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  • Courseware 
    Muscular system introduction

    Muscular system introduction

    A course consisted of 12 Video & 2 Quizzes introducing how the muscular system works in the human body. Transcripts included.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Sciences
    Keywords:
    Muscle contraction -- Regulation Muscle proteins Troponin I
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Endocrine system introduction

    Endocrine system introduction

    A set of 6 video lessons to help the understanding of the endocrine system and how hormones work for the human body. Transcripts included.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Endocrinology Endocrine gls
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

    Arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

    A series of videos explaining how joints work and what can go wrong. It covers common muscular-skeletal diseases especially symptoms, causes and treatments on topics related to arthritis & gait. Study materials designed to go with the videos are found at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/muscular-skeletal-diseases/arthritis/a/arthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis

    Subjects:
    Rehabilitation Sciences
    Keywords:
    Rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Video 
    Nonpharmacological Interventions: Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center

    Nonpharmacological Interventions: Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center

    alterative pain control

    Subjects:
    Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences
    Keywords:
    Pain -- Treatment
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
  • Courseware 
    Masculinity, Sexual Behavior and Health

    Masculinity, Sexual Behavior and Health

    This course focuses on men's health with particular attention to sexual and reproductive health and healthcare use among adolescents, extending throughout the lifespan.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Men -- Health hygiene Sexual health Masculinity
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

    Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

    This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course, centered around a design project in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently.

    Subjects:
    Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Rehabilitation Sciences, Computing, and Electrical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Self-help devices for people with disabilities
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

    Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

    This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done in MATLAB® during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.

    Subjects:
    Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging
    Keywords:
    Biomedical engineering Signal processing Image processing
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • e-book 
    Modern Information Systems

    Modern Information Systems

    The development of modern information systems is a demanding task. New technologies and tools are designed, implemented and presented in the market on a daily bases. User needs change dramatically fast and the IT industry copes to reach the level of efficiency and adaptability for its systems in order to be competitive and up-to-date. Thus, the realization of modern information systems with great characteristics and functionalities implemented for specific areas of interest is a fact of our modern and demanding digital society and this is the main scope of this book. Therefore, this book aims to present a number of innovative and recently developed information systems. It is titled "Modern Information Systems" and includes 8 chapters. This book may assist researchers on studying the innovative functions of modern systems in various areas like health, telematics, knowledge management, etc. It can also assist young students in capturing the new research tendencies of the information systems' development.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Sciences and Computing
    Keywords:
    Medical informatics Knowledge management Management information systems
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • Open (Access) Journal-Article 
    Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

    Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

    Short discharge time from hospitals increases both bed availability and patients and families satisfaction. In this study, the Six Sigma process improvement methodology was applied to reduce patients discharge time in a cancer treatment hospital. Data on the duration of all activities, from the physician signing the discharge form to the patient leaving the treatment room, were collected through patient shadowing. These data were analyzed using detailed process maps and cause-and-effect diagrams. Fragmented and unstandardized processes and procedures and a lack of communication among the stakeholders were among the leading causes of long discharge times. Categorizing patients by their needs enabled better design of the discharge processes. Discrete event simulation was utilized as a decision support tool to test the effect of the improvements under different scenarios. Simplified and standardized processes, improved communications, and system-wide management are among the proposed improvements, which reduced patient discharge time by 54 from 216 minutes. Cultivating the necessary ownership through stakeholder analysis is an essential ingredient of sustainable improvement efforts.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Management
    Keywords:
    Hospitals -- Administration Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
    Resource Type:
    Open (Access) Journal-Article
     
    OER
  • Presentation 
    Express path to interoperable solutions – Case of the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia

    Express path to interoperable solutions – Case of the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia

    This video was recorded at CeGD eGovernance Academy Seminar Series (SEeHealth): The Roadmap from Concept to Practice, Ljubljana 2010. The key of mutual integration of health care institutions lies in their interoperability, gathering and common utilization of data by different applications. Seemingly, imperceptible and smooth applications' integration enables an efficient mutual linkage of all departments within a single health care institution as well as horizontal and vertical linkage of more health care institutions, all with the aim of improvement of health and quality of patient's life. Health care system quality improvement needs a continuous rationalization of resources funds, which leads towards optimization of business processes and availability of all necessary information in the shortest possible period. All necessary information and data on patients must be available independently on location or time of such a necessity. The greatest obstacles for interoperability represent heterogeneous applications. Such heterogeneity can be presented by the fact that they were written in various program languages, that they are intended for utilization at different types of computers or the fact that they use various communication networks and data transfer methods. IT managers in hospitals must decide how to contribute to cross‐organizational integration and what strategy and means to choose for achieving interoperability. If a system is poor in its interoperability, any increasing functions or little changes could stop its working properly. Interoperability must be ensured at technical, semantic and process levels but also in a legislative level, where all recommendations for legal and lawful solutions are given, which remove the most frequent obstacles – human and bureaucratic factors. The Oncology Institute of Vojvodina as a referent center for oncology and a center for medical informatics signed its own Integrated hospital and business information system. The information system at the IOV consists of the following modules: 1. hospital‐clinical IS 2. laboratory IS 3. pharmaceutical IS 4. radiological IS 5. invoicing (accounting) IS 6. business IS 7. managerial IS All of these modules are mutually optimally integrated, and their interoperability at the level of communicational protocols (HL7, DICOM, internal interface), semantics (the same code‐records, rules) and legislative level (the same accounting calculations) enables the user to see all these complex modules as one system. Thus, we created necessary preconditions for our integration into information society, which is a 21st century strategy at the state level.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences, Management, and Computing
    Keywords:
    Health services administration -- Data processing Management information systems Health services administration -- Computer networks
    Resource Type:
    Presentation
     
    OER
  • e-book 
    Bloomsbury Open Access

    Bloomsbury Open Access

    Open access ebooks from Bloomsbury Collections

    Keywords:
    Social sciences Management Design Geography Business Linguistics Humanities Economics
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • Courseware 
    HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

    HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

    HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health care firm. As such, HMP 607 is most appropriately considered a corporate finance course, as opposed to a course in financial markets. In addition, it will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific problems.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Health facilities Finance Corporations -- Finance
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    EPID 757 - Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

    EPID 757 - Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

    Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are useful for evidence-based clinical and public health practice. The widespread and growing application of systematic review methods for the synthesis of evidence on important or pressing research and clinical questions underscore the need for health-care professionals to understand and critique this research design. This course will provide a detailed description of the systematic review process, discuss the strengths and limitations of the method, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to actually perform a systematic review and meta-analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: formulation of the review question, searching of literature, quality assessment of studies, data extraction, meta-analytic methods, assessment of heterogeneity and report writing. The course will also cover statistical issues such as selection of statistical models for meta-analysis, practical examples of fixed and random effects models, best evidence syntheses (qualitative systematic reviews) as well as examples of methods to evaluate heterogeneity and publication bias. STATA statistical software will be used to perform meta-analysis during the computer lab, along with tutorials on how to effectively use tools such as PubMed for conducting reviews.

    Subjects:
    Statistics and Research Methods
    Keywords:
    Meta-analysis Research -- Methodology Systematic reviews (Medical research)
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    N 536 - Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice

    N 536 - Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice

    The primary goal of this course is to promote an evidence-based approach to advanced nursing practice. Evidenced-based research findings for nursing practice will be evaluated in terms of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic relevance. An understanding of the research process, applicable theories, organizational dynamics, and leadership functions are applied to design and process of implementing research in health care settings.

    Subjects:
    Statistics and Research Methods and Nursing
    Keywords:
    Nursing -- Research -- Methodology Evidence-based nursing
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    N 420 - Perspectives in Global Health

    N 420 - Perspectives in Global Health

    This course introduces the student to global health concepts and the network of organizations working to advance health care internationally. Emphasis for this course is on the global burden of disease and determinates of health. It will provide the student with a broad introduction to programs, systems and policies affecting global health. Students will explore facets of the global health care delivery system, health care economics and the political process and its impact on the health of individuals and populations.

    Subjects:
    Public Health
    Keywords:
    Medical economics Public health administration World health Children -- Health hygiene
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Gender, Health, and Society

    Gender, Health, and Society

    This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender in relation to health, including public health practice, epidemiologic research, health policy, and clinical application. It discusses a variety of health-related issues that illustrate global, international, domestic, and historical perspectives, while considering other social determinants of health as well, including social class and race.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Public health Gender identity Equality -- Health aspects
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between

    Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between

    This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders. We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Globalization
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

    Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

    This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Social classes Mass media sex United States Mass media race relations Mass media -- Social aspects
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Sexual and Gender Identities

    Sexual and Gender Identities

    This course offers an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. It begins with an overview of historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. The remainder of the course flows chronologically, tracing the expanding and contracting nature of attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities, as well as the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Sex United States Social conditions Gender identity
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    HMP 668/SI 542 - Introduction to Health Informatics

    HMP 668/SI 542 - Introduction to Health Informatics

    The conceptual structure for the course derives from the statement below that expresses the purpose of health informatics. Health informatics applies to a wide range of health-related application domains a set of methods (drawn from the informational and behavioral sciences) to create and study informational resources that support the health-related activities of people (individuals and groups) in these domains. The methods employed in health informatics derive from both the computational/informational sciences and the behavioral/social sciences. This course, as an initial immersion into the field of health informatics, will examine the domains, methods, and classes of information resources that, together, create the scaffolding of the field.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medical informatics
    Resource Type:
    Courseware