Journal: Health Systems

Found 86 papers in total
Does a hospital’s IT architecture fit with its strategy? An approach to measure the alignment of health information technology
2014,
Hospitals as the main entities of healthcare need to respond to policy initiatives...
Smart collaboration framework for managing chronic disease using recommender system
2014,
E‐Healthcare services show promising solutions to reduce patients’ life...
Essential medicines in Tanzania: does the new delivery system improve supply and accountability?
2014,
Objective: Assess whether reform in the Tanzanian medicines delivery system from a...
Multi-criteria approach using simulation-based balanced scorecard for supporting decisions in health-care facilities: an emergency department case study
2014,
Health research is a priority in every economy, and this research – set in the...
A secure query assurance approach for distributed health records
2014,
Health information system architectures inherently include distributed systems and...
Expanding the boundaries of clinical informatics for interdisciplinary systems research
2014,
Health‐care organizations and the information they exchange are increasingly...
Scale and skill-mix efficiencies in nursing home staffing: inside the black box
2014,
Care workers account for a significant proportion of the total health expenditure in...
Electronic patient‐reported symptom assessment in palliative end‐of‐life home care
2013,
Good symptom control in palliative end‐of‐life home care requires...
Electronic medical record compliance and continuity in delivery of care: an empirical investigation in a combat environment
2013,
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are central to continuity in delivery of care in a...
Facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle complex problems in health care: report from an exploratory workshop
2013,
Complex problems in health care are complex issues that resist solution via...
End‐user support for primary care electronic medical records: a qualitative case study of users’ needs, expectations, and realities
2013,
Support is considered an important factor for realizing the benefits of health...
Identifying better systems design in Australian maternity care: a Boundary Critique analysis
2013,
This paper examines the background and limitations of maternity care policy and...
Development and calibration of a constrained resource health outcomes simulation model of hospital‐based glaucoma services
2013,
Health service delivery and organization often develops in an ad hoc manner, in...
Smartphone and vehicular trajectories as data sources for agent‐based infection spread modelling
2013,
Agent‐based modelling (ABM) is becoming a valuable tool in understanding...
Comparative effectiveness for oral anti‐diabetic treatments among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics: data‐driven predictive analytics in healthcare
2013,
A difficult problem in healthcare is predicting who will become very sick in the near...
Radiology scheduling with consideration of patient characteristics to improve patient access to care and medical resource utilization
2013,
The objective of this paper is to redesign a scheduling scheme in a hospital radiology...
The dynamic redeployment coverage location model
2013,
Demand for ambulances is known to fluctuate spatially and temporally by day of the...
Understanding the value proposition of health information exchange: the case of uncompensated care cost recovery
2013,
This case study examined the use of the Nationwide Health Information Network as a...
Geographical modelling of patient episode flows and hospital catchment populations: a case study in Northern Ireland
2013,
This paper describes the development of a decision support framework, which...
Proximity‐based modelling of cross‐contamination through agent‐based simulation: a feasibility study
2013,
Proximity‐based modelling methodology enables mathematical representation of a...
Assessing the impact of systems modeling in the redesign of an Emergency Department
2013,
Systems modeling has been used to redesign care in the National Health Service in the...
Optimising the use of resources within the district nursing service: a case study
2013,
Recent statements from the U.K. government indicate that future provision of services...
Towards a multimethodology in health care – synergies between Soft Systems Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation
2013,
Multimethodology is the combination of methodologies, often from different paradigms....
Assessing length of stay and associated characteristics of geriatric patients in Northern Ireland
2013,
The effective provision of care for the elderly is becoming increasingly more...
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