Everything is about timeliness and efficiency.
Health care organizations have increasingly embraced industrial methods, such as the Toyota Production System (TPS), to improve quality, safety, timeliness, and efficiency.
Use of mobile phone technology might improve the timeliness and efficiency of public health surveillance.
Adding to that, low quality of health care concerning patient-centeredness, effectiveness, timeliness, and efficiency.
This focus is also acknowledged by the Institute of Medicine (IoM) that has declared that timeliness and efficiency are important aspects of quality in healthcare [ 5].
This all amounts to continual changes to the phenotypes of the cell or organism and it is the timeliness and efficiency of these phenotypic adjustments that determine health and healthy aging.
Models describe quality of care from the perspective of health care providers, managers and patients; dimensions within the health care system; using elements such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, equity and efficiency; and through the provision of care and experience of care [ 5].
The WHO WPRO (2007) identifies five primary challenges of a people centred approach to service delivery: quality, safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency and equity, and states that a people centred approach meets these challenges by 'recognizing that before people become patients, they need to be informed and empowered in promoting and protecting their own health.
A modified version of the OECD DAC evaluation criteria is used to assess UNICEF's response against relevance and appropriateness, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage, coherence and sustainability (or 'connectedness').32 It was not possible to evaluate the wider impact of UNICEF's interventions, although consideration of impact is included in the analysis of sustainability.
These elements and the IOM Model for Quality [ 51] led us to develop the OPTIC definition of successful transitions - A successful transition is a coordinated set of actions that optimizes safety, resident centeredness, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness and equity, across the entire transition.
Overall, we found that the data clearinghouse approach to biosurveillance offers many benefits, including ease and speed of implementation, improved timeliness and completeness of data, efficiency of scale from a central data-mapping operation, and the ability to deliver data to multiple jurisdictions.
