health system Articles
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Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants and challenges in developing ethnoharmacology in Africa: example of Oku, Cameroon
Most traditional African cultures believe that, to maintain the health and vitality of human beings, they have to address forces in both the natural and the spiritual world. This paper uses a participatory approach to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the traditional health system. It presents some concepts and practices, some characteristics of indigenous knowledge ...
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Innovations in primary care management: a Brazilian experience
Primary care (PC) is a form of organisation from the public health assistance structure that plays a key function for the local systems of healthcare, which guarantees the principles of the health system in Brazil. Based on the theories that sustain the concepts of innovation, this research has the main objective to identify the innovations which occur in the PC of the health system of Caxias do ...
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Information technology and quality improvement
Innovation in information technology and changes in health care delivery have converged to create opportunities for quality improvement through enhanced information access and utilisation. This exploratory paper reviews the literature on IT and QI in order to address two key research questions: 1. What is the relationship between the availability and use of IT in QI applications in the health ...
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Analysis of expenditure on pharmaceuticals in the Spanish public health system
In Spain, the social security (i.e., the public health system) budget relays on the local administrations of every region. From this budget, a very important amount of money goes to finance, totally or partially and medicines for people. If the administrations do not take this issue seriously, the expenses can be overwhelming. In this paper, a Spanish region called Asturias is analysed in terms ...
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DCH strengthens compliance and cuts costs with Presagia’s integrated solution - Case Study
Industry: Healthcare Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Founded: 1916 Employees: 4,700 Objectives: Strengthen compliance Modernize & standardize leave management Improve employee-management relationship As a public, nonprofit health network, DCH Health System counts family among its highest values. That’s why the community of West Alabama trusts the DCH team to provide vital ...
By Presagia
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A comparative study of prescribing and transcribing between the women hospital pharmacy and the ASHP: a benchmark approach
The aim of this case study is to compare the performance of the Pharmacy Department in the Women Hospital of the Hamad Hospital Corporation (HMC) of Qatar, with that of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) national survey in terms of prescribing and transcribing of drugs that was conducted in 2001. The methods used in this case study include observation, secondary data ...
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Prospective analysis of the mobile health information systems in China
With the rapidly growing Chinese economy in the past few decades, the people of mainland China are now enjoying increasingly more economic benefits than ever before. Out of the many growing technologies, mobile devices, especially cell phones, have been gaining popularity throughout the country. According to the latest statistics from 2007, more than one-third of Chinese citizens have cell ...
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Inside the Transition of Flow Based Patient Care
The nuclear cardiology department at Ochsner Health System, a New Orleans-based multi- hospital organization with facilities peppered throughout southern Louisiana, is revising its cardiac imaging model and implementing a flow-based imaging program. Leveraging the Positron Attrius cardiac PET system, the new model is characterized by highly accurate patient diagnosis and treatment ...
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Economic efficiency of day hospital: case of surgery department
The article discusses the case study analysis of economic efficiency of health service processes in the context of the so–called day hospital. The day hospital model is the result of gradual development. Its evolutionary background takes shape in health systems, typical for developed Western countries. This framework is a popular approach towards increasing economic efficiency of hospitals. ...
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Improving Skeletal Traction Procedures with Arbutus Medical - Case Study
Erlanger Health System is a nationally acclaimed, multi-hospital health system anchored by a leading academic medical center. Each year, more than 600,000 people are treated by a team of healthcare professionals at seven medical centers across Tennessee and North ...
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Technology acquisition decision making revisited: lessons learned in an age of environmental uncertainty
High technology medical innovation remains implicated as one of the most significant driving forces behind the high costs of health care in the USA. In addition, health care organisations are faced with an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. How do these factors interrelate to affect decisions made to acquire high cost medical technology? Data was collected from hospitals in three ...
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Meeting the Environmental Health Training Challenges of the Local Public Health Workforce in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, the public health delivery system is mainly decentralized with 351 municipalities providing a large array of environmental and public health services through their local health agencies (boards of health or health departments). In many other states these services are delivered at the county or state agency levels, but in Massachusetts they are provided by each city and town. In ...
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Improving Health in Ucayali, Peru: A Multisector and Multilevel Analysis
We review the key determinants of health in Ucayali, Peru, identified by researchers, and, according to these, propose a set of tools to improve health in this area. Women and indigenous peoples are recognized as two vulnerable groups in the region that face greater health risks, and these are the main focus of the development of tools for health improvement. Also, the growing economic ...
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Quality of healthcare service delivery in public sector hospitals: a case study based on Western Province in Sri Lanka
The main objective of this paper is identification of current service quality of healthcare delivery of public sector hospitals to assess the quality determinants of healthcare delivery and to suggest policies and strategies to improve service quality of healthcare delivery. This study was conducted in Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts in Western Province in Sri Lanka. A structured ...
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The Burden of Hospital Acquired Infections on Health Systems
What is a Hospital Acquired Infection? A Hospital-Acquired Infection (HAI) (also know as a Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) or nosocomial infection) is defined by WHO as ‘an infection acquired in hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection1‘. This includes infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge, and also occupational ...
By TriMedika
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What’s Top of Mind for Flu Researchers?
Infectious diseases like influenza can be threats to public health and our economy. At the OPTIONS XI for the Control of Influenza conference, leading influenza vaccines provider CSL Seqirus, joined academic, government, research and industry stakeholders to discuss and learn more about influenza and its impact. Below, CSL Seqirus shared additional insights into topics of interest to the ...
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DR Systems and Vidar Partner to Ease the Transition to Digital Mammography - Case Study
DR Systems. Inc.. is a leading provider of integrated medical image management systems for hospitals and imaging centers. Co-founded in 1992 by practicing radiologist Murray Reicher, M.D.. the company has become one of the preeminent vendors in the PACS industry and serves facilities of all sizes, ranging from one of the smallest hospitals in the United States to large academic medical centers ...
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Early Experience with a Novel Hemodialysis System used for PIRRT Demonstrates Clinical Management at Lower Cost than CRRT and IHD - Case Study
The need for providing dialysis to patients in the ICU has increased overtime. Delivery of this care is challenging to health care systems (HCS) both in costs and ...
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Oxygen for Covid-19 Vaccines and Patient Care
Interview With Horst Nowosad, Sales and Project Engineer at Inmatec Medical oxygen is used in emergency care and vaccine production. With their own O2 generation, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers secure supplies and reduce costs. Mr. Nowosad, Inmatec GaseTechnologie is a leading manufacturer of oxygen and nitrogen generators. What developments do you see in the area of oxygen ...
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Why Cold Chain is Important to Vaccines
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world’s health system and organization. To control and prevent this virus and others of its kind, vaccination has been adopted as an effective way to protect public health. Vaccines are chemical and biological products, which means they are sensitive to both cold and heat and must be kept in cold storage throughout the vast cold ...
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