healthcare management Articles
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Using an informing strategy to manage moral legitimacy in healthcare organisations
Healthcare organisations operating within highly institutionalised environments are exposed to very intense isomorphic pressures. These institutional pressures help determine organisational success and survival through the recognition and distribution of legitimacy, which is generally gained through conformity. Moral legitimacy, defined as the ethical judgments made about an organisation's ...
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Using ontology-based knowledge networks for user training in managing healthcare processes
The cooperative and collaborative nature of healthcare delivery requires active user participation in healthcare process design/redesign. Hence, there is a need to provide users with reusable, flexible, agile and adaptable training material in order to enable them instil their knowledge and expertise in healthcare process modelling and automation activities. This paper presents a prototype ...
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Pharmaceutical R&D in an era of managed healthcare: using integrative teams to produce enduring competitive advantage
Medical technology organisations are faced with greater performance pressure in the new managed healthcare environment. In particular, pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) organisations are expected to create new and useful therapeutic treatments with greater resource constraints than ever previously experienced. We explore how pharmaceutical R&D organisations are changing the way they ...
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Managing healthcare technology in quality management framework
Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an ...
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A typology of knowledge management strategies for hospital preparedness: what lessons can be learned?
Recently, hospital emergency preparedness has come under scrutiny. Having a written plan, even training for every possible attack might not be sufficient if there is a shortage in the required local knowledge and capacity. Until recently, knowledge management has not been at the core of the healthcare business model despite healthcare being a knowledge-intensive business. Hospitals are becoming ...
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Challenges of performance measurement and management in public healthcare services
This paper aims to identify the specific problems that healthcare organisations face when designing performance measurement and management. The research has been carried out using the qualitative research approach. The findings of the study are based on ten interviews with 22 key persons working in different positions in the basic social and healthcare sector in the Päijät–Häme region in Finland. ...
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Application of loglinear modelling to inpatient data for temporomandibular joint disorder claimants
The primary purpose of this paper was to demonstrate the application of loglinear modelling to the analysis of inpatient hospital claims data for TMD claimants. The database of a major medical insurer was used to study 1,819 patients who were diagnosed and treated for TMD along with their Non-TMD matches. Using loglinear modelling, it was found that Major Diagnostic Categories and TMD were not ...
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Discriminant based analysis of unplanned 14 days readmission patients of hospital
Medical quality and efficiency are two of the most important dimensions of hospital's overall management performance. Medical quality and efficiency of hospital is measured by indicator projects in different medical field. Most quality indicator projects adopt a resource-based measurement for the length of stay of patients. One of these indicators is 'unplanned readmission rate within 14 days of ...
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Semantic Web and Knowledge Management for the health domain: state of the art and challenges for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union (2007-2013)
Information Systems in the context of the health domain play a critical role. The evolution of the semantic web and knowledge management technologies in the last years set a new context for the exploitation of patient-centric strategies based on well-defined semantics and knowledge. In this paper we have two critical objectives. On the one hand to exploit the state of the art on Semantic Web and ...
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A methodology for the development of innovation clusters: application in the healthcare sector
For more than ten years, the French State and administrative regions have pursued economic development policies that stimulate all forms of innovation and encourage strategic market alliances of the economic stakeholders of a region. These ‘cluster’ policies aim to create ecosystems that are conducive to innovation and promote the emergence of collaborative organisations. Among these innovation ...
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Analysis and selection of management technologies in the healthcare organisations: the Balanced Scorecard approach in the image diagnostics service
The purpose of this paper is to show, through the analysis of a case study, how the systematic adoption and implementation of a strategic evaluation methodology (the Balanced Scorecard approach, created within an absolutely non-health context), for the organisation of an image diagnostics service, can assist it to evolve. On the one hand, it allows the creation, in the healthcare field, of a path ...
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A generic approach to computer-based Clinical Practice Guideline management using the ECA Rule paradigm and active databases
The increasing demand for reduced cost and improved quality of service in healthcare has prompted the call for better management of medical knowledge. The main emphasis has been on knowledge that is acquired through experience and medical research and then formalised into Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). This paper presents a generic approach to CPG information and knowledge management that ...
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Targeting 100! Envisioning the high performance hospital in six climate regions
Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are important topics in healthcare today. This team has developed research directed at much higher performing hospitals - targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment in six of the most populous and diverse climate regions in ...
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Beware Hazards in Healthcare: New Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals
Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments around notification, training, record keeping and ...
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The medico-legal and ethical considerations associated with intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in the USA: overview and proposed guidelines for legal and risk management professionals
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, known by the acronym IONM, is a method for monitoring and recording the inner neurological activity of a patient undergoing surgery. When using conventional means of monitoring, neurological damage during surgery may go undetected. IONM prevents this by indicating what is going on within a patient, often in real time, enabling surgeons to change ...
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Technological innovations in hospitals: what kind of competitive advantage does adoption lead to?
The authors propose an analytical framework for innovations, based on the resource-advantage theory of competition. Categorisation of innovations depends on how they contribute to a firm's competitive advantage. Essentially, do innovations reduce costs to the organisation, or do they increase the value of its market offerings? They apply this framework to an important segment of the US economy: ...
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Knowledge representation issues in ontology-based clinical Knowledge Management systems
Clinical Knowledge-Management (KM) represents a specific category of KM that requires specific support. Clinical knowledge mixes formal scientific knowledge with a person-culture in which the expertise of clinicians is key. In KM life-cycles, this entails that the required processes associated to clinical knowledge diverge from other kind of activities. Further, the technological support required ...
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Looking for a Healthcare ERM Solution? Make Sure You Get the Real Thing
Healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) are starting to recognize the value of consolidating vendors and implementing an Enterprise Risk Management solution that is both holistic and comprehensive. But finding software – and a vendor – that can fulfill the promise of a true integrated solution for Enterprise Risk Management in healthcare can be tricky. Part of the challenge is ...
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Glooko Named a Leader by Independent Research Firm in Diabetes Digital Therapeutics for Healthcare Payers
At Glooko, we believe being named a leader in CB Insights’ Diabetes Digital Therapeutics For Healthcare Payers — Execution & Market Strength Positioning (ESP) Vendor Matrix validates what our customers have been saying about our commitment to providing innovative digital health tools for chronic conditions like diabetes. Glooko was among the select companies that CB Insights ...
By Glooko, Inc.
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The Need for an Expanded Role of Risk Management in Healthcare
The role of risk management in healthcare has come a long way over the years. But as risks to the healthcare industry multiply—both in number and costs—risk management and risk managers need to be at the forefront of the business. If not, healthcare organizations can’t thrive, or potentially even survive. How healthcare risk management has evolved Today’s ...
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