Health Care Modeling A Potential Research Area in Regional Science

Author(s):  
Manas Chatterji
10.2196/19072 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e19072
Author(s):  
Susanne Grødem Johnson ◽  
Thomas Potrebny ◽  
Lillebeth Larun ◽  
Donna Ciliska ◽  
Nina Rydland Olsen

Background E-learning technologies, including mobile apps, are used to a large extent in health care education. Mobile apps can provide extendable learning environments and motivate students for adaptive and collaborative learning outside the classroom context. Developers should design practical, effective, and easy-to-use mobile apps. Usability testing is an important part of app development in order to understand if apps meet the needs of users. Objective The aim of this study is to perform a scoping review of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education. Methods The scoping review is guided by the methodological framework developed by Arksey & O’Malley and further developed by Levac et al and Kahlil et al. The stages we will follow are as follows: (1) identifying the research question; (2) identifying relevant studies; (3) selecting studies; (4) charting the data; and (5) summarizing and reporting the results. We have developed two research questions to meet the aim of the study, which are as follows: (1) What usability methods are used to evaluate the usability of mobile apps for health care education? and (2) What usability attributes are reported in the usability studies of mobile apps for health care education? We will apply a comprehensive search of the literature, including 10 databases, a reference search, and a search for grey literature. Two review authors will independently screen articles for eligibility. Results The initial electronic database searches were completed in March 2019. The literature search identified 14,297 unique references. Following title and abstract screening, the full texts of 369 records were obtained. The scoping review is expected to be completed in spring 2021. Conclusions We expect the overview of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education to contribute to the knowledge base for researchers and developers. It will give an overview of the research field and provide researchers and developers with relevant and important information on the usability research area, including highlighting possible research gaps. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/19072


Author(s):  
Smys S

The failures in the most of research area, identified that the lack of details about the actionable and the valuable data that conceived actual solutions were the core of the crisis, this was very true in case of the health care industry where even the early diagnoses of a chronic disease could not save a person’s life. This because of the impossibility in the prediction of the individual’s outcomes in the entire population. The evolving new technologies have changed this scenario leveraging the mobile devices and the internet services such as the sensor network and the smart monitors, enhancing the practical healthcare using the predictive modeling acquiring a deeper individual measures. This affords the researches to go through the huge set of data and identify the patterns along with the trends and delivering solutions improvising the medical care, minimizing the cost and he regulating the health admittance, ensuring the safety of human lives. The paper provides the survey on the predictive big data analysis and accuracy it provides in the health care system.


2011 ◽  
pp. 356-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simerjit Gill ◽  
Raman Paranjape

This chapter reviews and summarizes eight selected paper in the area of agent-based healthcare systems. The objective of the summaries is to provide an overview of recent research work in the area and to examine the characteristics of agent-based healthcare applications. The chapter also briefly discusses reasons for adopting agent-based simulation and modeling over traditional modeling techniques.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-251
Author(s):  
Ayrum L. Katcher

David G. Nathan's commentary (Pediatrics, 52:768, 1973) on problems of delivery of health care suggests that the rational application of scientific methods which have been so successful in the biomedical research area to the problems of the delivery of health services to our population, will produce comparable achievements in this new arena. Nathan may well be correct in his faith in the research process. However, he also seems to believe that persons engaged in research possess talent ("the cream") which is equipotential in all areas.


2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Sacchini ◽  
Pietro Refolo

I sistemi sanitari sono chiamati ad affrontare il problema della soddisfazione di crescenti bisogni assistenziali con una quantità di risorse limitata. Tale situazione implica la necessità di ottimizzare a tutti i livelli possibili l’uso delle risorse. In questo contesto, si è sviluppata a livello internazionale un’area di ricerca multidisciplinare, nota come Health Technology Assessment (HTA), atta a valutare, sotto diverse prospettive (clinica, economica, sociale, legale, etica, politica, psicologica, ecc.), l’impiego delle tecnologie in ambito sanitario. L’obiettivo principale è di supportare le decisioni di politica sanitaria. Simile area di ricerca ha assunto un ruolo sempre più importante all’interno di molte organizzazioni ospedaliere europee e nord-americane al punto da rappresentare attualmente il supporto forse più funzionale al management aziendale nelle decisioni che riguardano l’introduzione e l’impiego delle tecnologie sanitarie. Il contributo è volto a introdurre e argomentare il concetto di HTA, gli elementi, gli obiettivi, le problematicità e, soprattutto, gettare le basi di un’articolata riflessione sugli aspetti etici, i quali, sebbene scarsamente dibattuti in letteratura, rappresentano un elemento costitutivo della valutazione delle tecnologie sanitarie. ---------- Health care systems are called to face the problem of the satisfaction of the growing charitable need with a limited amount of resources. Such situation involves the necessity of optimizing the use of the resources on all the possible levels. In this context, a multidisciplinary research area has developed at international level, known as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), fitted to evaluate, under various perspectives (clinical, economic, social, legal, ethical, political, psychological, etc), the use of technologies in health care world. Its main purpose is to inform technology-related policy- making in health care. Similar research area has assumed an ever-growing importance in many European and North-American hospital organizations to such a degree that it represents at this moment the support probably more functional for the business management in decisions which regard the introduction and the use of medical technologies. The contribution wants to introduce and explore the concept of HTA, the elements, the objectives, the problematic natures and, above all, to lay the foundations of an articulate reflection on the ethical aspects, which, even though scantily discussed in literature, represent a constitutive element of the evaluation of medical technologies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. pp338-355
Author(s):  
Albérico Manuel Fernandes Travassos Rosário ◽  
Filipa Isabel de Almeida Fernandes Vilaça ◽  
Ricardo Raimundo ◽  
Rui Manuel Nunes Cruz

Health care institutions (HCI in further text) are in constant interplay with their context, generating ensuing opportunities and threats. Knowledge management has been paramount when it comes to integrating state-of-art technologies in order to improve system efficiency and decision processes in hospital management outputs. Thus, it is pivotal to explain the role of knowledge management in hospital management. Research of peer-reviewed articles published from 2009 to 2019, and obtained via the Scopus database, was carried out based on two key subjects, ‘knowledge management’ and ‘health care institutions’. The research was performed through a descriptive, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the most cited 47 scientific articles found in the SCOPUS database. We conclude that 'knowledge management' (KM in further text) has become an important research area in terms of HCI management. The article identifies the central themes in KM research in HCI. However, the area on KM literature is highly fragmented, requiring development. Based on an analysis of the collected literature, we identified the key research themes and resulting development patterns, namely, the integration and interoperability of knowledge from different sources into a single platform, occupational safety, the need to ascertain quality and pertinent information among general web information, culture and social behaviour and data security. We posit that KM effectively facilitates the utilization of healthcare information resources and management decision making in hospitals.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Grødem Johnson ◽  
Thomas Potrebny ◽  
Lillebeth Larun ◽  
Donna Ciliska ◽  
Nina Rydland Olsen

BACKGROUND E-learning technologies, including mobile apps, are used to a large extent in health care education. Mobile apps can provide extendable learning environments and motivate students for adaptive and collaborative learning outside the classroom context. Developers should design practical, effective, and easy-to-use mobile apps. Usability testing is an important part of app development in order to understand if apps meet the needs of users. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to perform a scoping review of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education. METHODS The scoping review is guided by the methodological framework developed by Arksey & O’Malley and further developed by Levac et al and Kahlil et al. The stages we will follow are as follows: (1) identifying the research question; (2) identifying relevant studies; (3) selecting studies; (4) charting the data; and (5) summarizing and reporting the results. We have developed two research questions to meet the aim of the study, which are as follows: (1) What usability methods are used to evaluate the usability of mobile apps for health care education? and (2) What usability attributes are reported in the usability studies of mobile apps for health care education? We will apply a comprehensive search of the literature, including 10 databases, a reference search, and a search for grey literature. Two review authors will independently screen articles for eligibility. RESULTS The initial electronic database searches were completed in March 2019. The literature search identified 14,297 unique references. Following title and abstract screening, the full texts of 369 records were obtained. The scoping review is expected to be completed in spring 2021. CONCLUSIONS We expect the overview of usability methods and attributes reported in usability studies of mobile apps for health care education to contribute to the knowledge base for researchers and developers. It will give an overview of the research field and provide researchers and developers with relevant and important information on the usability research area, including highlighting possible research gaps. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT DERR1-10.2196/19072


Author(s):  
Simerjit Gill ◽  
Raman Paranjape

This chapter reviews and summarizes eight selected paper in the area of agent-based healthcare systems. The objective of the summaries is to provide an overview of recent research work in the area and to examine the characteristics of agent-based healthcare applications. The chapter also briefly discusses reasons for adopting agent-based simulation and modeling over traditional modeling techniques.


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