Quintegra’s HMIS is a revolutionary solution with end-to-end features for simplifying hospital management –all at a cost which provides the fastest ROI Access to the right information and the automation of complex tasks & workflow is the key focus of the HMIS, enabling freeing the staff to spend more time on caring for patients and extending the reach of services The HMIS is d…
This book is written to meet the need for a quantitative methods curriculum in health administration or health care management programs. It is designed so that it can be used for one-semester courses in graduate programs as well as for advanced undergraduate programs in health administration.Practical and contemporary examples from the field make it a useful reference book for health care mana…
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being widely used in healthcare management systems. Rapid advancements in ICT in the last decade or so provide solutions to the problems in healthcare management systems. These include a wide spectrum of issues such as patient safety, dietary management, telemedicine, digital imaging, document management etc. This paper explores the emerging …
Today there is a global health workforce crisis – one marked by critical imbalances. Many countries are faced with the challenge of shortages of dentists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other health workers. In some countries these shortages co-exist with underemployed and unemployed health professionals, because of funding shortfalls, planning inadequacies and geographic …
The Quality Assurance Project (QAP) was initiated in 1990 to develop and implement sustainable approaches for improving the quality of health care in less developed countries. QAP has two broad objectives: 1) to provide technical assistance in designing and implementing effective strategies for monitoring quality and correcting systemic deficiencies; and 2) to re- fine existing methods for en…
Baking a cake is a simple problem. Simple problems lend themselves to a recipe approach. The process and results are generalizable; and while special skill at cooking is a plus, it is not essential for success. Sending a rocket to the moon is an example of a complicated problem. Complicated problems are best dealt with using formulaic and expert-knowledge approaches. The overall problem can b…
Since accountability for performance has become increasingly critical in health care, it is necessary for an organization to understand the key drivers behind its performance and demonstrate the results of its work. Performance measurement has many interrelationships with quality improvement (QI), and focus on the use of the data is one of the four key principles of QI discussed in the Quality…
The Health Care Records Policy defines the requirements for the documentation and management of health care records across public health organisations in the NSW public health system. The Policy ensures that high standards for documentation and management of health care records are maintained consistent with common law, legislation, ethical and current best practice requirements.
Ethics is not a recent discovery. Over the centuries philosophers in their struggle with human behavior have developed different approaches to ethics, each leading to different conclusion. The word “Ethics” which is coined from the Latin word ‘Ethics’ and Greek word ‘ethikos’ pertains to character. Ethics is thus said to be the science of conduct. As a matter of fact it deals with …
Before the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), the decision as to whether an alien was subject to deportation proceedings or exclusion proceedings was based on whether or not the alien had made an “entry” into the U.S. An alien who had made an entry was entitled to a deportation hearing and the greater procedural safeguards it…
However, the greatest concern is that govern- ment has surrendered one of its most important powers—the power to create money and control the money supply—to the private sector which has exploited this power to blow up housing bubbles and indirectly transfer wealth upwards and inwards, with disastrous results. There has been no demo- cratic debate about this transfer of power, and no law a…
One of the main concerns of economics is how best to allocate scarce resources. This preface aims to help allocate scarce copies of this book to the right readers, and guide different readers through various ways of using it.
This book is based upon my experiences in research as a student, practitioner and teacher. The difficulties I faced in understanding research as a student, my discoveries about what was applicable and inapplicable in the field as a practitioner, and my development of the ability effectively to communicate difficult concepts in simple language without sacrificing technicality and accuracy as …
Project management has evolved from its formative stages in the 1940s to become a leading international and interdisciplinary application. The relevant professional bodies (the International Project Management Association and Project Management Institute) operate globally and across most areas of industry and commerce. Project management practices and procedures operate across a wide range of a…
Introduction Corporate finance is concerned with the financing and investment decisions made by the management of companies in pursuit of corporate goals. As a subject, corporate finance has a theoretical base which has evolved over many years and which continues to evolve as we write. It has a practical side too, concerned with the study of how companies actually make financing and invest…
OGSM students are expected to meet standards of personal and professional integrity. This bulletin is designed to acquaint OGSM students with the expectations of them and their responsibilities as members of the university community. This bulletin is available online on Blackboard, Owen Catalog 2015- 2016, and all students receive a copy during orientation. It is the student’s responsibility …
This book attempts to deal with financing and investment decision making, with particular focus on the private sector of the UK economy. Its approach is to set out the theories that surround each area of financial decision making and relate these to what appears to happen in practice. Where theory and practice diverge, the book tries to reconcile and explain the differences. It also attempt…
I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week; indeed, in some places in Scotland where I…
All health service providers want to get the most out of their investments. To enable them to do so, they need to actively manage health service assets, ensuring that they are used efficiently and optimally. All management takes place in the context of your health system’s policies and finances. If these are favourable, the management of health service assets can be effective and efficient, a…
An economist must be “mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher, in some degree . . . as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.” So remarked John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist who, as much as anyone, could be called the father of macroeconomics. No single statement summarizes better what it means to be an economist. …