scholarly journals Innovative technologies of wireless sensor network: The applications of WBAN system and environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Israa Al-Barazanchi ◽  
Haider Rasheed Abdulshaheed ◽  
Madya Safiah Binti Sidek
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Key Innovation ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Care Costs

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has risen as a key innovation for providing real-time patient health care and diagnosing many life-threatening diseases. The principle adopted by health service providers is providing convenience for patients in need of health care, allowing them comfortable of movement and constant monitoring with a reduction in health care costs.  In this study presented the basic concept and general background of the main WBAN system with applications. The current models for on-body and embedded WBANs, sensor node features, and sensor schemes for information via negation used in the WBAN.

A Perspective on the Corporate Transformation of Health Care

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Warren Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
History Of

The ever-increasing ownership of health service providers, suppliers, and insurers by investor-owned enterprises presents an unforeseen complexity and diversity to health care delivery. This article reviews the history of the for-profit invasion of the health sector, linking corporate purchaser directions to the now dominant mode of delivery in managed care. These dynamics require unceasing reassessment while the United States embarks upon implementation of national health care reform.

Targeting the Mature Consumer Market

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Moschis ◽  
D. N. Bellenger ◽  
P. A. Kennett ◽  
L. E. Aab
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mature Market

The aging population in the USA makes skill in marketing to the mature consumer increasingly important. The biophysical and psychosocial aging process create a need for specific strategies to address the changes brought on by age. This study attempts to ascertain the degree to which the health service providers recognize some of the needs of the elderly market and the degree to which marketing programs are addressing these needs. A comparison with other industries is also provided. The results indicate that 4 out of 16 strategies directed at the mature market have been used by more than 80% of health care respondents. In addition, there are significant differences between the health care industry and other industries for five of the strategies. All but two of the strategies are thought to be important by more than half of the survey respondents.

scholarly journals Health Care Experiences of Transgender Binary and Nonbinary University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg ◽  
Katherine A. Kuvalanka ◽  
Stephanie L. Budge ◽  
Madeline B. Benz ◽  
JuliAnna Z. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Health Care Experiences ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Nonbinary Gender

An increasing number of young adults identify with nonbinary gender identities. Yet health providers and therapists often lack understanding of such identities. In this mixed-methods study of 506 transgender undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom (75%) had nonbinary gender identities, we aimed to understand participants’ mental health and health care experiences, and factors related to misgendering and less affirming treatment by providers. Eighty-five percent of participants reported mental health challenges, and named fear of violence and nonsupport as distal stressors. Experiences with therapists and health providers were mixed. Salient features of negative interactions were invalidation, avoidance, or overemphasis in regard to participants’ nonbinary identities. Participants viewed counseling services as more affirming than health services. Nonbinary students reported more misgendering by therapists and health providers, and less trans-affirming care by health service providers, compared to binary students. Undergraduate students reported more misgendering by therapists and health providers than graduate students.

scholarly journals Risks and benefits of rapid clozapine titration

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannie D. Lochhead ◽  
Michele A. Nelson ◽  
Alan L. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Therapeutic Response ◽  
Treatment Resistance ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Emotional Suffering ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Care Costs

Clozapine is often considered the gold standard for the treatment of schizophrenia. Clinical guidelines suggest a gradual titration over 2 weeks to reduce the risks of adverse events such as seizures, hypotension, agranulocytosis, and myocarditis. The slow titration often delays time to therapeutic response. This raises the question of whether, in some patients, it may be safe to use a more rapid clozapine titration. The following case illustrates the potential risks associated with the use of multiple antipsychotics and rapid clozapine titration. We present the case of a young man with schizophrenia who developed life threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) during rapid clozapine titration and treatment with multiple antipsychotics. We were unable to find another case in the literature of NMS associated with rapid clozapine titration. This case is meant to urge clinicians to carefully evaluate the risks and benefits of rapid clozapine titration, and to encourage researchers to further evaluate the safety of rapid clozapine titration. Rapid clozapine titration has implications for decreasing health care costs associated with prolonged hospitalizations, and decreasing the emotional suffering associated with uncontrolled symptoms of psychosis. Clozapine is considered the most effective antipsychotic available thus efforts should focus on developing strategies that would allow for safest and most efficient use of clozapine to encourage its utilization for treatment resistance schizophrenia.

scholarly journals Patients’ Satisfaction with Public Health Care Services in Bangladesh: Some Critical Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Muhammed Muazzam Hussain ◽  
Mohammed Mojammel Hussain Raihan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Critical Issues

This paper attempts to explore the experiences of Bangladeshi patient with public health care services, clients self-perception of health, understanding their expectation and demands of health care towards government health practitioners and service providers. The study points out the issues and difficulties they faced in treatment or getting other services and presents some recommendations to improve the public hospital services.The study was undertaken using the interpretivist paradigm and based on qualitative research method with various data collection procedures, such as interview, focus group discussion (FGD), documentation survey, etc. were employed to collect necessary information. The data highlight a continuous cycle of marginalisation resulting from the interplay of health service providers and their business counter-parts e.g. private pharmaceutical companies, diagnostic centres which reduce the opportunity of protecting patients’ consumer rights at large scale. Therefore, the study suggests that policy makers and service providers should be more responsive to initiate effective policy measures and programmes to combat marginalisation and exclusion of that poor patient groups.  

scholarly journals Fibromyalgia in Health Care Worker During COVID-19 Outbreak in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahidah AlEnzi ◽  
Sara Alhamal ◽  
Maryam Alramadhan ◽  
Ahmed Altaroti ◽  
Intisar Siddiqui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Rapid Screening ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Face ◽  
Care Worker

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.

An IT outsourcing dilemma at Sick Kids Hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Ron Babin ◽  
Mohamed Shazadh Khan ◽  
Kyle Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
It Outsourcing ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
Complex Technology ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
Care Costs

This teaching case is based on a true situation at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto Canada. The case asks students to either assume the role of the CIO or to advise the CIO in making a decision to outsource IT at Sick Kids Hospital. The case requires students to understand three important issues: First, while health care costs continue to increase, automation of information is an important opportunity to streamline patient care and reduce costs in a hospital environment. Second, IT outsourcing, relying on external service providers to deliver complex technology services, is a fundamental business strategy across all industries and has great potential in the health care industry. Third, hospitals and health care have unique requirements for IT outsourcing, particularly the critical importance of patient data security and privacy.

Smart Clothing for Health Care

2012 ◽  
pp. 56-80
Author(s):  
Nuno M. Garcia ◽  
Paula Sofia Sousa ◽  
Isabel G. Trindade ◽  
Rui Miguel ◽  
José Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Biomedical Signal Processing ◽  
Smart Clothing ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Software Algorithms ◽  
Materials Research

The use of wearable technologies in medicine and health care has become of important in order to considerably improve benefits for patients and health service providers. Within telemedicine, biomedical clothing plays a crucial role. The main technology advances and the research of the Textile and Paper Materials Research Unit (UMTP) and of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab) teams, in the area, will be addressed. Issues that remain unsolved will be presented. The chapter presents an overview of the key concepts for telemedicine and the role of textile electrodes and their integration in smart clothing. The development of software algorithms that specifically handle signals that are collected using biomedical clothing, integrating resiliency and a proper set of alarms, is presented and discussed in the context of classical biomedical signal processing. Finally, biomedical clothing design will be discussed in social, psychological, and esthetical contexts.

scholarly journals Risks and benefits of rapid clozapine titration

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Jeannie D. Lochhead ◽  
Michele A. Nelson ◽  
Alan L. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Therapeutic Response ◽  
Treatment Resistance ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Emotional Suffering ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Care Costs

Clozapine is often considered the gold standard for the treatment of schizophrenia. Clinical guidelines suggest a gradual titration over 2 weeks to reduce the risks of adverse events such as seizures, hypotension, agranulocytosis, and myocarditis. The slow titration often delays time to therapeutic response. This raises the question of whether, in some patients, it may be safe to use a more rapid clozapine titration. The following case illustrates the potential risks associated with the use of multiple antipsychotics and rapid cloza-pine titration. We present the case of a young man with schizophrenia who developed life threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) during rapid clozapine titration and treatment with multiple antipsychotics. We were unable to find another case in the literature of NMS associated with rapid clozapine titration. This case is meant to urge clinicians to carefully evaluate the risks and benefits of rapid clozapine titration, and to encourage researchers to further evaluate the safety of rapid clozapine titration. Rapid clozapine titration has implications for decreasing health care costs associated with prolonged hospitalizations, and decreasing the emotional suffering associated with uncontrolled symptoms of psychosis. Clozapine is considered the most effective antipsychotic available thus efforts should focus on developing strategies that would allow for safest and most efficient use of clozapine to encourage its utilization for treatment resistance schizophrenia.

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