Results for: healthcare Your search came up with 7 results: Volumes/Issues / Volume 8 (2019) / Issue 4 October-December 2019 AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (AAL) Tuesday, October 1, 2019Introduction: The assisted living systems (AAL) patients developed personalized, adaptive and prudential requirements, which require high quality of service in order to achieve interoperability, usability, security, and accuracy. Aim: Exploration of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). Material & Method: Regarding of methodology, conducted a literature review (international & Greek) using scientific Volumes/Issues / Volume 4 (2015) / Volume 3 September-December 2015 ECONOMETRICS AND HEALTHCARE – THE MODEL OF THE GREEK NATIONAL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE NETWORK (PEDY) Friday, January 9, 2015Introduction: Nowadays, the development of econometric techniques has important applications in the health sector. Econometrics facilitates the understanding of the environment where health agencies function so that they can make decisions in order to improve their performance. Moreover, the evaluation of the efficiency of health organizations contributes to the health system. This study included Volumes/Issues / Volume 8 (2019) / Issue 4 October-December 2019 LONG-TERM CARE: GREEK REALITY Tuesday, October 1, 2019Introduction: Long-term care involves providing health services and social care for people who need the help of others to handle basic and secondary daily activities due to physical or mental disability, during an extended period. During the past decades there has been an increase in the aging population as well as steady increase in middle age, resulting in the increased need for long-term care services. Volumes/Issues / Volume 11 (2022) / Issue 2 April-June 2022 PAY FOR PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHCARE: CHALLENGES FOR CLINICAL NURSES Friday, April 1, 2022Introduction: “Pay-For-Performance” are performance-based payment or other incentive schemes in which ‘rewards’ are based on specific qualitative targets. Although in the international healthcare arena these programs have been tested extensively, in Greece the literature is scarce. Aim: A description of programs that provide performance-based financial incentives in health care, a presentation of Volumes/Issues / Volume 8 (2019) / Issue 1 January-March 2019 QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SECTOR IN GREECE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTHCARE Tuesday, January 1, 2019Aim: To explore the terms of Quality and Efficiency in the sector of public health care systems. Materials and Methods: A research of the current Hellenic and International literature was carried out. The research was based on studies found in Pubmed, Scopus, Sciverse, Research Gate, and Google Scholar using the following keywords: Appraisal, Index, Criteria, Quality, Healthcare service, Total Quality Volumes/Issues / Volume 1 (2012) / Issue 1 January-April 2012 Ηealth expenditure in the greek healthcare system: an international comparison Sunday, January 1, 2012Introduction: It is a fact that health expenditures worldwide have been soaring in the last decade, and governments proclaim that this increase is unjustifiable and harmful for the healthcare systems sustainability, and also the sustainability of the respective financial systems as a whole. Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the methods of financing the Greek Volumes/Issues / Volume 9 (2020) / Issue 3 July - September 2020 under publication ΙNVESTIGATION OF THE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS - Α PILOT STUDY Wednesday, July 1, 2020Introduction: The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) aims at the holistic assessment of health of an individual or a population.Aim:Investigation of the HRQoL of healthcare professionals (HPs) who work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) as well as its possible association with specific individual, demographic and occupational characteristics.Material and method:The research