Editorial December 2019

cover 16-6 December 2019

Persian-translation 16-6 December 2019

Information systems frontiers editorial December 2012

Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) has crossed its first decade. We would like to thank all the Advisory Editors, the Executive Editors, the special issue editors and the various referees from across the world and of course Springer, the publishers, who have made this journal a success. In this last issue of 2012, ISF brings to you, nine articles which span the various topics at the frontiers ...

Jon Glasby: reply to editorial Guus Schrijvers December 2007

Professor Schrijvers’s editorial raises some important challenges for everyone interested in integrated care. It also strikes a particular chord here in the UK (or at least in England), where a series of recent reforms have begun to introduce greater elements of choice and competition into a system that has often been seen as something of a public sector monopoly. However, many UK commentators ...

Dennis Kodner: reply to editorial Guus Schrijvers December 2007

As the editorial points out, Kaiser—which began as a prepaid medical group practise in 1946—is a regionalized, integrated healthcare system in which members are ‘locked-in’; that is, they must use Kaiser clinics, Kaiser physicians and other providers, and Kaiser hospitals for their care. A little history may be useful in understanding Kaiser’s unique position in the American healthcare marketpl...