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A Lightweight and Secured Certificate-Based Proxy Signcryption (CB-PS) Scheme for E-Prescription Systems

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Electronic prescription (E-prescription) is an emerging technology that allows health practitioners (doctors, physicians, pharmacists, or nurses) to electronically transmit prescriptions to pharmacies.
Insaf Ullah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

From liquid learning to weaving learning: Negotiating meanings of Children's learning in family travel

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's learning increasingly extends into everyday informal settings, but what counts as learning in these contexts remains insufficiently understood. Focusing on family travel as a mobile and socioculturally situated informal learning context, this study adopts a sociocultural perspective and uses liquid learning as a sensitising concept ...
Zhuxian (Zoey) Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goal Displacement and Goal Conflicts in Circular Innovation Initiatives: Types and Mitigation Practices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many firms set ambitious sustainability goals but these are frequently “displaced” by proxy goals that are easier to track and measure. However, the specific types of goal conflicts that follow from this displacement are poorly understood. We conducted a case study of circular innovation initiatives at a global MedTech company and identified ...
Wiebke Reim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence of household catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures among patients with Breast Cancer in Iran

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Breast cancer disease is the most common cancer among Iranian women and imposing a significant financial burden on the households. This study calculated out-of-pocket (OOP), catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), and impoverishing health ...
Faranak Ahmadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informal Payments for Healthcare Services in Lithuania and Ukraine: [book chapter] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The healthcare systems of many European post-communist and post-Soviet countries have been considerably affected by informal patient payments (also known as ‘under-the-table’ or ‘envelope’ payments) (Chawla et al., 1998; Gaal et al., 2006; Stepurko et al.
Pavlova, Milena   +4 more
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Regulatory barriers to equity in a health system in transition: a qualitative study in Bulgaria

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2011
Background Health reforms in Bulgaria have introduced major changes to the financing, delivery and regulation of health care. As in many other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, these included introducing general practice, establishing a health ...
Spencer Nick J   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The red packet phenomenon from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background In China, informal payments in the medical profession, which workers in the public health care system receive from patients in the course of performing profession-related activities, are usually referred to as “red packets” (Hongbao 红包).
Hanhui Xu, Mengci Yuan
doaj   +1 more source

Call for Submissions - Special Issue July 2019: The Role of Technology and Innovation in Patient Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is excited to announce the call for submissions for its July 2019 special issue on the topic of the role of technology in patient & family experience.
Journal, Patient Experience   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Two Hundred Eighty Characters of Environment: Relative Environmental Performance, Strategic Communication, and Firm Value

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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