Total Morawski JH1, Paul A2, Spinner DS2, Doyle JJ3, Faulkner EC4, Ransom JF1 1 Quintiles Consulting, Hawthorne, NY, USA; 2 Quintiles Consulting, Durham, NC, USA; 3 Department of Epidemiology and the Department of Healthcare Policy & Management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, USA; 4 Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, University of North C...

Despite the growing number of e-health websites that are dedicated to health education and information therapy, healthcare provider organizations have been slow in embarking on significant e-commerce ventures to improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients and consumers in geographically dispersed communities. More specifically, hospitals and health provider organizations tend to use...

Harnessing digital innovations for healthcare delivery has raised high expectations as well as major concerns. Several countries across the globe have made progress in achieving three common goals of lower costs, higher quality, and increased patient access to healthcare services through investments in digital infrastructures. New technologies are leveraged to achieve widespread 24x7 disease ma...

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Electronic Markets represent one of the most important challenges in the emerging information society. Their broad scope cover all forms of business relationships between trading and manufacturing enterprises, information providers, service companies, consumers and public administrators. But today’s electronic markets on the Internet provide substantial advantages only for a single person in a ...

This paper reviews the concept of electronic marketplaces and, in particular, their relevance for SMEs. A specific example of a Regional Electronic Marketplace (REM) using a Community Web model is examined within this context. The authors review the underlying philosophy for the project and the planning which preceded implementation. A review of the case highlights the issues which are critical...

At first glance, there seems to be a broad understanding regarding business models. However, a more thorough analysis of existing resources paints a different picture. The term ‘business model’ often remains undefined and a consensus on the elements of business models is lacking. An analysis of various sources, such as electronic databases, conference proceedings, and EM – Electronic Markets it...

Neoliberal reforms lead to deep changes in healthcare systems around the world, on account of their emphasis on free market rather than the right to health. People with disabilities can be particularly disadvantaged by such reforms, due to their increased healthcare needs and lower socioeconomic status. In this article, we analyse the impacts of neoliberal reforms on access to healthcare for di...

The Internet allows for A2A commerce at an unprecedented scale; anyone can do business with anyone. The new markets made possible by the Internet bring with them new challenges. This paper presents a system for buyers in electronic markets to avoid bad sellers by modeling the reputation of a seller. The model proposed by Cohen and Tran [6] is extended to provide a method for the exchange of ind...