Emerging Patient-Driven Health Care Models: An Examination of Health Social Networks, Consumer Personalized Medicine and Quantified Self-Tracking Melanie Swan * Research Associate, MS Futures Group, P.O. Box 61258, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: m@melanieswan.com; Tel.: +1-415505-4426; Fax: +1-504-910-3803 Received: 9 January 2009 / Accepted: 2 February 2009 / Published: 5 February 2009 Abstract: A new class of patient-driven health care services
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implementing effective discharge processes within the HHC, would in fact improve outcomes for CHF patients 65 and older. Transition theory clarifies the processes of transition that are involved with passage from one life phase to another involving changes in health that lead-up to a period of vulnerability. Afaf Meleis, transition theory suggests, the characteristics during transition, transition conditions and therapeutic practices are responsible determining if patient outcomes are beneficial or
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10 Service delivery and information Behaviours 42–51 The Profession Map behaviours 43 Curious 44 Decisive thinker 45 Skilled influencer 46 Personally credible 47 Collaborative 48 Driven to deliver 49 Courage to challenge 50 Role model 51 1 Profession Map – Our Professional Standards V2.4 Introduction The CIPD Profession Map sets out standards for HR professionals around the world: the activities
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Introduction For many organisations, change is a prerequisite to success. The organisational need for change and improvement can be driven by many internal and external factors. These factors can range from legislation, new technologies, demanding shareholders or changing market trends. Whatever the catalyst for change organisations must develop the ability to respond and anticipate the future in order to maintain their competitive edge. In May 2014 ABC Plc announced some of the most disappointing
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organizations of all sizes and sectors across the world’ (2009, David Mankin), Globalization is the characteristic of New Economy, it provide a broader opportunities to new economy development. As an organization, employers must consider a strategic process to compete with other competitors and survive under globalization underground. Organisation need ever-improving performance to survive and prosper in today’s competitive world: individual and organisational performance improvements are the keys to
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Literature review of strategy implementation and strategy process frameworks Introduction Great strategies are worth nothing if they cannot be implemented (Okumus and Roper 1999). It can be extended to say that better to implement effectively a second grade strategy than to ruin a first class strategy by ineffective implementation. Less than 50% of formulated strategies get implemented (Mintzberg 1994; Miller 2002; Hambrick and Canella 1989). Every failure of implementation is a failure of formulation
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15 Organizational Change LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Describe the elements of Lewin’s force field analysis model. 2. Outline six reasons why people resist organizational change. 3. Discuss six strategies for minimizing resistance to change. 4. Outline the conditions for effectively diffusing change from a pilot project. 5. Describe the action research approach to organizational change. 6. Outline the “Four-D” model of appreciative inquiry and explain
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everyday. What is Job Analysis? Job analysis is the process of studying and collecting information relating to operations and responsibilities of a specific job. Job analysis is a systematic exploration of activities within a job. It is a basic technical procedure that is used to define duties and responsibilities and accountabilities of the job. Each job has certain ability requirements associated with it. Job analysis is a process used to identify these requirements. Section 9-A of ID
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BIG DATA - THE MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION Summary The general theme of the article is to proof how data-driven decisions are better for businesses as data enables the managers to base their decision on evidence rather than intuition. The idea behind big data is to collect all kinds of data from various sources and to effectively utilize this data to improve the financial and operational aspects of the business. Companies that operate on digital platforms like Amazon are already experts at big data
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Creating Collaborative Gatherings Using Large Group Interventions By Jack Martin Leith Chapter 28 of the Gower Handbook of Training and Development, Third Edition, 1999. ISBN 0-566-08122-9 Twelve years down the track I wrote this book chapter in 1999. Since then, my thinking and practice have moved on considerably. So you will understand that I had reservations about continuing to make the work available. However, much of what I wrote 12 years ago is just as relevant today, and I have set my
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