Healthcare Systems - Science topic

How should healthcare systems prioritize patient care when faced with limited health resources, and what ethical considerations arise from these decisions?

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics has made many infections difficult to treat, posing not only a threat to public health but also a major challenge to healthcare systems worldwide.

Physician burnout can have far-reaching consequences that extend beyond individual well-being to affect patient care quality, healthcare costs, and the overall functioning of healthcare systems. Understanding and addressing burnout is essential for maintaining a resilient healthcare workforce and ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

This question is based on the article, "Diagnostic Microbiology from the Beginning to the Future: Regional Antibiograms as Public Health Tools to Slow Down Antibiotic Resistance." The article addresses the special characteristics of infectious diseases in medicine, including the ability to isolate and study the causing agents in conditions similar to those of humans in a laboratory, thereby enabling the identification of the most effective treatments. Through this question, researchers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how diagnostic microbiology can be used in healthcare systems, specifically to improve patient care and combat antibiotic resistance.

State ways in which Botswana's health system financed except taxation

An inconsistent data set introduces biases and errors. This can have profound consequences for an AI model trained on such raw data. Biased and inaccurate data can perpetuate healthcare disparities and affect patient outcomes. What solutions have been proffered far in its resolution in order for AI to be effectively deployed in medicine and the medical sciences as well as the general healthcare landscape globally.

Health 4.0 is a term used to describe the integration of advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analytics, into healthcare systems. The goal of Health 4.0 is to improve patient outcomes, streamline hospital operations, and reduce healthcare costs.

One of the key components of Health 4.0 is the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other digital technologies to improve communication, collaboration, and data sharing among healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. This can lead to more efficient and personalized care, as well as improved patient outcomes.

Another important aspect of Health 4.0 is the use of IoT devices, such as wearable devices and remote monitoring systems, to collect real-time data on patients' health and activity levels. This data can be analyzed using AI and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns and predict potential health issues before they occur. This can help healthcare professionals to provide more targeted and proactive care to patients.

Health 4.0 also includes the use of telemedicine, which allows patients to receive medical advice and treatment remotely, either through video conferencing or through remote monitoring devices. This can improve access to healthcare for patients living in remote or underserved areas, and also allows for more efficient use of healthcare resources.

Overall, Health 4.0 is a holistic approach to healthcare that aims to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs by leveraging advanced technologies in a way that is integrated and coordinated across the entire healthcare system.

Please can you help me with West African countries with similar healthcare systems to Ghana?

What are the criteria?

Aim of qualitative research study is to elucidate the migratory push factors determining locally born and educated registered nurses to migrate from the only tertiary level hospital located in the small island, modern metropolitan capital city. in a country maintaining fairly stable economic and political conditions..

Undoubtedly, in consideration of globalization, an escalation in the number of native RNs migrating from a ''destination nation' for nursing migration, has grabbed the attention of healthcare systems stakeholders in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no empirical evidence available to provide answers toward the planning and implementation of policies and strategies to stem the flow of these limited human healthcare resources' out of the nation's public healthcare system.

All the countries across the globe have reconstructed the healthcare system responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many high quality systems were failed to contain the infection and to deliver adequate treatment.

Which might be a good model for healthcare now and future? Should we focus on primary healthcare or secondary and tertiary one? How to harmonize them to prevent and contain future disasters?

There are now 80 million children at increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases due to COVID19-related disruptions in essential vaccination programs and health services.

Ahead of UHCDay, read more in STAT Darren Back, VP of Health Investments, about what we can learn from the current PublicHealth crisis and the importance of building more resilient healthcare systems to prevent the next GlobalHealth emergency: https://lnkd.in/djyUk-7 .InfectiousDiseases.HealthForAll ..

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I am looking at the following factors:

How seriously they take healthcare?

What factors affect their behavior like severity or cost, etc?

Also, other parameters that help in deciding the patient's mindset.

Gostaria de saber referências e dados estatísticos dos gastos do sistema de saúde com idosos, quedas e internações evitáveis.

I want to have an idea about the current issues and future challenges of AI in the medical area. For that, I need some technical suggestions on the following questions:

1. How can we combine Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning techniques specifically for healthcare systems?

2. What can we achieve in the above case?

Thanks for your help!

We have seen the lack of preparedness to manage the emergency health crisis and almost locked everything other than Corona when it was out of control. It was almost same across the world and after the crisis we have to think more about the reformation of healthcare system. Global cases top 11 million already and COVID-19 causes more than half a million deaths worldwide. The elderly with comorbidity are more vulnerable. The healthcare system everywhere is focusing mainly on COVID-19 management. Unluckily many more patients mainly old cases with hypertension, cardiac problems, chronic obstructive lung diseases or cancers are not getting priority and deaths are acceptable in silence. The vulnerability is more in poor and low income countries where they can’t afford to provide all the necessary healthcare together during the Corona crisis. We saw lots of disparity in healthcare even within the country with regional variations.

The enforced public health measures and associated economic repercussions brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic have found their staunch supporters and adversaries. It is not uncommon for two forces to be at odds, but in this case, both forces are necessary for what should be the ultimate goal: Human well-being.

One one side, the strictly imposed restrictions protect people from contracting and spreading the disease over a short period of time, while circumventing the otherwise inevitable overburdening of the healthcare system.

On the other, incurred financial losses, including unemployment and bankruptcy, conflict with the desires for well-being and the public's interest that has driven these same restrictions and public health measures.

This dilemma is not constrained to COVID-19, and can be applied more widely to discussions on the very foundations that healthcare systems and the public's access to them rest.

So where do we draw the line between the benefits of imposed public health measures and their economic repercussions? Who should be responsible for making such decisions? And what factors tip the balance on either end?

I am working on a research to assess healthcare systems performance in terms of the flow of orders through networks. Therefore I'm looking for quantitative indicators for the following characteristics:

Thanks in advance.

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I've lost the link to a paper that showed healthcare managers need repeated evidence of improvement program effectiveness, if they are to support the program.

Has anyone seen / read similar literature? I'd be very grateful for the link.

Many thanks

The outbreak of nCoV could become a tragedy for humankind in many countries. People with better health literacy have a better ability to manage their health. Therefore, the governments and the healthcare system should work together with other sectors at different levels to develop effective strategies and programs to manage the infection.

Need more experts' ideas.

We all know that the healthcare systems around the world are going trough constant changes. The main reason for them is the effort to improve their effectiveness in terms to give people better health and sustain it (edited thanks to the answer of @Andrew William McCulloch).

How do you think - what causes the failure of a healthcare system to achieve its main purpose? Is it:

We measured and compared patient satisfaction in two different healthcare systems in Northern Pakistan. It was published:

Now we want to follow it up to measure any changes in level of patient satisfaction. Is the tool still valid?

Dear Professors,

I hope this message finds you well! Currently, I am in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Incorporating the Internet of Things in Healthcare Applications and Wearable Devices, to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit your work for consideration in this publication.

I am certain that your contribution on this topic and/or other related research areas would make an excellent addition to this publication.

Please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3658 for more details regarding this publication and to submit your work. You can also find detailed manuscript formatting and submission guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you very much for your consideration of this invitation, and I hope to hear from you with the chapter proposal by January 30, 2019!

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Part – I - Design of sensors and wearable devices for IoT-based Healthcare applications - Emerging wireless technologies for IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Software Defined Networking (SDN) and IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Architectures and models for IoT-based Healthcare applications - Standards for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) communication protocols - Wireless MAC protocols for WBAN - Routing for WBAN-based healthcare applications - Security issue, attacks and vulnerabilities in WBAN - Mobility management in WBAN - Wearable Sensor Integration for Healthcare - Emerging Trends in IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Security, Privacy Issues and Challenges in IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Storage Issues and Challenges in IoT-based Healthcare Systems - IoT-based Healthcare Systems for remote health monitoring - Emerging e-Health IoT Applications - Personalized and Patient Centric Healthcare in IoT - Integration of E-health and Internet of Things Part – II - Integration and support of Cloud Computing in IoT-based Healthcare applications - Big Data, Data mining and Data Analytics in IoT-based Healthcare applications - Service oriented architectures and middleware’s for IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Privacy and security in IoT-based Healthcare applications - Machine learning and Deep learning for IoT-based Healthcare Systems - AI based systems for IoT-based Healthcare Systems - Predictive Modeling for Improving Healthcare using IoT - Exploration of health data in IoT - Clinical decision support systems in IoT - Clinical data storage and communication in IoT - Behavior change and analysis models in IoT-enabled personalized healthcare systems - Ontologies, knowledge technologies, semantic web systems in IoT-based Healthcare - Emergent IoT-based Healthcare applications

Important Dates

January 30, 2019: Proposal Submission Deadline February 15, 2019: Notification of Acceptance April 14, 2019: Full Chapter Submission May 14, 2019: Review Results Returned July 9, 2019: Final Acceptance Notification July 23, 2019: Final Chapter Submission

It will be great if you can kindly submit a tentative title, and abstract (minimum 750 words) through IGI editorial discovery(Link given above)

If any queries, kindly contact via E-Mail: pankajavalli@buc.edu.in, karthickselvaraj34@gmail.com

Best Wishes Dr.P.B.Pankajavalli, Mr.G.S.Karthick Editors Incorporating the Internet of Things in Healthcare Applications and Wearable Devices

Interprofessional education is important for healthcare system as it is a team work. Looking for ideas / methods which are effective in improving interprofessional skills in healthcare education.

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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants hold an important place in the healthcare system. Both nurse practitioners and physician assistants routinely serve the primary and preventative care needs of the patients.

Can a nurse practitioner do as a physician assistant if it is necessity? If not, why?

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What international/national healthcare policies are there for frailty in older people? I am aware of the UK's GP contract, where all GPs are identifying those with frailty in primary care. Australia (my country) has no policies at all. What are other countries doing?

How do psychiatrist, therapist, counselors and substance use treatment professionals integrate modalities in order to meet the need of patients with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder?

How do primary care, specialist, psychiatrist, social workers and therapists integrate cohesively and work collaboratively to address those they treat and provide services?

What role does administrators have in facilitating integrations of different modalities of medicine ?

With modern technology bringing everyone and everything closer, why is the American Healthcare System fragmented?

thanks.

A Nuclear medicine is a part of a country's national healthcare system. Could you recommend me please a nuclear medicine development plan benchmark?

Nursing documentation methods for patients receiving bladder instillations of BCG. Which methods are used in the urology outpatients department

Dear Researchers,

I would like to know what health economic research (analytical) methods for understanding variations in costs and health outcomes within and across countries you see as most advanced and practical in aplication?

Will they use queuing theory for analysis?

Recently, in our hospital, a local investigator asked us for a study that sought to identify points of congestion in the flow of patients to the intensive care unit, that is, to identify waiting times in each of the intervening instances. Theory of queues proposed by Erlang. The distribution of contracting for the outputs did not behave like an exponential, do you think it is a mistake to use this distribution to hire the expenditures?

Best regards

Dear Reader,

Please find below the detailled description of my current research and a couple of specific questions. I am glad for any opinion/input that you have on the topic, so please don't feel forced to answer the entire set of questions!

Many thanks and best regards

Stephan Schmidbauer

Preface

Combination treatments are an ever-increasing presence in oncology. In terms of explicitly approved drug combinations, the question is how the (additive) prices of these combinations can be reconciled with the financial power of the public healthcare system. If a clear advantage to overall survival can be demonstrated in a head-to-head clinical trial, the combination in question will usually be reimbursed. Often, however, manufacturers will refer to historical comparisons, one-arm trials, surrogate endpoints or adapted pathways for approval in order to provide evidence of efficacy. Despite subsequent approval, this leaves a significant degree of uncertainty in relation to efficacy and safety of new combination drugs. On the other hand, results on efficacy and safety in comparisons of phase II and III trials are frequently revealed to be in direct contrast (up to 50% of combinations are eventually found to be ineffective and/or unsafe, cf. doi:10.1038/nbt.2786 pmid:24406927).

A further case for consideration is the simultaneous administration (or sequential, if necessary) of drugs approved only as monotherapies; so-called “free combinations”. Aside from a pharmacological rationale, there is often no evidence to support such a regimen, yet the costs are additive.

We are trying to classify approaches in "humanitarian aid effectiveness" for a masters thesis (humanitarian aids in Afganistan in particular). We are interested in outcome (not output and not efficiency) oriented approaches. However, although humanitarian aids amounts to a huge sum on a global scale, we are having difficulty identifying a monitoring and evaluating system which is designed specific to the nature of humanitarian aids. We would be very happy to hear your recommendations about the literature and discuss issues which may arise.

Hi, I'm carrying out a research that aims at investigating the relationship between the Diagnosis Related Group weight (DRGW) and the complexity of the procedure. in other words, I'm interested in knowing if the DRGW is dependent on the complexity of the procedures or not. My experience is that the DRGW is exponentially increasing with the complexity (Italian dataset analysis), but I would be pleased to have a feedback or literature of reference. Moreover, I hypothesize that there would be a relation also between the volume of the procedures provided and the complexity of the same procedures.  Can anyone help me in my research?

Thanks in advance.

Cinzia Muriana

I would like to write a report on the current issues facing the healthcare services in norway at this point in time. I have been informed that there has been much debate in to the transition of the role of leadership between health professionals and central government; however, I cannot find any valid literature on the subject. If anyone could give me some ideas of where to look or have any articles they could share with me I would be very grateful. Thank you.  

value steam mapping ; lean manufacturing ; 

cause the typical calculation is usually applied in the manufacturing system whereby it used number of workstation, the demand of the product being produced and etc. in the healthcare system, there are only staff working hour and the fluctuate number of patient. so what is the indicator can be used?

Market interested in is Singapore. 

I'm looking for reimbursement information for the Japanese market. I'm also interested in the structure of reimbursement and also of the healthcare system in relation to dialysis - what is the split between private insurance and public funding.

Can a healthcare system achieve both equity and efficiency objectives at the same time? Would you say equity and efficiency are complementary or contradictory concepts in healthcare?

Governments and policymakers often seek to provide healthcare to all citizens based on their health needs. Thus, all persons should have full and equal access to healthcare commensurate to their health needs no matter where they are or the cost. However, due to increasing cost of healthcare, there is also the need to ensure prudent and efficient use of resources. Can the equity drive co-exist with efficiency? Should one be achieved before the other. 

Telemedicine on the battlefield

telemedicine in military hospitals

telemedicine in the healthcare system of war veterans

individual sensors of life in the military

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are there useful books for see application of system dynamics modeling in healthcare Problems? Also,for teaching in Graduate Classes of Healthcare System Engineering,it be suitable.

Suggestions of recent articles or journals will be much appreciated!

I am conducting a discrete event simulation research for the management of patients flow in an emergency unit of a healthcare system but pose with a problem of getting a suitable software that can help me analyse the data obtained.  

What are the various applications of digital electronics, embedded systems and wireless sensor networks in Healthcare?

I am conducting a research project on the use of research and program adaptation and was wondering if anyone would like to provide there professional input.  I have a series of question I would like to ask and administrator or practitioner who has used evidence based research to begin or change a program. 

I'm looking at the health system, the performance results versus the district leadership.

hospital bed allocation optimization to hospital wards

Please recommend research articles which discuss the efficacy of slum and informal settlement based women groups, based on studies, authors, or collaborators conducted in such slums, informal settlements in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and countries in Africa.

I am looking at the impact of activity-based funding on the length of stay (LOS) in the hospital. I will run three models: 1) 2009 vs 2010; 2) 2009 vs 2011; 3) 2009 vs 2012. For the treatment groups I have same percentile distribution till 90 percentile. Is it a problem? Conceptually, this is expected because the reduction in LOS will occur from the patients who stays longer. I am taking log of the dependent variable. I get reasonable results. I found a small statistically significant coefficient for the interaction term in the third period. The question is: is it worth doing because of the distribution issue. I personally see no problem, but one of my colleagues thinks I shouldn't proceed with this project.

I am looking for journals and articles that focus on decentralization of healthcare systems, more so in Africa. For example from National level, to regional boundaries, to the local boundaries.

How do we implement a metamodel that is built on another metamodel (meta-metamodel) to support a domain specific framework for a healthcare system management?

I would like to explore and your opinions regarding healthcare international accreditation. What are the challenges facing by our healthcare forces during the preparation and the actual survey?