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For people who can access healthcare practitioners or peer support, disease management is the process whereby persons with long-term conditions (and often family/friend/carer) share knowledge, responsibility and care plans with practitioners and/or peers. To be effective it requires whole system implementation with community social support ...
The most effective "knowledge leaders" (managers and clinical leaders) use a broad range of management knowledge in their decision making, rather than just formal evidence. [24] Evidence-based guidelines may provide the basis for governmentality in health care, and consequently play a central role in the governance of contemporary health care ...
Disease Informatics (also known as infectious disease informatics) studies the knowledge production, sharing, modeling, and management of infectious diseases. [1] It became a more studied field as a by-product of the rapid increases in the amount of biomedical and clinical data widely available, and to meet the demands for useful data analyses of such data.
A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology that provides clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information to help health and health care. CDSS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow.
The system designed for that purposes was called EMIAS (United Medical Information and Analysis System) and presents an electronic health record (EHR) with the majority of other services set in the system that manages the flow of patients, contains outpatient card integrated in the system, and provides an opportunity to manage consolidated ...
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
Clinical research is a branch of medical research that involves people and aims to determine the effectiveness and safety of medications, devices, diagnostic products, and treatment regimens intended for improving human health.
Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions; by changing social attitudes or economic considerations; or by ...