Studying human competence in relation with digitalization is currently an under-researched area within information systems scholarship. This paper presents a response to the contemporary calls within the IS field for studying the changes brought on by the advent of digitalization. Based on indepth interviews with professional communicators, we illustrate the effects of digitalization on the for...

Most of the literature on healthcare digitalization is focused on the benefits, the barriers and the determinants of the adoption of ICT‐based solutions within hospitals. Little is understood about how hospital digitalization can be accomplished or how this digitalization fosters an increase in hospital performance — both in terms of quality improvement and cost rat...

Digitalization has been identified as one of the major trends changing society and business. Digitalization causes changes for companies due to the adoption of digital technologies in the organization or in the operation environment. This paper discusses digitalization from the viewpoint of diverse case studies carried out to collect data from several companies, and a literature study to comple...

Digitalization is considered key to meeting the challenges that face the healthcare sector. However, the results of digitalization initiatives have often been disappointing and the literature has provided a fragmented understanding of the mixed results. While previous studies have generally focused on the advantages and the barriers of adopting healthcare IS, little attention has been paid to u...

Financial service firms, and banks in particular, are faced with a shift from traditional, interpersonal forms of service to online services. Digital technologies are more and more becoming today’s standard and challenge traditional business models in the banking sector. Building on the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), this study of banks in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein ai...

Digitalization is an umbrella term that refers to all the technologies needed to become fully datadriven. There’s no specific list of technologies under digitalization, but we usually include cloud, big data and analytics, IoT, intelligence, virtual reality, mixed reality, blockchain, drones, and more. Additionally, digitalization is fueling the further use of cloud computing as companies in al...

Digitalization is the societal change process in which new ICT-based solutions bring forward completely new ways of doing things, new businesses and new movements in the society. Digitalization also provides completely new ways of addressing issues related to global health. This paper provides an overview of the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and in what way the field has contributed...

3D digitalization of environments without occlusions requires multiple 3D scans. Autonomous mobile robots equipped with a 3D laser scanner are well suited for the gaging task. They need an efficient exploration scheme for the digitalization. We present a new approach for planning the next scan pose as well as the robot motion. Our approach calculates a collision free trajectory regarding compli...

THE hemodynamic consequences of acute digitalization in man have been reported in a few studies with controversial results. It has been stated that digitalis has little or no effect on the cardiovascular events in the absence of manifestations of heart failurel-' while it significantly improves cardiac function in the failing heart.'2 This paper describes the effect of acute digitalization on t...

broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. africa has a switchover date of june, 2017. for nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. the awareness among urban dwelle...