Patenting Health-Related Databases and Information in Australia

Comparison of Bibliographic Databases in Retrieving Information on Telemedicine

Background & Aims: Some of the main questions which can be of importance for those researchers who intend to perform a systematic review in a field of science are: ‘What databases should I use for my review?’; ‘Do all these databases have the same value?’; and ‘Which sourcesretrieved the highest of relevant references?’. The main aim of this work was the identification of the best database for ...

Measuring online health information seeking skills and its related factors in a middle-aged population

Background: Internet is an important source of online health information seeking. Middle-aged people, may face more health-threatening challenges if they lack seeking skills. Therefore, the evaluation of seeking skills on health information in middle-aged people needs to be further studied. Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to examine the Online Health Information-Seeking Skills (OHISS...

Preemptive patenting under uncertainty and asymmetric information

This paper examines the investment behaviour of an incumbent and a po tential entrant that are competing for a patent with a stochastic payo We incorporate asymmetric information into the model by assuming that the chal lenger has complete information about the incumbent whereas the latter does not know the precise value of its opponent s investment cost We nd that even a small probability of b...

Disjunctively incomplete information in relational databases: modeling and related issues

Health Information Systems Integration Plan: Databases Perspective

Information System (IS) planning is one of the most significant activities for IS acquisition in a large organization. The paper presents the planning of IS integration plan of Health Department in database aspects. The main objective of this IS integration is to specify techniques to link all databases in Health Department so that information is interchanged among them seamlessly. The plan was...