Special issue published: "Research Issues in Patient-Centric Healthcare Delivery"

International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise 4(1/2) 2014

• Improving Kaizen event success in healthcare through shorter event duration
• Improving knowledge sharing in healthcare through social network analysis
• Balancing nurses' workload to enhance the quality of care in an outpatient cancer clinic
• Contact network based risk assessment to prevent potential pandemics
• Disease management: clustering-based disease prediction
• System analysis and process redesign for quality improvement of sepsis resuscitation
• Operating room turnaround time analysis: a case study
• Performance comparison of four triage-based patient flow interventions in the emergency department