Healthcare Foundation

The medical business potential of the application of patient digital records has attracted many entrepreneurs, but the task ahead is daunting. This following summary is abstracted from The Future of the Internet A Five-Year Forecast, written for the California Healthcare Foundation by Mary Cain and Robert Mittman ... 

Defining what we mean by safety culture has taken up many of the pages of scientific articles and books in the last few decades. A recent round table involving experts, organised by the Healthcare Foundation in Mareh 2013, touched upon one of the thornier issues which was raised by a number of these articles, namely the culture vs climate debate (e.g. Schein 1984 Meams and Flin 1999). The definitions provided by the round table (Healthcare Foundation 2013 3) attempted to distinguish between the two, whilst noting that definitions vary within the research literature ... 

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 2002. Health and Safety Laboratory, Human Factors Group. Safety Culture A Review of the Literature . HSL/2002/25. Healthcare Foundation 2013. Safety Culture What is It and How Do We Monitor and Measure It Event Report. Available at http //www.health.oig.uk/ publications/safety-culture-what-is-it-and-how-do-we-monitor-and-measure-it/ (last accessed on 11 July 2013). 

California Healthcare Foundation. Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals A Practical Tool Kit. [http //www.chcf.org/ topics/view.cfm itemID= 12682]... 

Andrea Wooley, PharmD, BCACP Clinical Assistant Professor, SIUE School of Pharmacy, Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, USA... 

Microbiology Section, Herbicure Healthcare Bio-Herbal Research Foundation,... 

The identification of a clinical goal provides the foundation of the service provided by the healthcare professional. In the area of laboratory medicine, as described later in this chapter, the goal can be expressed in terms of answering a clinical question appropriate laboratory investigations help to answer the question." Knowledge of the characteristics of these investigations is needed to decide which test to use, when to use it, and how to interpret the results. 

The ASCP Research and Education Foundation also funds, coordinates, and conducts a wide range of trainee-ships and research programs in long-term care and geriatric healthcare. 

Collaborative work toward error prevention with the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the National Coordinating council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCCMERP), the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), and dozens of other consumer and professional organizations. 

The Foundation is constituted by patrons that can be individuals or institutions. Most individuals are pharmacists, but there are also some physicians. Among the institutions that are patrons of the Foundation are medical organizations such as the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and Balearic Islands (ACMCB) Spanish primary healthcare net (REAP) Group CESCA, a scientific organization of primary care and the Gerontology International Eoundation (FGI). The support of these medical societies is essential for the credibility and progress of pharmaceutical care practice. 

The Foundation held the Second National Congress on Pharmaceutical Care November 2001 in Barcelona. The main subject of this congress was communication with patients and with the other healthcare practitioners. The Foundation believes that communication skills are the main deficiencies of community pharmacists, and these are essential for pharmaceutical care implementation and practice. 

The Pharmaceutical Care Spain Foundation is also cooperating in an organization called Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) that is promoting pharmaceutical care practice and research. One of the difficulties we have in Europe is the diversity of pharmacy organization system and practice, as well as languages and healthcare structure. Such differences, between European countries, are well discussed by Foppe van Mil. ... 

L.A. Aday, C.E. Begley, D.R. Lairson and C.H. Slater, Evaluating the medical care system effectiveness, efficiency and equity. Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993. 

Presented findings at Cahfomia Cancer Research Foundation meeting attended by policymakers, scientists, physicians, and healthcare industry professionals. 

The foundation of DM is in well-honed contracts for service, a model that suits the US healthcare delivery mechanism and business methodology well. It is precisely because of its US antecedents that many NHS policy makers see DM taking us closer to a US model of healthcare that is, in the UK, widely perceived to have failed. This is a prejudice that is not without some foundation, when taking into account the concept of universality of access to healthcare that is a cornerstone of the UK system, and substantially missing in its US counterpart. 

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