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The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … this country is somewhat behind the Nordic countries, with many hospitals 'stuck' in the stage of search and 'being …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …
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The present study sheds light on the expected factors that would impact the Electronic Health Records (EHR) service in Egypt from the demand-side perspective, i.e. the health care consumer. This empirical study is motivated by the widespread use of EHR as a method of promoting health services...
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Illegal activities harm individuals and society as a whole. Besides the physical harm and immediate wealth loss, crime can entail more subtle, long-lasting consequences, namely, impaired mental health. This article presents significant evidence that the surge of crime rates in Mexico contributed...
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I study the effect of reference pricing on competition by parallel imports, in particular the market share of parallel imports and the number of parallel traders. First, I analyze the effect of reference pricing on competition by parallel imports in a vertical differentiation model with a...
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This paper reviews the literature on incorporating behavioural elements into epidemiological models of pandemics. While modelling behaviour by forward-looking rational agents can provide some insight into the time paths of pandemics, the non-stationary nature of Susceptible-Infected-Removed...
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healthcare. However, some jurisdictions may underperform due to the existence of economies of scale and spatial spillovers. Where …-regional dependence arising from the existence of regional spillovers by applying recent advances in spatial econometrics (Elhorst, 2014 … spatial spillovers), might induce a polarisation between the group of the richest, most populated and best performing regions …
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This paper proposes a new tool in the field of telemedicine, defined as a specific branch where IT supports medicine, in case distance impairs the proper care to be delivered to a patient. All the information contained into medical texts, if properly extracted, may be suitable for searching,...
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Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience and health. The human capital literature suggests an...
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