scholarly journals The Doctor-Manager Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Raju Basnet Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The World ◽  
Hospital Systems ◽  
The Common ◽  
Day By Day

Healthcare service in itself is one of the most crucial, most sensitive services in the world. Advancement in healthcare infrastructures, equipment and manpower are rapid day by day. “Healthcare service providers”, the definition is changing from commonly perceived “doctors” to “doctors plus managers”. The healthcare practice has changed all its way from individual practice to communal, organised hospital systems; resources are pooled in a common place; where patients expect for every kind of treatment once they enter the common roof. However, the hospital only can understand the role the doctor and manager play together for quality healthcare services. The two now cannot be separated despite of several disparities that appear between them.There should always be an effort to bridge the gap between them which appears between them despite serving the common goal. Doctor manager collaboration including collaboration of education system shall bring the real bond between them to understand each other, understand system and pace for their common goal.Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (2017) Vol.05 No.01 Issue 15, page: 49-53

Health Care Services and EU Competition Law

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okeoghene Odudu
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
System Matrix ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Care Services

This chapter investigates how, within a number of European Union (EU) Member States, competition law has been used to address problems of market power in the healthcare services sector. It summarizes the relevant EU and national competition laws and considers the experience of applying those laws to providers of healthcare services. The chapter is chiefly concerned with healthcare services in England, although examples are drawn for other EU Member States. Examination of the English experience provides a view of the use of competition law to address market power problems in most elements of the health system matrix. The chapter then considers three challenges that emerge from that experience of using competition law to address problems of market power in healthcare service markets. The first challenges the applicability of competition law to healthcare service providers operating in each or every element of the healthcare system matrix. The second, accepting applicability, questions the appropriateness of the substantive rules to healthcare services. The third, a battle of authority and autonomy, considers whether decisions made by healthcare service providers should be subject to external review and the type of review that competition law offers.

Customer Value Dimensions in E-Healthcare Services

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Kirsti Lindberg-Repo ◽  
Apramey Dube
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
Narrative Techniques

Healthcare services have been extensively researched for customer value creation activities. There has been, however, limited attention on the dimensions of customer value, as reported by customers themselves, in e-healthcare services. The purpose of this paper is to investigate customer value dimensions in which customers experience e-healthcare services. Narrative techniques were used to investigate customer experiences of e-healthcare services offered by eight private Finnish providers. The findings show that customers evaluate e-healthcare services in four value dimensions: 1) The outcome of e-healthcare service (‘What'), 2) The process of e-healthcare service (‘How'), 3) The responsiveness and temporal aspect of e-healthcare service (‘When'), and, 4) The location of e-healthcare service provision (‘Where'). The value dimensions reflect customer expectations that service providers can fulfill for improved customer value creation. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is one of the first researches to investigate customer value dimensions in e-healthcare services in Finland.

scholarly journals The impact on education of Astronomical Olympiads and the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Greg Stachowski ◽  
Aniket Sule
Keyword(s):  
Common Goal ◽  
School Students ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Valuable Element ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics ◽  
International Events ◽  
Global Reach

Astronomical Olympiads and similar competitions for highschool students have been run in some countries for more than half a century, and last year marked the tenth anniversary of the largest such competition with global reach, the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The effect of these has been to reach out to a large number of school students who might not otherwise have considered astronomy as a subject; help maintain a high, guided standard of astronomy education even in countries where astronomy is not (or no longer) on the curriculum; and to encourage those students who participate to strive harder and pursue astronomy further by giving them goals to aim for, rewarding their efforts with medals, recognition and participation in the international events in interesting locations and, above all, showing them that there are many other students just like them both in their own country and around the world. Many of the students go on to careers in astronomy education or research. We believe that Astronomy Olympiads are a very valuable element in the astronomy education framework which can be used to further the common goal of sustaining and growing the astronomical community.

Medical records preservation strategies in improving healthcare service providers’ access to patients’ medical histories in the Limpopo hospitals, South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 026666692090177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngoako Marutha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Medical Histories

Preservation of medical histories records is very crucial to patients’ healthcare quality since when preservation is not being discharged properly; medical histories records are either inaccessible or difficult to access, which has a detrimental effect on the healthcare services provided to patients. The purpose of the study was to investigate strategies for the preservation of medical records and to recommend a framework that healthcare institutions may use to ensure that they have their patients’ medical records/histories at their fingertips (readily available). Stratified random sampling was used in the study to collect questionnaire data from records management officials and heads of clinical, nursing and records management units at 40 state hospitals in the province of Limpopo in South Africa. The data was augmented with observation, system analysis and document analysis. The study revealed that the preservation of medical records in public healthcare institutions in Limpopo was very chaotic, to the extent that access to patients’ medical histories was not always a possibility. Healthcare institutions need a framework for medical records preservation throughout the process of healthcare service delivery, to avoid chaotic healthcare service that eventually hamper health of the patients. The study provided a generic framework that may be localised as a centre of benchmark for healthcare institutions to suit their own environmental needs.

Healthcare Applications in IoT

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Sanju Islam ◽  
Fozilatoon Humaira ◽  
Dr. Fernaz Narin Nur
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
Basic Concept ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Agriculture Education ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The World ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Retail Security ◽  
Information And Technology

IoT is a blessing in the field of information and technology. It is developing and deploying day by day. It is working for our betterment in the section of home, environment, retail, security, factory, industry, agriculture, education, energy, healthcare and so on. In the healthcare section, it has applications, technologies, benefits and also challenges with the four-step architecture. As the world is aging with its uprising population, there is not enough opportunity for all to get healthcare. I think Health is the most expensive property one can own. So in the absence of sufficient and quality healthcare, IoT can manufacture the best utilization of its capacity to play a vital role in creating a better world for all of us. This paper represents the basic concept of IoT in the healthcare field.

An ANT Analysis of Healthcare Services for the Nomadic Patients of Namibia

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu ◽  
Suama Hamunyela
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Nomadic People ◽  
Geographical Locations

Patients seek attention and treatments to various types of diseases and symptoms. Diseases infection and symptoms are often not predictive. Normally, there is a spread and movement of people across the geographical locations, of both the rural and urban communities, in countries including Namibia. As such, healthcare could be needed at any location, and at any time. There is significant mobility of individuals and groups within a country. Unfortunately, the healthcare services are not always as mobile at the level and speed that individuals and groups does in Namibia. Hence, there is need for the mobility of healthcare services at both primary and secondary healthcare levels, particularly in the developing countries, such as Namibia. The population of Namibia is scantly spread among its towns and cities. The major towns and cities are situated, in the average of 175km far apart from each other, in the country's 825, 418km square landscape. The spread necessitates movements of individuals and groups, particularly the old, poor, and nomadic people. Unfortunately, healthcare records in the country are not centralised and virtualised, making accessibility into patients' records difficult or impossible, from any location. As a result, healthcare service delivering is challenged. This study therefore explored and examined the possibility of mobility of healthcare services to those who live in the country. The study employed the qualitative research method, within which data was gathered from primary healthcare service providers, using open-ended questionnaires. The Moments of Translation from the perspective of actor-network theory (ANT) was used as a lens in the analysis of the data, to examine and understand the power and factors, which influences mobility of healthcare service in Namibia. Categorisation of Patients, Response Time, Understanding the Actors, Actors' participatory to service delivery, and Actors' Alliance were found to be the influencing factors in the provision of mobility of healthcare services.

E-Healthcare Disparities Across Cultures

2017 ◽  
pp. 1365-1381
Author(s):  
Seema Biswas ◽  
Keren Mazuz ◽  
Rui Amaral Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Improve Access ◽  
Actual Health

As e-healthcare becomes a reality for healthcare service provision across the world, challenges in acceptance, implementation, usage and effectiveness have begun to emerge. The infrastructure, readiness and literacy levels required for the effective delivery of e-healthcare services may be prohibitive in providing access to those most in need. As research brings to light the real effectiveness of e-healthcare programmes across the globe, this paper explores how e-healthcare has been implemented worldwide and how populations have been served by an innovation in Information Technology and healthcare that has sought to bring health services to remote areas, improve access to healthcare and narrow the divide between healthcare providers and patients. While notable achievements have seen real time clinical data captured and medical records digitalised, the very determinants responsible for actual health and social disparities are equally responsible for disparities is access to e-healthcare.

An ANT Analysis of Healthcare Services for the Nomadic Patients of Namibia

2017 ◽  
pp. 775-790
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu ◽  
Suama Hamunyela
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Nomadic People ◽  
Geographical Locations

Patients seek attention and treatments to various types of diseases and symptoms. Diseases infection and symptoms are often not predictive. Normally, there is a spread and movement of people across the geographical locations, of both the rural and urban communities, in countries including Namibia. As such, healthcare could be needed at any location, and at any time. There is significant mobility of individuals and groups within a country. Unfortunately, the healthcare services are not always as mobile at the level and speed that individuals and groups does in Namibia. Hence, there is need for the mobility of healthcare services at both primary and secondary healthcare levels, particularly in the developing countries, such as Namibia. The population of Namibia is scantly spread among its towns and cities. The major towns and cities are situated, in the average of 175km far apart from each other, in the country's 825, 418km square landscape. The spread necessitates movements of individuals and groups, particularly the old, poor, and nomadic people. Unfortunately, healthcare records in the country are not centralised and virtualised, making accessibility into patients' records difficult or impossible, from any location. As a result, healthcare service delivering is challenged. This study therefore explored and examined the possibility of mobility of healthcare services to those who live in the country. The study employed the qualitative research method, within which data was gathered from primary healthcare service providers, using open-ended questionnaires. The Moments of Translation from the perspective of actor-network theory (ANT) was used as a lens in the analysis of the data, to examine and understand the power and factors, which influences mobility of healthcare service in Namibia. Categorisation of Patients, Response Time, Understanding the Actors, Actors' participatory to service delivery, and Actors' Alliance were found to be the influencing factors in the provision of mobility of healthcare services.

scholarly journals Design of Elderly Behaviour Analytics Model in the Healthcare Industry in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Paul K.Y. Siu ◽  
K.L. Choy ◽  
H.Y. Lam
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
The Government

Due to the advancement of living standard and medical technologies, the life expectancy of people is further extended which brings tremendous impact to the society in the near future. The ageing population not only increases the pressure to public healthcare services, but also brings urgent needs in long term healthcare resources allocation planning in the society. This paper presents an Elderly Behaviour Analytics Model (EBAM) to identify the hospital healthcare service preferences of elderly for the future planning of healthcare industry. By conducting an elderly-targeted survey, the collected data is analysed to understand the factors affecting the decision of elderly to acquire healthcare services in hospitals. The model applies the genetic algorithm-guided clustering-based association rule mining approach for the segmentation of hospital service preferences of the elderly, and, the identification of relationship between personal characteristics within each cluster. This research study contributes to the understanding the actual healthcare needs of elderly which allows the government and healthcare service providers to adjust or modify the elderly policies and service content.

Developing effective working relationships with external healthcare services

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Adrian Ashurst
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Working Relationships

Now, more than ever, establishing a good partnership between a home and healthcare service providers is incredibly important. Adrian Ashurst discusses relationship-building strategies and what to do should a health professional need to visit residents during the pandemic

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