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A Managerial Ecosystem For Excellence In Hospital Administration, Denish Gangasingh

Dissertations

Major healthcare systems and hospital organizations face a myriad of challenges in today’s business environment, having to provide very complex and more comprehensive medical care with fewer resources. In this study, we investigate determinants of hospital performance in critical dimensions and propose an information infrastructure intended to promote excellence in clinical performance while sustaining a solid financial footing.

Senior executives must be knowledgeable in both business and clinical aspects of hospital administration because their decisions ultimately affect patient care and clinical outcomes. Key performance indicators (KPI) are necessary on both dimensions to inform their decisions. Financial and operational aspects of …

Health Systems In Transition: Professional Identity Work In The Context Of Shifting Institutional Logics, Yiannis Kyratsis, Rifat Atun, Nelson Phillips, Paul Tracey, Gerard George

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We investigate how established professionals manage their identities in the face of identity threats from a contested shift in the professional logic that characterizes their field. To do so, we draw on interviews with 113 physicians from five European transition countries who faced pressure for change in their professional identities due to a shift in the logic of healthcare from a logic of "narrow specialism" in primary care that characterized the Soviet health system to a new logic of "generalism" that characterizes primary care in the West. We found three important forms of professional identity threats experienced by physicians during …

Use Of Smartphones In Hospitals, N. A. Thomairy, M. Mummaneni, S. Alsalamah, N. Moussa, Alberto Coustasse

Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH

Mobile technology has begun to change the landscape of the medical profession with more than two-thirds of physicians regularly using smart phones. Smartphones have allowed healthcare professionals and the general public to communicate more efficiently, collect data and facilitate the clinical decision making. The methodology for this study was a qualitative literature review following a systematic approach of the smartphone usage among physicians in hospitals. Fifty-one articles were selected for this study based on inclusion criteria. The findings were classified and described into seven categories: use of smartphone in obstetrics, pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, radiology, and dermatology which were chosen …

Use Of Smartphones In Hospitals, N. A. Thomairy, M. Mummaneni, S. Alsalamah, N. Moussa, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Mobile technology has begun to change the landscape of the medical profession with more than two-thirds of physicians regularly using smart phones. Smartphones have allowed healthcare professionals and the general public to communicate more efficiently, collect data and facilitate the clinical decision making. The methodology for this study was a qualitative literature review following a systematic approach of the smartphone usage among physicians in hospitals. Fifty-one articles were selected for this study based on inclusion criteria. The findings were classified and described into seven categories: use of smartphone in obstetrics, pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, radiology, and dermatology which were chosen …

Mcivor, Wilfred J., B. 1897? (Mss 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 506. Personal patient ledger (1931-1932) of Dr. W.J. McIvor, a physician practicing at Moseley Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky. Includes an unidentified photograph of a woman and the cover of an 1897 book on writing and engrossing.

Physicians, Patients, And Facebook: Could You? Would You? Should You?, Joy Peluchette, Katherine Karl, Alberto Coustasse

Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH

This paper investigates the opinions of physicians and patients regarding the use of Facebook to communicate with one another about health-related issues. We analyzed 290 comments posted on online discussion boards and found that most (51.7%) were opposed to physicians being Facebook “friends” with patients and many (42%) were opposed to physicians having any kind of Facebook presence. The primary reasons for this opposition were concerns about privacy and the need to maintain professional boundaries in the physician-patient relationship. Others expressed concerns about HIPAA violations. Some believed it was acceptable for physicians to use Facebook as long as they were …

Dissecting The Workforce And Workplace For Clinical Endocrinology, And The Work Of Endocrinologists Early In Their Careers, Claude Desjardins, Mark A. Bach, Anne R. Cappola, Ellen W. Seely, Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

[Excerpt] No national mechanism is in place for an informed, penetrating, and systematic assessment of the physician workforce such as that achieved by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the periodic evaluation of the nation’s scientists and engineers. Likewise, knowledge of the workforce for clinical research is enigmatic and fragmentary despite the serial recommendations of “blue-ribbon” panels to establish a protocol for the recurrent assessment of clinical investigators early in their careers. Failure to adopt a national system for producing timely, high-quality data on the professional activities of physicians limits the application of improvement tools for advancing clinical investigation and …

Richardson, Samuel Bainbridge, 1803-1864 (Sc 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 707. Account book, 1848-1859, of a physician at Louisville Kentucky, which contains records, accounts and occupations of patients; a letter regarding debts owed to the doctor, 1855; a photographic negative of one page of the account book, 1850; and a newspaper article about the account book, 1951.

Winlock, Joseph F. (Sc 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 269. Account book of Dr. Joseph F. Winlock, physician of Greensburg, Kentucky, containing accounts of patients, some ailment cures and a small notebook probably carried by the doctor with entries to be copied into account book.

Jackson, Alfred Metcalfe (Sc 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 306. Account book of Alfred Metcalfe Jackson, a physician in South Carrollton, Kentucky.

Physicians’ Work, Alice A. Oberfield, Pamela S. Tolbert

Pamela S Tolbert

[Excerpt] In order to evaluate the full impact of such changes on physicians' work and the health care system, it is necessary to understand the forces bringing change about. Thus, we begin by providing a brief history of the contemporary medical care system, then turn to an assessment of current trends and their consequences for the practice of medicine.

Jarrett W. Palmer Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

Assembled by Dr. Jarrett W. Palmer (1874-1969), this collection features documents detailing Palmer's religious and medical practices in Ailey, Ga. Materials span 1895-1964, and include religious and medical publications, bank statements, financial and administrative forms, insurance paperwork, medical records and referrals, various artifacts from his practice, and other relevant documentation.

Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog.

Neel, James Lucellus, 1849-1922 (Mss 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 108. Account book of James Lucellus Neel, a physician at Madison Mills, Warren County, Kentucky, which contains accounts of patients, 1874-1878; money and equivalent received, 1884-1891; birth records, 1874-1892; and monthly records of his practice, 1874-1894. Also contains photos, n.d. (7), chiefly of male members of the Neel family.

The Climate Of Texas In Relations To The Distribution Of Diseases And The Effects Of Climate And Weather Changes In Causing Diseases And Deaths, Issac Monroe Cline

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Book, "The Climate of Texas in Relations to the Distribution of Diseases and the Effects of Climate and Weather Changes in Causing Diseases and Deaths", by Dr. Isaac Cline, published by Strickland Printing Company. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Yellow Fever Quarantine Proclamation, James S. Hogg

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Quarantine Proclamation issued by the Governor of Texas, J.S. Hogg, declaring a quarantine against the City of Brunswick, Georgia, due to yellow fever epidemic. Signed and sealed by J.S. Hogg. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Correspondence, Henry Eustice Mccullough

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Letter written by Henry McCulloch on TX Institute for Deaf and Dumb letterhead to Governor Frank R. Lubbock requesting help getting General W.P. Harrison to run for treasurer. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Notice To Clean/Sanitize Property Issued By The Office Of The Health Physician In Galveston, Tx, George W. Peete

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Notice from Office of the Health Physician in Galveston, TX, issued to W.G.? To clean Lot No. 5 and empty privy on or before May 21, 1875, or be held liable to fines and penalties imposed by city ordinance, signed by G.W. Peete. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Hospital Ledger, St. Mary's Infirmary

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Hospital ledger listing patients admitted and treated during the month of January 1871 at the rate of 75 cents per day, signed by Dr. C.H. Wilkinson. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Receipt For Medicine Purchased, E F. Schmidt

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt for drugs, medications bought and paid for by Mr. Oehring from E.F. Schmidt, druggist and apothecary. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Correspondence, William R. Smith

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Correspondence written by Dr. William R. Smith to Judy? offering sympathy and condolences for the death(s)? Of family members also writes of his own illness from yellow fever in Galveston and talks about the medical care he has provided to victims, namely soldiers, of the yellow fever epidemic, Dickson Bayou, TX. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Thomas C. Cook

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Estate of M.W. (illegible) for medical services rendered by Dr. Cook. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Thomas J. Heard (1814-1899)

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

robate claim filed against Estate of Matthew W. Marin for medical treatment renderd to decedent by Dr. Heard, See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Receipt For Medicine Purchased, H. C.L. Aschoff

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt to Judge Dean for medications purchased from H.C.L. Aschoff, Druggist. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Edward Randall

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Additional claims filed against Estate of Pilant for medical services rendered, paid in full with interest by admininstrator of estate. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Adolph Billing

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Estate of F.W. Bade for medical services rendered and laying out of corpse of deceased by Dr. Billing, approved by J.P. Cote?, Justice of the Peace. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Itemized Bill And Probate Claim For Medical Services, Medications Rendered, Edward Randall

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Itemized bill/claim filed against Estate of J.W. Pilant for medical services provided. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, J. H. Hannay

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed by Dr. Hannay against the Estate of John Everett for medical services rendered to decedent, received payment in full from Judge John Dean, administrator of estate. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, C. P. Rankin

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Herman C. Jaeger

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Estate of B. Kramer for medical attendance provided to decedent during last illness (yellow fever), See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Probate Claim, Thomas B. Vardeman

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Charles Givens for medical services, medications rendered, certified by A. Blackburn, Justice of the peace. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.