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Editorial Improving Quality Lessons From the Department of Veterans Affairs

In 1967, the first multicenter randomized controlled trial of treatment for hypertension was published by the newly created Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program, demonstrating the remarkable effectiveness of drug treatment for what would now be considered severe hypertension (average diastolic pressure 115 to 129 mm Hg).1 During the ensuing 4 decades, there have been remarkable s...

The New Education Department and Editorial Board Members

It’s my pleasure to introduce the new Education department. Gitta Domik and Scott Owen— two well-recognized experts in the  eld—will coedit it. I introduced Gitta as a new editorial board member last issue. For more on this new department, see the sidebar on the next page. Scott Owen has also joined the board. Scott, as the ACM Siggraph president, among many other accomplishments, needs no int...

Editorial Statement: Information Technology and Systems (ITS) Department

This paper introduces the Information Technology and Systems (ITS) Department of CAIS. The department focuses on articles in design science. The goal of design-science research is the development and evaluation of technologies that extend the boundaries of human and organizational information-processing capabilities. Research must demonstrate the utility of such technologies to address problems...

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