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Springer eBooks, Nov 21, 2012
ABSTRACT Population health patterns alter the disease burden, while a higher level of education a... more ABSTRACT Population health patterns alter the disease burden, while a higher level of education and increased availability of information raise expectations of healthcare delivery. Therefore, changes in healthcare delivery have become so widespread and numerous that the idea of e-health has become one of excitement and prediction rather than intervention. On the other hand, the endorsement e-health is spreading slowly. Few companies focus on population-oriented e-health tools partly because of perceptions about the viability and capacity of the market. Moreover, developers of e-health resources are a highly diverse group with differing skills and resources while a common problem for developers is finding the balance between risk and outcome. On the other hand, e-health presents risks to patient health information that involve not only appropriate protocols but also laws, regulations, and appropriate safety culture. Breaches of network security and international viruses have elevated the public awareness of online information and computer security, although the overwhelming majority of security breaches do not directly involve health-related data. Finally, as we believe in the implications of the genetic components of disease, we expect a significant increase in the genetic information of clinical records. The future vision is mobile-personalized e-health in a patient centered and patient safety context.
IGI Global eBooks, Sep 7, 2010
People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before... more People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before anything else the consideration of the patient. The development of people-centered care might include a partnership approach based on equal footing, capacity-building and the expansion of organizational care. Its central values encompass empowerment, participation, family, community, and the abolition of any kind of discrimination. As a result, they bestow people on shared decision-making not exclusively on issues of treatment but also for health care organization. On the other hand, a global e-health agreement is beginning to take shape on the engagement of stakeholders, the interoperability, and standards. Consequently, e-health can have a significant impact on people-centered care, despite the challenges of implementation and adoption.
IGI Global eBooks, 2022
The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individ... more The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individual who needs to be seen and treated with utter respect for his or her individuality. It will not be long until digitizing a person unlocks the cause for what is wrong, creating valuable knowledge that can save a life or markedly improve the quality of life. On the other hand, emerging m-health technologies provide fundamentally different ways of looking at tailored communication technology. As a result, tailored communications research is poised at a crossroads. It needs to both build on and break away from existing frameworks into new territory, realizing the necessary commitment to theory-driven research at basic, methodological, clinical, and applied levels. The chapter envisions tailored m-health communication in the context of the science of individuality, emphasizing the variability, stability, and centrality of the individual.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2017
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2022
Population health management (PHM) is a discipline that studies and facilitates care delivery acr... more Population health management (PHM) is a discipline that studies and facilitates care delivery across the general population. On the other hand, currently, there is a significant outgrowth of precision medicine within the science of individuality that recognizes the uniqueness and digitization of the individual. The chapter focuses on five technologies that significantly impact precision medicine, arguing that cloud computing, big data, and m-health technologies offer the resources to succeed in dealing with the shortcomings of population health management. Finally, it contends that quantum computing and artificial intelligence are the necessary keystones, as they provide the required enormous processing power and algorithmic tools.
IGI Global eBooks, 2020
The application of linear models to human systems and healthcare management and quality has impro... more The application of linear models to human systems and healthcare management and quality has improved our understanding of their system structure and function. However, such models often fall short of explaining experimental results or predicting future abnormalities in complex nonlinear systems which help in dissecting and analyzing individual system components. Nonlinear models may better explain how the individual components collectively act and interact to produce a dynamic system in constant flux. They also assist in filling in some of the results that are not adequately explained by linear models. In this context, we should consider the integration of linear and non-linear theories in healthcare quality and management, drawing the initial conditions of chaotic behavior from the standardization of the linear theory, and distinguishing between desirable and undesirable variation relegating statistical process control only to issues of high certainty regarding the outcome.
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Sep 7, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to elicit Greek doctors' and nurses' views about adv... more The purpose of this paper is to elicit Greek doctors' and nurses' views about adverse event reporting. This is an exploratory study using an adverse events questionnaire administered to 209 doctors and 214 nurses in 14 major Athens universities and tertiary hospitals. The paper finds that Greek doctors and nurses prefer a strictly confidential or conditionally confidential reporting scheme. Most doctors favoured disclosing department identity, while a nursing majority argued that it should remain unknown. When asked about the person's professional affiliation that, under a confidential scheme, receives reports and gives feedback, most doctors and nurses preferred the receiver to belong to their profession. Most medical personnel preferred the mandatory model or the discretionary model with a set of guidelines exemplifying adverse event types, while a nurse majority preferred the discretionary with a set of guidelines exemplifying adverse events. It is necessary to establish a strictly confidential, non-punitive reporting scheme that supports learning and knowledge and one that is separate from any disciplinary scheme. The study indicates that culture, legal and patient complaint systems do not affect healthcare professional notions with respect to reporting adverse events.
IGI Global eBooks, 2022
The pandemic represents an opportunity to reimagine future healthcare and rethink healthcare mana... more The pandemic represents an opportunity to reimagine future healthcare and rethink healthcare management unbound by preconceived notions based on the following three main drivers that emerged during the pandemic. These include transformed business models, new care delivery models disrupted by ubiquitous data and technology, intelligent spaces, and digitally-enabled hospitality. In this context, it is imperative to reexamine all facets of healthcare management, considering that applying linear models to healthcare management has improved our understanding of their system structure and function. However, such models often fall short of explaining experimental results or predicting future abnormalities in complex nonlinear systems. Nonlinear models may better explain how the individual components collectively act and interact to produce a dynamic system in constant flux. They also assist in filling in some of the results which linear models do not adequately explain. Finally, chaos theory might provide new insights into standard as well as abnormal behavior within systems.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2017
Individualizing care must take into account the diversity of patient values and perspectives whil... more Individualizing care must take into account the diversity of patient values and perspectives while attending to the specific needs of people must take into account the multifaceted nature of culture. Digital medicine enables digital proximity and self-care, challenges the traditional paternal model of medicine, reshapes the nature and expectations of health care delivery, emphasizes the active involvement of patients and has an enormous potential to empower patients. Moreover, the concepts of bio-objects, cultural competence, and patient-centered care could be apparently thought on a continuum with one pole representing the bio-objects and the other representing one of the health care quality dimensions, patient-centered care. All-embracing, digital medicine affects the core values of cultural competence, which are shared by patient-centered care, one of the health care quality dimensions.
IGI Global eBooks, Dec 26, 2012
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2014
IGI Global eBooks, Jan 18, 2011
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2019
The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individ... more The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individual who needs to be seen and treated with utter respect for his or her individuality. It will not be long until digitizing a person unlocks the cause for what is wrong, creating valuable knowledge that can save a life or markedly improve the quality of life. On the other hand, emerging m-health technologies provide fundamentally different ways of looking at tailored communication technology. As a result, tailored communications research is poised at a crossroads. It needs to both build on and break away from existing frameworks into new territory, realizing the necessary commitment to theory-driven research at basic, methodological, clinical, and applied levels. The chapter envisions tailored m-health communication in the context of the science of individuality, emphasizing the variability, stability, and centrality of the individual.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2019
Self-care emerged from the concept of health promotion in the 1970s while from 2000 onwards the t... more Self-care emerged from the concept of health promotion in the 1970s while from 2000 onwards the term self-management gained popularity, with a greater focus on long-term conditions and the trend towards more holistic models of care. Although self-management and self-care are often used interchangeably, a distinction between the two concepts can be made. Both can be considered in terms of a continuum, with self-care at one end as "normal activity" and self-management an extension of this. Self-management support is the assistance given to patients in order to encourage daily decisions that improve healthrelated behaviors and clinical outcomes. The chapter envisions these concepts on a continuum with one pole representing mobile health and the other self-care. It concludes that self-management support is the nexus of mobile health and self-care.
International journal of reliable and quality e-healthcare, Oct 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting massive stress on the formal training of healthcare professional... more The COVID-19 pandemic is putting massive stress on the formal training of healthcare professionals, their creed to do no harm, as well as the patient safety movement. So far, we have explicitly been teaching healthcare professionals that the best way of treating a patient is through its vicinity with multiple providers. Moreover, healthcare education requires a pack of health care workers from varied educational backgrounds and training levels for the nuances of a disease. However, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a respiratory disease that has spread to many countries around the world, affects not only all aspects of daily life but also organizational culture and values of healthcare. In this context, COVID-19 introduced an exponential threat to the theory and practice of quality.
Journal of Nursing Measurement, Apr 1, 2010
The growing literature relating to job satisfaction among nurses concludes that more research is ... more The growing literature relating to job satisfaction among nurses concludes that more research is required to understand the organizational, professional, and personal variables that improve nurse satisfaction and retention. This study developed and psychometrically tested a nurse satisfaction questionnaire, suitable for the nurses’ working conditions in Greece. A cross-sectional survey, in Greek, was conducted in three public hospitals. Two-hundred and twenty-five Greek nurses evaluated the psychometric properties of the Greek Nurses’ Job Satisfaction Scale (GNJSS). The 18-item questionnaire showed a high degree of internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.907) and revealed four factors that are consistent with the predetermined subscales and the conceptual base of the GNJSS. The factors, which explain 62.420% of variance, are associated with interaction and recognition, leadership style and organizational policies, self-growth and responsibility, and remuneration and work itself. Although it would be useful to carry out further analyses to assess time-based properties of reliability, the GNJSS questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument to assess nurses’ job satisfaction.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2014
Software applications once held on local computers and servers are beginning to shift to the publ... more Software applications once held on local computers and servers are beginning to shift to the public Internet sphere, and private health information is no exception. The likelihood of placing once restricted and private health records in the cloud is increasing.Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery focuses on cloud technologies that could affect quality in the healthcare field. Leading experts in this area offer their knowledge and contribute to the demystification of healthcare in the Cloud. This publication will prove to be a useful tool for undergraduate and graduate students of healthcare quality and management, healthcare managers, and industry professionals.
The invited lecture and session lead at the ISQua conference related to issues of necessary liter... more The invited lecture and session lead at the ISQua conference related to issues of necessary literacu introduction to future potential users of the e/health and cloud computing in order to minimize risks resulting from sensitive and protentially inapropriate information sharing and storage in networks.
, He works for 'P. & A. Kyriakou' Children's Hospital and teaches the module of quality at the gr... more , He works for 'P. & A. Kyriakou' Children's Hospital and teaches the module of quality at the graduate and postgraduate level. He has written three books, which are the only ones in the Greek references. He has also served as a scientific coordinator and researcher in Greek and European research programs. In 2004, he was declared "Person of Quality in Healthcare", with respect to Greece. His research interests include healthcare management, quality, knowledge management, pensions, and the dualism of the labor market. Market: This premier publication is essential for all academic and research library reference collections. It is a crucial tool for academicians, researchers, and practitioners and is ideal for classroom use.
Springer eBooks, Nov 21, 2012
ABSTRACT Population health patterns alter the disease burden, while a higher level of education a... more ABSTRACT Population health patterns alter the disease burden, while a higher level of education and increased availability of information raise expectations of healthcare delivery. Therefore, changes in healthcare delivery have become so widespread and numerous that the idea of e-health has become one of excitement and prediction rather than intervention. On the other hand, the endorsement e-health is spreading slowly. Few companies focus on population-oriented e-health tools partly because of perceptions about the viability and capacity of the market. Moreover, developers of e-health resources are a highly diverse group with differing skills and resources while a common problem for developers is finding the balance between risk and outcome. On the other hand, e-health presents risks to patient health information that involve not only appropriate protocols but also laws, regulations, and appropriate safety culture. Breaches of network security and international viruses have elevated the public awareness of online information and computer security, although the overwhelming majority of security breaches do not directly involve health-related data. Finally, as we believe in the implications of the genetic components of disease, we expect a significant increase in the genetic information of clinical records. The future vision is mobile-personalized e-health in a patient centered and patient safety context.
IGI Global eBooks, Sep 7, 2010
People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before... more People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before anything else the consideration of the patient. The development of people-centered care might include a partnership approach based on equal footing, capacity-building and the expansion of organizational care. Its central values encompass empowerment, participation, family, community, and the abolition of any kind of discrimination. As a result, they bestow people on shared decision-making not exclusively on issues of treatment but also for health care organization. On the other hand, a global e-health agreement is beginning to take shape on the engagement of stakeholders, the interoperability, and standards. Consequently, e-health can have a significant impact on people-centered care, despite the challenges of implementation and adoption.
IGI Global eBooks, 2022
The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individ... more The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individual who needs to be seen and treated with utter respect for his or her individuality. It will not be long until digitizing a person unlocks the cause for what is wrong, creating valuable knowledge that can save a life or markedly improve the quality of life. On the other hand, emerging m-health technologies provide fundamentally different ways of looking at tailored communication technology. As a result, tailored communications research is poised at a crossroads. It needs to both build on and break away from existing frameworks into new territory, realizing the necessary commitment to theory-driven research at basic, methodological, clinical, and applied levels. The chapter envisions tailored m-health communication in the context of the science of individuality, emphasizing the variability, stability, and centrality of the individual.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2017
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2022
Population health management (PHM) is a discipline that studies and facilitates care delivery acr... more Population health management (PHM) is a discipline that studies and facilitates care delivery across the general population. On the other hand, currently, there is a significant outgrowth of precision medicine within the science of individuality that recognizes the uniqueness and digitization of the individual. The chapter focuses on five technologies that significantly impact precision medicine, arguing that cloud computing, big data, and m-health technologies offer the resources to succeed in dealing with the shortcomings of population health management. Finally, it contends that quantum computing and artificial intelligence are the necessary keystones, as they provide the required enormous processing power and algorithmic tools.
IGI Global eBooks, 2020
The application of linear models to human systems and healthcare management and quality has impro... more The application of linear models to human systems and healthcare management and quality has improved our understanding of their system structure and function. However, such models often fall short of explaining experimental results or predicting future abnormalities in complex nonlinear systems which help in dissecting and analyzing individual system components. Nonlinear models may better explain how the individual components collectively act and interact to produce a dynamic system in constant flux. They also assist in filling in some of the results that are not adequately explained by linear models. In this context, we should consider the integration of linear and non-linear theories in healthcare quality and management, drawing the initial conditions of chaotic behavior from the standardization of the linear theory, and distinguishing between desirable and undesirable variation relegating statistical process control only to issues of high certainty regarding the outcome.
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Sep 7, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to elicit Greek doctors' and nurses' views about adv... more The purpose of this paper is to elicit Greek doctors' and nurses' views about adverse event reporting. This is an exploratory study using an adverse events questionnaire administered to 209 doctors and 214 nurses in 14 major Athens universities and tertiary hospitals. The paper finds that Greek doctors and nurses prefer a strictly confidential or conditionally confidential reporting scheme. Most doctors favoured disclosing department identity, while a nursing majority argued that it should remain unknown. When asked about the person's professional affiliation that, under a confidential scheme, receives reports and gives feedback, most doctors and nurses preferred the receiver to belong to their profession. Most medical personnel preferred the mandatory model or the discretionary model with a set of guidelines exemplifying adverse event types, while a nurse majority preferred the discretionary with a set of guidelines exemplifying adverse events. It is necessary to establish a strictly confidential, non-punitive reporting scheme that supports learning and knowledge and one that is separate from any disciplinary scheme. The study indicates that culture, legal and patient complaint systems do not affect healthcare professional notions with respect to reporting adverse events.
IGI Global eBooks, 2022
The pandemic represents an opportunity to reimagine future healthcare and rethink healthcare mana... more The pandemic represents an opportunity to reimagine future healthcare and rethink healthcare management unbound by preconceived notions based on the following three main drivers that emerged during the pandemic. These include transformed business models, new care delivery models disrupted by ubiquitous data and technology, intelligent spaces, and digitally-enabled hospitality. In this context, it is imperative to reexamine all facets of healthcare management, considering that applying linear models to healthcare management has improved our understanding of their system structure and function. However, such models often fall short of explaining experimental results or predicting future abnormalities in complex nonlinear systems. Nonlinear models may better explain how the individual components collectively act and interact to produce a dynamic system in constant flux. They also assist in filling in some of the results which linear models do not adequately explain. Finally, chaos theory might provide new insights into standard as well as abnormal behavior within systems.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2017
Individualizing care must take into account the diversity of patient values and perspectives whil... more Individualizing care must take into account the diversity of patient values and perspectives while attending to the specific needs of people must take into account the multifaceted nature of culture. Digital medicine enables digital proximity and self-care, challenges the traditional paternal model of medicine, reshapes the nature and expectations of health care delivery, emphasizes the active involvement of patients and has an enormous potential to empower patients. Moreover, the concepts of bio-objects, cultural competence, and patient-centered care could be apparently thought on a continuum with one pole representing the bio-objects and the other representing one of the health care quality dimensions, patient-centered care. All-embracing, digital medicine affects the core values of cultural competence, which are shared by patient-centered care, one of the health care quality dimensions.
IGI Global eBooks, Dec 26, 2012
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2014
IGI Global eBooks, Jan 18, 2011
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2019
The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individ... more The era of the science of individuality promises to fully recognize the uniqueness of the individual who needs to be seen and treated with utter respect for his or her individuality. It will not be long until digitizing a person unlocks the cause for what is wrong, creating valuable knowledge that can save a life or markedly improve the quality of life. On the other hand, emerging m-health technologies provide fundamentally different ways of looking at tailored communication technology. As a result, tailored communications research is poised at a crossroads. It needs to both build on and break away from existing frameworks into new territory, realizing the necessary commitment to theory-driven research at basic, methodological, clinical, and applied levels. The chapter envisions tailored m-health communication in the context of the science of individuality, emphasizing the variability, stability, and centrality of the individual.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2019
Self-care emerged from the concept of health promotion in the 1970s while from 2000 onwards the t... more Self-care emerged from the concept of health promotion in the 1970s while from 2000 onwards the term self-management gained popularity, with a greater focus on long-term conditions and the trend towards more holistic models of care. Although self-management and self-care are often used interchangeably, a distinction between the two concepts can be made. Both can be considered in terms of a continuum, with self-care at one end as "normal activity" and self-management an extension of this. Self-management support is the assistance given to patients in order to encourage daily decisions that improve healthrelated behaviors and clinical outcomes. The chapter envisions these concepts on a continuum with one pole representing mobile health and the other self-care. It concludes that self-management support is the nexus of mobile health and self-care.
International journal of reliable and quality e-healthcare, Oct 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting massive stress on the formal training of healthcare professional... more The COVID-19 pandemic is putting massive stress on the formal training of healthcare professionals, their creed to do no harm, as well as the patient safety movement. So far, we have explicitly been teaching healthcare professionals that the best way of treating a patient is through its vicinity with multiple providers. Moreover, healthcare education requires a pack of health care workers from varied educational backgrounds and training levels for the nuances of a disease. However, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a respiratory disease that has spread to many countries around the world, affects not only all aspects of daily life but also organizational culture and values of healthcare. In this context, COVID-19 introduced an exponential threat to the theory and practice of quality.
Journal of Nursing Measurement, Apr 1, 2010
The growing literature relating to job satisfaction among nurses concludes that more research is ... more The growing literature relating to job satisfaction among nurses concludes that more research is required to understand the organizational, professional, and personal variables that improve nurse satisfaction and retention. This study developed and psychometrically tested a nurse satisfaction questionnaire, suitable for the nurses’ working conditions in Greece. A cross-sectional survey, in Greek, was conducted in three public hospitals. Two-hundred and twenty-five Greek nurses evaluated the psychometric properties of the Greek Nurses’ Job Satisfaction Scale (GNJSS). The 18-item questionnaire showed a high degree of internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.907) and revealed four factors that are consistent with the predetermined subscales and the conceptual base of the GNJSS. The factors, which explain 62.420% of variance, are associated with interaction and recognition, leadership style and organizational policies, self-growth and responsibility, and remuneration and work itself. Although it would be useful to carry out further analyses to assess time-based properties of reliability, the GNJSS questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument to assess nurses’ job satisfaction.
Advances in healthcare information systems and administration book series, 2014
Software applications once held on local computers and servers are beginning to shift to the publ... more Software applications once held on local computers and servers are beginning to shift to the public Internet sphere, and private health information is no exception. The likelihood of placing once restricted and private health records in the cloud is increasing.Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery focuses on cloud technologies that could affect quality in the healthcare field. Leading experts in this area offer their knowledge and contribute to the demystification of healthcare in the Cloud. This publication will prove to be a useful tool for undergraduate and graduate students of healthcare quality and management, healthcare managers, and industry professionals.
The invited lecture and session lead at the ISQua conference related to issues of necessary liter... more The invited lecture and session lead at the ISQua conference related to issues of necessary literacu introduction to future potential users of the e/health and cloud computing in order to minimize risks resulting from sensitive and protentially inapropriate information sharing and storage in networks.
, He works for 'P. & A. Kyriakou' Children's Hospital and teaches the module of quality at the gr... more , He works for 'P. & A. Kyriakou' Children's Hospital and teaches the module of quality at the graduate and postgraduate level. He has written three books, which are the only ones in the Greek references. He has also served as a scientific coordinator and researcher in Greek and European research programs. In 2004, he was declared "Person of Quality in Healthcare", with respect to Greece. His research interests include healthcare management, quality, knowledge management, pensions, and the dualism of the labor market. Market: This premier publication is essential for all academic and research library reference collections. It is a crucial tool for academicians, researchers, and practitioners and is ideal for classroom use.