Model-based development is a widely-used method to describe complex systems that enables the rapid prototyping. Advances in the science of distributed systems has led to the development of large scale statechart models which are distributed among multiple locations. Taking medicine for example, models of best-practice guidelines during rural ambulance transport are distributed across hospital s...

abstract airlines brands are getting new identities in the electronic age. because of growing new technologies like internet, there will be new strategic opportunities for airline companies to position their brand. on the other hand, religious tourism's industry has a sustainable market in iran, because of cultural issues. a lot of passengers prefer to do their religious travels with an ai...

South Ockendon subnormality hospital in Essex has had its unfair share of bad publicity recently. An allegation of cruelty by a nurse and the manslaughter of one patient by another led to news reports?some of which have been angled to hurt the staff?and, predictably, morale within the hospital has suffered badly. The outburst of righteous indignation which followed the Ely Hospital Report made ...

Along with a rise in the demand for medical services, and a steady increase in the costs of those services, the number of workers employed in the health services industry has grown at a very rapid pace . As the decade opened, about 4.3 million persons were working in hospitals, convalescent institutions, physicians' and dentists' offices, or other health care facilities .' By 1979, their number...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate changes in the role of academics and the sources of funding for the medical research cited most frequently over the past decade. DESIGN Database analysis. DATA SOURCES Web of Knowledge database. METHODS For each year from 1994 to 2003, articles in the domain of clinical medicine that had been cited most often by the end of 2004 were identified. Changes in authors' af...

This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of recent trends in health care employment and prices. The statistics presented in this article are valuable in their own right for understanding the relationship between the health care sector and the overall economy. In addition, they allow us to anticipate the direction and magnitude of health care cost changes prior to the availabili...

Complex institutions comprising several divisions and departments such as hospitals need access to information. Hospital information system has many capabilities and in case this system is acceptance by hospital staff, it leads to a revolution in the health care delivery industry. The identification of effective determinants and measures on the success of hospital information systems could sign...