This article looks at how healthcare IT can save hospitals and health services valuable funding and how these saving compare to the costs involved. The chief barriers to success and possible solutions to these difficulties are outlined. The author also points to the need for government intervention in implementing healthcare IT on a board scale. RICHARD HILLESTAD, PHD SENIOR MANAGEMENT SCIENTIS...

Robert Putnam defines social capital as “features of social organization, such as networks, norms and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation” (Putnam 1995: 67). Such networks are typically associated with norms that promote coordination, cooperation and reciprocity for the mutual benefit of network members. These norms, coupled with the appropriate use of sanctions in case of...

The article describes an approach to the analysis and management of sustainable development industrial enterprises presents a comprehensive strategy for within enterprise. A control mechanism is presented that crucial determining result controlled object which can be used in system. managing enterprise systematic includes several stages. Various types sustainability are considered: economic as ...

a laboratory trial was conducted to determine whether suspensions of zno nanoparticles (zno nps) could interfere with the early growth of fenugreek. this plant species is one of the recommended species by organization for economic cooperation and development (oecd). nine concentrations of zno nps (10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 mg/l) were prepared in deionized )di( water (co...

this article reviews past developments of the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) and studies its potentialities in the areas of economy, trade, investment, energy and military power. a study conducted on statistical information of the sco state members shows that the organisation has the capacity to be turned into one of the biggest international hubs in the fields of economy, trade, forei...

This paper addresses modularity as a basis for organizing economic activity. We first define the key concepts of architecture and of modularity as a special form of architecture. We then suggest how modular systems of all types may exhibit several properties of fundamental importance to the organization of economic activities, including greater adaptability and evolvability than systems that la...

In the last 30 years, China’s economic power has experienced great changes and has brought about a profound impact on the world economy. This led us to ask a question: do changes in China’s economic power shift the geo-economic relationships between China and its neighboring countries? To answer this question, we researched the evolution of geo-economic relationships between China and the Assoc...

Ecology and evolution are inherently linked, studying a mathematical model that considers both holds promise of insightful discoveries related to the dynamics cooperation. In present article, we use prisoner's dilemma (PD) game as basis for long-term apprehension essential social cooperation among unrelated individuals. We upgrade contemporary PD with an inclusion evolution-induced act punishme...

Recently, sustainable development is demanded to be a compulsory requirement by international communities due environmental and economic instability, hence, encouraging scholars explore various approaches through which countries could achieve it. In this lieu, the present article explores concept of green investment, eco-innovation, financial inclusion their effectiveness on in context China. T...

In a recent report, Furlong and Opfer (FO; 2009) found that the level of cooperation observed in an iterated prisoner’s dilemma game (IPD) could be varied in systematic ways by manipulating the numeric values of the payoffs to cooperation versus defection while holding the underlying economic values constant. We sought to determine if similar effects from numeric transformations would be observ...