Implementing ehealth services for enhanced pharmaceutical care provision: Opportunities and challenges

Authors: Baptista-Fernandes T, Kovats A, Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbara McPake, Casaca A
Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36981-0_40

ePharmaCare aims at estimating the health gains from integration of pharmaceutical services; and to assess the potential of ehealth services in the provision of cognitive pharmaceutical services.
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Teamwork in primary care: Perspectives of general practitioners and community nurses in Lithuania

Authors: Kontrimiene A, Kósa Z, Korn K, Barbara McPake, Kontrimiene A, Korn K
Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/14/118

A team approach in primary care has proven benefits in achieving better outcomes, reducing health care costs, satisfying patient needs, ensuring continuity of care, increasing job satisfaction among health providers and using human health care resources more efficiently. However, some research indicates constraints in collaboration within primary health care (PHC) teams in Lithuania. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of teamwork in Lithuania by exploring the experiences of teamwork by general practitioners (GPs) and community nurses (CNs) involved in PHC.
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Challenges of information technologies adoption to enable community pharmacies eHealth services

Authors: Kolupajeva T
Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1413-81232013000500005&script=sci_arttext

Authors: Calado RA, Fernandes MC, Fernandes MC, Fernandes N, Alves-Pires C, Fernandes N, Bahia MT, Fernandes S, Fernandes S, Fernandez-Martinez A, Fernandez-Martinez A, Ferreira A, Ferreira A
Link: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/11/13-118729/en/

This paper explores the HRH policy lessons from four countries – Brazil, Ghana, Mexico and Thailand – purposefully selected for having achieved sustained improvements in accelerating progress towards UHC since 1990.Part of their success lies in the policy focus on the health workforce to expand population coverage and the health benefits package.
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Implementing ehealth services for enhanced pharmaceutical care provision: Opportunities and challenges

Teamwork in primary care: Perspectives of general practitioners and community nurses in Lithuania

Challenges of information technologies adoption to enable community pharmacies eHealth services

From monitoring of performance to the performance of monitoring: New opportunities for evaluation in the management of Health Surveillance

Human resources for health and universal health coverage: Fostering equity and effective coverage

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