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Six Sigma
Healthcare And Six Sigma Author William LaFollette currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Six Sigma can reduce defects in services to unprecedented levels because of its strong emphasis on statistical analysis and measurement in design, manufacturing, and the...
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Videoconferencing
New Technologies Hold Promise to Revolutionise e-Health Author Tosh Sheshabalaya HITM The convergence of voice and images has long been a Holy Grail of the IT and telecoms industry. So far, a swathe of initiatives have led to a hotchpotch of mixed results. True-blue, real-time videoconferencing, to many critics, remained...
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Managing Change in Healthcare
The Senior Leader's Nondeleable Role Author Chip Caldwell is president of Chip Caldwell & Associates, and is the Northern Florida Regent of the American College of Healthcare Executives. As a consultant and coach to senior leader teams, Black Belts, and physician leaders who are learning...
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Healthcare in Switzerland
The healthcare system in Switzerland is a complex combination of public care, subsidised private and wholly privatised healthcare. The share of public spending, however, is one of Europe’s lowest – reflecting the fact that Swiss law earmarks the State’s role as a healthcare guarantor only when the private sector “fails to produce satisfactory results”....
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Healthcare and IT policy in Switzerland
Known for its intensely confederal system of politics and decision-making, Switzerland has nevertheless recently began to coordinate its e-Health initiatives on a national level. Alongside, it is also opening up to new European and international e-Health standards. To obtain an overview of policymaker’s perspectives on healthcare and IT in Switzerland, HITM’s...
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IT and Swiss Healthcare
E-Health is rapidly emerging at centre-stage in Switzerland’s healthcare IT agenda. Last June, the Federal Council approved a National e-Health Strategy for the years 2007 to 2015. The strategy is based on a proposal from the Federal Office of Public Health, and follows extensive consultations with a range of concerned parties. One...
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Tribulations of Working With a Clinical Information System
It is Interoperable … Author Gurpreet Dhillon is Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, US. One Friday evening, my son insisted on riding his bicycle. I tried convincing him that that road was slippery, that he had to have his supper and that I was tired, but to no avail....
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CIS: A Longstanding Debate
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya HITM The debate about the role and reliability of clinical information systems (CIS) goes back several years. As far back as 1994, a British Medical Journal editorial entitled ‘Are clinical information systems safe ?’ portrayed a series of high-profile failures (which entailed...
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TELMES
Author SFloorriinn SPeursbcaoncei,scu, BFloagviduasn B Daijoannisie, Telemedicine is part of the expanding use of information and communications technology in health care for prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term care, emergency medicine, and other applications. In Romania, the diversification...
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Healthcare in Austria
The roots of the Welfare State in Austria date back to the Middle Ages, in the shape of the Ausgedinge, a flat-rate income paid to free farmers in rural areas after they retired and transferred their holdings. Miners too had their own health insurance and pension scheme. Indeed, some believe that Austria’s mining law cooperatives are the world’s oldest...
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