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Hospitals, Volume 2, Issue 4

2025 December - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,505 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2025

The increasing availability of free-text components in electronic medical records (EMRs) offers unprecedented opportunities for machine learning research, enabling improved disease phenotyping, risk prediction, and patient stratification. However, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Hospitals: Present and Future)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3,130 Views
12 Pages

Reframing US Healthcare Globalization: From Medical Tourism to Multi-Mode Cross-Border Trade

  • Elizabeth Ziemba,
  • Irving Stackpole,
  • Millan L. Whittier and
  • Tricia J. Johnson

21 November 2025

This Perspective presents a framework for US hospitals treating foreign patients to reconceptualize international healthcare trade by leveraging all four modes of trade in health services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,634 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2025

Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds significant potential to enhance operational efficiency and quality in healthcare. However, despite substantial investment, its widespread, sustained implementation is limited, necessitating a thorough r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,936 Views
19 Pages

A Review of Smart Healthcare: Concept, Drivers, Characteristics, and Challenges

  • Alanoud Almarri,
  • Ziad Hunaiti and
  • Nadarajah Manivannan

3 November 2025

Technological advancements driving smart healthcare transformation need new models and solutions for emerging technology challenges. The objective of this review paper is to introduce the concept of smart healthcare, identify its main characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,842 Views
20 Pages

Factors Enabling Data-Based Management in Healthcare: Insights from Case Studies of Eye Hospitals

  • Ganesh-Babu Balu Subburaman,
  • Sachin Gupta,
  • Thulasiraj Ravilla,
  • Helen Mertens,
  • Carroll A. B. Webers and
  • Frits van Merode

24 October 2025

Hospitals are complex systems that function most effectively when operations are coordinated and supported by real-time information and feedback loops. Sustained growth, quality improvement, and financial viability increasingly rely on data-based man...

(This article belongs to the Topic Health Services Optimization, Improvement, and Management: Worldwide Experiences)
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