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Journal articles on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Yuksel, M., G. L. Ertürkmen, Y. Kabak, T. Namli, M. H. Yıldız, Y. Ay, B. Ceyhan, et al. "Healthcare Information Technology Infrastructures in Turkey." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 23, no. 01 (August 2014): 228–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15265/iy-2014-0001.
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Summary Objectives: The objective of this paper is to describe some of the major healthcare information technology (IT) infrastructures in Turkey, namely, Sağlık-Net (Turkish for “Health-Net”), the Centralized Hospital Appointment System, the Basic Health Statistics Module, the Core Resources Management System, and the e-prescription system of the Social Security Institution. International collaboration projects that are integrated with Sağlık-Net are also briefly summarized. Methods: The authors provide a survey of the some of the major healthcare IT infrastructures in Turkey. Results: Sağlık-Net has two main components: the National Health Information System (NHIS) and the Family Medicine Information System (FMIS). The NHIS is a nation-wide infrastructure for sharing patients’ Electronic Health Records (EHRs). So far, EHRs of 78.9 million people have been created in the NHIS. Similarly, family medicine is operational in the whole country via FMIS. Centralized Hospital Appointment System enables the citizens to easily make appointments in healthcare providers. Basic Health Statistics Module is used for collecting information about the health status, risks and indicators across the country. Core Resources Management System speeds up the flow of information between the headquarters and Provincial Health Directorates. The e-prescription system is linked with Sağlık-Net and seamlessly integrated with the healthcare provider information systems. Finally, Turkey is involved in several international projects for experience sharing and disseminating national developments. Conclusion: With the introduction of the “Health Transformation Program” in 2003, a number of successful healthcare IT infrastructures have been developed in Turkey. Currently, work is going on to enhance and further improve their functionality.
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Cuggia, Marc, and Stéphanie Combes. "The French Health Data Hub and the German Medical Informatics Initiatives: Two National Projects to Promote Data Sharing in Healthcare." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 28, no. 01 (August 2019): 195–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677917.
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Objective: The diversity and volume of health data have been rapidly increasing in recent years. While such big data hold significant promise for accelerating discovery, data use entails many challenges including the need for adequate computational infrastructure and secure processes for data sharing and access. In Europe, two nationwide projects have been launched recently to support these objectives. This paper compares the French Health Data Hub initiative (HDH) to the German Medical Informatics Initiatives (MII). Method: We analysed the projects according to the following criteria: (i) Global approach and ambitions, (ii) Use cases, (iii) Governance and organization, (iv) Technical aspects and interoperability, and (v) Data privacy access/data governance. Results: The French and German projects share the same objectives but are different in terms of methodologies. The HDH project is based on a top-down approach and focuses on a shared computational infrastructure, providing tools and services to speed projects between data producers and data users. The MII project is based on a bottom-up approach and relies on four consortia including academic hospitals, universities, and private partners. Conclusion: Both projects could benefit from each other. A Franco-German cooperation, extended to other countries of the European Union with similar initiatives, should allow sharing and strengthening efforts in a strategic area where competition from other countries has increased.
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Hall, Daniel M., and W. Richard Scott. "Early Stages in the Institutionalization of Integrated Project Delivery." Project Management Journal 50, no. 2 (January 28, 2019): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8756972818819915.
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Integrated project delivery (IPD), an emerging form of project organization for North American construction projects, offers a compelling case study to understand how new innovative infrastructure project delivery models can emerge and institutionalize. This article frames the early stages of IPD through the actions of an institutional entrepreneur—Sutter Health—working to construct a new arrangement for the delivery of its large healthcare projects. The resulting account uses Suchman’s (1995) multistage model of institutionalization to understand the early-stage actors, processes, conditions, and actions present for creation of an innovative delivery model within a fragmented, project-based industry context.
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Ulriksen, Gro-Hilde, Rune Pedersen, and Gunnar Ellingsen. "The Politics of Establishing ICT Governance for Large-Scale Healthcare Information Infrastructures." International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT 6, no. 1 (January 2017): 48–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsodit.2017010104.
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In Norway, the focus on interoperability and communication across healthcare practices has increased the need to connect ICT portfolios at different levels of healthcare, into large-scale information infrastructures (II). Governing healthcare practices is exceptionally complex, due to the diverging goals and policies of the heterogeneous actors involved. Establish well-functioning ICT governance organizations to handle these large infrastructures is therefore important. Using information infrastructure theory, and governance literature from the IS field, this paper contributes with empirical insight to the longitudinal and political process of establishing ICT governance in a healthcare context, reporting from one of Norway's largest health ICT projects, situated in the North Norway Regional Health Authority in 2012–2016. Our focus was on the following research questions: How does organizational politics shape the process of establishing an ICT governance organization in a heterogeneous healthcare environment, and what does it take to establish such ICT governance organization?
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Rozhmanov, Nikita V. "USING OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP MECHANISMS TO MODERNIZE THE RUSSIAN HEALTH SPHERE IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS." EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA 9/3, no. 129 (2022): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2022.09.03.013.
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The key feature of the infrastructure is its auxiliary nature in relation to the main activity, i.e. ensuring well-established production processes or providing socially important services to the population. The level of infrastructure development of any country is one of the fundamental factors affecting both the quality of life of its population and the indicators of economic activity that contribute to economic growth. That is why the quality of implemented infrastructure projects determines the attractiveness of investments in general in different countries and individual regions. The creation and modernization of infrastructure facilities is one of the most capital-intensive projects. In conditions of restrictions, both internal and external, the state is most interested in attracting additional funding to solve state tasks to provide the population with infrastructure. The most promising way to attract extra-budgetary financing to this day is the implementation of projects based on the principles of public-private partnership. In this article, the author examines the advantages and disadvantages of using public-private partnership mechanisms for the modernization of the Russian healthcare infrastructure in the conditions of current economic sanctions and limited budget resources of the regions of the Russian Federation to subsidize the creation of social infrastructure. Within the framework of this issue, the main features of each form of partnership were considered, factors hindering the wider use of public-private partnership mechanisms in the medical field were identified, and recommendations were proposed that could contribute to a more effective application of the mechanism in practice for the implementation of infrastructure projects in the field of healthcare and improving the quality of medical services provided to the population of Russia. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the types of state support within the framework of infrastructure projects and possible proposals on how to optimize their structure from the public partner.
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Mittal, Yash Kumar, Virendra Kumar Paul, Ali Rostami, Michael Riley, and Anil Sawhney. "Delay factors in construction of healthcare infrastructure projects: a comparison amongst developing countries." Asian Journal of Civil Engineering 21, no. 4 (February 8, 2020): 649–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42107-020-00227-1.
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Sidorenko, E. N., and V. A. Semiglazova. "Project infrastructure bonds as a tool for the PPP projects’ additional financing in the healthcare facilities’ construction." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 913 (September 12, 2020): 052012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/913/5/052012.
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Gundes, Selin. "Trends in Global Infrastructure Investment and Financial Consequences." European Journal of Sustainable Development 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2022.v11n1p66.
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Governments all around the world are faced with economic and social problems borne from the need for modern and reliable infrastructure. Rapid urbanization, increasing population size and economic growth are the main causes of increasing infrastructure investment needs in the world. While the need is growing, government budgets are increasingly squeezed by demands for healthcare improvements, defence, education and many others. The problems in the provision of finance for these investments are aggravated with the new Covid crisis, as the funds reserved for infrastructure investments are now likely to be allocated to urgent needs such as healthcare and unemployment benefits. In such a volatile environment, identifying future investment needs and discussing how these needs will be met is important and timely more than ever. This paper, introduces the global infrastructure investment trends in the future and discusses the use of public and private finance for infrastructure spending. In this concept, the following questions are explored, (1) What is the volume and trend of global infrastructure investment needs? (2) How do infrastructure investment needs differ among regions? (3) How will this infrastructure investment needs be financed?, and (4) What may be some of the future issues to be solved? To find out future infrastructure investment needs and trends, reports outlining the future prospects of the infrastructure sector are examined and trends are revealed. Then, a review of financing mechanisms is introduced in the light of the main procurement systems used by governments for realizing infrastructure projects. In this concept, design-bid-build, design-build and project finance models are explored in terms of their organizational and financial structure. Future issues to be solved are mainly derived from a cross examination of concerns raised in published infrastructure investment case studies and of future trends. Results reveal that the need for investment in infrastructure is growing steadily. As a response to this growth, the use of private finance is increasingly being encouraged by governments all over the world and a variety of international organizations. However, it appears that long-standing private finance issues predominantly observed in demand-based projects will continue to be discussed over the coming years by policymakers, scholars and communities. Indeed, many governments and organizations are already speeding up research efforts into ensuring the resilience of public private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure projects. The insights from this research are expected to revive interest and research efforts into the potential future challenges for infrastructure financing and options available for governments.
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Nekhorosheva, Elena, Leonid Denisov, Elena Alekseycheva, and Daria Kasatkina. "Health literacy in the urban health infrastructure: who maintains healthcare and how." SHS Web of Conferences 98 (2021): 02007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219802007.
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Today we may witness a dire need to research how the urban environment influences urban health, well-being, and sustainability of local communities. The issue of urban health is closely connected with disease prevention projects and the integration of new preventive medical approaches with educational technologies. Due to a large number of responsible parties for the development of health literacy under the authority of different establishments, there is a problem to coordinate aligned activities. Thus the research of the healthcare institutions actions in health literacy development is extremely relevant. The objective of this research is to carry out an integral assessment of the degree to which the functions of preventing non-communicable diseases and developing health literacy are fulfilled by the sectors responsible for urban healthcare. The methods used in this research include a two-phase expert survey: the first group of experts (n: 24) selected the key aspects of healthcare activities, and the second group of experts (n: 35) assessed the quality of implementation of tasks by institutions in charge of disease prevention. The major problem is the lack of effective communication mechanisms in the sphere of intersectoral cooperation, informing the key disease prevention bodies of distributed responsibility, as well as state and social control of execution of laws and regulations. According to the obtained results, the state healthcare system is an important component of the health infrastructure. The functions connected with meeting the vital needs of the city population received medium-high ratings. However, the implementation of disease prevention functions by the healthcare system in Moscow was rated by experts at a low level. Besides, the experts consistently assigned an extremely low rating to the development of health literacy as one of the areas of activity covered by all sectors. To reinforce their outreach and awareness-raising work in the sphere of healthcare, executors of federal projects have to incorporate educational activities into their daily work.
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Khalil I. Wali and Mahmood M. Mahdi. "Identification and Management of Major Risk Factors in Construction of Healthcare Centers Projects." Engineering and Technology Journal 38, no. 1A (January 25, 2020): 65–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.30684/etj.v38i1a.1599.
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More attention is needed for healthcare centers projects and its development to change and improve the health situation in Iraq. The study of risk in this type of projects is essential to avoid the problems encountered during the project life cycle. This paper aimed to identify risk factors facing the construction of an advanced healthcare centers and to enhance the possible solutions based on the opinion of experts. For data collection, fifty-five risk factors were presented in a questionnaire form. The result showed that the major risk factor was government corruption, which has a direct influence on the economy and a negative impact on the infrastructure in the country and its development. The analysis showed that financial problems represent the highest risk during the years in all construction projects. Other considerable risk factors were time overrun, labor safety, as well as environmental risks, which are related to waste treatment. Other important risk factors were related to the ventilation system and air conditioning, also risk in providing continuous electrical power during the day. In term of risk groups, the five most effective ones were political, Economic, Safety, Operation & Maintenance and Construction risks.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Sapountzis, S. "An investigation into the development of an effective benefits realisation process for healthcare infrastructure projects." Thesis, University of Salford, 2013. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/29293/.
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Traditionally, healthcare infrastructure programmes and projects determine their level of success mainly against cost, quality and time of delivery, and not on the degree to which benefits or impacts are delivered. Too often people have assumed that a programme or project will achieve certain benefits, without carrying out analysis to find out what users, partners and other stakeholders really value or how these benefits are to be achieved. They concentrate their efforts on achieving outputs, such as a new building, an Information Technology (IT) system, or a change to a service. By the time these goals are delivered, there is limited understanding of the specific anticipated benefits and limited ability to influence, or even track, their achievements. Targeting clarification of impacts and benefits is emerging as a method to assist healthcare organisations to manage whole life cycle of programmes from development, construction to operations and facilities management. This was presented as an opportunity to investigate into the development of a Benefits Realisation (BeReal) process. A constructive and case study research strategy was deployed for the investigation, development and validation of the BeReal process. A number of research methods such as workshops, observations and questionnaires were used to collect data for the research. A relevant literature review was conducted and included reviews into benefits management and realisation approaches and its satellite subjects, including programme and project management, stakeholder management, evaluation techniques etc. The literature review findings, discussions with healthcare practitioners and experts in the subject area as well as the author’s personal experiences were integrated with a number of case study findings to inform, develop and validate the BeReal process. The process consists of five phases, which consider the identification and use of benefits as the main driver for the delivery of healthcare infrastructure projects with a more predictable success outcome. The main contribution of this research is in terms of presenting a methodology of investigating and developing a process that embraces a benefits realisation approach. The process is built upon integrating project management best practices and continuous improvement methods. It promotes knowledge flow down and sharing by managing stakeholders’ expectations throughout the change lifecycle, when planning and delivering infrastructure programmes.
Books on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Chudakova, Tatiana. Mixing Medicines. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294312.001.0001.
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After the collapse of state socialism, Russia’s healthcare system, much like the rest of the country’s economic and social sphere, underwent massive restructuring, while the public saw the rise to prominence of a variety of nonbiomedical therapies. Formulated as a possible aid to a beleaguered healthcare infrastructure, or as questionable care of last resort, “traditional medicine” in post-socialist Russia was tasked with redressing—and often blamed for—the fraught state of the body politic, while biomedicine itself became increasingly perceived as therapeutically insufficient. The popularization of ethnically and culturally marked forms of care in Russia presents a peculiar paradox in a political context often characterized by a return to robustly homogenizing state policies. In a context where displays of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference are tightly woven with anxieties about Russia’s status as a modern state, the rise of a therapeutic sphere that tended toward multiplicity, fragmentation, bricolage, and a certain ontological agnosticism in the treatment of bodies and subjects appears, at the very least, counterintuitive. Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of therapeutic life at the peripheries of the state, set in the Siberian region of Buryatia that unexpectedly finds itself at the forefront of projects of medical integration via a local tradition of “Tibetan medicine.” The book follows the therapeutic encounters between traditional healing and the different regulatory modalities that seek to incorporate it, exploring how projects of medical integration in Siberia articulate competing conceptualizations of universality, regional belonging, national inclusion, and the ethics of caring for bodies and subjects.
Book chapters on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Lichtig, William A. "The Integrated Agreement for Lean Project Delivery." In Improving Healthcare through Built Environment Infrastructure, 85–101. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319675.ch6.
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Stirano, Federico, Francesco Lubrano, Giacomo Vitali, Fabrizio Bertone, Giuseppe Varavallo, and Paolo Petrucci. "Cross-Domain Security Asset Management for Healthcare." In Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection, 139–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69781-5_10.
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AbstractHealthcare is one of the most peculiar between all Critical Infrastructures due to its context and role in the society. The characteristics of openness and pervasive usage of IT systems and connected devices make it particularly exposed to both physical threats, such as theft and unauthorized access to restricted areas, and cyber attacks, like the notorious wannacry ransomware that abruptly disrupted the British National Health System in May 2017. Even the recent COVID-19 pandemic period has been negatively characterized by an increase of both physical and cyber incidents that specifically targeted hospitals and undermined an essential public service like healthcare. Effective security solutions are necessary in order to protect and enhance the resiliency of the Critical Infrastructures. This paper presents the work being developed in the context of the SAFECARE H2020 project, that specifically considers the requirements for security of hospitals. A particular focus is given to the asset management that consider cross-domain aspects of security, like the physical location and virtual connections that link different components of a hospital. This allows advanced knowledge that enables to infer and forewarn of possible elaborated cyber-physical kill chains. This is particularly important and useful during crisis, as allows to have a holistic overview of the status of the hospital and the potential impacts of one or more incidents to the critical assets. The description and simulation of an attack scenario is also given, together with the description of the messages exchanged by the security systems and the information made available to security operators.
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Hernandez, Julio, Lucy McKenna, and Rob Brennan. "TIKD: A Trusted Integrated Knowledge Dataspace for Sensitive Data Sharing and Collaboration." In Data Spaces, 265–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98636-0_13.
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AbstractThis chapter presents the Trusted Integrated Knowledge Dataspace (TIKD)—a trusted data sharing approach, based on Linked Data technologies, that supports compliance with the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) for personal data handling as part of data security infrastructure for sensitive application environments such as healthcare. State-of-the-art shared dataspaces typically do not consider sensitive data and privacy-aware log records as part of their solutions, defining only how to access data. TIKD complements existing dataspace security approaches through trusted data sharing that includes personal data handling, data privileges, pseudonymization of user activity logging, and privacy-aware data interlinking services. TIKD was implemented on the Access Risk Knowledge (ARK) Platform, a socio-technical risk governance system, and deployed as part of the ARK-Virus Project which aims to govern the risk management of personal protection equipment (PPE) across a group of collaborating healthcare institutions. The ARK Platform was evaluated, both before and after implementing the TIKD, using both the ISO 27001 Gap Analysis Tool (GAT), which determines information security standard compliance, and the ISO 27701 standard for privacy information. The results of the security and privacy evaluations indicated that compliance with ISO 27001 increased from 50% to 85% and compliance with ISO 27701 increased from 64% to 90%. This shows that implementing TIKD provides a trusted data security dataspace with significantly improved compliance with ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 standards to share data in a collaborative environment.
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Koumaditis, Konstantinos, George Pittas, Marinos Themistocleous, George Vassilacopoulos, Andriana Prentza, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, and Flora Malamateniou. "Cloud Services for Healthcare." In E-Health and Telemedicine, 709–34. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8756-1.ch036.
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Healthcare organisations are forced to reconsider their current business practices and embark on a cloud adoption journey. Cloud-Computing offers important benefits that make it attractive for healthcare (e.g. cost effective model, big data management etc.). Large Information Technology (IT) companies are investing big sums in building infrastructure, services, tools and applications to facilitate Cloud-Computing for healthcare organisations, practitioners and patients. Yet, many challenges that such integration projects contain are still in the e-health research agenda like design and technology requirements to handle big volume of data, ensure scalability and user satisfaction to name a few. The purpose of this chapter is (a) to address the Cloud-Computing services for healthcare in the form of a Personal Healthcare record (PHR) and (b) demonstrate a multidisciplinary project. In doing so, the authors aim at increasing the awareness of this important endeavour and provide insights on Cloud-Computing e-health services for healthcare organisations.
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Koumaditis, Konstantinos, George Pittas, Marinos Themistocleous, George Vassilacopoulos, Andriana Prentza, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, and Flora Malamateniou. "Cloud Services for Healthcare." In Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing, 292–317. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8210-8.ch012.
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Healthcare organisations are forced to reconsider their current business practices and embark on a cloud adoption journey. Cloud-Computing offers important benefits that make it attractive for healthcare (e.g. cost effective model, big data management etc.). Large Information Technology (IT) companies are investing big sums in building infrastructure, services, tools and applications to facilitate Cloud-Computing for healthcare organisations, practitioners and patients. Yet, many challenges that such integration projects contain are still in the e-health research agenda like design and technology requirements to handle big volume of data, ensure scalability and user satisfaction to name a few. The purpose of this chapter is (a) to address the Cloud-Computing services for healthcare in the form of a Personal Healthcare record (PHR) and (b) demonstrate a multidisciplinary project. In doing so, the authors aim at increasing the awareness of this important endeavour and provide insights on Cloud-Computing e-health services for healthcare organisations.
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Ulriksen, Gro-Hilde, Rune Pedersen, and Gunnar Ellingsen. "The Politics of Establishing ICT Governance for Large-Scale Healthcare Information Infrastructures." In Data Analytics in Medicine, 1704–19. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1204-3.ch085.
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In Norway, the focus on interoperability and communication across healthcare practices has increased the need to connect ICT portfolios at different levels of healthcare, into large-scale information infrastructures (II). Governing healthcare practices is exceptionally complex, due to the diverging goals and policies of the heterogeneous actors involved. Establish well-functioning ICT governance organizations to handle these large infrastructures is therefore important. Using information infrastructure theory, and governance literature from the IS field, this paper contributes with empirical insight to the longitudinal and political process of establishing ICT governance in a healthcare context, reporting from one of Norway's largest health ICT projects, situated in the North Norway Regional Health Authority in 2012–2016. Our focus was on the following research questions: How does organizational politics shape the process of establishing an ICT governance organization in a heterogeneous healthcare environment, and what does it take to establish such ICT governance organization?
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Dasgupta, Shib Shankar. "Cyber Capability Framework." In Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services, 399–406. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch021.
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This chapter discusses a new theoretical framework, the Cyber Capability Framework, to broaden discussions on ICT for development projects in developing countries from simple growth and access through information infrastructure to an understanding of the complexities involved in the social developments of ordinary citizens. The six dimensions of the Framework, namely, information, technology, process, vision, skills, and management dimension, help in locating the ICT for development projects within the political, economic, and social contexts in particular developing countries.
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Birinci, Şuayıp. "National Healthcare Technology Initiative." In National Technology Initiative: Social Reflections and Türkiye's Future, 303–28. Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Yayınları, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53478/tuba.978-625-8352-17-7.ch17.
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The National Technology Initiative in health has been shaped with a different perspective compared to many other sectors due to the dominance of a completely human-oriented approach in its focus and execution. When the investments made in the field of health in the last 20 years are considered, we can easily see the building blocks that were built on the way to the "National Technology Initiative". Health is the service sector that prioritizes human life, the most important and the highest expectation of society. Just as it is human in its focus, there is also a human in meeting this expectation. Therefore, when you make the quality of health care a priority and strengthen this area with qualified human resources, you can have a very strong projection in terms of technology. In this context, we can summarize the path to “National Technology Initiative in Healthcare” as qualified human resources as the primary element, then sustainable service quality, together with these the implementation of innovation-oriented policies, strengthening multidisciplinary penetration, and finally realizing a big development-oriented move. The main priority of health is measured by human life and the quality of the service provided. When you realize this basic priority, you will eliminate a big deficiency on the way to the technology move with the strong human capital. In the last 20 years, we have brought health service quality and satisfaction rates to the highest level in the world. The strong support and motivation obtained after this have enabled us to quickly implement the digitalization policies, which are the main elements of the high technology segment of the health system. In our country, the "Health Information Systems Action Plan" was officially introduced in 2004. In 2014, all health facilities, including public, private, and university, were made to interoperate on a single platform methodology, and in 2015 the e-Nabız System was introduced at the disposal of all health stakeholders. After the data standardization, which is the prerequisite of digitalization, was perfected in the entire sector, many projects focused on digital infrastructure were implemented quickly. In this article, within the scope of "National Technology Initiative in Health", the motivation that guides our country, especially in health digitalization and making Türkiye a strong player in this field on a global scale and the projects realized in this process will be discussed.
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Vaslavskaya, Irina Yurievna, and Yan Vaslavskiy. "Public-Private Partnership in the Post-Coronavirus Reality." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 120–47. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6788-3.ch007.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the failure of the state to withstand emergencies, threatening the lives of millions of citizens. By introducing regimes of social and economic lockdowns in fighting coronavirus, the state faced a societal crisis. Its consequences can't be overestimated, especially due to economic recovery. The growing distrust of households in the state was caused by the disruption of their usual way of living, the growth of unemployment, and the deterioration in their well-being. So people began to distinguish significant differences between their individual values and preferences institutionalized by the state. Hence, the priority for the state should be to restore citizens' confidence by creating a more inclusive societal environment, minimizing the negative consequences of the societal crisis. Infrastructure PPP projects can demonstrate the social preferences' public priority. The “institutional matrix” of PPP organizational forms makes it possible to choose conditions for public projects' implementation with the absolute priority of the healthcare system.
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Abu-Sittah, Ghassan Soleiman. "The Political Capital of War Wounds." In War and Health, 137–51. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479875962.003.0007.
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Iraq’s healthcare infrastructure has deteriorated after decades of war and sanctions. A small fraction of Iraqis injured as a result of war have accessed quality care at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUMC), some funded by the Iraqi government. This chapter, based on the author’s work as a surgeon treating Iraqi war wounded at the AUMC, describes how powerful elites determine the political value of a war wound, influencing what a person’s injury means to the country as a whole and hence, the kind of treatment the Iraqi government is willing to sponsor. As such, the chapter sheds light on a form of social stratification shaping access to care for war-injured populations in Iraq and around the world, as political elites seek legitimation for their projects.
Conference papers on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Mauk, Michael G., Richard Y. Chiou, Carlos Ruiz, Dharma Varapula, Changchun Liu, and Jinzhao Song. "Project-Based Learning: Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Point-of-Care Medical Tests for Engineering Undergraduates." In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2017-72246.
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Point-of-care (POC) medical diagnostics tests based on instrumented microfluidic chips are instructive and highly-multidisciplinary projects for undergraduate research and Senior Design. Students can apply their knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, optics, electronics and microcontrollers, materials, prototyping and systems engineering in translating and adapting a laboratory-based test for use in non-traditional venues. We discuss the design, prototyping, and testing of POC lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems in an educational setting, where undergraduate students develop and demonstrate novel and practical POC tests. This application area serves as an effective gateway to the medical diagnostics field for engineering students, with opportunities for providing sustainable, appropriate, and ‘green’ technology to the developing world where healthcare infrastructure is lacking.
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Wagner, Stefan, and Claus Nielsen. "OpenCare project: An open, flexible and easily extendible infrastructure for pervasive healthcare assisted living solutions." In 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. ICST, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2009.5992.
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Somayajula, Harish. "De-Carbonisation Through Energy Management." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/211098-ms.
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Borouge, established in 1998 in Abu Dhabi by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Austria based Borealis, is a leading petrochemical company that provides innovative and differentiated polyolefin solutions. Combining the strengths and experience of its majority shareholders ADNOC and Borealis, Borouge serves a wide range of industries including energy, infrastructure, mobility, advanced packaging, healthcare and agriculture. As a strategic and successful partnership at Borouge, we employ more than 3,100 people with over 50 nationalities, serving customers in over 50 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Limited (Borouge) ("ADP"), headquartered in Abu Dhabi and the sales and marketing joint venture, Borouge Pte Limited ("PTE"), headquartered in Singapore. ADP consists of the main manufacturing activity of Borouge, whereas PTE consists of the marketing arm of the Borouge business. Our petrochemicals and polyolefins manufacturing plant is located in Ruwais at a distance of about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi City. The facility is now one of the largest fully integrated single-site polyolefins complex in the world, with an annual capacity to produce 5 million tonnes of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). The complex is also the largest Borstar® process technology-based plant in the world, providing enhanced innovative bimodal polymers for a broad range of polymer applications. We remained on track to increase our production through Borouge 4, the next mega-project expansion that will significantly increase our production capacity by 2025. Moreover, we have already started-up our fifth polypropylene plant (PP5) in Ruwais.
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Pui-Yuk King, Alex, and Kin Wai Michael Siu. "Ethnographic Study of Living Alone Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002048.
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1. IntroductionA report by the United Nations has revealed the number of older adults in the world is projected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030, and this number is expected to increase to 2.1 billion by 2050. This development will place enormous pressure on current healthcare and social protection systems. If life expectancy continues to rise while fertility constantly declines over many years. the ageing of the population will continue to throughout the world. The gigantic numbers of elderly people will place significant pressure on current systems of social protection and global health care. By 2024, it is expected to have nearly 400,000 people over the age of 80 in Hong Kong —a 24.8% increase over the figure recorded in 2014. 2. Problem StatementLike in other Asian cities, the population of Hong Kong exhibits a continuous ageing trend.The change in the population structure will need an improved housing policy and health care system and infrastructure in order to tackle these resulting social problems. The more older adults are living in the city, the greater the numbers of people who are living with dementia. 3. Older Adults Living with Mild Cognitive ImpairmentDementia is characterised by the loss of mental abilities,and by further degeneration over time.This condition is not inevitable, as the hallmark symptoms of cognitive deterioration are not considered to be a normal part of ageing. It is a typical biomedical disease that might appear when the brain is affected by some specific diseases, such as a series of small strokes damage the brain and cause confusion, speech problems and progressive loss of memory and cognition. This gradual decline in cognitive functions causes people to need extra support for daily living. A person who is having slightly problems with planning, reasoning and also remembering may be classified as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 4. Universal DesignUD (universal design) is classified as the practice of making things in ways that involve almost no extra cost, but offer attractive yet functional styles that are fulfilling all people, regardless of each individual’s ability or disability. UD addresses the complete span of functionality through making each element and space accessible to its deepest extent by careful planning at all different stages of a project. 5. Participant Observation An interpretive approach is adopted as a research paradigm for understanding the meanings that human beings attach to their experiences. For this study, a centre manager of the well-established Yan Oi Tong Elderly Community Centre recruited three older adults to participate for nine months. These people were living with MCI in a rural district. Prior to this study, these three elders engaged in a participative design workshop that was organised by the same researcher. The workshop had two sessions, and explored the participants’ latent needs concerning home decoration and product design for public housing.Observational visits were conducted with each participant every two weeks for a nine-month period. The participants are referred to as CH, CP and SK, and they were aged between 79 and 85 years old.6. DiscussionTheme 1: Fear of being alone.The participants described their experiences of facing loneliness. Although they felt that their memories were getting worse, they could still express how loneliness was one of the most difficult challenges that they had to face day-by-day. SK said that ‘I want to do my preferred activities,and don’t want to stay at home all the time!’ Theme 2: Recognition of incompetence.The older persons suffering from MCI believed that they were, to varying degrees, incompetent in dealing with day-to-day activities. As CP explained, ‘I have become useless and cannot remember things recently…’ Theme 3: Lack of neighbourhood spirit. For older people living alone in public housing, neighbours become the most reliable people after their families. Older participants reported that they commonly displaced their house keys due to their gradual memory loss. They had to make duplicate front door keys, and gave them to neighbours who they trusted.To deal with such problems, a product design or system could be pre-installed in housing facilities that would enable better communication or connection between neighbours, and allow older residents to become closer to others.7. ConclusionThis ethnographic study has investigated the latent, unfulfilled needs of older persons living with MCI. Building rapport with these older participants was an important step at the beginning of the study.This finding of “Fear of being alone”, “Lack of neighbourhood spirit”also revealed that regular visits by community centre staff and local social workers should be organised to provide older community members and stakeholders with more attention regarding their day-to-day activities and their relations to society as a whole in order to eliminate “Recognition of incompetence”.
Reports on the topic "Healthcare infrastructure projects"
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Leavy, Michelle B., Costas Boussios, Robert L. Phillips, Jr., Diana Clarke, Barry Sarvet, Aziz Boxwala, and Richard Gliklich. Outcome Measure Harmonization and Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Depression: Final Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepcwhitepaperdepressionfinal.
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Objective. The objective of this project was to demonstrate the feasibility and value of collecting harmonized depression outcome measures in the patient registry and health system settings, displaying the outcome measures to clinicians to support individual patient care and population health management, and using the resulting measures data to support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). Methods. The harmonized depression outcome measures selected for this project were response, remission, recurrence, suicide ideation and behavior, adverse effects of treatment, and death from suicide. The measures were calculated in the PRIME Registry, sponsored by the American Board of Family Medicine, and PsychPRO, sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, and displayed on the registry dashboards for the participating pilot sites. At the conclusion of the data collection period (March 2020-March 2021), registry data were analyzed to describe implementation of measurement-based care and outcomes in the primary care and behavioral health care settings. To calculate and display the measures in the health system setting, a Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technology (SMART) on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) application was developed and deployed at Baystate Health. Finally a stakeholder panel was convened to develop a prioritized research agenda for PCOR in depression and to provide feedback on the development of a data use and governance toolkit. Results. Calculation of the harmonized outcome measures within the PRIME Registry and PsychPRO was feasible, but technical and operational barriers needed to be overcome to ensure that relevant data were available and that the measures were meaningful to clinicians. Analysis of the registry data demonstrated that the harmonized outcome measures can be used to support PCOR across care settings and data sources. In the health system setting, this project demonstrated that it is technically and operationally feasible to use an open-source app to calculate and display the outcome measures in the clinician’s workflow. Finally, this project produced tools and resources to support future implementations of harmonized measures and use of the resulting data for research, including a prioritized research agenda and data use and governance toolkit. Conclusion. Standardization of outcome measures across patient registries and routine clinical care is an important step toward creating robust, national-level data infrastructure that could serve as the foundation for learning health systems, quality improvement initiatives, and research. This project demonstrated that it is feasible to calculate the harmonized outcome measures for depression in two patient registries and a health system setting, display the results to clinicians to support individual patient management and population health, and use the outcome measures data to support research. This project also assessed the value and burden of capturing the measures in different care settings and created standards-based tools and other resources to support future implementations of harmonized outcome measures in depression and other clinical areas. The findings and lessons learned from this project should serve as a roadmap to guide future implementations of harmonized outcome measures in depression and other clinical areas.
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Muhoza, Cassilde, Wikman Anna, and Rocio Diaz-Chavez. Mainstreaming gender in urban public transport: lessons from Nairobi, Kampala and Dar es Salaam. Stockholm Environment Institute, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51414/sei2021.006.
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The urban population of Africa, the fastest urbanizing continent, has increased from 19% to 39% in the past 50 years, and the number of urban dwellers is projected to reach 770 million by 2030. However, while rapid urbanization has increased mobility and created a subsequent growth in demand for public transport in cities, this has not been met by the provision of adequate and sustainable infrastructure and services. The majority of low-income residents and the urban poor still lack access to adequate transport services and rely on non-motorized and public transport, which is often informal and characterized by poor service delivery. Lack of access to transport services limits access to opportunities that aren’t in the proximity of residential areas, such as education, healthcare, and employment. The urban public transport sector not only faces the challenge of poor service provision, but also of gender inequality. Research shows that, in the existing urban transport systems, there are significant differences in the travel patterns of and modes of transport used by women and men, and that these differences are associated with their roles and responsibilities in society. Moreover, the differences in travel patterns are characterized by unequal access to transport facilities and services. Women are generally underrepresented in the sector, in both its operation and decision-making. Women’s mobility needs and patterns are rarely integrated into transport infrastructure design and services and female users are often victims of harassment and assault. As cities rapidly expand, meeting the transport needs of their growing populations while paying attention to gender-differentiated mobility patterns is a prerequisite to achieving sustainability, livability and inclusivity. Gender mainstreaming in urban public transport is therefore a critical issue, but one which is under-researched in East Africa. This research explores gender issues in public transport in East Africa, focusing in particular on women’s inclusion in both public transport systems and transport policy decision-making processes and using case studies from three cities: Nairobi, Kampala and Dar es Salaam.
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Public–Private Partnership Monitor—Kazakhstan. Asian Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/sgp220595-2.
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Exploring the public–private partnership (PPP) environment in Kazakhstan, this report assesses the country’s progress in creating better conditions for PPPs, to increase its infrastructure funding and improve service delivery. Consolidating data from leading financial and legal experts, this detailed review includes more than 500 qualitative and quantitative indicators profiling Kazakhstan's national PPP landscape, covers eight infrastructure sectors, and includes local government projects. As the COVID-19 pandemic has driven social infrastructure to the forefront of policy and planning, this edition also focuses on healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
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EUROPEAN STANDARDS OF CARE FOR NEWBORN HEALTH. Chernivtsi, Ukraine: Higher State Educational Establishment of Ukraine Bukovinian State Medical University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24061/2413-4260.ix.3.33.2019.1.
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Medical treatment and care for preterm and sick newborn babies in European countries varies greatly. Significant differences are not only limited to the survival rates of such infants. In some European countries, preterm birth is also more commonly associated with chronic physical and mental disability than in others. This effect is exacerbated by the fact that in some parts of Europe, further assistance to these vulnerable children after discharge from the hospital (follow-up and early intervention) is not structured or even does not exist at all. Given the high level of inequality in health care delivery, agreed definitions and clear recommendations for infrastructure, medical processes, care procedures, and staffing capabilities are needed to compare and adjust the conditions of care in Europe. Therefore, there is an absolute need to ensure that high-level care is equally available throughout and for everyone. European standards of care for newborn health, developed on the initiative and under the project of the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), will help to overcome differences in clinical practice, structure and organization of care, as well as training of healthcare professionals. This publication presents the part of the standards regarding health care for preterm and sick infants.