Title :
Integrated Healthcare Resource Planning and Management
Author :
Poluta, Mladen ; Nunziata, Enrico
Author_Institution :
Healthcare Technol. Manage., Cape Town Univ., Rondebosch
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
Management information systems (MIS) and decision support systems (DSS), used as part of broader healthcare technology management, are considered to be health technologies. As such, they should meet the criteria of affordability, appropriateness, cost-effectiveness, ease of use and sustainability if they are to be implementable and have a lasting impact on healthcare service delivery. They should also facilitate and support improved quality of healthcare. We have developed a suite of management-support tools around a concept of integrated healthcare resource planning and management (iHRPM). We believe that these tools meet the above-mentioned criteria and therefore lend themselves to widespread applicability in diverse healthcare and socio-economic contexts, not least in supporting performance monitoring and benchmarking
Keywords :
decision support systems; health care; medical information systems; socio-economic effects; decision support systems; healthcare quality; iHRPM; integrated healthcare resource planning-and-management; management information systems; socio-economic contexts; Cities and towns; Conference management; Context-aware services; Costs; Decision support systems; Medical services; Resource management; Technology management; Ultrasonic imaging; X-ray imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259646
