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Environmental health.
Popular Science in Statistics.
Health economics.
Contents:
An overview of what global health is. - Food -- Climate change. - The chemical and physical environment. - A time-bomb in poor countries -- The epigenetic landscape. - Public health as a common good.
Physical Description:
XV, 108 p. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52446-7
Publication Date:
2017.
Title:
Healthcare and Big Data Digital Specters and Phantom Objects / by Mary F.E. Ebeling.
Author:
Ebeling, Mary F.E. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Out of Death, A Birth -- The Rise of the Databased Society -- Privacy and Data Phantoms -- Coercive Consent and Digital Health Information -- The Biopolitics of Lively Data -- The Uncanny Lives of Data Commodities -- The Body of Evidence -- Life After Death.
This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and beyond to create patient consumer profiles that are sold to marketers. Primarily told through a first-person noir narrative, Ebeling as a sociologist-hard-boiled-detective, investigates Big Data and the trade in private health information by examining the information networks that patient data traverses. The noir narrative reveals the processes that the data broker industry uses to create data commodities—data phantoms--or the marketing profiles of patients that are bought by advertisers to directly market to consumers. Healthcare and Big Data considers the implications these “data phantoms” have for patient privacy as well as the very real harm that they can cause.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9781137502216
Subject:
Social sciences.
Big data.
Sociology.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Social sciences.
Gender Studies.
Big Data/Analytics.
Knowledge - Discourse.
Sociology of the Body.
Contents:
Out of Death, A Birth -- The Rise of the Databased Society -- Privacy and Data Phantoms -- Coercive Consent and Digital Health Information -- The Biopolitics of Lively Data -- The Uncanny Lives of Data Commodities -- The Body of Evidence -- Life After Death.
Physical Description:
XIII, 170 p. 3 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50221-6
Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century An Introduction for Non-Science Majors / by George R. Baran, Mohammad F. Kiani, Solomon Praveen Samuel.
Author:
Baran, George R. author.
Kiani, Mohammad F. author.
Samuel, Solomon Praveen. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Is Technology the Cure for Soaring Demand and the High Costs of Healthcare? -- Science, Pseudoscience, and Not-Science: How do they Differ? -- Technology and Bioethics: What Can Scientists and Engineers Do, and What Should They Do? -- Inventing, Evaluating and Approving New Drugs and Devices -- A Visit to the Physician: Diagnoses and Enabling Technologies -- Properties of the Host (the Human Body) -- Properties and Behavior of Materials, and Some Design Considerations Too -- Biomaterials Applications in Medicine and Case Studies -- Cardiovascular Devices: Getting to the Heart of the Matter -- Clever Strategies for Controlled Drug Release and Targeted Drug Delivery -- Tissue Engineering: Growing Replacement Human Tissue in the Lab -- Genetic Engineering -- A Trip to the Dentist -- Rehabilitation Technologies -- Appendix A: SBIR Proposal Front Pages -- Appendix B : Panster Patent -- Appendix C : Informed Consent Form 1.
This textbook introduces students not pursuing degrees in science or engineering to the remarkable new applications of technology now available to physicians and their patients and discusses how these technologies are evolving to permit new treatments and procedures. The book also elucidates the societal and ethical impacts of advances in medical technology, such as extending life and end of life decisions, the role of genetic testing, confidentiality, costs of health care delivery, scrutiny of scientific claims, and provides background on the engineering approach in healthcare and the scientific method as a guiding principle. This concise, highly relevant text enables faculty to offer a substantive course for students from non-scientific backgrounds that will empower them to make more informed decisions about their healthcare by significantly enhancing their understanding of these technological advancements. This book also: · Presents scientific concepts from modern medical science using relevant, high-profile, and widely publicized break-through technologies · Presents a case-history approach involving hypothetical medical scenarios to illustrate several treatments, progressing from less- to more-technologically involved · Offers coverage of the scientific method and details of the engineering approach in medicine · Discusses common and esoteric medical interventions, drawing on students’ and their families’ life experiences to foster an understanding and appreciation of the engineering and technologic contributions to healthcare · Covers diagnostic medical imaging, synthetic and bio-materials, implant design, cardiac care devices, genetic testing, controlled and targeted drug delivery, the impact of nanotechnology, and the future of medical care as it is shaped by new technologies · Includes many exercises, an instructor's solutions manual, and 75 illustrations.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461485414
Subject:
Engineering.
Laboratory medicine.
Radiology.
Biomedical engineering.
Biomaterials.
Engineering.
Biomedical engineering.
Biomaterials.
Laboratory medicine.
Imaging / Radiology.
Contents:
Is Technology the Cure for Soaring Demand and the High Costs of Healthcare? -- Science, Pseudoscience, and Not-Science: How do they Differ? -- Technology and Bioethics: What Can Scientists and Engineers Do, and What Should They Do? -- Inventing, Evaluating and Approving New Drugs and Devices -- A Visit to the Physician: Diagnoses and Enabling Technologies -- Properties of the Host (the Human Body) -- Properties and Behavior of Materials, and Some Design Considerations Too -- Biomaterials Applications in Medicine and Case Studies -- Cardiovascular Devices: Getting to the Heart of the Matter -- Clever Strategies for Controlled Drug Release and Targeted Drug Delivery -- Tissue Engineering: Growing Replacement Human Tissue in the Lab -- Genetic Engineering -- A Trip to the Dentist -- Rehabilitation Technologies -- Appendix A: SBIR Proposal Front Pages -- Appendix B : Panster Patent -- Appendix C : Informed Consent Form 1.
Physical Description:
XVIII, 503 p. 254 illus., 207 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8541-4
Publication Date:
2014.
Title:
Healthcare associated infections : surveillance manual.
General Notes:
"in collaboration with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States Centre for Infection Control", "in collaboration with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States Centre for Infection Control"
Cover title., "in collaboration with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States Centre for Infection Control"
Publisher:
National Guard Health Affairs,
Publication Place:
Riyadh :
ISBN:
9786039022930
Subject:
Infection -- Prevention.
Physical Description:
119 p. : ill. + 1 CD-ROM.
Publication Date:
2011.
Title:
Healthcare Changes and the Affordable Care Act A Physician Call to Action / edited by James S. Powers.
Author:
Powers, James S. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Geriatricians Involvement in Healthcare Changes -- Quality Improvement Organizations.-Leadership Opportunities for Physicians -- The ABCs of ACOs -- Our Failing System: A Reasoned Approach Toward Single Payer -- Geriatric and Primary Care Workforce Development -- Medicare and Medicaid Coordination – Special Case of the Dual Eligible Beneficiary -- Care Management: From Channeling to Grace -- Program Evaluation: Defining and Measuring Appropriate Outcomes -- Targeting Interventions and Populations -- Accountable Care Organizations--A Case Study in the Use of Care Coordination: Montefiore Medical Center -- University of Michigan Case Study: The Physician Group Practice Demonstration.
Healthcare Changes and the Affordable Care Act: A Physician Call to Action provides guidance, examples, and information on processes and timelines for physicians based on the implementation of The Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was established in 2010. This volume focuses on how geriatricians and other healthcare professionals can be engaged in responding to the roll-out of the ACA in their communities, and through this engagement assume leadership roles in local hospitals, healthcare organizations, and medical societies to advance quality improvement and new models of care for older adults. In-depth chapters provide an update on quality improvement efforts at the state level as well as changes in Medicaid financing and the significant impact this will have for older adults, particularly dual-eligibles. Many elements of the ACA are yet to be rolled out and many healthcare decisions are yet to be made. Healthcare Changes and the Affordable Care Act: A Physician Call to Action will guide healthcare decision makers and help them to play a leadership role in advancing quality care for older adults in our changing healthcare environment.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319095103
Subject:
Medicine.
Health administration.
Geriatrics.
Primary care (Medicine).
Medicine & Public Health.
Geriatrics/Gerontology.
Primary care ( Medicine ).
Health Administration.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Contents:
Geriatricians Involvement in Healthcare Changes -- Quality Improvement Organizations.-Leadership Opportunities for Physicians -- The ABCs of ACOs -- Our Failing System: A Reasoned Approach Toward Single Payer -- Geriatric and Primary Care Workforce Development -- Medicare and Medicaid Coordination – Special Case of the Dual Eligible Beneficiary -- Care Management: From Channeling to Grace -- Program Evaluation: Defining and Measuring Appropriate Outcomes -- Targeting Interventions and Populations -- Accountable Care Organizations--A Case Study in the Use of Care Coordination: Montefiore Medical Center -- University of Michigan Case Study: The Physician Group Practice Demonstration.
Physical Description:
XVI, 227 p. 7 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09510-3
Publication Date:
2015.
Title:
Healthcare cost consciousness among physicians and their attitudes towards controlling costs in Jordan
: a cross sectional study / by Mohmmed Hasan Yasin ; supervised by Dr. Abdallah Y Naser . : الوعي بتكلفة الرعاية الصحية بين الأطباء ومواقفهم تجاه التحكم في التكاليف في الأردن دراسة مقطعية
: الوعي بتكلفة الرعاية الصحية بين الأطباء ومواقفهم تجاه التحكم في التكاليف في الأردن دراسة مقطعية : الوعي بتكلفة الرعاية الصحية بين الأطباء ومواقفهم تجاه التحكم في التكاليف في الأردن دراسة مقطعية
Author:
Yasin, Mohmmed Hasan, author.
Naser, Abdallah Y, supervisor.
Isra University (Amman, Jordan). Faculty of Pharmacy. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
General Notes:
Thesis (M.Sc in Pharmaceutical Science)-- Isra University (Amman, Jordan), Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The main aim of this research is to explore cost containment strategies applied by physicians in Jordan, paying attention to the role of cost consciousness in addressing health care costs, barriers and consequences.
We conducted a quantitative study between 19 June and 15 November 2021 through a cross-sectional previously validated questionnaire. A total of 389 physicians participated in this study Using a confidence interval of 95%, a standard deviation (SD) of 0.5, a margin of error of 5%, and an 80% power calculation. The most frequently mentioned bodies that have the main responsibility for reducing the cost of healthcare were the government (65.6%), health insurance companies (60.2%), and pharmaceutical and device manufacturers (57.9%), Participating physicians showed a high level of enthusiasm towards all domains of reducing healthcare costs with mean percentage of 88.3% (SD: 0.04). The most commonly agreed-upon items about physicians’ role in containing health care cost and consequences of cost-conscious practice were ‘there is currently too much emphasis on costs of tests and procedures’ (83.0%), ‘decision support tools that show costs would be helpful in my practice’ (84.5%), and ‘doctors need to take a more prominent role in limiting the use of unnecessary tests’ (86.0%). Barriers to and consequences of cost-conscious practice were assessed using two items 80.0% of physicians reported their agreement they found the uncertainty involved in patient care disconcerting, and around 70.0% reported their agreement they ordered more tests when they did not know the patient well. Participating physicians showed a moderate level of cost consciousness, but this must be higher, because this level will be reflected in the patient's health, as in the end, it leads to cost-related nonadherence.
الهدف الرئيسي من هذا البحث هو استكشاف استراتيجيات احتواء التكلفة التي يطبقها الأطباء في الأردن ، مع الانتباه إلى دور الوعي بالتكلفة في معالجة تكاليف الرعاية الصحية والعوائق والعواقب. أجرينا دراسة كمية بين 19 يونيو و 15 نوفمبر 2021 من خلال استبيان مقطعي تم التحقق من صحته مسبقًا. شارك ما مجموعه 389 طبيبا في هذه الدراسة باستخدام فاصل ثقة 95٪ وانحراف معياري 0.5 وهامش خطأ 5٪ وحساب قدرة 80٪. الهيئات الأكثر ذكرًا والتي تتحمل المسؤولية الرئيسية عن خفض تكلفة الرعاية الصحية هي الحكومة (65.6٪) ، وشركات التأمين الصحي (60.2٪) ، والشركات المصنعة للأدوية والأجهزة (57.9٪) ، وأظهر الأطباء المشاركون مستوى عالٍ من الحماس نحو جميع مجالات خفض تكاليف الرعاية الصحية بمتوسط نسبة 88.3٪ (SD: 0.04). كانت العناصر الأكثر شيوعًا المتفق عليها حول دور الأطباء في احتواء تكلفة الرعاية الصحية وعواقب الممارسة الواعية بالتكلفة هي "هناك حاليًا الكثير من التركيز على تكاليف الاختبارات والإجراءات" (83.0٪) ، "أدوات دعم القرار التي توضح التكاليف سيكون مفيدًا في عملي "(84.5٪) ، و" يحتاج الأطباء إلى لعب دور أكثر بروزًا في الحد من استخدام الاختبارات غير الضرورية "(86.0٪). تم تقييم عوائق وعواقب الممارسة الواعية بالتكلفة باستخدام عنصرين أفاد 80.0٪ من الأطباء بموافقتهم على أنهم وجدوا أن حالة عدم اليقين التي تنطوي عليها رعاية المريض مقلقة ، وأبلغ حوالي 70.0٪ عن موافقتهم على طلب المزيد من الاختبارات عندما لم يكونوا يعرفون المريض جيدًا . أظهر الأطباء المشاركون مستوى معتدلاً من الوعي بالتكلفة ، ولكن يجب أن يكون هذا أعلى ، لأن هذا المستوى سينعكس على صحة المريض ، حيث يؤدي في النهاية إلى عدم التزام متعلق بالتكلفة.
The electronic version is available in theses database \\ University of Jordan.
Includes abstracts in Arabic and English.
Subject:
Pharmacology
Health Care Costs
Physician and patient.
Dissertation Note:
Thesis (M.Sc in Pharmaceutical Science)-- Isra University (Amman, Jordan), Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
, 2022.
Physical Description:
1CD-ROM : PDF.
Publication Date:
2022.
Title:
Healthcare decision making process assistance using data mining and artificial intelligence / by abdullah mustafa Odeh ; Supervised by Dr. yousef abd Al-Halim Al-abdallat. التحليل التحذيري المسبق لإدارة مخاطر الطلب
التحليل التحذيري المسبق لإدارة مخاطر الطلب التحليل التحذيري المسبق لإدارة مخاطر الطلب
Author:
Odeh, abdullah mustafa.
Al-abdallat, yousef abd Al-Halim. supervisor.
The University of Jordan. School of Engineering. Department of Industrial Engineering.
General Notes:
Thesis (M.Sc. in industrial engineering\ management)--The University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan), School of Engineering
, Department of industrial engineering
, 2019.
مساعدة عملية اتخاذ القرارات في الرعاية الصحية باستخدام استخراج البيانات والذكاء الاصطناعي
يُعتبر حضور أو عدم حضور المريض في العيادات الخارجيه مصدر قلق كبير لمراكز الرعاية الصحية لما له من تاثير على عملية اتخاذ القرارات المتعلقة بالاستفادة من الموارد ، والجدولة ، والعمليات ، والمالية ، وجودة الخدمة. في الواقع ، فإن معظم مراكز الرعاية الصحية ، وخاصة التي توفر العناية المركزة لمرضى السرطان ، تسعى للاستفادة من كل دقيقة من جدول المواعيد والاستخدام الامثل للموارد للحفاظ على اعلى معايير الجودة.
مواعيد المرضى تلعب دورا هاما في أقسام العيادات الخارجية لمحدودية الحصص المتاحه ، وقت الموعد ، مدة الموعد ، توفر الأطباء ، وما يلزم من خدمات والتي يجب ان يتم تخطيطها جيدا لتحقيق افضل نتائج . لذلك عندما لا يحضر المرضى في اوقات المواعيد الخاصة بهم فان ذلك يمكن أن يؤثر على استخدام الموارد المذكوره اعلاه . نحتاج الى التنبؤ بسلوك المرضى في حضور المواعيد الخاصة بهم وذلك من أجل المساعدة في الحد من هدر الاوقات الناتج عن ترك حصص زمنيه متاحه يوميا أو أسبوعيا على مدار العام.
هذا البحث يركز على تطبيق مجموعة مختارة من أساليب تعدين البيانات والذكاء الاصطناعي ,وذلك باتباع اطار
( العمل المعياري عبرالصناعة لتعدين البيانات )
(CRISP-DM) (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining)
وذلك للتنبؤ بنتيجة حضور أو عدم حضور المريض . تم الاخذ بعين الاعتبار لأكثر من 20 متغير وعامل تم الحصول عليها من مركز الملك حسين للسرطان و طقس العرب في الأردن لأغراض البحث ، علما ان البيانات المستخدمه تتعلق بعام 2018.
تم استخدام التقنيات لتقييم امكانية العثور على نموذج تنبؤي لسلوك المريض من ناحية الحضور أو عدم الحضور في المواعيد والوصول في الوقت المحدد أو التأخر للمرضى. تتكون البيانات الضخمة التي تم بحثها في هذا البحث من أكثر من 230،000 موعد و سجل لكامل عام 2018 ، حيث تم تصنيف المتغيرات إلى أربعة متغيرات رئيسية: التركيبة السكانية ، الوقت والتاريخ ،تخصص العياده ، والطقس. النتيجة المستهدفة من هذا البحث ستكون على شكل ثنائي أو رايه توضح ما إذا كان المريض سيظهر في الموعد أم لا ، ونتيجه مستهدفه أخرى تتنبأ إذا ما كان المريض سيصل في الوقت المحدد أو متأخراً عن الموعد. تم استخدام الطرق الوصفية والتنبؤية لتعدين البيانات ، وهذه الطرق تشمل قواعد ارتباط البيانات ، تقليل حجم البيانات ، و الانحدار اللوجستي وذلك لتحديد المتغيرات التي ستكون مناسبة أو مهمه ومترابطة لنموذج التنبؤ. خلصت نتائج عملية تعدين البيانات إلى وجود علاقة بين تخصص العيادة والوقت لحضور المريض أو عدم حضوره . ثم استمرت متغيرات العلاقات المترابطه بجزء التعلم الخاضع للإشراف في التعلم الآلي ، وهو مجموعة فرعية من الذكاء الاصطناعي.
أساليب التعلم الآلي المستخدمة هي الشبكات العصبية ذات المستقبلات متعددة الطبقات وسلاسل القرار (J48 C4.5) و التي تمخضت عن نتائج تعتبر مقبولة للنموذج الجديد المقترح والذي تم من خلاله التنبؤ بحوالي 10٪ من المرضى الذين لم يظهروا في المواعيد ، و كما تم التنبؤ بحوالي 60٪ من المرضى الذين وصلوا متأخرين.
Patient show / no show in the healthcare outpatient clinics is a major concern affecting the measures of decision making relating to the leveraging of resources, scheduling of appointments and operations,and quality of service. In fact, most of the healthcare centers, especially the ones providing intensive care for cancer patients, seek to utilize every minute of their schedules and resources at its best to keep the standards of quality. Patient appointments play an important role in the outpatient sections by which the number of daily appointment slots, times by appointment, length of stay, the availability of doctors, and the services offered need to be planned well and utilized, so when patients do not show for their appointments, utilization of the resources can be affected. The behavior of the patients in attending their appointments needs to be predicted in order to minimize the appointment slotsleft empty, daily or weekly throughout the year. This research focuses on applying a selection of data mining and artificial intelligence methods by following the framework of the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) to predict the target show / no show outcome.More than 20 variables / factors received from King Hussein Cancer Center and ArabiaWeather in Jordan were considered for the study, and the data received was for the year 2018. The techniques were used to assess the readiness of finding a prediction model for the patient’s behavior of show / no show on appointments and on-time / late arrivals for patients. The data considered in this research consists of more than 230,000 appointments/records for the whole year of 2018, where the variables (independent factors) are categorized into four main ones: Demographics, Time& Date, Clinic Specific, and Weather. The target class (dependent) isa flag outcome of whether the patient shows up on the appointment, and another target if the patient arrives on-time or late for the appointment. Descriptive and predictive data mining methods were used, that includethe association rules, dimensionreduction, and logistic regression thatidentified what variables were suitable/significant and correlated for the prediction model. This methodology proved that a correlation exists between clinic specific, time categories, and the targets show / no show and on-time / latearrival. Then the variables of correlation proceeded with the supervised learning part of machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence. The machine learning approaches used were multilayer perceptron neural networks and J48 C4.5 decision trees, that generated results considered acceptable for a newly suggested model by which around 10% of patients who did not show on appointments were predicted, and around 60% of patients who arrived late were also predicted.
The electronic version is available in theses database \\ University of Jordan.
Includes abstracts in Arabic and English.
Dissertation Note:
Thesis (M.Sc. in industrial engineering\ management)--The University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan), School of Engineering
, Department of industrial engineering
, 2019.
Physical Description:
1 electronic resource ; PDF.
Publication Date:
2019.
Title:
Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Rajeev Bali, Reima Suomi, Stefan Kirn.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Bali, Rajeev. editor.
Suomi, Reima. editor.
Kirn, Stefan. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Foreword -- Part I Innovation & Process -- Chapter 1. Improving e-performance management in healthcare using intelligent IT solutions -- Chapter 2. An intelligence e- risk detection model to improve decision efficiency in the context of the orthopaedic operating room -- Chapter 3. Healthcare Information Systems Design: Using a Strategic Improvisation Model -- Chapter 4. Assimilation Of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis And Critique -- Chapter 5. e-Health in China: an evaluation -- Chapter 6. Improving The Process Of Healthcare Delivery in An Outpatient Environment: The Case of a Urology Department -- Chapter 7. Adaptations For E-Kiosk Systems In Germany To Develop Barrier-Free Terminals For Handicapped Persons -- Part II Design & Organisation -- Chapter 8. Collaborative Approach For Sustainable Citizen-Centered Health Care -- Chapter 9. Strategies and Solutions in eHealth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 10. Online Discussion Forum as a Means of Peer Support -- Chapter 11. Designing Persuasive Health Behavior Change Interventions -- Chapter 12. Accessibility In The Web For Disabled People -- Part III People -- Chapter 13. Knowledge Management: often neglected but crucial to eHealth -- Chapter 14. Patient Empowerment – A Two Way Road -- Chapter 15. Citizen ePOWERment -- Chapter 16. E-health: Focusing On People-Ceintric Dimensions -- Chapter 17. A Model of Estimating the Direct Benefits of Implementing Electronic data exchange of EMRs and State Immunization Information Systems -- Part IV IS/IT -- Chapter 18. Business Models for Electronic Healthcare Services in Germany -- Chapter 19. Smart Objects in Healthcare – Impact on Clinical Logistics -- Chapter 20. Agency Theory in E-Healthcare and Telemedicine: A Literature Study -- Chapter 21. Cost Accounting and Decision Support for Healthcare Institutions -- Chapter 22. A Comprehensive Approach to the IT – Clinical Practice Interface -- Epilogue.
Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions Nilmini Wickramasinghe, editor Health care companies want to deliver their services with greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Consumers want services that are effective, responsive, convenient, and worth the cost. In response to these demands, web-based and other electronic technologies are revolutionizing health care services. Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions surveys this rapid transformation as it is occurring worldwide. Focusing on new applications in consumer-centered health care in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book demonstrates how electronic innovations can balance business objectives (e.g., low cost, improved performance management) while attending to consumer needs (e.g., access, quality, and value). Keeping technical jargon to a minimum, chapter authors dissect the impact of e-solutions on both sides of the health care system, and the keys to successful adaptation and sustainability. Facilitators and obstacles to IT changeovers based on economic, cultural, and other factors are identified in detail. And the book warns realistically against the pitfalls of designing and implementing tech-based platforms in systems not yet ready to make such changes. A sampling of topics covered: A strategic model for health care IS design. Online discussion forums as a means of peer support. Improving web accessibility for disabled people. Knowledge management: often neglected yet crucial to e-health. Business models for electronic health care services: examples from Germany. A comprehensive approach to the IT-clinical practice interface. With its wide scope of innovative ideas, Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions is a path-breaking text for health care administrators and researchers in health care management, health policy, and health services.
Publisher:
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Boston, MA :
ISBN:
9781461415367
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Edition:
1.
Contents:
Foreword -- Part I Innovation & Process -- Chapter 1. Improving e-performance management in healthcare using intelligent IT solutions -- Chapter 2. An intelligence e- risk detection model to improve decision efficiency in the context of the orthopaedic operating room -- Chapter 3. Healthcare Information Systems Design: Using a Strategic Improvisation Model -- Chapter 4. Assimilation Of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis And Critique -- Chapter 5. e-Health in China: an evaluation -- Chapter 6. Improving The Process Of Healthcare Delivery in An Outpatient Environment: The Case of a Urology Department -- Chapter 7. Adaptations For E-Kiosk Systems In Germany To Develop Barrier-Free Terminals For Handicapped Persons -- Part II Design & Organisation -- Chapter 8. Collaborative Approach For Sustainable Citizen-Centered Health Care -- Chapter 9. Strategies and Solutions in eHealth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 10. Online Discussion Forum as a Means of Peer Support -- Chapter 11. Designing Persuasive Health Behavior Change Interventions -- Chapter 12. Accessibility In The Web For Disabled People -- Part III People -- Chapter 13. Knowledge Management: often neglected but crucial to eHealth -- Chapter 14. Patient Empowerment – A Two Way Road -- Chapter 15. Citizen ePOWERment -- Chapter 16. E-health: Focusing On People-Ceintric Dimensions -- Chapter 17. A Model of Estimating the Direct Benefits of Implementing Electronic data exchange of EMRs and State Immunization Information Systems -- Part IV IS/IT -- Chapter 18. Business Models for Electronic Healthcare Services in Germany -- Chapter 19. Smart Objects in Healthcare – Impact on Clinical Logistics -- Chapter 20. Agency Theory in E-Healthcare and Telemedicine: A Literature Study -- Chapter 21. Cost Accounting and Decision Support for Healthcare Institutions -- Chapter 22. A Comprehensive Approach to the IT – Clinical Practice Interface -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
XXXIV, 386 p. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1536-7
Publication Date:
2012.
Title:
Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Rajeev Bali, Reima Suomi, Stefan Kirn.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Bali, Rajeev. editor.
Suomi, Reima. editor.
Kirn, Stefan. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Foreword -- Part I Innovation & Process -- Chapter 1. Improving e-performance management in healthcare using intelligent IT solutions -- Chapter 2. An intelligence e- risk detection model to improve decision efficiency in the context of the orthopaedic operating room -- Chapter 3. Healthcare Information Systems Design: Using a Strategic Improvisation Model -- Chapter 4. Assimilation Of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis And Critique -- Chapter 5. e-Health in China: an evaluation -- Chapter 6. Improving The Process Of Healthcare Delivery in An Outpatient Environment: The Case of a Urology Department -- Chapter 7. Adaptations For E-Kiosk Systems In Germany To Develop Barrier-Free Terminals For Handicapped Persons -- Part II Design & Organisation -- Chapter 8. Collaborative Approach For Sustainable Citizen-Centered Health Care -- Chapter 9. Strategies and Solutions in eHealth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 10. Online Discussion Forum as a Means of Peer Support -- Chapter 11. Designing Persuasive Health Behavior Change Interventions -- Chapter 12. Accessibility In The Web For Disabled People -- Part III People -- Chapter 13. Knowledge Management: often neglected but crucial to eHealth -- Chapter 14. Patient Empowerment – A Two Way Road -- Chapter 15. Citizen ePOWERment -- Chapter 16. E-health: Focusing On People-Ceintric Dimensions -- Chapter 17. A Model of Estimating the Direct Benefits of Implementing Electronic data exchange of EMRs and State Immunization Information Systems -- Part IV IS/IT -- Chapter 18. Business Models for Electronic Healthcare Services in Germany -- Chapter 19. Smart Objects in Healthcare – Impact on Clinical Logistics -- Chapter 20. Agency Theory in E-Healthcare and Telemedicine: A Literature Study -- Chapter 21. Cost Accounting and Decision Support for Healthcare Institutions -- Chapter 22. A Comprehensive Approach to the IT – Clinical Practice Interface -- Epilogue.
Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions Nilmini Wickramasinghe, editor Health care companies want to deliver their services with greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Consumers want services that are effective, responsive, convenient, and worth the cost. In response to these demands, web-based and other electronic technologies are revolutionizing health care services. Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions surveys this rapid transformation as it is occurring worldwide. Focusing on new applications in consumer-centered health care in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book demonstrates how electronic innovations can balance business objectives (e.g., low cost, improved performance management) while attending to consumer needs (e.g., access, quality, and value). Keeping technical jargon to a minimum, chapter authors dissect the impact of e-solutions on both sides of the health care system, and the keys to successful adaptation and sustainability. Facilitators and obstacles to IT changeovers based on economic, cultural, and other factors are identified in detail. And the book warns realistically against the pitfalls of designing and implementing tech-based platforms in systems not yet ready to make such changes. A sampling of topics covered: A strategic model for health care IS design. Online discussion forums as a means of peer support. Improving web accessibility for disabled people. Knowledge management: often neglected yet crucial to e-health. Business models for electronic health care services: examples from Germany. A comprehensive approach to the IT-clinical practice interface. With its wide scope of innovative ideas, Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-Health Solutions is a path-breaking text for health care administrators and researchers in health care management, health policy, and health services.
Publisher:
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Boston, MA :
ISBN:
9781461415367
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Edition:
1.
Contents:
Foreword -- Part I Innovation & Process -- Chapter 1. Improving e-performance management in healthcare using intelligent IT solutions -- Chapter 2. An intelligence e- risk detection model to improve decision efficiency in the context of the orthopaedic operating room -- Chapter 3. Healthcare Information Systems Design: Using a Strategic Improvisation Model -- Chapter 4. Assimilation Of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis And Critique -- Chapter 5. e-Health in China: an evaluation -- Chapter 6. Improving The Process Of Healthcare Delivery in An Outpatient Environment: The Case of a Urology Department -- Chapter 7. Adaptations For E-Kiosk Systems In Germany To Develop Barrier-Free Terminals For Handicapped Persons -- Part II Design & Organisation -- Chapter 8. Collaborative Approach For Sustainable Citizen-Centered Health Care -- Chapter 9. Strategies and Solutions in eHealth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 10. Online Discussion Forum as a Means of Peer Support -- Chapter 11. Designing Persuasive Health Behavior Change Interventions -- Chapter 12. Accessibility In The Web For Disabled People -- Part III People -- Chapter 13. Knowledge Management: often neglected but crucial to eHealth -- Chapter 14. Patient Empowerment – A Two Way Road -- Chapter 15. Citizen ePOWERment -- Chapter 16. E-health: Focusing On People-Ceintric Dimensions -- Chapter 17. A Model of Estimating the Direct Benefits of Implementing Electronic data exchange of EMRs and State Immunization Information Systems -- Part IV IS/IT -- Chapter 18. Business Models for Electronic Healthcare Services in Germany -- Chapter 19. Smart Objects in Healthcare – Impact on Clinical Logistics -- Chapter 20. Agency Theory in E-Healthcare and Telemedicine: A Literature Study -- Chapter 21. Cost Accounting and Decision Support for Healthcare Institutions -- Chapter 22. A Comprehensive Approach to the IT – Clinical Practice Interface -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
XXXIV, 386 p. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1536-7
Publication Date:
2012.
Title:
Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology by Markus Belkin, Brian Corbitt, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Belkin, Markus. author.
Corbitt, Brian. author.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Chapter 1. Background and Problem Domain -- Chapter 2. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement -- Chapter 3. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement - Pathology Practice -- Chapter 4. Focus Groups 1 and 2 - The Laboratory -- Chapter 5. Focus Group 3 - The Experts -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions.
There is little doubt that information technology is a major force in transforming healthcare systems: physicians need to have considerable patient data at hand, even if diagnosis and treatment are relatively straightforward. But data are only as useful as ICT—information communication technology—systems make them. Inefficient handling of data can quickly lead to chaos, and possibly to fatalities. Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology illuminates these problems, as well as their potential solutions, based on a unique body of research from Australia. Focusing on core strategic factors such as laboratory information systems capability and effectiveness, business-IT alignment, strategic spending, research and education, and end-user involvement, the book explains why pathology labs lag behind other hospital departments. Survey and focus group findings pinpoint the importance of Strategic Information System Planning (SISP), and its relationship to quality service delivery and an improved bottom line. Among the topics covered: Approaches to SISP and IS effectiveness measurement. The OpenLabs project and pathology practice. Development of a framework for SISP. Focus groups: the view from the hospital laboratory, the private pathology lab, and the experts. Key findings and their implications for strategy, planning, and business outcomes. Future research directions, including reverse SISP. Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology is a go-to resource for healthcare administrators and researchers in healthcare management, health policy, and health services research interested in troubleshooting systems, conducting surveys on IS, or better understanding how quality ICT works.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461444787
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Chapter 1. Background and Problem Domain -- Chapter 2. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement -- Chapter 3. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement - Pathology Practice -- Chapter 4. Focus Groups 1 and 2 - The Laboratory -- Chapter 5. Focus Group 3 - The Experts -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions.
Physical Description:
XVIII, 122 p. 10 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4478-7
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology by Markus Belkin, Brian Corbitt, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Belkin, Markus. author.
Corbitt, Brian. author.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Chapter 1. Background and Problem Domain -- Chapter 2. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement -- Chapter 3. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement - Pathology Practice -- Chapter 4. Focus Groups 1 and 2 - The Laboratory -- Chapter 5. Focus Group 3 - The Experts -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions.
There is little doubt that information technology is a major force in transforming healthcare systems: physicians need to have considerable patient data at hand, even if diagnosis and treatment are relatively straightforward. But data are only as useful as ICT—information communication technology—systems make them. Inefficient handling of data can quickly lead to chaos, and possibly to fatalities. Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology illuminates these problems, as well as their potential solutions, based on a unique body of research from Australia. Focusing on core strategic factors such as laboratory information systems capability and effectiveness, business-IT alignment, strategic spending, research and education, and end-user involvement, the book explains why pathology labs lag behind other hospital departments. Survey and focus group findings pinpoint the importance of Strategic Information System Planning (SISP), and its relationship to quality service delivery and an improved bottom line. Among the topics covered: Approaches to SISP and IS effectiveness measurement. The OpenLabs project and pathology practice. Development of a framework for SISP. Focus groups: the view from the hospital laboratory, the private pathology lab, and the experts. Key findings and their implications for strategy, planning, and business outcomes. Future research directions, including reverse SISP. Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology is a go-to resource for healthcare administrators and researchers in healthcare management, health policy, and health services research interested in troubleshooting systems, conducting surveys on IS, or better understanding how quality ICT works.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461444787
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Chapter 1. Background and Problem Domain -- Chapter 2. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement -- Chapter 3. SISP and its Effectiveness Measurement - Pathology Practice -- Chapter 4. Focus Groups 1 and 2 - The Laboratory -- Chapter 5. Focus Group 3 - The Experts -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions.
Physical Description:
XVIII, 122 p. 10 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4478-7
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
Pervasive Health Knowledge Management edited by Rajeev Bali, Indrit Troshani, Steve Goldberg, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Bali, Rajeev. editor.
Troshani, Indrit. editor.
Goldberg, Steve. editor.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Part I: Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM? -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1.Pervasive Computing and Healthcare -- Chapter 2. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare -- Chapter 3. Regulating Pervasive e-Health Services -- Chapter 4. e-Health Complexity and Actor-Network Theory -- Chapter 5. e-health trends -- Part II: KM and Pervasive Health -- Part II Introduction: Making sense of Pervasive Healthcare: the Role of Knowledge Management -- Chapter 6. Managing Knowledge in Crisis Scenarios: the Use of Pervasive Technologies -- Chapter 7. The Analysis and Design of a Pervasive Health Record: Perspectives from Malaysia -- Chapter 8. Quality analysis of Sensors Data for Personal Health Records on Mobile devices -- Chapter 9. Smartphone Application Design and Knowledge Management for People with Demintia -- Part III: The INET Solution and Diabetes Self-Care -- Part III Introduction: Critical Perspectives on a Possible Solution -- Chapter 10. A Pervasive Technology Solution for Supporting Diabetes Self-Care -- Chapter 11. Achieving m-Health Excellence -- Chapter 12. Why Use Wireless to Monitor Chronic Diseases: the Case of Diabetes -- Chapter 13. An Examination of the Business and IT aspects of Wireless Enabled Healthcare Solutions -- Chapter 14. Applying the IPM Framework to Improve Remote Management in the Context of Chronic Disease -- Part IV: Various Global Initiatives -- Part IV Introduction: The Possibilities Are Only Limited by Our Imaginations -- Chapter 15. Online Health Information for Chronic Disease: Diabetes -- Chapter 16. Development of an Internet-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management System -- Chapter 17. Enablers of Implementing Knowledge Management Systems for Better Organisational Outcomes: An Indian Study -- Chapter 18. Expectations, Usability and Job Satisfaction, as Determinants for the Perceived Benefits for the Use of Wireless Technology in Healthcare -- Chapter 19. Web 2.0 Panacea or Placebo for Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 20. e-Health Readiness assessment from HER Perspective -- Chapter 21. Identifying the Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework and Instrument by Implementing the Modified Delphi Method -- Epilogue.
Between rising costs and decreasing accessibility, the present health care picture is fraught with shortcomings—a discouraging scenario for the millions of patients struggling with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In response, computer technology is emerging as a key factor in the transition from inefficient centralized health systems toward patient-centered, patient-involved care: pervasive healthcare. In straightforward fashion, Pervasive Health Knowledge Management systematically explains how mobile technologies and knowledge management (KM) can streamline health systems by removing time and place limitations, reducing costs, and giving patients a more proactive part in managing their conditions. The book defines the role of KM in pervasive healthcare and analyzes its component processes and technologies. Chapters examine how and why KM works, review KM initiatives within and outside the U.S., and offer extended coverage of possibilities for ubiquitous computing in managing diabetes. Together, they outline a future that meets mounting chronic health concerns with efficient, cost-effective, patient-empowering strategies. Highlights of the coverage: Implicit and explicit knowledge assets in healthcare. Using pervasive technologies to manage knowledge in crisis situations. Smart phone application design and knowledge management for people with dementia. A pervasive technology solution for supporting diabetes self-care. Examining the business and IT aspects of wireless enabled healthcare solutions. Developing an internet-based chronic disease self-management system. Healthcare administrators and researchers in healthcare management, health policy, and health services research will find detailed in Pervasive Health Knowledge Management a visionary approach to many of the most pressing problems in their fields.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461445142
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Part I: Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM? -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1.Pervasive Computing and Healthcare -- Chapter 2. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare -- Chapter 3. Regulating Pervasive e-Health Services -- Chapter 4. e-Health Complexity and Actor-Network Theory -- Chapter 5. e-health trends -- Part II: KM and Pervasive Health -- Part II Introduction: Making sense of Pervasive Healthcare: the Role of Knowledge Management -- Chapter 6. Managing Knowledge in Crisis Scenarios: the Use of Pervasive Technologies -- Chapter 7. The Analysis and Design of a Pervasive Health Record: Perspectives from Malaysia -- Chapter 8. Quality analysis of Sensors Data for Personal Health Records on Mobile devices -- Chapter 9. Smartphone Application Design and Knowledge Management for People with Demintia -- Part III: The INET Solution and Diabetes Self-Care -- Part III Introduction: Critical Perspectives on a Possible Solution -- Chapter 10. A Pervasive Technology Solution for Supporting Diabetes Self-Care -- Chapter 11. Achieving m-Health Excellence -- Chapter 12. Why Use Wireless to Monitor Chronic Diseases: the Case of Diabetes -- Chapter 13. An Examination of the Business and IT aspects of Wireless Enabled Healthcare Solutions -- Chapter 14. Applying the IPM Framework to Improve Remote Management in the Context of Chronic Disease -- Part IV: Various Global Initiatives -- Part IV Introduction: The Possibilities Are Only Limited by Our Imaginations -- Chapter 15. Online Health Information for Chronic Disease: Diabetes -- Chapter 16. Development of an Internet-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management System -- Chapter 17. Enablers of Implementing Knowledge Management Systems for Better Organisational Outcomes: An Indian Study -- Chapter 18. Expectations, Usability and Job Satisfaction, as Determinants for the Perceived Benefits for the Use of Wireless Technology in Healthcare -- Chapter 19. Web 2.0 Panacea or Placebo for Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 20. e-Health Readiness assessment from HER Perspective -- Chapter 21. Identifying the Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework and Instrument by Implementing the Modified Delphi Method -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
XXV, 377 p. 69 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4514-2
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
Pervasive Health Knowledge Management edited by Rajeev Bali, Indrit Troshani, Steve Goldberg, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Bali, Rajeev. editor.
Troshani, Indrit. editor.
Goldberg, Steve. editor.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Part I: Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM? -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1.Pervasive Computing and Healthcare -- Chapter 2. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare -- Chapter 3. Regulating Pervasive e-Health Services -- Chapter 4. e-Health Complexity and Actor-Network Theory -- Chapter 5. e-health trends -- Part II: KM and Pervasive Health -- Part II Introduction: Making sense of Pervasive Healthcare: the Role of Knowledge Management -- Chapter 6. Managing Knowledge in Crisis Scenarios: the Use of Pervasive Technologies -- Chapter 7. The Analysis and Design of a Pervasive Health Record: Perspectives from Malaysia -- Chapter 8. Quality analysis of Sensors Data for Personal Health Records on Mobile devices -- Chapter 9. Smartphone Application Design and Knowledge Management for People with Demintia -- Part III: The INET Solution and Diabetes Self-Care -- Part III Introduction: Critical Perspectives on a Possible Solution -- Chapter 10. A Pervasive Technology Solution for Supporting Diabetes Self-Care -- Chapter 11. Achieving m-Health Excellence -- Chapter 12. Why Use Wireless to Monitor Chronic Diseases: the Case of Diabetes -- Chapter 13. An Examination of the Business and IT aspects of Wireless Enabled Healthcare Solutions -- Chapter 14. Applying the IPM Framework to Improve Remote Management in the Context of Chronic Disease -- Part IV: Various Global Initiatives -- Part IV Introduction: The Possibilities Are Only Limited by Our Imaginations -- Chapter 15. Online Health Information for Chronic Disease: Diabetes -- Chapter 16. Development of an Internet-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management System -- Chapter 17. Enablers of Implementing Knowledge Management Systems for Better Organisational Outcomes: An Indian Study -- Chapter 18. Expectations, Usability and Job Satisfaction, as Determinants for the Perceived Benefits for the Use of Wireless Technology in Healthcare -- Chapter 19. Web 2.0 Panacea or Placebo for Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 20. e-Health Readiness assessment from HER Perspective -- Chapter 21. Identifying the Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework and Instrument by Implementing the Modified Delphi Method -- Epilogue.
Between rising costs and decreasing accessibility, the present health care picture is fraught with shortcomings—a discouraging scenario for the millions of patients struggling with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In response, computer technology is emerging as a key factor in the transition from inefficient centralized health systems toward patient-centered, patient-involved care: pervasive healthcare. In straightforward fashion, Pervasive Health Knowledge Management systematically explains how mobile technologies and knowledge management (KM) can streamline health systems by removing time and place limitations, reducing costs, and giving patients a more proactive part in managing their conditions. The book defines the role of KM in pervasive healthcare and analyzes its component processes and technologies. Chapters examine how and why KM works, review KM initiatives within and outside the U.S., and offer extended coverage of possibilities for ubiquitous computing in managing diabetes. Together, they outline a future that meets mounting chronic health concerns with efficient, cost-effective, patient-empowering strategies. Highlights of the coverage: Implicit and explicit knowledge assets in healthcare. Using pervasive technologies to manage knowledge in crisis situations. Smart phone application design and knowledge management for people with dementia. A pervasive technology solution for supporting diabetes self-care. Examining the business and IT aspects of wireless enabled healthcare solutions. Developing an internet-based chronic disease self-management system. Healthcare administrators and researchers in healthcare management, health policy, and health services research will find detailed in Pervasive Health Knowledge Management a visionary approach to many of the most pressing problems in their fields.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461445142
Subject:
Medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Part I: Why Pervasive Healthcare and KM? -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1.Pervasive Computing and Healthcare -- Chapter 2. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare -- Chapter 3. Regulating Pervasive e-Health Services -- Chapter 4. e-Health Complexity and Actor-Network Theory -- Chapter 5. e-health trends -- Part II: KM and Pervasive Health -- Part II Introduction: Making sense of Pervasive Healthcare: the Role of Knowledge Management -- Chapter 6. Managing Knowledge in Crisis Scenarios: the Use of Pervasive Technologies -- Chapter 7. The Analysis and Design of a Pervasive Health Record: Perspectives from Malaysia -- Chapter 8. Quality analysis of Sensors Data for Personal Health Records on Mobile devices -- Chapter 9. Smartphone Application Design and Knowledge Management for People with Demintia -- Part III: The INET Solution and Diabetes Self-Care -- Part III Introduction: Critical Perspectives on a Possible Solution -- Chapter 10. A Pervasive Technology Solution for Supporting Diabetes Self-Care -- Chapter 11. Achieving m-Health Excellence -- Chapter 12. Why Use Wireless to Monitor Chronic Diseases: the Case of Diabetes -- Chapter 13. An Examination of the Business and IT aspects of Wireless Enabled Healthcare Solutions -- Chapter 14. Applying the IPM Framework to Improve Remote Management in the Context of Chronic Disease -- Part IV: Various Global Initiatives -- Part IV Introduction: The Possibilities Are Only Limited by Our Imaginations -- Chapter 15. Online Health Information for Chronic Disease: Diabetes -- Chapter 16. Development of an Internet-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management System -- Chapter 17. Enablers of Implementing Knowledge Management Systems for Better Organisational Outcomes: An Indian Study -- Chapter 18. Expectations, Usability and Job Satisfaction, as Determinants for the Perceived Benefits for the Use of Wireless Technology in Healthcare -- Chapter 19. Web 2.0 Panacea or Placebo for Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 20. e-Health Readiness assessment from HER Perspective -- Chapter 21. Identifying the Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework and Instrument by Implementing the Modified Delphi Method -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
XXV, 377 p. 69 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4514-2
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
Lean Thinking for Healthcare edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Latif Al-Hakim, Chris Gonzalez, Joseph Tan.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Al-Hakim, Latif. editor.
Gonzalez, Chris. editor.
Tan, Joseph. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Section 1 Key Concepts, Tools and Techniques -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lean Principles for Healthcare -- Chapter 2 Artificial Neural Network Excellence to Facilitate Lean Thinking Adoption in Healthcare Contexts -- Chapter 3 The Suitability of Artificial Neural Networks in Service Quality Control and Forecasting -- Chapter 4 The Application of Lean in the Healthcare Sector: Theory and Practical Examples -- Chapter 5 Business Value of IT in Health Care -- Chapter 6 Initiatives of Service Orientated Architecture towards Performance Improvement in Healthcare -- Chapter 7 Adapted Lean Thinking for Emergency Departments: Information Quality Perspective.-Section 2 Applications of Lean Thinking Around the Healthcare World -- Introduction -- Chapter 8 Adapted Lean Thinking for for Healthcare Services: An Empirical Study in the Traditional Chinese Hospital -- Chapter 9 Lean Thinking in Dementia Care Through Smart Assistive Technology - an Evaluation -- Chapter 10 A Delphi Study on Developing a Conceptual Framework to Understand the Perception of Iranian Physicians Towards Electronic Health Records -- Chapter 11 Trying to Streamline Healthcare Delivery in Australia via the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record(PCEHR) -- Chapter 12 Identifying Critical Issues for Developing Successful E-health Solutions -- Chapter 13 Applying the Principles of KM to Effect Streamlined Healthcare Operations: A Malaysian Case Study -- Chapter 14 Re-making Rosa Medical Center: A 5-Step Approach to Transitioning with Lean -- Chapter 15 Lean Thinking and Customer Focus -- Section 3 Macro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 16 Applying A System of Systems Approach to Healthcare -- Chapter 17 The Role for a Healthcare System of Systems Approach Coupled with Collaborative Technologies to Provide Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 18 The Role Of A Disruptive Pervasive Technology Solution to Facilitate Better Healthcare Delivery to Native American Patients -- Chapter 19 Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare -- Chapter 20 Improving healthcare service quality and patients’ life quality through mobile technologies: the case of Diabetes self-management -- Chapter 21 The Role of Online Social Networks in Consumer Health Informatics: An Example of the Implicit Incorporation of Lean Principles -- Chapter 22 Supporting preventative healthcare with persuasive services -- Chapter 23 Using Technology Solutions to Streamline Healthcare Processes for Nursing: The Case of an Intelligent Operational Planning Support Tool (IOPST) Solution -- Chapter 24 Using an e-health Strategy to facilitate the design and development of effective healthcare processes.-Section 4 Micro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 25 Value Stream Mapping in Lean Healthcare: A brief Introduction and Application -- Chapter 26 Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Processes in a Urology Department -- Chapter 27 A Technology Mediated Solution to Reduce Healthcare Disparities.-Section 5 Case Studies.-Introduction. - Chapter 28 Process models, its inefficiencies and recommendations of the emergency department of the Marienhospital -- Chapter 29 Simulation Study - Clinical Center Esslingen -- Chapter 30 Emergency Department Katharinenhospital Stuttgar -- Chapter 31 Business Process Modeling and measuring waiting times in a German ED. An approach for identifying improvements.
A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking. Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health, patient-centeredness, and collaborative care, chapters illustrate lean concepts in action across specialties (as diverse as nursing, urology, and emergency care) and around the globe. Extended case examples show health systems responding to consumer needs and provider realities with equal efficiency and effectiveness, and improved quality and patient outcomes. Further, contributors tackle the gamut of technological, medical, cultural, and business issues, among them: Initiatives of service-oriented architecture towards performance improvement Adapted lean thinking for emergency departments Lean thinking in dementia care through smart assistive technology Supporting preventive healthcare with persuasive services Value stream mapping for lean healthcare A technology mediated solution to reduce healthcare disparities Geared toward both how lean ideas can be carried out and how they are being used successfully in the real world, Lean Principles for Healthcare not only brings expert knowledge to healthcare managers and health services researchers but to all who have an interest in superior healthcare delivery.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461480365
Subject:
Medicine.
Business.
Management science.
Health administration.
Health informatics.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Administration.
Business and Management, general.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Section 1 Key Concepts, Tools and Techniques -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lean Principles for Healthcare -- Chapter 2 Artificial Neural Network Excellence to Facilitate Lean Thinking Adoption in Healthcare Contexts -- Chapter 3 The Suitability of Artificial Neural Networks in Service Quality Control and Forecasting -- Chapter 4 The Application of Lean in the Healthcare Sector: Theory and Practical Examples -- Chapter 5 Business Value of IT in Health Care -- Chapter 6 Initiatives of Service Orientated Architecture towards Performance Improvement in Healthcare -- Chapter 7 Adapted Lean Thinking for Emergency Departments: Information Quality Perspective.-Section 2 Applications of Lean Thinking Around the Healthcare World -- Introduction -- Chapter 8 Adapted Lean Thinking for for Healthcare Services: An Empirical Study in the Traditional Chinese Hospital -- Chapter 9 Lean Thinking in Dementia Care Through Smart Assistive Technology - an Evaluation -- Chapter 10 A Delphi Study on Developing a Conceptual Framework to Understand the Perception of Iranian Physicians Towards Electronic Health Records -- Chapter 11 Trying to Streamline Healthcare Delivery in Australia via the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record(PCEHR) -- Chapter 12 Identifying Critical Issues for Developing Successful E-health Solutions -- Chapter 13 Applying the Principles of KM to Effect Streamlined Healthcare Operations: A Malaysian Case Study -- Chapter 14 Re-making Rosa Medical Center: A 5-Step Approach to Transitioning with Lean -- Chapter 15 Lean Thinking and Customer Focus -- Section 3 Macro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 16 Applying A System of Systems Approach to Healthcare -- Chapter 17 The Role for a Healthcare System of Systems Approach Coupled with Collaborative Technologies to Provide Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 18 The Role Of A Disruptive Pervasive Technology Solution to Facilitate Better Healthcare Delivery to Native American Patients -- Chapter 19 Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare -- Chapter 20 Improving healthcare service quality and patients’ life quality through mobile technologies: the case of Diabetes self-management -- Chapter 21 The Role of Online Social Networks in Consumer Health Informatics: An Example of the Implicit Incorporation of Lean Principles -- Chapter 22 Supporting preventative healthcare with persuasive services -- Chapter 23 Using Technology Solutions to Streamline Healthcare Processes for Nursing: The Case of an Intelligent Operational Planning Support Tool (IOPST) Solution -- Chapter 24 Using an e-health Strategy to facilitate the design and development of effective healthcare processes.-Section 4 Micro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 25 Value Stream Mapping in Lean Healthcare: A brief Introduction and Application -- Chapter 26 Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Processes in a Urology Department -- Chapter 27 A Technology Mediated Solution to Reduce Healthcare Disparities.-Section 5 Case Studies.-Introduction. - Chapter 28 Process models, its inefficiencies and recommendations of the emergency department of the Marienhospital -- Chapter 29 Simulation Study - Clinical Center Esslingen -- Chapter 30 Emergency Department Katharinenhospital Stuttgar -- Chapter 31 Business Process Modeling and measuring waiting times in a German ED. An approach for identifying improvements.
Physical Description:
XXXII, 645 p. 178 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8036-5
Publication Date:
2014.
Title:
Lean Thinking for Healthcare edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Latif Al-Hakim, Chris Gonzalez, Joseph Tan.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Al-Hakim, Latif. editor.
Gonzalez, Chris. editor.
Tan, Joseph. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Section 1 Key Concepts, Tools and Techniques -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lean Principles for Healthcare -- Chapter 2 Artificial Neural Network Excellence to Facilitate Lean Thinking Adoption in Healthcare Contexts -- Chapter 3 The Suitability of Artificial Neural Networks in Service Quality Control and Forecasting -- Chapter 4 The Application of Lean in the Healthcare Sector: Theory and Practical Examples -- Chapter 5 Business Value of IT in Health Care -- Chapter 6 Initiatives of Service Orientated Architecture towards Performance Improvement in Healthcare -- Chapter 7 Adapted Lean Thinking for Emergency Departments: Information Quality Perspective.-Section 2 Applications of Lean Thinking Around the Healthcare World -- Introduction -- Chapter 8 Adapted Lean Thinking for for Healthcare Services: An Empirical Study in the Traditional Chinese Hospital -- Chapter 9 Lean Thinking in Dementia Care Through Smart Assistive Technology - an Evaluation -- Chapter 10 A Delphi Study on Developing a Conceptual Framework to Understand the Perception of Iranian Physicians Towards Electronic Health Records -- Chapter 11 Trying to Streamline Healthcare Delivery in Australia via the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record(PCEHR) -- Chapter 12 Identifying Critical Issues for Developing Successful E-health Solutions -- Chapter 13 Applying the Principles of KM to Effect Streamlined Healthcare Operations: A Malaysian Case Study -- Chapter 14 Re-making Rosa Medical Center: A 5-Step Approach to Transitioning with Lean -- Chapter 15 Lean Thinking and Customer Focus -- Section 3 Macro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 16 Applying A System of Systems Approach to Healthcare -- Chapter 17 The Role for a Healthcare System of Systems Approach Coupled with Collaborative Technologies to Provide Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 18 The Role Of A Disruptive Pervasive Technology Solution to Facilitate Better Healthcare Delivery to Native American Patients -- Chapter 19 Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare -- Chapter 20 Improving healthcare service quality and patients’ life quality through mobile technologies: the case of Diabetes self-management -- Chapter 21 The Role of Online Social Networks in Consumer Health Informatics: An Example of the Implicit Incorporation of Lean Principles -- Chapter 22 Supporting preventative healthcare with persuasive services -- Chapter 23 Using Technology Solutions to Streamline Healthcare Processes for Nursing: The Case of an Intelligent Operational Planning Support Tool (IOPST) Solution -- Chapter 24 Using an e-health Strategy to facilitate the design and development of effective healthcare processes.-Section 4 Micro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 25 Value Stream Mapping in Lean Healthcare: A brief Introduction and Application -- Chapter 26 Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Processes in a Urology Department -- Chapter 27 A Technology Mediated Solution to Reduce Healthcare Disparities.-Section 5 Case Studies.-Introduction. - Chapter 28 Process models, its inefficiencies and recommendations of the emergency department of the Marienhospital -- Chapter 29 Simulation Study - Clinical Center Esslingen -- Chapter 30 Emergency Department Katharinenhospital Stuttgar -- Chapter 31 Business Process Modeling and measuring waiting times in a German ED. An approach for identifying improvements.
A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking. Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health, patient-centeredness, and collaborative care, chapters illustrate lean concepts in action across specialties (as diverse as nursing, urology, and emergency care) and around the globe. Extended case examples show health systems responding to consumer needs and provider realities with equal efficiency and effectiveness, and improved quality and patient outcomes. Further, contributors tackle the gamut of technological, medical, cultural, and business issues, among them: Initiatives of service-oriented architecture towards performance improvement Adapted lean thinking for emergency departments Lean thinking in dementia care through smart assistive technology Supporting preventive healthcare with persuasive services Value stream mapping for lean healthcare A technology mediated solution to reduce healthcare disparities Geared toward both how lean ideas can be carried out and how they are being used successfully in the real world, Lean Principles for Healthcare not only brings expert knowledge to healthcare managers and health services researchers but to all who have an interest in superior healthcare delivery.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781461480365
Subject:
Medicine.
Business.
Management science.
Health administration.
Health informatics.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Administration.
Business and Management, general.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
Contents:
Section 1 Key Concepts, Tools and Techniques -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lean Principles for Healthcare -- Chapter 2 Artificial Neural Network Excellence to Facilitate Lean Thinking Adoption in Healthcare Contexts -- Chapter 3 The Suitability of Artificial Neural Networks in Service Quality Control and Forecasting -- Chapter 4 The Application of Lean in the Healthcare Sector: Theory and Practical Examples -- Chapter 5 Business Value of IT in Health Care -- Chapter 6 Initiatives of Service Orientated Architecture towards Performance Improvement in Healthcare -- Chapter 7 Adapted Lean Thinking for Emergency Departments: Information Quality Perspective.-Section 2 Applications of Lean Thinking Around the Healthcare World -- Introduction -- Chapter 8 Adapted Lean Thinking for for Healthcare Services: An Empirical Study in the Traditional Chinese Hospital -- Chapter 9 Lean Thinking in Dementia Care Through Smart Assistive Technology - an Evaluation -- Chapter 10 A Delphi Study on Developing a Conceptual Framework to Understand the Perception of Iranian Physicians Towards Electronic Health Records -- Chapter 11 Trying to Streamline Healthcare Delivery in Australia via the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record(PCEHR) -- Chapter 12 Identifying Critical Issues for Developing Successful E-health Solutions -- Chapter 13 Applying the Principles of KM to Effect Streamlined Healthcare Operations: A Malaysian Case Study -- Chapter 14 Re-making Rosa Medical Center: A 5-Step Approach to Transitioning with Lean -- Chapter 15 Lean Thinking and Customer Focus -- Section 3 Macro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 16 Applying A System of Systems Approach to Healthcare -- Chapter 17 The Role for a Healthcare System of Systems Approach Coupled with Collaborative Technologies to Provide Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 18 The Role Of A Disruptive Pervasive Technology Solution to Facilitate Better Healthcare Delivery to Native American Patients -- Chapter 19 Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare -- Chapter 20 Improving healthcare service quality and patients’ life quality through mobile technologies: the case of Diabetes self-management -- Chapter 21 The Role of Online Social Networks in Consumer Health Informatics: An Example of the Implicit Incorporation of Lean Principles -- Chapter 22 Supporting preventative healthcare with persuasive services -- Chapter 23 Using Technology Solutions to Streamline Healthcare Processes for Nursing: The Case of an Intelligent Operational Planning Support Tool (IOPST) Solution -- Chapter 24 Using an e-health Strategy to facilitate the design and development of effective healthcare processes.-Section 4 Micro issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 25 Value Stream Mapping in Lean Healthcare: A brief Introduction and Application -- Chapter 26 Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Processes in a Urology Department -- Chapter 27 A Technology Mediated Solution to Reduce Healthcare Disparities.-Section 5 Case Studies.-Introduction. - Chapter 28 Process models, its inefficiencies and recommendations of the emergency department of the Marienhospital -- Chapter 29 Simulation Study - Clinical Center Esslingen -- Chapter 30 Emergency Department Katharinenhospital Stuttgar -- Chapter 31 Business Process Modeling and measuring waiting times in a German ED. An approach for identifying improvements.
Physical Description:
XXXII, 645 p. 178 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8036-5
Publication Date:
2014.
Title:
Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani, Joseph Tan.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Troshani, Indrit. editor.
Tan, Joseph. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Preface -- Foreword -- Section I: Defining the Discipline -- What Is Consumer Health Informatics -- The Landscape -- Section II: Technologies -- Remote Monitoring and Mobile Apps -- Social Media and Web 2.0 -- Personal Health Record -- Architecture and Infrastructure Requirements -- Section III: Design -- Designing for the Consumer -- Design Methods -- Section IV: Roles and Responsibilities -- Connecting with Medical Systems and Healthcare Providers -- Policy, Public Health, and Economics -- Quality Control, Security and Privacy -- Section V: On the Horizon: Perspectives on the Future -- The Future: Research Issues -- The Future: Policy and Funding -- The Future: Research Perspective, Grantor Perspective, Vendor Perspective -- Epilogue: Lessons, Take Aways and Recommendations -- Appendix: Case Vignettes.
This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities. Included in the coverage: Use of video technology in an aged care environment- A context-aware remote health monitoring service for improved patient care- Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician’s perspective- Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings- An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions- An ontology of consumer health informatics- Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics combines blueprint and idea book for public health and health informatics students, healthcare professionals, physicians, medical administrators, managers, and IT practitioners.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319259734
Subject:
Medicine.
Public health.
Health informatics.
Special purpose computers.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Public health.
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Contents:
Preface -- Foreword -- Section I: Defining the Discipline -- What Is Consumer Health Informatics -- The Landscape -- Section II: Technologies -- Remote Monitoring and Mobile Apps -- Social Media and Web 2.0 -- Personal Health Record -- Architecture and Infrastructure Requirements -- Section III: Design -- Designing for the Consumer -- Design Methods -- Section IV: Roles and Responsibilities -- Connecting with Medical Systems and Healthcare Providers -- Policy, Public Health, and Economics -- Quality Control, Security and Privacy -- Section V: On the Horizon: Perspectives on the Future -- The Future: Research Issues -- The Future: Policy and Funding -- The Future: Research Perspective, Grantor Perspective, Vendor Perspective -- Epilogue: Lessons, Take Aways and Recommendations -- Appendix: Case Vignettes.
Physical Description:
XIX, 465 p. 87 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4
Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Indrit Troshani, Joseph Tan.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini. editor.
Troshani, Indrit. editor.
Tan, Joseph. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Preface -- Foreword -- Section I: Defining the Discipline -- What Is Consumer Health Informatics -- The Landscape -- Section II: Technologies -- Remote Monitoring and Mobile Apps -- Social Media and Web 2.0 -- Personal Health Record -- Architecture and Infrastructure Requirements -- Section III: Design -- Designing for the Consumer -- Design Methods -- Section IV: Roles and Responsibilities -- Connecting with Medical Systems and Healthcare Providers -- Policy, Public Health, and Economics -- Quality Control, Security and Privacy -- Section V: On the Horizon: Perspectives on the Future -- The Future: Research Issues -- The Future: Policy and Funding -- The Future: Research Perspective, Grantor Perspective, Vendor Perspective -- Epilogue: Lessons, Take Aways and Recommendations -- Appendix: Case Vignettes.
This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities. Included in the coverage: Use of video technology in an aged care environment- A context-aware remote health monitoring service for improved patient care- Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician’s perspective- Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings- An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions- An ontology of consumer health informatics- Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics combines blueprint and idea book for public health and health informatics students, healthcare professionals, physicians, medical administrators, managers, and IT practitioners.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319259734
Subject:
Medicine.
Public health.
Health informatics.
Special purpose computers.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Public health.
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age,
Contents:
Preface -- Foreword -- Section I: Defining the Discipline -- What Is Consumer Health Informatics -- The Landscape -- Section II: Technologies -- Remote Monitoring and Mobile Apps -- Social Media and Web 2.0 -- Personal Health Record -- Architecture and Infrastructure Requirements -- Section III: Design -- Designing for the Consumer -- Design Methods -- Section IV: Roles and Responsibilities -- Connecting with Medical Systems and Healthcare Providers -- Policy, Public Health, and Economics -- Quality Control, Security and Privacy -- Section V: On the Horizon: Perspectives on the Future -- The Future: Research Issues -- The Future: Policy and Funding -- The Future: Research Perspective, Grantor Perspective, Vendor Perspective -- Epilogue: Lessons, Take Aways and Recommendations -- Appendix: Case Vignettes.
Physical Description:
XIX, 465 p. 87 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4
Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ;
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ;
Author:
Gibbons, Michael Christopher.
Bali, Rajeev.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Section I KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 1: Knowledge Management for the Urban Health Context -- Chapter 2: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies and Processes of KM to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 3: Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer -- Section II Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts -- Chapter 4: A Childhood / Adolescent Knowledge Management System for Urban Area Health Programs in the District of Columbia -- Chapter 5: Urban Health in Developing Countries -- Chapter 6: A Pervasive Wireless Knowledge Management Solution to Address Urban Health Inequalities with Indigenous Australians -- Chapter 7: The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa -- Chapter 8: The potential of Serious Games for Combating Health Inequalities -- Section III Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 9: A Scaleable and Viable Strategy for Managing Organizing: Typology for Intervening into Complex Healthcare Environments for Enhancing Continual Development -- Chapter 10: Amplifying Resonance in Organizational Learning Process: Knowledge Sharing for Overcoming Cognitive Barriers and for Assuring Positive Action -- Chapter 11: Developing New Urban Health Metrics to Reduce the Know-Do Gap in Public Health -- Chapter 12: Recommendations on Evaluation and Development of Useful Metrics for Urban Health -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Urban Health Knowledge.
Urban Health Knowledge Management Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev K. Bali, and Nilmini Wickramasinghe It is a tragic paradox of American health care: a system renowned for world-class doctors, the latest medical technologies, and miraculous treatments has shocking inadequacies when it comes to the health of the urban poor. Urban Health Knowledge Management outlines bold, workable strategies for addressing this disparity and eliminating the “knowledge islands” that so often disrupt effective service delivery. The book offers a wide-reaching global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. Its contributors understand the issues fluently, imparting both macro and micro concepts of KM with clear rationales and real-world examples as they: • Analyze key aspects of KM and explains their applicability to urban health. • Introduce the KM tools and technologies most relevant to health care delivery. • Offer evidence of the role of KM in improving clinical efficacy and executive decision-making. • Provide extended case examples of KM-based programs used in Washington, D.C. (child health), South Africa (HIV/AIDS), and Australia (health inequities). • Apply KM principles to urban health needs in developing countries. • Discuss new approaches to managing, evaluating, and improving delivery systems in the book’s “Measures and Metrics” section. Urban health professionals, as well as health care executives and administrators, will find Urban Health Knowledge Management a significant resource for bringing service delivery up to speed at a time of great advancement and change.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781441956446
Subject:
Medicine.
Practice of medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Health Administration.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ; 1
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ; 1
Contents:
Section I KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 1: Knowledge Management for the Urban Health Context -- Chapter 2: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies and Processes of KM to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 3: Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer -- Section II Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts -- Chapter 4: A Childhood / Adolescent Knowledge Management System for Urban Area Health Programs in the District of Columbia -- Chapter 5: Urban Health in Developing Countries -- Chapter 6: A Pervasive Wireless Knowledge Management Solution to Address Urban Health Inequalities with Indigenous Australians -- Chapter 7: The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa -- Chapter 8: The potential of Serious Games for Combating Health Inequalities -- Section III Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 9: A Scaleable and Viable Strategy for Managing Organizing: Typology for Intervening into Complex Healthcare Environments for Enhancing Continual Development -- Chapter 10: Amplifying Resonance in Organizational Learning Process: Knowledge Sharing for Overcoming Cognitive Barriers and for Assuring Positive Action -- Chapter 11: Developing New Urban Health Metrics to Reduce the Know-Do Gap in Public Health -- Chapter 12: Recommendations on Evaluation and Development of Useful Metrics for Urban Health -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Urban Health Knowledge.
Physical Description:
XXXII, 220 p. digital.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5644-6
Publication Date:
2010.
Title:
Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ;
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ;
Author:
Gibbons, Michael Christopher.
Bali, Rajeev.
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Section I KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 1: Knowledge Management for the Urban Health Context -- Chapter 2: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies and Processes of KM to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 3: Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer -- Section II Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts -- Chapter 4: A Childhood / Adolescent Knowledge Management System for Urban Area Health Programs in the District of Columbia -- Chapter 5: Urban Health in Developing Countries -- Chapter 6: A Pervasive Wireless Knowledge Management Solution to Address Urban Health Inequalities with Indigenous Australians -- Chapter 7: The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa -- Chapter 8: The potential of Serious Games for Combating Health Inequalities -- Section III Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 9: A Scaleable and Viable Strategy for Managing Organizing: Typology for Intervening into Complex Healthcare Environments for Enhancing Continual Development -- Chapter 10: Amplifying Resonance in Organizational Learning Process: Knowledge Sharing for Overcoming Cognitive Barriers and for Assuring Positive Action -- Chapter 11: Developing New Urban Health Metrics to Reduce the Know-Do Gap in Public Health -- Chapter 12: Recommendations on Evaluation and Development of Useful Metrics for Urban Health -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Urban Health Knowledge.
Urban Health Knowledge Management Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev K. Bali, and Nilmini Wickramasinghe It is a tragic paradox of American health care: a system renowned for world-class doctors, the latest medical technologies, and miraculous treatments has shocking inadequacies when it comes to the health of the urban poor. Urban Health Knowledge Management outlines bold, workable strategies for addressing this disparity and eliminating the “knowledge islands” that so often disrupt effective service delivery. The book offers a wide-reaching global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. Its contributors understand the issues fluently, imparting both macro and micro concepts of KM with clear rationales and real-world examples as they: • Analyze key aspects of KM and explains their applicability to urban health. • Introduce the KM tools and technologies most relevant to health care delivery. • Offer evidence of the role of KM in improving clinical efficacy and executive decision-making. • Provide extended case examples of KM-based programs used in Washington, D.C. (child health), South Africa (HIV/AIDS), and Australia (health inequities). • Apply KM principles to urban health needs in developing countries. • Discuss new approaches to managing, evaluating, and improving delivery systems in the book’s “Measures and Metrics” section. Urban health professionals, as well as health care executives and administrators, will find Urban Health Knowledge Management a significant resource for bringing service delivery up to speed at a time of great advancement and change.
Publisher:
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
New York, NY :
ISBN:
9781441956446
Subject:
Medicine.
Practice of medicine.
Medical records -- Data processing.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Health Administration.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Series:
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ; 1
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ; 1
Contents:
Section I KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 1: Knowledge Management for the Urban Health Context -- Chapter 2: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies and Processes of KM to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 3: Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer -- Section II Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts -- Chapter 4: A Childhood / Adolescent Knowledge Management System for Urban Area Health Programs in the District of Columbia -- Chapter 5: Urban Health in Developing Countries -- Chapter 6: A Pervasive Wireless Knowledge Management Solution to Address Urban Health Inequalities with Indigenous Australians -- Chapter 7: The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa -- Chapter 8: The potential of Serious Games for Combating Health Inequalities -- Section III Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health -- Chapter 9: A Scaleable and Viable Strategy for Managing Organizing: Typology for Intervening into Complex Healthcare Environments for Enhancing Continual Development -- Chapter 10: Amplifying Resonance in Organizational Learning Process: Knowledge Sharing for Overcoming Cognitive Barriers and for Assuring Positive Action -- Chapter 11: Developing New Urban Health Metrics to Reduce the Know-Do Gap in Public Health -- Chapter 12: Recommendations on Evaluation and Development of Useful Metrics for Urban Health -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Urban Health Knowledge.
Physical Description:
XXXII, 220 p. digital.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5644-6
Publication Date:
2010.
Title:
Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform edited by Richard Allen Williams.
Author:
Williams, Richard Allen.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Introduction -- Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue? -- Epidemiology Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare -- Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- Perspective: Healthcare and the Politics of Race -- Perspective: The Spectrum of Healthcare Disparities in the United States -- Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report “Unequal Treatment” -- Perspective: Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Healthcare -- Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities -- The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs? -- The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots -- The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare -- Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement -- Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project -- Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Anti-Discrimination Law -- Quality of Care and Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government -- The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities -- Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing -- Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities -- The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Disparities -- Remote Area Medical: Pioneers of No Cost Healthcare -- Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Under Healthcare Reform.
<p>Building upon the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential book Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the state of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we face in the pursuit of healthcare equality. This book focuses on how the elimination of disparities can be accomplished through targeted efforts made within the context of reform. </p><p><p><p><p>Comprising the combined efforts of the nation's best health policy analysts, researchers, key opinion leaders and clinicians, this book addresses both current and impending legislation and future movements in healthcare. With the knowledge that the problem of disparities extends beyond the present political arena into the larger scope of all aspects of healthcare delivery, the authors provide critical analysis of the causation of disparities, insightful examples of what has worked, and a striking call to action with implementable strategies for advancing equality.</p>
Publisher:
Springer US,
Publication Place:
Boston, MA :
ISBN:
9781441971364
Subject:
Medicine.
Internal medicine.
Medicine & Public Health.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Internal medicine.
Edition:
1.
Contents:
Introduction -- Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue? -- Epidemiology Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare -- Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- Perspective: Healthcare and the Politics of Race -- Perspective: The Spectrum of Healthcare Disparities in the United States -- Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report “Unequal Treatment” -- Perspective: Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Healthcare -- Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities -- The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs? -- The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots -- The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare -- Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement -- Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project -- Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Anti-Discrimination Law -- Quality of Care and Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government -- The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities -- Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing -- Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities -- The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Disparities -- Remote Area Medical: Pioneers of No Cost Healthcare -- Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Under Healthcare Reform.
Physical Description:
XXXII, 445p. 29 illus., 14 illus. in color. digital.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7136-4
Publication Date:
2011.
Title:
A Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment by Artem Boltyenkov.
Author:
Boltyenkov, Artem. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Introduction -- Background -- Literature Review on Financing Hearing Instruments and Implants Purchase -- Qualitative Research on the Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment -- Quantitative Research on the Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment -- Substantive Conclusions and Final Recommendations -- Conclusion.
Artem Boltyenkov explores the ways in which the hearing impaired can afford aided hearing. The most humane option for all hearing impaired is full reimbursement healthcare economic policy. Unfortunately, providing free aided hearing for all hearing impaired in the population is very costly. Countries, which cannot afford such generosity, need to know how to spend their limited resources wisely. The author recommends implementing the subsidized loans or the subsidized savings and loans healthcare economic policy to help the hearing impaired to afford aided hearing. Contents Background information on hearing loss and treatment options Literature review on financing hearing instruments and implants purchase Qualitative and quantitative research on the healthcare economic policy for hearing impairment Substantive conclusions and final recommendations Target Groups Scientists and students in health economics and public health Health economics experts, public health policymakers, health insurance experts About the Author Dr. Artem Boltyenkov has written his doctoral thesis at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management. His research focus is health economics of hearing impairment.
Publisher:
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler,
Publication Place:
Wiesbaden :
ISBN:
9783658082376
Subject:
Public health.
Health economics.
Medical economics.
Economics.
Health economics.
Public health.
Contents:
Introduction -- Background -- Literature Review on Financing Hearing Instruments and Implants Purchase -- Qualitative Research on the Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment -- Quantitative Research on the Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment -- Substantive Conclusions and Final Recommendations -- Conclusion.
Physical Description:
XVI, 159 p. 31 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08237-6
Publication Date:
2015.
Title:
Tyler's guide the healthcare executive's job search / J. Larry Tyler. Healthcare executive's job search
Healthcare executive's job search Healthcare executive's job search
ACHE management series Healthcare executive's job search
Management series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Healthcare executive's job search
Author:
Tyler, J. Larry.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Resumes -- Cover letters -- References -- Networking -- Outplacement/transition firms -- Dealing with recruiters -- The interview and follow-up -- Evaluating job offers and employment contracts -- Starting off on the right foot/making a smooth transition -- Making the transition from the military -- Physician executives -- Breaking through the glass ceiling: interviews with female healthcare -- Executives -- The student as job seeker -- Beyond racial barriers: interviews with minority healthcare executives -- Overcoming discrimination: personal strategies -- Relocation and maintaining loved ones' support -- Getting motivated -- Managing your career in an era of uncertainty.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Health Administration Press,
Publication Place:
Chicago, Ill. :
ISBN:
9781567933611 (alk. paper)
9781567934274 (e-book)
Subject:
Health services administrators -- Vocational guidance.
Job hunting.
Electronic books.
Series:
ACHE management series
Management series (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Edition:
4th ed.
Contents:
Resumes -- Cover letters -- References -- Networking -- Outplacement/transition firms -- Dealing with recruiters -- The interview and follow-up -- Evaluating job offers and employment contracts -- Starting off on the right foot/making a smooth transition -- Making the transition from the military -- Physician executives -- Breaking through the glass ceiling: interviews with female healthcare -- Executives -- The student as job seeker -- Beyond racial barriers: interviews with minority healthcare executives -- Overcoming discrimination: personal strategies -- Relocation and maintaining loved ones' support -- Getting motivated -- Managing your career in an era of uncertainty.
Physical Description:
xiii, 402 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10478026
Publication Date:
c2011.
Title:
Hosp. forum (Los Angeles)
Hospital Forum.
Healthcare forum
General Notes:
Available on microfilm from University Microfilms.
Vols. for 1958-78 issued by the Hospital Council of Southern California; 1979- by the Association of Western Hospitals.
Publisher:
Association of Western Hospitals,
Publication Place:
San Francisco :
ISSN:
0018-5663 0191-877X
Subject:
Hospitals -- Periodicals.
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ;
Location/SubLocation:
JUST
Publication Date:
1958-1985.
Title:
Healthcare Information Management Systems Cases, Strategies, and Solutions / edited by Charlotte A. Weaver, Marion J. Ball, George R. Kim, Joan M. Kiel.
Health Informatics,
Health informatics,
Author:
Weaver, Charlotte A. editor.
Ball, Marion J. editor.
Kim, George R. editor.
Kiel, Joan M. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Clinical Decision Support – History and Basic Concepts -- Electronic Health Record Features, Functions, and Privileges that Clinicians Need to Provide Safe and Effective Care for Adults and Children -- The Journey To Usablity: A Vendor’s Perspective -- Snapshot at mid-stride: Current state of EHRs and their use by clinicians from a CMIO’s perspective -- The Evolution of EHR-S Functionality for Care and Coordination -- Great Promises of Healthcare Information Technology Deliver Less -- Ten Reasons Why Interoperability is Difficult -- The Evolution of Health Information Technology Policy in the United States -- Usability: Making it Real from Concepts to Implementation and End-User Adoption -- Incorporating Patient Generated Health Data into Chronic Disease Management: A Human Factors Approach -- Transformed Roles for a Transformed Healthcare System: Where Do Clinical Informaticists Fit in Now? -- Emerging Roles in Health and Healthcare -- Impact of the Digital Age on Transforming Healthcare -- Health Information Crossroad: An opportunity to deliver real measurable outcomes for better health and well being -- Health IT's Essential Role in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Practice-Based Population Health Management -- Patient-Interactive Healthcare Management, a Model for Achieving Patient Experience Excellence -- The Patient of the Future: Participatory Medicine & Enabling Technologies -- Data Driven Patient Safety and Clinical Information Technology -- Simulation: A View Into The Future Of Education -- The Health Record Banking Model for Health Information Infrastructure -- Next Generation Wellness: A Technology Model for Personalizing Healthcare -- Wearable Technologies and Telehealth in Care Management for Chronic Illness -- The Role of Big Data and Analytics in Health Payer Transformation to Consumer-Centricity -- Interoperability: E Pluribus Unum -- Privacy & Data Security: HIPAA & HITECH -- Building a Reliable and Affordable System of Medical Care -- Engineering the Next Generation of Health Systems -- Emerging Clinical Decision Support Technology for the 21st Century -- Beyond Current HIMS: Future Visions and a Roadmap Big Data Analytical Technologies and Decision Support in Critical Care -- Data Driven Analytics for Personalized Healthcare -- Cognitive Computing for Electronic Medical Records -- Health Information Systems 2025.
This book provides a bold and honest description of the current state of electronic health record (EHR) technologies in acute and primary care settings, and looks at the future through the lens of emerging new technologies, changes in care delivery models and reimbursement policies. This 4th Edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and Solutions has been thoroughly updated, as concepts such as Meaningful Use (MU), interoperability, personalized medicine and health IT have had a considerable impact on patient safety and health outcomes. It outlines the issues of EHR adoption under MU and, as anticipated gains in efficiency, quality and costs have not always been seen, it also provides a framework within which solutions to the frustration, dissatisfaction, and growing concerns can be found. Many suggest that a technology sea change is needed with a second generation of EHRs developed on 21st century architectures that more closely match the flexibility and power of mobile and web-based applications available in the general marketplace. Building on the success of its previous three editions, this book will guide healthcare professionals as they confront the technical, organizational, and management issues related to the selection, implementation, and management of healthcare information systems. It will contribute to taking us into a healthcare system that delivers value, is a pleasure to work wit hin, and relieves the taxpayers’ burden.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319207650
Subject:
Medicine.
Health informatics.
Medicine & Public Health.
Health Informatics.
Series:
Health Informatics,
Health informatics,
Edition:
4th ed. 2016.
Contents:
Clinical Decision Support – History and Basic Concepts -- Electronic Health Record Features, Functions, and Privileges that Clinicians Need to Provide Safe and Effective Care for Adults and Children -- The Journey To Usablity: A Vendor’s Perspective -- Snapshot at mid-stride: Current state of EHRs and their use by clinicians from a CMIO’s perspective -- The Evolution of EHR-S Functionality for Care and Coordination -- Great Promises of Healthcare Information Technology Deliver Less -- Ten Reasons Why Interoperability is Difficult -- The Evolution of Health Information Technology Policy in the United States -- Usability: Making it Real from Concepts to Implementation and End-User Adoption -- Incorporating Patient Generated Health Data into Chronic Disease Management: A Human Factors Approach -- Transformed Roles for a Transformed Healthcare System: Where Do Clinical Informaticists Fit in Now? -- Emerging Roles in Health and Healthcare -- Impact of the Digital Age on Transforming Healthcare -- Health Information Crossroad: An opportunity to deliver real measurable outcomes for better health and well being -- Health IT's Essential Role in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Practice-Based Population Health Management -- Patient-Interactive Healthcare Management, a Model for Achieving Patient Experience Excellence -- The Patient of the Future: Participatory Medicine & Enabling Technologies -- Data Driven Patient Safety and Clinical Information Technology -- Simulation: A View Into The Future Of Education -- The Health Record Banking Model for Health Information Infrastructure -- Next Generation Wellness: A Technology Model for Personalizing Healthcare -- Wearable Technologies and Telehealth in Care Management for Chronic Illness -- The Role of Big Data and Analytics in Health Payer Transformation to Consumer-Centricity -- Interoperability: E Pluribus Unum -- Privacy & Data Security: HIPAA & HITECH -- Building a Reliable and Affordable System of Medical Care -- Engineering the Next Generation of Health Systems -- Emerging Clinical Decision Support Technology for the 21st Century -- Beyond Current HIMS: Future Visions and a Roadmap Big Data Analytical Technologies and Decision Support in Critical Care -- Data Driven Analytics for Personalized Healthcare -- Cognitive Computing for Electronic Medical Records -- Health Information Systems 2025.
Physical Description:
XXIII, 618 p. 65 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20765-0
Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
Healthcare Information Privacy and Security Regulatory Compliance and Data Security in the Age of Electronic Health Records / by Bernard Peter Robichau.
Author:
Robichau, Bernard Peter. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Healthcare IT is the growth industry right now, and the need for guidance in regard to privacy and security is huge. Why? With new federal incentives and penalties tied to the HITECH Act, HIPAA, and the implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, medical practices and healthcare systems are implementing new software at breakneck speed. Yet privacy and security considerations are often an afterthought, putting healthcare organizations at risk of fines and damage to their reputations. Healthcare Information Privacy and Security: Regulatory Compliance and Data Security in the Age of Electronic Health Records outlines the new regulatory regime, and it also provides IT professionals with the processes and protocols, standards, and governance tools they need to maintain a secure and legal environment for data and records. It’s a concrete resource that will help you understand the issues affecting the law and regulatory compliance, privacy, and security in the enterprise. As healthcare IT security expert Bernard Peter Robichau II shows, the success of a privacy and security initiative lies not just in proper planning but also in identifying who will own the implementation and maintain technologies and processes. From executive sponsors to system analysts and administrators, a properly designed security program requires that that the right people are assigned to the right tasks and have the tools they need. Robichau explains how to design and implement that program with an eye toward long-term success. Putting processes and systems in place is, of course, only the start. Robichau also shows how to manage your security program and maintain operational support including ongoing maintenance and policy updates. (Because regulations never sleep!) This book will help you devise solutions that include: Identity and access management systems Proper application design Physical and environmental safeguards Systemwide and client-based security configurations Safeguards for patient data Training and auditing procedures Governance and policy administration Healthcare Information Privacy and Security is the definitive guide to help you through the process of maintaining privacy and security in the healthcare industry. It will help you keep health information safe, and it will help keep your organization—whether local clinic or major hospital system—on the right side of the law.
Publisher:
Apress : Imprint: Apress,
Publication Place:
Berkeley, CA :
ISBN:
9781430266778
Subject:
Computer science.
Data encryption (Computer science).
Computer science.
Data encryption.
Physical Description:
XI, 194 p. 25 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6677-8
Publication Date:
2014.
Title:
Healthcare information systems / editor, Kevin Beaver.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Information technology in healthcare: a review of key applications -- Ch. 3. Interface tools for healthcare information technology -- Ch. 4. Wireless application directions -- Ch. 5. Overcoming wireless LAN security vulnerabilities -- Ch. 6. Using middleware for interoperable systems -- Ch. 7. A complex multi-location enterprise: issues and possible solutions -- Ch. 8. Building a culture for business continuity planning -- Ch. 9. Security policies: the foundation for information protection -- Ch. 10. Biometrics -- Ch. 11. The role of the information management standards in the JCAHO network accreditation program -- Ch. 12. HIPAA privacy in the healthcare industry -- Ch. 13. Getting started with HIPAA security compliance -- Ch. 14. HIPAA transactions and code sets: rule overview and implementation -- Ch. 15. A tool for evaluating healthcare plans from a quality perspective: HEDIS -- Ch. 16. Understanding and implementing computerized physician order entry -- Ch. 17. Clinical decision support systems -- Ch. 18. Risk management in information technology projects -- Ch. 19. How much does this system really cost? -- Ch. 20. Electronic medical records (EMR) -- Ch. 21. The economic justification for electronic medical record systems -- Ch. 22. Data warehousing: design through implementation for the healthcare professional -- Ch. 23. Critical factors in developing a data warehouse -- Ch. 24. Healthcare versus information technology -- Ch. 25. Information systems and change: which one is the chicken and which is the egg? -- Ch. 26. The role of the chief medical information officer -- Ch. 27. Healthcare information services outsourcing -- Ch. 28. International systems to support incremental improvement in healthcare -- Ch. 29. Telemedicine -- Ch. 30. Netting web customers -- Ch. 31. Handheld technologies in healthcare -- Ch. 32. Speech technologies -- Ch. 33. The future of automated patient identification, bar coding, and smart cards -- Ch. 34. Electronic messaging in the healthcare industry -- Ch. 35. Improving information management with imaging.
Publisher:
Auerbach Publications,
Publication Place:
Boca Raton, FL :
ISBN:
0849314984 (alk. paper)
9780849314988 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Medical care.
Medical informatics.
Information systems.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Information technology in healthcare: a review of key applications -- Ch. 3. Interface tools for healthcare information technology -- Ch. 4. Wireless application directions -- Ch. 5. Overcoming wireless LAN security vulnerabilities -- Ch. 6. Using middleware for interoperable systems -- Ch. 7. A complex multi-location enterprise: issues and possible solutions -- Ch. 8. Building a culture for business continuity planning -- Ch. 9. Security policies: the foundation for information protection -- Ch. 10. Biometrics -- Ch. 11. The role of the information management standards in the JCAHO network accreditation program -- Ch. 12. HIPAA privacy in the healthcare industry -- Ch. 13. Getting started with HIPAA security compliance -- Ch. 14. HIPAA transactions and code sets: rule overview and implementation -- Ch. 15. A tool for evaluating healthcare plans from a quality perspective: HEDIS -- Ch. 16. Understanding and implementing computerized physician order entry -- Ch. 17. Clinical decision support systems -- Ch. 18. Risk management in information technology projects -- Ch. 19. How much does this system really cost? -- Ch. 20. Electronic medical records (EMR) -- Ch. 21. The economic justification for electronic medical record systems -- Ch. 22. Data warehousing: design through implementation for the healthcare professional -- Ch. 23. Critical factors in developing a data warehouse -- Ch. 24. Healthcare versus information technology -- Ch. 25. Information systems and change: which one is the chicken and which is the egg? -- Ch. 26. The role of the chief medical information officer -- Ch. 27. Healthcare information services outsourcing -- Ch. 28. International systems to support incremental improvement in healthcare -- Ch. 29. Telemedicine -- Ch. 30. Netting web customers -- Ch. 31. Handheld technologies in healthcare -- Ch. 32. Speech technologies -- Ch. 33. The future of automated patient identification, bar coding, and smart cards -- Ch. 34. Electronic messaging in the healthcare industry -- Ch. 35. Improving information management with imaging.
Physical Description:
xi, 507 p. : ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0646/2002035646-d.html
Publication Date:
c2003.
Title:
Healthcare Infrastructure Health Systems for Individuals and Populations / by Bruce R. Schatz, Richard B. Berlin Jr.
Health Informatics,
Health informatics,
Author:
Schatz, Bruce R.
Berlin Jr., Richard B.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Prelude: The Evolution of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Part I: The Problems of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Chapter 1: History of Health Determinants -- Chapter 2: Public Health Success when simple -- Chapter 3: Public Health Failure when complex -- Chapter 4: Medicine Success when simple -- Chapter 5: Medicine Failure when complex -- Chapter 6: Medical Records for Health Systems -- Part II: The Solutions of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Chapter 1: Health Determinants for Populations and Individuals -- Chapter 2: Measurement of Individual Ability (Explicit Text) -- Chapter 3: Measurement of Individual Ability (Implicit Data) -- Chapter 4: Genomes for Individual Ability (Features) -- Chapter 5: Networks for Population Function (Persons) -- Chapter 6: Mobile Monitors for Health Systems -- Postlude: The Future of Healthcare Infrastructure.
Healthcare is an information problem needing an information solution using modern information technology. The traditional medical record does not suffice, but the new technologies of internet services do. Existing technologies can be combined for new methods of gathering and analyzing health information, via monitors using sensors and clusters using supercomputers. There is a way of utilizing both the electronic medical record of the past and the personalized genomic medicine of the future. It gathers information from all the sources affecting personal health: from the bodies of individuals to the societies of populations.<br>Healthcare Infrastructure: Health Systems for Individuals and Populations describes the new healthcare infrastructure that will gather these personal health records from every individual and correlate each longitudinal record across whole populations. This book explains the problems of personal medicine and public health, then the solutions possible with information technology. Health determinants for individuals and populations are examined at length, along with present and future technologies to measure these. Computer analysis will produce clusters of persons with similar measurements of health status. The analysis discovers which persons have which outcomes and the management uses this knowledge to provide efficient healthcare.<br>The new healthcare infrastructure will provide information for decision makers to effectively manage provider care and manage patient expectations. Thus, this book will be a key reference for all professionals working within the management of health, from informatician to healthcare executive, health information technologist to computer scientist, and physician to patient.
Publisher:
Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9780857294524
Subject:
Medicine.
Medicine & Public Health.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Series:
Health Informatics,
Health informatics,
Contents:
Prelude: The Evolution of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Part I: The Problems of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Chapter 1: History of Health Determinants -- Chapter 2: Public Health Success when simple -- Chapter 3: Public Health Failure when complex -- Chapter 4: Medicine Success when simple -- Chapter 5: Medicine Failure when complex -- Chapter 6: Medical Records for Health Systems -- Part II: The Solutions of Healthcare Infrastructure -- Chapter 1: Health Determinants for Populations and Individuals -- Chapter 2: Measurement of Individual Ability (Explicit Text) -- Chapter 3: Measurement of Individual Ability (Implicit Data) -- Chapter 4: Genomes for Individual Ability (Features) -- Chapter 5: Networks for Population Function (Persons) -- Chapter 6: Mobile Monitors for Health Systems -- Postlude: The Future of Healthcare Infrastructure.
Physical Description:
XVIII, 287p. 29 illus., 15 illus. in color. digital.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-452-4
Publication Date:
2011.
Title:
Healthcare, Insurance, and You The Savvy Consumer’s Guide / by Lisa Zamosky.
Author:
Zamosky, Lisa. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Healthcare is changing and you need to know how—and what to do about it. Getting good medical care shouldn’t be so confusing—or so costly. Healthcare, Insurance, and You simplifies the many confusing details about our healthcare system so you can make informed decisions. Result? Better health at lower cost. With the advent of healthcare reform, things are changing—especially when it comes to insurance. Most people will now have to buy insurance. Do you know where to get a policy or what to look for in one? Did you know more people will now qualify for free or subsidized healthcare? Even if you get insurance through work, you'll face new choices that you'd better understand to maintain your peace of mind. As this book shows, the failure to understand how insurance and the healthcare system work can have a major impact on your physical and financial health. Healthcare, Insurance, and You is an easy-to-use guide that explains the main challenges you face when trying to get excellent healthcare: choosing the best insurance policy for your situation, finding the right doctor or hospital, buying prescription drugs the least expensive way, picking out the right Medicare plan, or fighting for your rights when dealing with insurers or medical providers. Healthcare, Insurance, and You includes tips, resources, and strategies for navigating the healthcare system and avoiding common mistakes so you can get the best healthcare for you, your family, or your organization without breaking the bank. This book shows you: How to choose a health plan that best meets your medical and financial needs, including new options under the Affordable Care Act Ways to cut through red tape and fight billing errors and claim denials What businesses need to know about offering—or not offering—insurance to employees How to plan ahead for a disability or for end-of-life care Healthcare costs rank high on the list of money concerns Americans have. And when it comes to getting great healthcare for you and your family and avoiding crippling medical bills, knowledge is power. Healthcare, Insurance, and You is a practical guide that explains the complicated healthcare system in plain language—and puts the power of good health back in your hands.
Publisher:
Apress : Imprint: Apress,
Publication Place:
Berkeley, CA :
ISBN:
9781430249542
Subject:
Economics.
Economics/Management Science.
Business/Management Science, general.
Physical Description:
X, 167 p. 19 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4954-2
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook Conformance and Testing of Healthcare Data Exchange Standards / by Frank Oemig, Robert Snelick.
Author:
Oemig, Frank. author.
Snelick, Robert. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Introduction -- Architecture -- Healthcare Standards Landscape -- Healthcare Data Exchange Standards -- Conformance Constructs -- Principles of Specifying Conformance -- Principles of Effective Profiling -- Profile Relationships -- Conformance Profiling Tools -- Testing Models -- Principles of Conformance Testing -- Conformity Assessment -- Testing Architectures -- Testing Tools -- Testing and Certification Programs -- Additional Healthcare Data Exchange Standards.
This book focuses on the development and use of interoperability standards related to healthcare information technology (HIT) and provides in-depth discussion of the associated essential aspects. The book explains the principles of conformance, examining how to improve the content of healthcare data exchange standards (including HL7 v2.x, CDA, and FHIR), the rigor of conformance testing, and the interoperability capabilities of healthcare applications for the benefit of healthcare professionals who use HIT, developers of HIT applications, and healthcare consumers who aspire to be recipients of safe and effective health services facilitated through meaningful use of well-designed HIT. Readers will understand the common terms interoperability, conformance, compliance and compatibility, and be prepared to design and implement their own complex interoperable healthcare information system. Chapters address the practical aspects of the subject matter to enable real-world application of previously theoretical concepts. The book provides real-world, concrete examples to explain how to apply the information, and includes many diagrams to illustrate relationships of entities and concepts described in the text. Designed for professionals and practitioners, this book is appropriate for implementers and developers of HIT, technical staff of information technology vendors participating in the development of standards and profiling initiatives, informatics professionals who design conformance testing tools, staff of information technology departments in healthcare institutions, and experts involved in standards development. Healthcare providers and leadership of provider organizations seeking a better understanding of conformance, interoperability, and IT certification processes will benefit from this book, as will students studying healthcare information technology.
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319448398
Subject:
Computer science.
Health administration.
Health informatics.
Computer system failures.
Computer science.
Health Informatics.
Health Informatics.
System Performance and Evaluation.
Health Administration.
Contents:
Introduction -- Architecture -- Healthcare Standards Landscape -- Healthcare Data Exchange Standards -- Conformance Constructs -- Principles of Specifying Conformance -- Principles of Effective Profiling -- Profile Relationships -- Conformance Profiling Tools -- Testing Models -- Principles of Conformance Testing -- Conformity Assessment -- Testing Architectures -- Testing Tools -- Testing and Certification Programs -- Additional Healthcare Data Exchange Standards.
Physical Description:
XLVI, 662 p. 292 illus., 289 illus. in color. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44839-8
Publication Date:
2016.
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