Monitoring Time Consumption in Complementary Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedure Requests

2016 ◽  
pp. 208-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alpuim ◽  
Marisa Esteves ◽  
Sónia Pereira ◽  
Manuel Filipe Santos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
Quality Health

Over the years, information technologies and computer applications have been widespread amongst all fields, including healthcare. The main goal of these organizations is focused on providing quality health services to their patients, ensuring the provision of quality services. Therefore, decisions have to be made quickly and effectively. Thus, the increased use of information technologies in healthcare has been helping the decision-making process, improving the quality of their services. For an example, the insertion of Business Intelligence (BI) tools in healthcare environments has been recently used to improve healthcare delivery. It is based on the analysis of data in order to provide useful information. BI tools assist managers and health professionals through decision-making, since they allow the manipulation and analysis of data in order to extract knowledge. This work aims to study and analyze the time that physicians take to prescribe medical exams in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), though BI tools. The main concern is to identify the physicians who take more time than average to prescribe complementary means of diagnosis and treatment, making it possible to identify and understand the reason why it occurs. To discover these outliners, a BI platform was developed using the Pentaho Community. This platform presents means to represent information through tables and graphs that facilitate the analysis of information and the knowledge extraction. This information will be useful to represent knowledge concerning not only the prescription system (auditing it) but also its users. The platform evaluates the time prescription, by specialty and physician, which can afterwards be applied in the decision-making process. This platform enables the identification of measures to unravel the time differences that some physicians exhibit, in order to, subsequently, improve the whole process of electronic medical prescription.

Monitoring Time Consumption in Complementary Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedure Requests

2017 ◽  
pp. 1553-1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alpuim ◽  
Marisa Esteves ◽  
Sónia Pereira ◽  
Manuel Filipe Santos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
Quality Health

Over the years, information technologies and computer applications have been widespread amongst all fields, including healthcare. The main goal of these organizations is focused on providing quality health services to their patients, ensuring the provision of quality services. Therefore, decisions have to be made quickly and effectively. Thus, the increased use of information technologies in healthcare has been helping the decision-making process, improving the quality of their services. For an example, the insertion of Business Intelligence (BI) tools in healthcare environments has been recently used to improve healthcare delivery. It is based on the analysis of data in order to provide useful information. BI tools assist managers and health professionals through decision-making, since they allow the manipulation and analysis of data in order to extract knowledge. This work aims to study and analyze the time that physicians take to prescribe medical exams in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), though BI tools. The main concern is to identify the physicians who take more time than average to prescribe complementary means of diagnosis and treatment, making it possible to identify and understand the reason why it occurs. To discover these outliners, a BI platform was developed using the Pentaho Community. This platform presents means to represent information through tables and graphs that facilitate the analysis of information and the knowledge extraction. This information will be useful to represent knowledge concerning not only the prescription system (auditing it) but also its users. The platform evaluates the time prescription, by specialty and physician, which can afterwards be applied in the decision-making process. This platform enables the identification of measures to unravel the time differences that some physicians exhibit, in order to, subsequently, improve the whole process of electronic medical prescription.

scholarly journals Business Intelligence Systems in the Holistic Infrastructure Development Supporting Decision Making in Organisations

10.28945/3011 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Olszak ◽  
Ewa Ziemba
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Business Intelligence Systems

The paper aims at analysing Business Intelligence Systems (BI) in the context of opportunities for improving decision-making in a contemporary organisation. The authors - taking specifics of a decision-making process together with heterogeneity and dispersion of information sources into consideration - present Business Intelligence Systems as some holistic infrastructure of decisionmaking. It has been shown that the BI concept may contribute towards improving quality of decision-making in any organisation, better customer service and some increase in customers’ loyalty. The paper is focused on three fundamental components of the BI systems, i.e. key information technologies (including ETL tools and data warehouses), potential of key information technologies (OLAP techniques and data mining) and BI applications that support making different decisions in an organisation. A major part of the paper is devoted to discussing basic business analyses that are not only offered by the BI systems but also applied frequently in business practice.

scholarly journals Use of Linked Data principles for semantic management of scanned documents

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciane Lena Pessanha Monteiro ◽  
Mark Douglas de Azevedo Jacyntho
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Scanned Documents ◽  
The Web

The study addresses the use of the Semantic Web and Linked Data principles proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium for the development of Web application for semantic management of scanned documents. The main goal is to record scanned documents describing them in a way the machine is able to understand and process them, filtering content and assisting us in searching for such documents when a decision-making process is in course. To this end, machine-understandable metadata, created through the use of reference Linked Data ontologies, are associated to documents, creating a knowledge base. To further enrich the process, (semi)automatic mashup of these metadata with data from the new Web of Linked Data is carried out, considerably increasing the scope of the knowledge base and enabling to extract new data related to the content of stored documents from the Web and combine them, without the user making any effort or perceiving the complexity of the whole process.

scholarly journals Questioning Facilities Management in Higher Education in Egyptian Context for Better Decision-Making Process of Funding Allocation

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Mona Mohamed Abd Elghany ◽  
Reem Aly Elharakany
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Strategic Relationships

The quality of education is influenced by the managerialization of the universities, which refers to the introduction of substantial changes in the decision-making processes of the academic institutions, and the application of renewed information systems along with new managerial methodologies to restructure the organisational strategic relationships with stakeholders. This paper proposes a questionnaire to assess the importance of facilities in universities according to their financial budget consumed value. Semi Structured Interviews were conducted with the heads of logistic and financial departments in Egyptian universities, twenty public universities and twenty-three private universities, in order to identify criteria for the most significant university's facilities and appealing infrastructure that contributes to the quality of education.

scholarly journals The Quality of the Decision-Making Process in Road Transport

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Robert Sałek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Transport Process ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Preparatory Stage

Abstract The issue of quality is a very important aspect of the operation of transport companies. In relation to the area of their activity it primarily focuses on the quality of services provided, which can be verified e.g. on the basis of timeliness of deliveries or accepted complaints. This allows for examining the quality after providing the service in order to take future pro-quality actions. However, is it possible to affect the quality of services provided before their provision? The transport process itself is preceded with a range of actions taken within the framework of detailed planning and organization, which can significantly influence the quality of services. The decisions made at the management level are conditioned by many factors determining the course of future events, however, this is not always enough to make the process run uninterruptedly. Therefore, it is important to structure basic actions at the initial stage so as to allow the smooth conduct of the decision-making process for the specific task in order to subsequently focus on the detailed analysis of the actions planned. In the paper, the author attempts to characterize the fundamental factors affecting the decisions taken during the planning and organization of the transport process. The objective of the conducted research is to verify initial decisions and their significance for the improvement in the quality of transport services provided. There was conducted the algorithmization of actions and interpretation of their importance for the quality of decisions taken at the preparatory stage and during transport.

scholarly journals Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Penyeleksian Colour Guard Pada Marching Band Ginada Dengan Menggunakan Metode Vikor Dan Borda

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Nurjannah ◽  
Dito Putro Utomo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Marching Band

Decision support system for selecting color guard with VIKOR and Borda methods. It has been made as a tool to select color guard at the Sei Rampah High School. The criteria used in the decision support system for color guard selection are: height, weight, agility, stamina, and body language. Color guard selection activities are a routine activity every year, so GINADA marching band coach Sei Rampah hereby selects to select permanent members in the marching band. Decision Support System in an organization can be seen as important in supporting the smooth running of activities and achieving an organizational goal. SPK can come in various forms, ranging from simple forms of data processing to complex application forms, and can also be used to accelerate and improve the quality of the decision-making process in the organization.

scholarly journals Investment analysis of plum brandy production – methodology approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Lari Hadelan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Investment Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Investment Appraisal ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
Plum Brandy

The major prerequisite of successful entrepreneurship venture is quality of decision-making process. Decision in investment is the most important financial decision. It is a part of both long-term business planning process and strategic business definition. Using available investment appraisal methods, entrepreneur should make positive or negative investment decision. Within the development of the economic theory and the practice many of methods made decision-making process rational and gave the scientific and practical base for successful project evaluation.

Model to Estimate the Human Factor Quality in FLOSS Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Zulaima Chiquin ◽  
Kenyer Domínguez ◽  
Luis E. Mendoza ◽  
Edumilis Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Systemic Quality

This chapter presents a Model to Estimate the Human Factor Quality in Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Development, or EHFQ-FLOSS. The model consists of three dimensions: Levels (individual, community, and foundation), Aspects (internal or contextual), and Forms of Evaluation (self-evaluation, co-evaluation, and hetero-evaluation). Furthermore, this model provides 145 metrics applicable to all three levels, as well as an algorithm that guides their proper application to estimate the systemic quality of human resources involved in the development of FLOSS, guide the decision-making process, and take possible corrective actions.

Managerial Decision-Making Process in the Modern Business Conditions in the EU

2020 ◽  
pp. 324-348
Author(s):  
Boban Melovic ◽  
Slavica Mitrovic Veljkovic ◽  
Dragana Cirovic ◽  
Ivana Djakovic Radojicic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
The Eu

This chapter analyzes the differences of decision-making process in the EU member countries, caused by differences in main dimensions of national culture of each of them. The influence of different cultural dimensions on decision-making process is explained. Thanks to the application of qualitative research method and deductive approach, there are conclusions about specificities of decision-making process, in particular EU countries. Using the inductive approach, content analysis method and method of synthesis, the EU countries were grouped regarding to the decision-making styles that are the most appropriate in each of them, based on the characteristics of the cultural framework that exist within them. Obtained results may help managers to better understand their decision-maker role in different cultural environment and it would enable them to apply the appropriate decision-making style, which would increase the quality of business decisions that are being made.

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