The Role of Healthcare System of Systems and Collaborative Technologies in Providing Superior Healthcare Delivery to Native American Patients

Author

Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ; Chalasani, Suresh ; Koritala, Sridevi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Health Inf. Manage., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

962

Lastpage

971

Abstract

Healthcare delivery throughout the United States occurs at varying standards of quality. One segment of the community that continues to suffer from issues pertaining to poor access and low quality is the American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) population. Such a situation is clearly untenable, especially given the plethora of tools, techniques, technologies and tactics afforded by today´s knowledge economy. In this paper, we proffer a model incorporating a system of systems approach in order to provide better healthcare delivery to native American patients. We first discuss the role of collaborative technologies in healthcare system of systems. Then we describe the role of healthcare system of systems and collaborative technologies in healthcare delivery to native American patients.

Keywords

health care; AI/AN; American Indians and Alaska Natives; Native American patients; United States; collaborative technologies; healthcare delivery; healthcare system; knowledge economy; Artificial intelligence; Companies; Data mining; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Healthcare Delivery; Healthcare Information Systems; Healthcare System of Systems; Intelligence Continuum; Knowledge Management; Native American Patient Care;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1925-7

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2012.582

Filename

6149011