BACKGROUND In primary care settings, users often rely on vendors to provide support for health information technology (HIT). Yet, little is known about the vendors' perspectives on the support they provide, how support personnel perceive their roles, the challenges they face and the ways they deal with them. OBJECTIVE To provide in-depth insight into an electronic medical record (EMR) vendor'...

HoSpitalS and HealtH SyStemS are creating new entities to explore and exploit non-traditional solutions to a wide range of systemic health care delivery challenges. Known as innovation centers, the organizations are modeled on similar entities from non-health care sectors and focus largely on quality, access, and cost issues. The California HealthCare Foundation interviewed leaders at health ca...

This paper shows how a common sense knowledge base, collected from volunteers over the web, can be used by teachers to plan Learning Actions for preparing students to interact with the community where the common sense statements came from. Consequently, this knowledge base can help teachers to deal with some challenges they face when they adopt a DL approach.

Two challenges that face popular self-monitoring theories (SMTs) of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) are that they cannot account for the auditory phenomenology of AVHs and that they cannot account for their variety. In this paper I show that both challenges can be met by adopting a predictive processing framework (PPF), and by viewing AVHs as arising from abnormalities in predictive process...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Group work, projects and discussions are important components of teacher education courses whether they are face-toface, blended or exclusively online formats. This paper examines the varieties of tasks and challenges with this learning format in a face to face class teacher education class providing specific examples of both failure and success from both the student and instructor perspective....

Adolescents and young adults occupy a unique place within the cancer community due to the challenges they face related to disease biology, access to care, and psychosocial and socioeconomic circumstances. Efforts to define specific needs and targets for intervention in these areas are under way and evolving. This review will discuss the current and future challenges in delivering quality care t...