Studies aimed to capture the effects of IT-innovations in health and social care have shown that there is a gap between expected and factual outcomes. Many decision makers feel the need to articulate an ideal end-stat...Studies aimed to capture the effects of IT-innovations in health and social care have shown that there is a gap between expected and factual outcomes. Many decision makers feel the need to articulate an ideal end-state for their organiza-tions. Striking the balance between novelty and believability of such an ideal end-state is often tricky and they become neither satisfied with the ideal not the visioning. In this study, we explore the contribution of IT-innovations to health and social care. The results showed that coherence between context and IT-innovation is important to capture effects and outcomes. Being coherent rather than visionary contributes to identify where you are, as an organization, and to capture effects and outcomes that “make sense” in the context in question. The paper makes an exposition from the model building, algorithm design to performance analysis and contributes to the academic prosperity in Intelligent In-formation Management The knowledge generated is expected to provide input when identifying goals that IT-investments are supposed to achieve.展开更多
Household medicine lease （HML） industry originated way back in the Edo period （17C-19C）, when it was promoted by the local fiefdom government to revitalize the economy. Accumulations of wealth, acquired thereafter...Household medicine lease （HML） industry originated way back in the Edo period （17C-19C）, when it was promoted by the local fiefdom government to revitalize the economy. Accumulations of wealth, acquired thereafter from everywhere outside the region, have culminated in the formation of the present-day industrial cluster in Toyama, the largest in the whole area facing the Sea of Japan. Today an adaptation of the quasi-CRM （customer relationship management） business model of the HML system has proved to be a success in Mongolia. This fact seems to offer the authors some clues for dealing with those problems that healthcare and medical services in Japan and elsewhere are riddled with. In this paper, focusing on the common critical success factors （CSFs） behind the success of the authors＇ prototype HML system and its recent successful application in Mongolia, the authors will analyze these factors from the perspective of CRM. The authors will then clarify the following： （1） the usefulness of the business model for ensuring primary healthcare for people in developing countries; （2） the usefulness in our ubiquitous network society of applying ICT to the HML system; （3） possible contributions that the use of the system can make toward improving the quality of our everyday healthcare and medical services in our prominently aging society; and the authors will also suggest （4） the importance of elevating ＂individual self-medication＂ to ＂community-based self-medication＂.展开更多
This brief commentary attempts to provide a concise synthesis of social psychology experiments that inform an interpretation of clinical pain. From a social perspective the expression of pain is a complex phenomenon t...This brief commentary attempts to provide a concise synthesis of social psychology experiments that inform an interpretation of clinical pain. From a social perspective the expression of pain is a complex phenomenon that is greater than the patient's physiology. Numerous experiments show that pain is modulated by social andcontextual factors. These experiments point to the role of the listener as a social agent that can modulate the patient's expression. Within the clinical setting the patient's pain experience can be understood as the uncertainty of physical damage and their expression as an attempt to reduce that uncertainty. How successfully this occurs is in part dependent on the empathetic reception of the provider. Chronic pain is a state that is challenging to effectively model in humans but may persist in patients due to an inability to receive effective empathetic reception at the critical time of need(at or near onset). Rather than focusing on pain's alleviation future avenues of pain interventions may do well by turning attention to the most effective ways to impart a message that the patient will be "okay" in a genuinely empathetic manner.展开更多
基金supported by The Swedish Associa-tion of Local Authorities and Regions,Center for eHealth(CeHis)in Sweden.
文摘Studies aimed to capture the effects of IT-innovations in health and social care have shown that there is a gap between expected and factual outcomes. Many decision makers feel the need to articulate an ideal end-state for their organiza-tions. Striking the balance between novelty and believability of such an ideal end-state is often tricky and they become neither satisfied with the ideal not the visioning. In this study, we explore the contribution of IT-innovations to health and social care. The results showed that coherence between context and IT-innovation is important to capture effects and outcomes. Being coherent rather than visionary contributes to identify where you are, as an organization, and to capture effects and outcomes that “make sense” in the context in question. The paper makes an exposition from the model building, algorithm design to performance analysis and contributes to the academic prosperity in Intelligent In-formation Management The knowledge generated is expected to provide input when identifying goals that IT-investments are supposed to achieve.
文摘Household medicine lease （HML） industry originated way back in the Edo period （17C-19C）, when it was promoted by the local fiefdom government to revitalize the economy. Accumulations of wealth, acquired thereafter from everywhere outside the region, have culminated in the formation of the present-day industrial cluster in Toyama, the largest in the whole area facing the Sea of Japan. Today an adaptation of the quasi-CRM （customer relationship management） business model of the HML system has proved to be a success in Mongolia. This fact seems to offer the authors some clues for dealing with those problems that healthcare and medical services in Japan and elsewhere are riddled with. In this paper, focusing on the common critical success factors （CSFs） behind the success of the authors＇ prototype HML system and its recent successful application in Mongolia, the authors will analyze these factors from the perspective of CRM. The authors will then clarify the following： （1） the usefulness of the business model for ensuring primary healthcare for people in developing countries; （2） the usefulness in our ubiquitous network society of applying ICT to the HML system; （3） possible contributions that the use of the system can make toward improving the quality of our everyday healthcare and medical services in our prominently aging society; and the authors will also suggest （4） the importance of elevating ＂individual self-medication＂ to ＂community-based self-medication＂.
文摘This brief commentary attempts to provide a concise synthesis of social psychology experiments that inform an interpretation of clinical pain. From a social perspective the expression of pain is a complex phenomenon that is greater than the patient's physiology. Numerous experiments show that pain is modulated by social andcontextual factors. These experiments point to the role of the listener as a social agent that can modulate the patient's expression. Within the clinical setting the patient's pain experience can be understood as the uncertainty of physical damage and their expression as an attempt to reduce that uncertainty. How successfully this occurs is in part dependent on the empathetic reception of the provider. Chronic pain is a state that is challenging to effectively model in humans but may persist in patients due to an inability to receive effective empathetic reception at the critical time of need(at or near onset). Rather than focusing on pain's alleviation future avenues of pain interventions may do well by turning attention to the most effective ways to impart a message that the patient will be "okay" in a genuinely empathetic manner.
