BACKGROUND This study aimed to explore barriers to and enablers for future implementation of a draft clinical pathway for anxiety and depression in cancer patients in the Australian context. METHODS Health professionals reviewed a draft clinical pathway and participated in qualitative interviews about the delivery of psychosocial care in their setting, individual components of the draft pathw...

Future Internet technologies (BigData, Cloud Computing, Mobile Web Apps, etc.) offer manufacturing industries the possibility to engage in a digital transformation leveraging advanced business processes. Furthermore, IoT technologies are enabling technologies for new Smart Manufacturing solutions. The FITMAN project, Future Internet Technologies for Manufacturing Industries, is working on the d...

Social media often plays a central role in crisis informatics as it is an important source for assessing, understanding, and locating crises quickly and accurately. In addition, social media enables actors to react more effectively and efficiently when managing crises. However, enablers of crisis information management have not been carved out explicitly in a systematic view. Therefore, we perf...

An information system (I/S) is generally considered flexible when it can be modified easily to align with changing requirements of the business. Flexibility is crucial to survive in a hypercompetitive environment. Considering a comprehensive conceptual framework of I/S flexibility enablers, a research question was addressed: Are all the enablers in the framework always essential for achieving I...

Within more turbulent, and increasingly globalized and digitalized environments, Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has long been recognized as one of the most significant factors for better management. More recently, SISP has been included as one of the important components of IT governance frameworks. However, as business environments and IS/IT applications are rapidly growing in c...

Today, increasing number of industrial application cases rely on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services exposed from physical devices. Such M2M services enable interaction of physical world with the core processes of company information systems. However, there are grand challenges related to complexity and “vertical silos” limiting the M2M market scale and interoperability. It is here expected t...

In the era of knowledge economy, how to exploit knowledge assets is essential for businesses to improve their competitive advantage. Issues such as how to enable or facilitate knowledge management systems (KMS) in an organisation have proven to be important for academia and industry. For the reason that sharing and managing knowledge involves a series of activities that are related to culture, ...

Student health and wellbeing within higher education has been documented as poor in relation to the general population. This is a particular problem among students at music conservatoires, who are studying within a unique educational context that is known to generate both physical and psychological challenges. This article examines how conservatoire students experience health and wellbeing with...

BACKGROUND A tailored approach to implementation can facilitate the routine use of best evidence, and so improve the quality of care delivered. Tailored implementation involves investigating the context and barriers to change before selecting appropriate interventions. However, there is little evidence on the methods of tailoring. This study investigated the tailoring undertaken by two implemen...

BACKGROUND Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) rates have declined to near zero in nearly all developed countries. However, in New Zealand rates have not declined since the 1980s. Further, ARF diagnoses in New Zealand are inequitably distributed--occurring almost exclusively in Māori (the indigenous population) and Pacific children--with very low rates in the majority New Zealand European population. W...