Dual degree programs are becoming increasingly common at universities, especially in the US. The unique highlight of the program in Arizona is that it concurrently emphasizes systematic study of the critical field of entrepreneurship. All participants in this program undergo formal studies and...

There is a growing discussion of risks when software development is outsourced. In order to assess the extent of those risks, one needs to know the value of that concerned software. Software is an intangible good, and the value of intangibles is based on the income they are expected to generate...

One of the main challenges of exchanging patient care records between heterogeneous interoperable systems is the difficulty in overcoming semantic differences between systems. These challenges are exacerbated by the lack of standardization between health care information systems and the costs...

Advances in healthcare information technology have enabled new models for electronic delivery of healthcare services. In this paper, we present the case of electronic delivery of radiological services and describe the market-based and technological factors that have led to the development of...

Recent academic and policy studies focus on offshoring as a cost-of-labor driven activity that has a direct impact on employment opportunities in the countries involved. This paper broadens this perspective by introducing and evaluating the 24-hour knowledge factory as a model of information...

Adverse drug events impose a large cost on the society in terms of lives and healthcare costs. In this paper, we propose an information system for monitoring adverse drug events in an outpatient setting that can form a part of the post marketing surveillance program. The proposed system...

The concept of offshoring of professional services first gained attention slightly over 25 years ago. At that time, US companies began to realize the cost-advantage of getting their computer software developed in India and other countries. The concept gained momentum with the advent of Internet...

Harassment bribes - payments people give in order not to be denied what they are legally entitled to - are common in for example India. Kaushik Basu recently made a 'radical' proposal to reduce its occurrence: Legalize the act of giving the bribe and double the fine for accepting the bribe! We...

The development of a distributed testing environment would have to comply with recent DoD mandates requiring that the DoD Architectural Framework (DoDAF) be adopted to express high level system and operational requirements and architectures Unfortunately, DoDAF and DoD net-centric mandates pose...

Price-matching guarantees have been alleged to sustain collusive prices in a homogenous product market. Theories in this literature also suggest that there exists multiple equilibria (i.e., a set of price equilibria between the competitive and the monopoly price) when all sellers adopt these...