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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"Healthcare delivery"”.
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Unlocking value in healthcare delivery channels
… on costing methodologies, the impact of home delivery for clinical care and the drug distribution landscape. The literature shows some evidence that home delivery improves patient adherence and reduces inventory costs for suppliers. We then analyzed a targeted product's distribution network …
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Optimizing Healthcare Delivery in Resource-Limited Settings
… through hierarchical networks comprised of healthcare facilities that collect diagnostic samples (e.g. blood, nasal swabs) from patients, and centralized medical laboratories that analyze these samples. The first part of this thesis focuses on diagnostic sample transportation systems, which …
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Cost and resource allocation in healthcare delivery systems
… market, system, and organization levels in the healthcare industry, and develops novel frameworks that allow us to better understand cost and resource allocation for strategic decision making in healthcare settings. The U.S. healthcare industry is going through a massive transformation process …
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Applying the Lean Thinking in Health Economics to Improve the Healthcare Delivery
This research investigates one delivery process called the transactional flow process at the health economics department. This research proposes a process improvement framework using Lean philosophy and associated tools already successfully implemented in both the manufacturing and service sectors. …
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Essays on Healthcare Delivery innovation: The role of Information and Communication Technology
… in how innovative approaches can improve healthcare delivery quality, this dissertation focuses on the crucial role that widely available technologies and improving organizational schemes can have on health outcomes. In the first paper, I analyze the effect of introducing common group chat …
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Caregiver coordination as an enabler to a hospital to home initiative within the context of healthcare delivery
The Hospital to Home architecture aims to provide a successful transition for patients leaving the hospital in order to improve health outcomes and minimize hospital readmission. This thesis analyzes the current hospital to home system, explores its flows and proposes a better architecture to …
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A Distance-Based Clustering Framework for Categorical Time Series: A Case Study in Episodes of Care Healthcare Delivery System
… how compensation structures influence overall healthcare costs is a central issue in health economics. Episodes of Care (EoC) is a compensation structure that bundles payments for healthcare interventions that belong to a well-defined health event. Since the variation of clinical pathways can …
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Context-specific challenges, opportunities, and ethics of drones for healthcare delivery in the eyes of program managers and field staff: a multi-site qualitative study
… as drones have significant potential in the healthcare field. Ethical and practical concerns, challenges, and complexities of using drones for specific and diverse healthcare purposes have been minimally explored to date. This thesis aims to document, and advance awareness of diverse …
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Super-Utilization: The New Perfect Storm of Health Reform
… or the disproportionately high healthcare utilization and costs attributed to a small sub-set of the inpatient population. For purposes of this research, super-utilization was operationalized as high repeat utilization (HRU) and referred to inpatient utilization and inpatient …
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Equitable Community Health Worker Deployment in sub-Saharan Africa: A Modeling Framework for Stochastic Health Progression
… workers (CHWs) are increasingly important to healthcare delivery in many African countries. As CHW programs are being scaled up and integrated into national healthcare delivery systems, an important policy question is how to deploy CHWs to various localities, given their differences in disease …
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Patient information system for national health care : an intranet internet-based model for the State of Kuwait
… a conceptual solution to Kuwait's problems in healthcare delivery. The core objective of the study which is to promote and recommend the basis for the best possible patient information and national healthcare delivery system in the State of Kuwait. The research question is directed towards the …
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IT adoption in hospitals : social networking, governance and the clockspeed of change
The healthcare industry is expanding swiftly and total healthcare expenditures are expected to reach 18% of GDP by 2008. However there exist steep variances in quality of care and high incidences of medical error. This has given impetus to efforts at progressively evolving the healthcare delivery …
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Exploring leadership and research in nurse practitioner roles across Australia and Ireland: A mixed-methods study
… Practitioners have the ability to transform healthcare delivery within their specialist area of practice. Background The voice of Nurse Practitioners is limited in the current literature related to how they view their leadership contribution to Nursing. There has been some criticism in the …
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Occupational Therapy Faculty Perspectives On The Use Of Telehealth As A Delivery Method For Healthcare Services
<p>The use of telehealth for healthcare delivery is on the rise and is expected to increase due to the expansion of technological advances and the shortage of healthcare professionals to serve rural and remote communities. The use of telehealth by occupational therapists (OT) is relatively new, and …
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Meta-learning in Medicine
… be helpful to the improvement of the quality of healthcare delivery. However, there are many challenges, such as sparsity, irregularity and temporality, associated with this clinical data. Therefore, this provides an opportunity for meta-learning methodologies to solve such problems and to have a …
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A systems approach to improving patient safety through medical device purchasing
… can lead to wider consequences in the delivery of care. This study first builds a general knowledge base of current purchasing practice in a sample of NHS Trusts, which confirms the direction and guidance given by policy documents and literature as to the extent of the challenges faced …
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Development and application of diabetes care (Type 2) indicators at primary level in the Cape Town metropole region
… can be prevented by good management, healthcare delivery ought to be of the highest quality possible. Therefore, continuous assessment and improvement of quality of care is important in order to give people with diabetes the care they deserve. This study aimed to develop a …
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The costing of an occupational therapy service at the secondary level of healthcare in the metropole of the Western Cape
… the context of reduced resoursces available for healthcare delivery, costing of services has become an important focus. As occupational therapy services do not fit neatly into the medical model of healthcare, funding of such services is at risk when costs are rationalised. This study aimed to …
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