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During the past decade, entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector has become increasingly important. The aging society, the continuous stream of innovative technologies and the growth of chronic illnesses are jeopardizing the sustainability of healthcare systems. In response, many European governments started to reform healthcare during the 1990s, replacing the traditional logic of medical professionalism...
The paper takes system dynamics method as study tool, based on the research in the specific hospital and system analysis about the hospital competitiveness, combined with the actual situation of Jiujiang Chinese hospital, built up seven system dynamics simulation models, and according to the hospital history data and future development plans, established each variable equation of seven models, simulated...
ahmad n. & oranye n.o. (2010) Journal of Nursing Management18, 582–591 Empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment: a comparative analysis of nurses working in Malaysia and EnglandAims To examine the relationships between nurses’ empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment in culturally and developmentally different societies.
Background Employment and retention...
In this paper, we have proposed ICU Knowledge Management System (IKMS). Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is specialty-nursing unit for critical patients. An IKMS presented in this paper is designed with usability perspective in Indian ICU environment. This design is based on a study about the scope of ergonomic design and usability for ICU through the fieldwork at various hospitals in India. The feedback...
Clinical environments are high cognitive load environment that are fraught with errors. Introduction of technological artefacts can often disrupt clinical workflow causing unnecessary interruptions and increasing risk for errors. There is hence a need for systems that have high usability and behave in a veridical manner. This requirement renders ambient monitoring and evaluation as attractive solutions...
Owing to the changing medical environment in Taiwan, to improve and maintain hospital performance, hospital administrators recently have devoted themselves to improving the relationship between patients and service providers, and to considering methods of improving hospital service quality to satisfy patient demands and enhance patient loyalty. Therefore, hospital administrators emphasize the issue...
The main purpose of this research is to probe into if doctors' commitment to organizational culture will influence their service quality, and the satisfaction degree of patient's perceived service quality, and the cognitive gap of service between doctors and patients. Our samples are doctors and their IPD patients in a regional hospital in Taichung city in Taiwan. The result shows that there is significant...
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