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  • Review
  • Open Access

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...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
740 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
1,340 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
1,215 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
481 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...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,249 Views
8 Pages

11 September 2025

Health systems function optimally when accountability principles, legal frameworks, and governance processes are clearly defined, understood, and implemented. Together these elements set norms, standards, and systems for the practice of health profes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
709 Views
20 Pages

Testing Realist Programme Theories on the Contribution of Lean Six Sigma to Person-Centred Cultures: A Comparative Study in Public and Private Acute Hospitals

  • Seán Paul Teeling,
  • Deborah Baldie,
  • Ailish Daly,
  • Anthony Pierce,
  • Nicola Wolfe,
  • Gillian Fagan and
  • Catherine Garry

4 September 2025

Person-centred cultures are increasingly recognised as essential to the delivery of compassionate, safe, and effective healthcare. While Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is widely adopted as a process improvement methodology, its application is often critiqued f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,356 Views
19 Pages

The challenge for healthcare policy makers, managers and practitioners is finding ways to effectively collaborate with patients and community to plan, deliver and evaluate services. The study examined how managers engage the community with the strate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,223 Views
14 Pages

Sex- and Age-Specific Utilization Patterns of Nuclear Medicine Procedures at a Public Tertiary Hospital in Jamaica

  • Tracia-Gay Kennedy-Dixon,
  • Mellanie Didier,
  • Fedrica Paul,
  • Andre Gordon,
  • Marvin Reid and
  • Maxine Gossell-Williams

Understanding the utilization patterns of nuclear medicine (NM) services is essential for optimizing resource allocation and service provision. This study aimed to address the regional evidence gap by reporting the demand for NM services by sex and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
960 Views
12 Pages

Objective: This study aimed to develop a performance evaluation index system for a district-level public hospital in Chongqing, China, based on Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs), to provide a benchmark for performance assessment in similar hospitals. T...

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Hospitals - ISSN 2813-4524