Production and marketing lags in agri-food supply chains often force agricultural producers and food processors to commit to output targets before prices and exchange rates are realized. A theoretical model illustrates how the processor's degree of risk aversion and domestic sales may cause the...

This chapter critically analyzes the legal and regulatory framework for Electronic Health Records in Europe and the US. At both parts of the world, the development of EHRs is evolving quickly, but many different approaches have proven possible. Different approaches resulted in different EHR...

Physician productivity is an important driver of key healthcare outcomes, such as quality of care, treatment costs and patient satisfaction, because physicians influence a vast majority of treatment decisions, and are central to the care delivery process. Thus, it is critical for researchers to...

The emerging process view in organization studies conceptualizes organizations as fluid streams of organizing. If, however, organizations are conceived as consisting of something as ephemeral as processes, the question arises how the organization is then able to interconnect the very processes...

Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor inconveniences to major catastrophes. Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent...

This paper will provide a brief overview of the development of ehealth in Australia with reference to international initiatives. It will particularly look at the individual health record and its place in the ehealth system. It will consider the evolution of medical records to something far...

Most prior research concerning electronic health record adoption was conducted in many parts of the United States, including New York, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Washington, and the country in an aggregate. However, none of the research studies was focused on the Central Valley California...

Today's health care provides its own spin on the word "complex". Somewhere in between the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Physician Value-Based Payment Modifying Policies (VBP) and tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health...

Information systems generate detailed "trace" data about what individuals do and when they do it. Trace data may affect the resolution of lawsuits by, for example, changing the time needed for legal discovery. Trace data might speed resolution by clarifying what events happened when, or they...

Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...