scholarly journals Framework Development for ICT-Health Policy Formulation and Implementation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barilee Barisi Baridam ◽  
Irene Govender
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Framework Development

Abstract Background: Policy formulation and implementation are important aspects of the policy process that have attracted the attention of several researchers. From these studies, it has been determined that a reliable policy system is needed for progress and growth in any sector. Methods: A robust theoretical or conceptual framework is designed in this paper to enable a seamless policy formulation and implementation through the implementation of a variant of the Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework. The framework designed in this study employs various building blocks needed to form a reliable policy for any sector in order to facilitate growth and development. The conceptual framework (building blocks) serves as a lens through which the data collected for the study is analysed, based on the constructs upon which the study is conducted. To apply the proposed model, some hospitals in the Niger Delta were visited and served questionnaire. The questionnaire focused on the level of infrastructural development and the introduction of information and communication technology(ICT) e-health solution for healthcare delivery. Results: Statistical results from the questionnaire were obtained and used to address organizational, infrastructural and individual challenges in relation to policy formulation and implementation within the sector. The overall result proves the robustness of the proposed model. Conclusion: The paper presents a detailed and painstaking examination of the various aspects of the Kingdon’s model, and its application in the proposed model for policy formulation and implementation. The proposed framework is adopted in the study of Nigeria’s healthcare sector with a case study on the Niger Delta.

Managing technology risks in the healthcare sector: disaster recovery and business continuity planning

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja K. Iyer ◽  
Kakoli Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Continuity Planning ◽  
Information And Communication

The relentless onslaught of computers and communications technologies has recently descended on the healthcare industry. Fortunately, however, the utilization of technologies in healthcare delivery and administration could not be timelier because of the need to control escalating health costs. While the proliferation of information and communication technologies in healthcare, referred to as health management information systems (HMIS), is certainly long overdue in healthcare organizations (HCOs), it is important to recognize and be prepared for the vulnerabilities of these technologies to natural, technological, and man‐made disasters. This paper describes how HCOs have justifiably become dependent on HMIS and how these organizations may proactively plan for disasters which can impact on HMIS. A phased approach, referred to as the disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) planning model, is presented in the paper as an approach to develop and implement business continuity plans in HCOs.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE MUSLIM-FRIENDLY HOTELS: A REVIEW AND PROPOSED MODEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
Noor Amalina Mat Yusof ◽  
Wan Jamaliah Wan Jusoh ◽  
Khairusy Syakirin Hasyun Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Dyadic Interaction ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Multilevel Method ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Climate Service ◽  
Service Behavior ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Framework Development

The purpose of this conceptual paper is an attempt to introduce the model which illustrates the internal marketing strategy. It based on a critical review of the literature for insights that integrate internal Muslim-friendly hotels (MFH) and provide customer satisfaction. The review suggests that scholars in the area of Islamic marketing should start working towards the internal environment of MFH, in addition to discussing the importance of customers without looking at the needs of internal MFH. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that involves service climate, service behavior, and customer satisfaction. The dyadic interaction between employees-customers in a service serves as a basis of the conceptual framework development. This paper also suggests a dyadic multilevel method to investigate these relationships.

Patients’ perceptions of healthcare quality in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Anabila ◽  
Desmond Kwadjo Kumi ◽  
Janet Anome
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Private And Public

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of service quality (SQ), customer satisfaction (CS) and customer loyalty (CL) in Ghana’s health sector and a comparative analysis of private and public hospital SQ. Design/methodology/approach A convenient sample of 1,236 respondents was generated from both private and public hospitals. The study utilises an asymptotic distribution free estimation technique in CB-SEM using LISREL to test the relationships, while Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test was used to determine the differences in SQ performances between private and public hospitals. Findings The study found a significant positive relationship between SQ and CS. Also, the study found a significant positive relationship between CS and CL. Finally, SQ was found to be better in private hospitals, resulting higher CS and CL. Practical implications The study highlights the significant role SQ plays in generating CS and CL to guide healthcare provider policy decision making to improve healthcare delivery. It also serves as a guide to patients to make informed decisions regarding the choice of alternative hospitals. Originality/value The study provides a useful guide to strategy and policy formulation in the healthcare sector by exploring the potential viability of SERVQUAL-related model as a relevant tool for assessing SQ in Ghana’s health sector. The results also identified SQ gap between private and public hospitals and thus have implications on how hospitals should strategise to improve their SQ.

scholarly journals The role of information and communication policies in the governance of the healthcare sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Barileé B. Baridam ◽  
Irene Govender
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Communication Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ict Policy

Information and communication technology (ICT) is today an indispensable tool in the development of countries and economies, driving growth in many other sectors, including the health sector. The effective governance of the health sector demands enabling ICT policies. Healthcare is a key area in the development and growth of nations. A country that neglects this sector will definitely witness a decline in socio-economic development. Application of ICT in this sector is non-negotiable and an imperative. However, with diversities in policy ICT’s impact is not felt in many communities, and linking ICT and other business strategies is a big challenge. Availability of resources upon which ICT itself thrives is another factor limiting its impact upon the lives of the populations of most developing nations. Cultural diversity and technology problems seem to stand prominent among challenges impeding the impact of ICT on developing nations. Against this backdrop, this paper takes a critical look at the implementation and efficiency of ICT in healthcare delivery within the Nigerian context. The purpose is to assist those bodies responsible for ICT policy and implementation to enable the benefits of ICT to trickle through to the populace. We are also of the opinion that the adequate implementation of ICT policy in the health sector in the most populous black nation (Nigeria) will go a long way to influence its implementation in neighbouring nations

PoGB-Pred: Prediction of Antifreeze Proteins Sequences using Amino Acid Composition with Feature Selection followed by a Sequential based Ensemble Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Affan Alim ◽  
Abdul Rafay ◽  
Imran Naseem
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Dimension Reduction ◽  
Protein Identification ◽  
Cold Water ◽  
Genomic Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Antifreeze Proteins ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Proposed Model

Background: Proteins contribute significantly in every task of cellular life. Their functions encompass the building and repairing of tissues in human bodies and other organisms. Hence they are the building blocks of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood. Similarly, antifreeze proteins are of prime significance for organisms that live in very cold areas. With the help of these proteins, the cold water organisms can survive below zero temperature and resist the water crystallization process which may cause the rupture in the internal cells and tissues. AFP’s have attracted attention and interest in food industries and cryopreservation. Objective: With the increase in the availability of genomic sequence data of protein, an automated and sophisticated tool for AFP recognition and identification is in dire need. The sequence and structures of AFP are highly distinct, therefore, most of the proposed methods fail to show promising results on different structures. A consolidated method is proposed to produce the competitive performance on highly distinct AFP structure. Methods: In this study, we propose to use machine learning-based algorithms Principal Component Analysis (PCA) followed by Gradient Boosting (GB) for antifreeze protein identification. To analyze the performance and validation of the proposed model, various combinations of two segments composition of amino acid and dipeptide are used. PCA, in particular, is proposed to dimension reduction and high variance retaining of data which is followed by an ensemble method named gradient boosting for modelling and classification. Results: The proposed method obtained the superfluous performance on PDB, Pfam and Uniprot dataset as compared with the RAFP-Pred method. In experiment-3, by utilizing only 150 PCA components a high accuracy of 89.63 was achieved which is superior to the 87.41 utilizing 300 significant features reported for the RAFP-Pred method. Experiment-2 is conducted using two different dataset such that non-AFP from the PISCES server and AFPs from Protein data bank. In this experiment-2, our proposed method attained high sensitivity of 79.16 which is 12.50 better than state-of-the-art the RAFP-pred method. Conclusion: AFPs have a common function with distinct structure. Therefore, the development of a single model for different sequences often fails to AFPs. A robust results have been shown by our proposed model on the diversity of training and testing dataset. The results of the proposed model outperformed compared to the previous AFPs prediction method such as RAFP-Pred. Our model consists of PCA for dimension reduction followed by gradient boosting for classification. Due to simplicity, scalability properties and high performance result our model can be easily extended for analyzing the proteomic and genomic dataset.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Study of Technology and Occupational Health in Healthcare Sector: A Worldwide Trend to the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6732
Author(s):  
Esther Vaquero-Álvarez ◽  
Antonio Cubero-Atienza ◽  
Pilar Ruiz-Martínez ◽  
Manuel Vaquero-Abellán ◽  
María Dolores Redel Mecías ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Hospital Epidemiology ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Information And Communication

Since the eighties, technological tools have modified how people interact in their environment. At the same time, occupational safety and health measures have been widely applied. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers that information and communication technologies are the main methods to achieve the goals proposed to improve working life and the dissemination of good practices. The principal objective was to determine the trends of publications focused on these technologies and occupational safety in the healthcare sector during the last 30 years. A bibliometric study was carried out. The 1021 documents showed an increased trend per country, especially for the United States (p < 0.001) and year (p < 0.001). The citations per year showed significant differences between citations of articles published before 2007 (p < 0.001). The year was also linked to the increase or decrease of articles (72.2%) and reviews (14.9%) (p < 0.001). The analysis of journal co-citations also showed that the main journals (such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology) were linked to other important journals and had a major part in the clusters formed. All these findings were discussed in the manuscript and conclusions were drawn.

Data Ownership and Secure Medical Data Transmission using Optimal Multiple Key-Based Homomorphic Encryption with Hyperledger Blockchain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naresh Sammeta ◽  
Latha Parthiban
Keyword(s):  
Data Transmission ◽  
Homomorphic Encryption ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Transmission Model ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Suggested Model ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Data Ownership

Recent healthcare systems are defined as highly complex and expensive. But it can be decreased with enhanced electronic health records (EHR) management, using blockchain technology. The healthcare sector in today’s world needs to address two major issues, namely data ownership and data security. Therefore, blockchain technology is employed to access and distribute the EHRs. With this motivation, this paper presents novel data ownership and secure medical data transmission model using optimal multiple key-based homomorphic encryption (MHE) with Hyperledger blockchain (OMHE-HBC). The presented OMHE-HBC model enables the patients to access their own data, provide permission to hospital authorities, revoke permission from hospital authorities, and permit emergency contacts. The proposed model involves the MHE technique to securely transmit the data to the cloud and prevent unauthorized access to it. Besides, the optimal key generation process in the MHE technique takes place using a hosted cuckoo optimization (HCO) algorithm. In addition, the proposed model enables sharing of EHRs by the use of multi-channel HBC, which makes use of one blockchain to save patient visits and another one for the medical institutions in recoding links that point to EHRs stored in external systems. A complete set of experiments were carried out in order to validate the performance of the suggested model, and the results were analyzed under many aspects. A comprehensive comparison of results analysis reveals that the suggested model outperforms the other techniques.

scholarly journals The Jungle of Support: What Do We Really Mean When We Say “Residents’ Support”?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7795
Author(s):  
María Ángeles Plaza-Mejía ◽  
Nuria Porras-Bueno ◽  
David Flores-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Tourism Studies

The aim of this research is to provide a conceptual framework to facilitate the standardization of the concept of “residents’ support” in tourism studies. The model is designed to prevent ambiguity and confusion that may arise in the use of the generic term “residents’ support.” Social Exchange Theory and the Theory of Reasoned Action will be incorporated for the purposes of contextualizing the term “residents’ support” with respect to three dimensions: attitudinal, intentional, or behavioral. A longitudinal analysis of the term “residents’ support” will be conducted on the basis of the proposed model. Fifty-four articles published between 2004 and the first quarter of 2020 have been studied to classify the items used to create the construct of “residents’ support” in tourism studies and to draw conclusions about the work of scholars and tourism agents.

scholarly journals Impact of ICT usage on indigenous peoples’ quality of life: Evidence from an Asian developing country

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Mahfuz Ashraf ◽  
Helena Grunfeld ◽  
Ali Quazi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Five Freedoms

Indigenous communities across the world have been suffering disadvantages in several domains, e.g. erosion of land rights, language and other cultural aspects, while at the same time being discriminated against when prepared to integrate into the dominant cultures. It has been argued in the literature that information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential of contributing to addressing some of these disadvantages – both in terms of rebuilding what has been eroded and facilitating integration into non-Indigenous societies. In trying to understand how ICTs can be useful for these processes, it is important to do so from a conceptual framework that encompasses the multi-dimensionality of the issues faced by Indigenous communities. The conceptual frameworks frequently used in the ICT literature tend to focus on adoption, use and diffusion of technologies rather than how the use of ICTs affects the livelihoods of the users, which is the focus of this paper. The conceptual framework is informed by the capability approach (CA), in particular by the five freedoms identified in the seminal work of Amartya Sen (2001), “Development as Freedom” (DaF). Data were collected from a purposive sample in an Indigenous community in Bangladesh, using a qualitative method to map how ICTs had affected the lives of these community members The findings suggest that the participants perceived that ICTs had made positive contributions, particularly the benefits they gained from learning how to use computers in the domains that are relevant from the perspective of the five freedoms espoused in DaF. The findings reported in this paper are useful for policy formulation in Bangladesh. As the study is contextualised in a transitional economy setting and can therefore not be generalised, but we believe that the conceptual framework has much to offer future research designed to understand how ICTs can improve the livelihoods of Indigenous individuals and communities.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Framework for the Association between Relationship Conflicts and Employees’ Intention to Leave

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Ranitha Sachinthana Weerarathna ◽  
Sharmini Perera
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Relationship Conflicts ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Independent Variable

The main objective of this research paper to conceptualize a model to test the association between relationship conflicts and employees&rsquo; intention to leave with the support of past theories and research findings. This research paper contains the definitions for variables related to relationship conflicts and employees&rsquo; intention to leave from the organization and also it explains models which explain the interconnections among two variables. The conceptualization of this research includes a logically developed model that leads to identify the relationships between the independent variable and dependent variable. The proposed model suggested that there is an association between relationship conflicts and employees&rsquo; intention to leave.

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