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Marmara University · Department of Health Management

This paper proposes a framework to extract knowledge-management elements from business systems in healthcare organizations. According to results of in-depth interviews with experts in the field, a framework is defined, and software was developed to generate log files. Following the application of the Bag of Words (BoW) method on log files of 455 da...

In the insurance industry, fraud can be performed because of salesperson's bonuses and commissions. This problem reduces the reputation of the insurance industry. With the decrease of reputation, the trust of the customer to the industry decreases and thus, the acquisition of new customers becomes difficult. This study aims to estimate the probabil...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the entrepreneurs by observing structural activities directly in their working environments. Methodology: Within the scope of the study, structured observation, which is a sociological method, was used to investigate the daily behaviors of 10 entrepreneurs in start-ups located in technoparks of Turkey. Findin...

Robotlar, bilgisayar tarafından programlanabilen, otomatik olarak karmaşık bir dizi eylem gerçekleştirebilen makineler olarak tanımlanabilir. Robotlar insan for-munu almak için inşa edilebilmektedir ancak robotların çoğu, nasıl göründüklerine bakılmaksızın bir görevi gerçekleştirmek için tasarlanmış makinelerdir. Tıp alanında robotların kullanılmas...

In role based access systems, it is mandatory tocollect and process the user data to ensure the reliability alongwith the security of the system. Moreover, it helps to improve theuser-experience of the system. Before processing data, it is crucialto improve the way that we collect the data. In that direction,the logic behind the role based access h...

Melanoma is certainly the deadliest skin cancer. Clinicians try to detect melanoma at early stages in order to increase the successful treatment rate by using dermoscopes. We have designed a digital dermoscope that is both mobile and highly sensitive for automatic classification. We developed an accurate image processing software and a learning pro...

According to U.S. Census Bureau, worldwide average of infant mortality rate is 90, meaning that 90 infants die per 1000 live births within one-year period after birth. The leading causes are stated as birth defects, preterm birth, maternal complications of pregnancy, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and injuries (e.g. Suffocation). Considering S...

Our body consist of more than one hundred trillion cells. Cancer is the abnormal cell division in an uncontrolled manner. Mostly, cancer starts with one or a small group of cells. Unlike the belief that body cannot protect itself against the cancer, our immune system is capable of identify self and non-self materials such as cancer. However, it is...

Falling is a major problem among the people globally, frequently due to some health problems including vision loss or balance disorder as a consequence of aging. As a result of the falling in elder people; injuries, complications, neurological problems and mortality are generally occurred. This situation also affects the patients' families psycholo...

Polysomnography (PSG) is standard for both OSAHS diagnosis and severity detection, but it has some disadvantages such as requirement for many equipment, conditions and times to get successful measurements. The aim of the study is to design a fuzzy expert system (FES) to predict the severity degree of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS...

This study is trying to assess methods commonly used in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) for screening mammography analysis. A database consists of 12 different BI-RADS classes related to breast density patterns of mammogram patches which are taken from IRMA database is used in this study. Three feature extraction methods, namely grey-level co-...

Much has been written about careers as the concept has been positioned at the intersection of individual biography and social history (Grandjean, 1981). The term has attracted an ever increasing attention from diverse disciplinary fields (Khapova and Arthur, 2010) since recent developments in globalization, technological advance and changing demogr...

A fall is a multifactorial phenomenon which cause an increase in both mortality and injury rates. The cause of a fall is mostly related to loss in reflexes especially in older ages. A number of large prospective studies shows that elderly patients have significant fractures and injuries even sometimes in some cases a fall can be concluded with deat...

This study is trying to assess methods commonly used in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) for screening mammography analysis. A database consists of 20 different BI-RADS classes of mammogram patches taken from IRMA database is used in this study. Three feature extraction methods, namely grey-level co-occurrence matrix(GLCM), principal component...

Objective: To evaluate the results of combined multilevel surgery with transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome for multilevel upper airway obstruction. Methods: Subjects who underwent combined sleep surgery via TORS were evaluated. The drug-induced sleep endoscopy was used in diagnosing the pre...

ABSTRACT This study is exploring the effects of accreditation on the healthcare sector. Starting from the beginning of 2000, Turkish private hospitals started to get certified by Joint Commission International (JCI) in order to differentiate and split from the other similar hospitals. Moreover, in the middle of 2000s, many of accredited hospitals h...

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop a model which provides a framework to evaluate the performance of technology on surgery. METHODS: Participatory Action Research (PAR) was used for this study. In PAR engineers (researchers) and medical doctors (participants) systematically worked together to define indicators, analyzed medical records of patien...

This paper is about how a new technology affects business processes and determining performance measures that can be used to assess the technology’s effects on busi- ness processes. In literature, there are several papers which deal with evaluation of business process improve- ment (BPI) techniques. To evaluate the BPI techniques cost, flexibility,...

The literature was searched for the benefits of using business intelligence (BI). The benefits of BI categorized as: organizational benefits, business supplier/partners relation benefits, internal processes efficiency benefits, and customer intelligence benefits (Elbashir et al, 2008). On the other hand a review of literature also shows that organization...

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren tam teşekküllü özel hastaneler örgütsel alanının oluşum dinamiklerini ortaya koymak ve devamında bu örgütsel alanda gerçekleşen değişim mekanizmalarını açıklamaktır. Sağlık reformları 1980’lerden günümüze en çok tartışılan, araştırılan konulardan biri olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu dönemde sa...

Marka kişiliği yaratma çalışmaları bazen planlı olarak bazen de sosyal ve kültürel çevrede, popüler tüketim anlayışındaki değişimlere bağlı olarak gelişmektedir. Bu çalışmada kişiliğe dair yaklaşımlar değerlendirilirken sadece bir ürün ya da hizmet markasına kişilik kazandırmak fikri ile sınırlı kalınmamış, marka topluluğu ve stratejik yönetim kavr...

This study aims to depict a failed strategic change initiative in a Turkish public hospital by means of an action research and it strives to explain critical factors underpinning the failure, thereby proposing how such factors should be tackled with for similar initiatives elsewhere. The study calls attention to the recent challenges ongoing in the...

The circulation of labor force and with the effect of globalization;, today there are societies contain different cultures. Language is one of the biggest hindrances that people from different cultures confront with. Language barrier appears when two people with no common language try to communicate. Doctor-patient relationship is the first place w...

ÖGRETİLEBLİR LİDERLİK TÜRKİYE ÖZEL SEKTÖR UYGULAMASI Kaynakların azalması ve nufüsün hızlı artısına paralel olarak rekabetin küresel dünyada çok fazla arttıgını görmekteyiz. Bu durum etkinligin önemini artırmaktadır. Yapılan çalısmalar ile liderligin rekabet avantajı saglama nedeni olarak etkinligi artırıcı etkisi üzerinde durulmustur (Dregler, 20...