scholarly journals The Impact of Stakeholders on Health Services Development: An Empirical Investigation on the Surgical Department at King Fahd General Hospital, Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Ala’Eddin Mohammad Khalaf Ahmad

The current research investigates the stakeholders influencing health services development at King Fahd General Hospital KFGH in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. This study proposes and tests a six factors model that influences health services development. These factors include government regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers as independent variables; the dependent variable is health services development. In order to explore this issue, a quantitative method was used to collect primary data through a questionnaire, which was administered in KFGH in Jeddah city in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researches targeted 141 surgeons in this research as a sample because of the small population. A purposive sample was used to choose the participants in this research. The research retrieves 130 valid questionnaires; representing 92%.The results confirm significant differences in the influence of these factors on health service development. The research concludes that there is a significant influence of governmental regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers on health services development. The research recommends enhancing the awareness of stakeholder factors by studying the effects of governmental regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers. The last is adopting and updating medical and non-medical technology to maintain health service development.

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ban

Ninety-two mainland Torres Strait Islanders, across five communities on mainland Australia, were consulted in relation to their access to health service providers. Similar numbers were interviewed in different-sized locations encompassing urban, rural, and remote areas. This exploratory study was the first to consider the health access issues of mainland Torres Strait Islanders. Overall, community controlled health services were the most commonly used exclusive health service providers, followed by private medical services and hospital outpatient services. The two most common reasons for the choice of health service provider in each community were convenience of access and the quality of relationship and trust with the medical staff. In general, the Torres Strait Islanders interviewed stated they are not comfortable seeking medical treatment, and delay accessing any health services. There was a high level of satisfaction in all communities with private medical services. Concerns were raised regarding long waiting periods at community controlled health services and hospital outpatient services, along with lack of confidentiality at community controlled health services. People wanted to see Torres Strait Islander staff at community controlled health services and hospital outpatient services to help facilitate greater access.


Author(s):  
Kristin Masuch ◽  
Maike Greve ◽  
Simon Trang

AbstractInnovative IT-enabled health services promise tremendous benefits for customers and service providers alike. Simultaneously, health services by nature process sensitive customer information, and data breaches have become an everyday phenomenon. The challenge that health service providers face is to find effective recovery strategies after data breaches to retain customer trust and loyalty. We theorize and investigate how two widely applied recovery actions (namely apology and compensation) affect customer reactions after a data breach in the specific context of fitness trackers. Drawing on expectation confirmation theory, we argue that the recovery actions derived from practice, apology, and compensation address the assimilation-contrast model’s tolerance range and, thus, always lead to satisfaction with the recovery strategy, which positively influences customers’ behavior. We employ an experimental investigation and collect data from fitness tracker users during a running event. In the end, we found substantial support for our research model. Health service providers should determine specific customer expectations and align their data breach recovery strategies accordingly.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinda Avinda ◽  
Rudy Handoko

E-Health Effectiveness in General Hospital Region Dr. M. Soewandhie Surabaya. Public Service is the main obligation of the government to organize activities in order to meet the needs of the community. City officials do a service innovations as efforts to improve public services in the health sector by applying the principles of e-Government and one of these innovations is a service of E-Health. E-Health is an application that allows people to shorten queues at the clinic or hospital. The purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of E-Health at the Regional General Hospital Dr. M. Soewandhie Surabaya. The focus of the study was based on Gibson's five effectiveness measurement indicators, namely Production, Efficiency, Satisfaction, Adaptability and Survival. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The results of this study indicate that the service E-Health at the Regional General Hospital Dr. M. Soewandhie Surabaya is quite. It can be seen from Satisfaction Indicator, Adaptability and Survival. In satisfaction indicators, showed as many as 6 out of 10 patients stated that E-Healthservices already meet expectations. In adaptation indicators, show that E-Health services make it easier for the performance of the employees, especially employees of the registration window. On the Survival indicator, it shows that Dr. M. Soewandhie Surabaya as E-Health service providers already have plans to develop e-Health services in order to meet the needs of the community. Keywords: Public Service, Effectiveness, E-Health


2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Syamsuddin Maldun ◽  
Saenab Saenab ◽  
Hasriani Hasriani ◽  
Imran Ismail

Quality health services are a hope for every Indonesian people, because this is closely related to one aspect of fulfilling basic life needs for humans, therefore it requires commitment from these health service providers, especially hospitals in supporting the implementation of government programs through the Healthy Indonesia Card. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the implementation of services based on the Healthy Indonesia Card program at the Sayang Rakyat Regional General Hospital in Makassar City using qualitative research methods. The results showed that the implementation of the Healthy Indonesia Card program at the Sayang Rakyat Regional General Hospital in Makassar in general was in accordance with the South Sulawesi Provincial Regulation regarding health providers and regarding cooperation in providing free health services, and presidential regulation (Perpres) Number 64 of 2020 concerning National health insurance. This is reflected in the implementation of services provided by the Sayang Rakyat Hospital to patients using the Healthy Indonesia Card (KIS) (PBI) which do not differentiate from general patients or other insurance users, provided that the patient has met the terms and conditions as a KIS patient (PBI). All medical expenses for KIS patients (PBI) who undergo outpatient or inpatient treatment are entirely borne by the government.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Beth Wilson

This article presents data from two sources. The first set of data comes from complaints received by the Health Services Commissioner (Health Ombudsman) in Victoria from Consumers of Health Services about health service providers. The second set of data has been provided by 92 public hospitals using the health complaints information program. The Health Complaints Resolution Process is described and the data are presented in the hope that they may assist in formulating policies for women's health.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahidah AlEnzi ◽  
Sara Alhamal ◽  
Maryam Alramadhan ◽  
Ahmed Altaroti ◽  
Intisar Siddiqui ◽  
...  

Background: In the face of the contemporary COVID-19 pandemic, health service providers have emerged as the most at-risk individuals who are likely to contract the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).Aim: To measure the prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) during COVID outbreak among health workers in Saudi Arabia using FiRST and LFESSQ tool.Methods: The study employed a cross-sectional methodology to explore the prevalence of Fibromyalgia among health workers at different health care settings in Saudi Arabia. The assessment of the prevalence of fibromyalgia among health worker was determined by using the Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool (FiRST) and London Fibromyalgia Epidemiological Study Screening Questionnaire (LFESSQ) questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data.Results: The sample size included 992 participants. The prevalence of fibromyalgia using FiRST and LFESSQ was 12.6 and 19.8%, respectively. In this study, the prevalence of fibromyalgia was higher in females when compared to males. Most of the respondents have Vitamin D deficiency. The relationship of fibromyalgia was significantly associated with the participants who worked during an outbreak, who covered COVID-19 inpatient, covered in-hospital on call and in area quarantine.Conclusion: The study's findings demonstrate that the prevalence of Fibromyalgia among health service providers during the current COVID-19 pandemic is considerably higher and that there are potential interventions that may be employed to mitigate the prevalence of the infection during the COVID-19 crisis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dramani Kipo-Sunyehzi

<p>Principal-agent relationship exists between health service providers and their authority and clients. It asserts that health service providers as ‘imperfect agents’ of the authority and clients will take actions that aim to maximise profits at the expense of authority and clients (principal). The situation is possible when reimbursement is based on fee-for-service or a diagnosis-related groups. It looks at relationships between health service providers as agents and health insurance authority, and clients as principals in areas of provision of health services, supply of drugs, medicines and reimbursement. Results showed the private health service providers prescribed more drugs and medicines for clients towards profit maximisation (agency) than their public counterparts. Also, it was found that the public health service providers continued to provide health services and drugs despite health insurance authority indebtedness to them exhibiting more stewardship towards health insurance authority. It recommends strict regulations in tariffs/vetting claims and prompt reimbursement.</p>


Author(s):  
Blessing M. Maumbe ◽  
Meke I. Shivute ◽  
Vesper T. Owei

The article examines ICT use in health service provision in Namibia. The patterns of ICT use for health services by patients, public and private health service providers are not yet fully understood. This study describes ICT applications in health service delivery to patients in the Khomas and Oshana regions of Namibia. The study interviewed 134 patients and 21 health service providers. Factor analysis on ICT use identified three main factor groupings namely, ‘high technology’, ’mobile technology’ and ‘traditional technology’. Multinomial regression results showed the major factors affecting multiple ICT awareness in the two regions as functional literacy, diverse sources of health information services, age and educational level of the patients. Logistic regression results on individual ICT use identified functional literacy, personal privacy, cost of ICT, age, education, and positive perceptions about ICT applications in improving health services as statistically significant factors influencing adoption by both rural and urban patients in Namibia.


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