Management is the practice of dealing with and handling of people or products or services in a certain setting; while leadership is the ability to step-up above others via providing instructions to them. These are my definitions of the two. However, I do believe leadership and management have similarities but few differences in how they […]
Even with legal and regulatory restrictions on the release and use of data sets for public health surveillance, mechanisms have been created to facilitate surveillance and other programs’ ability to share data or to use other programs’ data. Legal surveillance undertakings support public health maintenance at numerous stages, starting with the establishment of health objectives. […]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (July 28, 2010). Public Health Surveillance Using Emergency Medical Service Logs-U.S.-Mexico Land Border, El Paso, Taxes, 2009. Jama Network: The Journal of the American Medical Association. Retrieved October 7, 2012 from http://jama.jamanetwork.com/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=186308 In the United States, data systems are created by the ongoing, systematic collection of health, demographic, and […]
DIFOTI (Digital imaging fiber optic transillumination) involves using a digital camera to obtain images of teeth illuminated with laser light. The images are analyzed using computer algorithms. DIFOTI can find cavities developing behind metal fillings that X-rays would not diagnose.
Dental informatics combines computer technology with dentistry to create for research, education, and the solution of real-world problems in oral health care using computer application. As part of the important provision of information technology in the education of dentists is that of an appointment recorded in an electronic appointment book to the services offered and […]
Some of the advantages of using robots in the operating room is that a robot may be able to “see” via video devices and to “hear” through microphones using speech recognition software. Robots can hold endoscopes and other instruments without becoming tired or shaky—unlike humans who are liable to becoming tired. Robots are used to […]
It is obvious to note that the advent of digital technology is rapidly transforming the field of radiological system. As a major drawback on traditional X-ray, this application uses high-energy electromagnetic waves to product a two-dimensional picture on file. If the X-ray encounters bone, which it cannot enter, this appears white on the file. Whatever […]
Pay-for-performance programs (P4P) are programs that help in providing financial rewards to physicians and other health care providers–in the order of meeting understandable quality of care and proficiency. The programs, themselves, are good in supporting the quality and improvement of care in the United States. P4P incentive programs differentiate payment among providers based on performance […]
Qualitative research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. There is an article Bradbury-Jones, Taylor, & Herber, (2014) that furthers the debates how theories are used in qualitative research, how they might influence a study and how they are articulated in […]
The one advantage of involving community in the implementation process of a survey is that any external errors pertaining to the survey process can easily be detected. Community members know their community, and can help in preventing irrelevant information that might otherwise exist in the survey process. One challenge of involving community in the implementation […]
