M-Health

Author(s):

Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽

Steve Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Medical Science ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Mobile Commerce ◽

Study Data ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Solution Strategies ◽

World Class ◽

Feasible Solutions

Medical science has made revolutionary changes in the past decades. Contemporaneously, however, healthcare has made incremental changes at best. The growing discrepancy between the revolutionary changes in medicine and the minimal changes in healthcare processes is leading to inefficient and ineffective healthcare delivery and one if not the significant contributor to the exponentially increasing costs plaguing healthcare globally. Healthcare organizations can respond to these challenges by focusing on three key solution strategies, namely, (1) access – caring for anyone, anytime, anywhere; (2) quality – offering world-class care and establishing integrated information repositories; and (3) value – providing effective and efficient healthcare delivery. These three components are interconnected such that they continually impact the other and all are necessary to meet the key challenges facing healthcare organizations today. The application of mobile commerce to healthcare, namely, m-health, appears to offer a way for healthcare delivery to revolutionize itself. This chapter serves to outline an example of adopting mobile commerce within the healthcare industry, namely, in the area of a wireless medical record. In particular, itdiscusses an appropriate, feasible mobile solution to enable hospitals operate effectively and efficiently in today’s competitive and costly healthcare environment as well as meet all the necessary regulatory requirements. The lessons learnt from these case study data should be of interest to both practitioners and researchers since they will outline realistic and feasible solutions to enable hospitals to incorporate a wireless/m-commerce solution as well as highlighting key areas for further research in this important area of high-quality, effective, and efficient healthcare management.

M-Health

Medical Informatics ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch136 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1773-1787 ◽

Author(s):

Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽

Steve Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Medical Science ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Mobile Commerce ◽

Study Data ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Solution Strategies ◽

Healthcare Processes ◽

Feasible Solutions

Medical science has made revolutionary changes in the past decades. Contemporaneously, however, healthcare has made incremental changes at best. The growing discrepancy between the revolutionary changes in medicine and the minimal changes in healthcare processes is leading to inefficient and ineffective healthcare delivery and one if not the significant contributor to the exponentially increasing costs plaguing healthcare globally. Healthcare organizations can respond to these challenges by focusing on three key solution strategies, namely, (1) access – caring for anyone, anytime, anywhere; (2) quality – offering worldclass care and establishing integrated information repositories; and (3) value – providing effective and efficient healthcare delivery. These three components are interconnected such that they continually impact the other and all are necessary to meet the key challenges facing healthcare organizations today. The application of mobile commerce to healthcare, namely, m-health, appears to offer a way for healthcare delivery to revolutionize itself. This chapter serves to outline an example of adopting mobile commerce within the healthcare industry, namely, in the area of a wireless medical record. In particular, it discusses an appropriate, feasible mobile solution to enable hospitals operate effectively and efficiently in today’s competitive and costly healthcare environment as well as meet all the necessary regulatory requirements. The lessons learnt from these case study data should be of interest to both practitioners and researchers since they will outline realistic and feasible solutions to enable hospitals to incorporate a wireless/m-commerce solution as well as highlighting key areas for further research in this important area of high-quality, effective, and efficient healthcare management.

A Framework for Delivering m-Health Excellence

Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-658-7.ch002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 36-61 ◽

Author(s):

Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽

Steve Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Medical Science ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

The Other ◽

Solution Strategies ◽

Significant Contributor ◽

The Past ◽

C Value ◽

World Class ◽

Healthcare Processes

Critical Success Factors for Delivering M-health Excellence

Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch045 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 339-351

Author(s):

Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽

Steve Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Success Factors ◽

Medical Science ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Integrative Framework ◽

Solution Strategies ◽

Critical Success ◽

World Class ◽

Health Application ◽

Case Data

Medical science has made revolutionary changes in the past decades. Contemporaneously however, healthcare has made incremental changes at best. The growing discrepancy between the revolutionary changes in medicine and the minimal changes in healthcare processes is leading to inefficient and ineffective healthcare deliver and one if not the significant contributor to the exponentially increasing costs plaguing healthcare globally. Healthcare organizations can respond to these challenges by focusing on three key solution strategies (or the value propostion); namely, 1. access - caring for anyone, anytime, anywhere; 2. quality – offering world class care and establishing integrated information repositories; and 3. value – providing effective and efficient healthcare delivery. These three components are interconnected such that they continually impact on the other and all are necessary to meet the key challenges facing healthcare organizations today. The application of mobile commerce to healthcare; namely, m-health appears to offer a way for healthcare delivery to revolutionize itself. However, little if anything has been written regarding how to achieve excellence in m-health. This chapter serves to address this major void by presenting an integrative framework for achieving m-health, developed through the analysis of longitudinal applied research conducted by INET in conjunction with academe. After presenting this framework and discussing its key inputs we then illustrate how the mapping of case data to the model enable the attainment of a successful m-health application to ensue and the benefits of adopting such a methodology.

Issues in Clinical Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch158 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1894-1902

Author(s):

Rajeev K. Bali ◽

Ashish Dwivedi ◽

Raouf Naguib

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Management Concepts ◽

Key Issues ◽

Effective Decision ◽

Effective Decision Making

The objective of this chapter is to examine some of the key issues surrounding the incorporation of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm in healthcare. We discuss whether it would it be beneficial for healthcare organizations to adopt the KM paradigm so as to facilitate effective decision-making in the context of healthcare delivery. Alternative healthcare management concepts with respect to their ability in providing a solution to the above-mentioned issue are reviewed. This chapter concludes that the KM paradigm can transform the healthcare sector.

Issues in Clinical Knowledge Management

Clinical Knowledge Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-300-5.ch001 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Author(s):

Rajeev K. Bali ◽

Ashish Dwivedi ◽

Raouf Raouf

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Management Concepts ◽

Key Issues ◽

Effective Decision ◽

Effective Decision Making

Issues in Clinical Knowledge Management

Medical Informatics ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch020 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 232-239

Author(s):

Rajeev K. Bali ◽

Ashish Dwivedi ◽

Raouf Naguib

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Management Concepts ◽

Key Issues ◽

Effective Decision ◽

Effective Decision Making

The objective of this chapter is to examine some of the key issues surrounding the incorporation of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm in healthcare. We discuss whether it would it be beneficial for healthcare organizations to adopt the KM paradigm so as to facilitate effective decision- making in the context of healthcare delivery. Alternative healthcare management concepts with respect to their ability in providing a solution to the above-mentioned issue are reviewed. This chapter concludes that the KM paradigm can transform the healthcare sector.

Protecting Patient Information in Outsourced Telehealth Services

Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-000-5.ch005 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 61-76

Author(s):

Patricia Y. Logan ◽

Debra Noles

Keyword(s):

Patient Information ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Regional Hospital ◽

Case System ◽

Security Practices ◽

Hipaa Compliance ◽

The Cost

Hospitals have increasingly employed outsourcing to lower the cost of healthcare delivery and improve efficiency and quality, thereby, enabling more focus on core competencies of patient care, teaching, and research. Outsourcing presents a challenge for protecting patient information when new services are implemented or integrated into an existing healthcare information system. Enabling new outsourced telehealth services often requires “bolting on” security to legacy systems rather than “baking” it into the system. This chapter addresses security practices necessary for healthcare organizations implementing new telehealth services as part of an outsourced relationship. While a number of recommendations are available for security readiness assessments pursuant to HIPAA compliance, none directly addresses the challenge of implementing security for outsourced clinical services. A case study is presented for a recent implementation of teleradiology services within a large regional hospital. Using the case, system vulnerabilities are demonstrated and relevant best practices to mitigate exposing patient information are discussed.

Protecting Patient Information in Outsourced Telehealth Services

IT Outsourcing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-770-6.ch129 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 2029-2044

Author(s):

Patricia Y. Logan ◽

Debra Noles

Keyword(s):

Patient Information ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Regional Hospital ◽

Case System ◽

Security Practices ◽

Hipaa Compliance ◽

The Cost

Hospitals have increasingly employed outsourcing to lower the cost of healthcare delivery and improve efficiency and quality, thereby, enabling more focus on core competencies of patient care, teaching, and research. Outsourcing presents a challenge for protecting patient information when new services are implemented or integrated into an existing healthcare information system. Enabling new outsourced telehealth services often requires “bolting on” security to legacy systems rather than “baking” it into the system. This article addresses security practices necessary for healthcare organizations implementing new telehealth services as part of an outsourced relationship. While a number of recommendations are available for security readiness assessments pursuant to HIPAA compliance, none directly addresses the challenge of implementing security for outsourced clinical services. A case study is presented for a recent implementation of teleradiology services within a large regional hospital. Using the case, system vulnerabilities are demonstrated and relevant best practices to mitigate exposing patient information are discussed.

Restructuring the Healthcare Management Paradigm: Toward Organic Management

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1016/s0840-4704(10)60031-2 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 6-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Rathwell ◽

D. David Persaud

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Production Engineering ◽

Delivery Of Healthcare ◽

Organic Management

In the first part of this two part series, we demonstrated that the adoption of production engineering techniques and market-based approaches to the delivery of healthcare have not fulfilled their initial promise. Furthermore, this has placed managers under duress, because they are charged with implementing these mechanisms. In this second article, we propose a new philosophy for managing healthcare organizations that is closer to the roots of healthcare delivery in Canada.

Removing Self-stigma: The Successes of People with Schizophrenia in Removing Self-stigma Through Self-control

ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal ◽

10.24123/aipj.v33i3.1691 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Franciscus Adi Prasetyo ◽

Jajang Gunawijaya

Keyword(s):

Sampling Technique ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Study Data ◽

Self Control ◽

Study Quality ◽

Data Display ◽

Case Study Approach ◽

Study Approach ◽

Depth Interviews

Self-stigma experienced by people who experience schizophrenia has influence on reduced self-esteem, on powerlessness, the weakening of hope, and a motivation towards recovery. The aim of this study is to explain the efforts of people suffering schizophrenia to manage their self-stigma through self-control, using a case study approach. Based on the purposive sampling technique, five people with schizophrenia were selected as the cases to be studied. Data collection techniques utilized in-depth interviews, observation, and documentary studies. The analysis of the study data employed the stages of data reduction, data display, and data verification. Improvement in study quality employed the triangulation of data sources by checking the data to determine its consistency. The results of this study indicate that people with schizophrenia who have the ability to self-control can overcome self-stigma through changes in the manner of viewing themselves, self-training through activities, having endurance, having an honest approach, being able to explain schizophrenia from a positive viewpoint, having initiative, and having a positive attitude and the courage to face challenges.