Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Review of the Healthcare-Management (Modeling) Literature Published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires innovative approaches, utilizing new technologies, data anal...

Hospital Information System Utilization in Iran: a Qualitative Study

Hospital information system (HIS) should ideally allow different forms of data to be stored and used for decision making by clinicians and managers alike. This system has been developed since the early 1980's, and many hospitals gradually c...

Cuba's Community Health Services：Introduction and Implications to China

Cuba has a three-level healthcare system, and offers free universal healthcare, of which community health services occupy a decisive position. Cuba has accumulated abundant experience in implementing public health services, primary healthca...

Policy Recommendations for Information Prescribing to Heart Failure Patients to Reduce Readmissions, Mortality, and Costs

Introduction: Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and mortality, with frequent readmissions mainly due to poor self-care knowledge and low medication adherence. These readmissions increase healthcare costs and reduce patient...

Clinical Features and Pathogenesis of Noma: A Narrative Review Highlighting the Emerging Strategies for Prevention and Management

Noma, also known as cancrum oris, is a rapidly progressive gangrenous infection that affects the oral and facial tissues of malnourished children in impoverished regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease typically begins as a...

Transforming Healthcare Management

The healthcare industry is witnessing a transformative era driven by the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). AI is no longer a futuristic concept but a tangible reality that is rapidly integrating into healthcare management ...

Healthcare Management Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges to those responsible for the management of healthcare activities. These challenges require decision makers at all levels to possess a broad and comprehensive understanding of health...

Professionalizing Healthcare Management: A Descriptive Case Study

Despite international recognition of the importance of healthcare management in the development of high-performing systems, the path by which countries may develop and sustain a professional healthcare management workforce has not been arti...

Leadership in Healthcare Management

The merit and influence of good leadership has become far more acknowledged and widespread in healthcare management. First-class leadership is vital because the complexity of the healthcare system requires the qualities of a good leader who...

Big data in healthcare: management, analysis and future prospects

‘Big data’ is massive amounts of information that can work wonders. It has become a topic of special interest for the past two decades because of a great potential that is hidden in it. Various public and private sector industries generate,...

Exploring health literacy pertaining to general wellbeing and chronic disease management among population registered within Primary Healthcare System: A Study protocol.

BackgroundEvidence suggests that high level of health literacy among patients is associated with high levels of accessibility to healthcare, better understanding consent-to-treat forms, increased compliance to treatment (particularly in tak...

Mortality trends among hospitalised COVID-19 patients in Sweden: A nationwide observational cohort study

Background: It is important to know if mortality among hospitalised COVID-19 patients has changed as the pandemic has progressed. The aim of this study was to describe the dynamics over time of mortality among patients hospitalised for COVI...

Adherence and health care costs

Aurel O Iuga,1,2 Maura J McGuire3,4 1Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2Johns Hopkins University, 3Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, 4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Abstract: Medication non...

Public–private partnership in pipelining science of acute care ecosystem: Insights from Taiwan's Presidential Hackathon

Abstract Introduction The acute care system faced significant challenges in managing healthcare emergencies due to a lack of coordination between emergency services and logistical support. This disorganization undermined collaboration and r...

Why do healthcare professionals fail to escalate as per the early warning system (EWS) protocol? A qualitative evidence synthesis of the barriers and facilitators of escalation

Abstract Background Early warning systems (EWSs) are used to assist clinical judgment in the detection of acute deterioration to avoid or reduce adverse events including unanticipated cardiopulmonary arrest, admission to the intensive care ...

Healthcare Management

Healthcare Management takes a look at international perspectives in healthcare management and the way regional priorities, national income, and social factors are crucial to effective healthcare services. Readers are provided the skills to ...

Big Data in Healthcare Management: A Review of Literature

A systematic literature review of papers on big data in healthcare published between 2010 and 2015 was conducted. This paper reviews the definition, process, and use of big data in healthcare management. Unstructured data are growing very f...

A Blockchain-Based Smart Contract System for Healthcare Management

Blockchain is evolving to be a secure and reliable platform for secure data sharing in application areas such as the financial sector, supply chain management, food industry, energy sector, internet of things and healthcare. In this paper, ...

Alpha-Synuclein Induced Immune Cells Activation and Associated Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder closely related to immunity. An important aspect of the pathogenesis of PD is the interaction between α-synuclein and a series of immune cells. Studies have shown that accumulation of...

Editorial: Listening in action: Attention, emotions and cognition in the auditory system