OBJECTIVE Digital innovations with internet/mobile phones offer a potential cost-saving solution for overburdened health systems with high service delivery costs to improve efficiency of HIV/STI (sexually transmitted infections) control initiatives. However, their overall evidence has not yet been appraised. We evaluated the feasibility and impact of all digital innovations for all HIV/STIs. ...

In recent years, there has been increasing work where intelligent software agents have been used to support electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents also called Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, has mostly been seen in areas such as service discovery and knowledge management , automated negotiation and pricing, auctioning and transactional reasoning , and ...

New modeling approaches are needed to tackle the complexity of cell signaling systems. An emerging approach is rule-based modeling, in which protein-protein interactions are represented at the level of functional components. By using rules to represent interactions, a modeler can avoid enumerating the reachable chemical species in a system, which is a necessity in traditional modeling approache...

Numerous information technology (IT)-based innovations from automated teller machines to electronic banking have already changed the customer-bank-interaction. Banks learned that these innovations require close integration with the existing channels, processes and systems in the front as well as in the backend. In view of a still dynamic pace of technological evolution, this research provides a...

The paper presents a systematic literature review to identify the key application areas of innovations through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in providing healthcare information to elderly population. Out of the 210 articles published in various health informatics and information systems journals, 42 were identified to meet the requirements for inclusion in the part...

Numerous information technology (IT)-based innovations from automated teller machines to electronic banking have already changed the customer-bank-interaction. Banks learned that these innovations require close integration with the existing channels, processes and systems in the front as well as in the backend. In view of a still dynamic pace of technological evolution, this research provides a...

Traditional industries (e.g., aerospace and pharmaceuticals) that once organized their activities into functional hierarchies are evolving toward project-based forms of organization in which teams of specialists from both inside and outside the firm report to project managers. Emerging industries (e.g., biotechnology and information technology) are also adopting project-based forms of organizat...

Number: 011-0622 A Dynamic Analysis of Technological Innovation Using System Dynamics

Recurrent mistakes in the treatment of technological innovation in Brazil are identified. A movement on behalf of technological innovation is proposed, based on: an understanding of what technological innovation is (and is not); appreciation of every relevant component; recognition of its systemic and self-coordinating character; and the establishment of an appropriate support.