Will service convergence ever happen? A service based method for evolution planning

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.C. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Service Convergence

Service convergence using MPLS multiservice networks

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 152-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bocci ◽  
M. Aissaoui ◽  
D. Watkinson
Keyword(s):  
Multiservice Networks ◽  
Service Convergence

scholarly journals Sensor-as-a-Service: Convergence of Sensor Analytic Point Solutions (SNAPS) and Pay-A-Penny-Per-Use (PAPPU) Paradigm as a Catalyst for Democratization of Healthcare in Underserved Communities

Diagnostics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Morgan ◽  
Lisseth Casso-Hartmann ◽  
David Bahamon-Pinzon ◽  
Kelli McCourt ◽  
Robert G. Hjort ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Service Convergence ◽  
The Social

In this manuscript, we discuss relevant socioeconomic factors for developing and implementing sensor analytic point solutions (SNAPS) as point-of-care tools to serve impoverished communities. The distinct economic, environmental, cultural, and ethical paradigms that affect economically disadvantaged users add complexity to the process of technology development and deployment beyond the science and engineering issues. We begin by contextualizing the environmental burden of disease in select low-income regions around the world, including environmental hazards at work, home, and the broader community environment, where SNAPS may be helpful in the prevention and mitigation of human exposure to harmful biological vectors and chemical agents. We offer examples of SNAPS designed for economically disadvantaged users, specifically for supporting decision-making in cases of tuberculosis (TB) infection and mercury exposure. We follow-up by discussing the economic challenges that are involved in the phased implementation of diagnostic tools in low-income markets and describe a micropayment-based systems-as-a-service approach (pay-a-penny-per-use—PAPPU), which may be catalytic for the adoption of low-end, low-margin, low-research, and the development SNAPS. Finally, we provide some insights into the social and ethical considerations for the assimilation of SNAPS to improve health outcomes in marginalized communities.

Introduction to special issue: Managing technology-service convergence in Service Economy 3.0

Technovation ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 499-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Chieh Chang ◽  
Ian Miles ◽  
Shih-Chang Hung
Keyword(s):  
Service Economy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Service Convergence ◽  
Technology Service

Research on Trans-Boundary Convergence of Different Service Chains in Health Service Ecosystem

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1734-1745
Author(s):  
Siying Guo ◽  
Chao Xu ◽  
Xiao Xue ◽  
Zhiyong Feng ◽  
Shizhan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Value Assessment ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Service Convergence ◽  
Service Ecosystem

With the aging of the population and the development of modern service industries, the health service ecosystem (HSE) is beginning to emerge. As a new form of healthcare industry in the Internet era, HSE has its inherent “social cyber” complexity: the source of healthcare service is social, and such sociality aggravates the diversity, uncertainty, and dynamics of service supply. This poses new challenges to the service matching between diverse supply and personalized requirements for aged persons. In order to meet this challenge, it is necessary to conduct the trans-boundary cooperation and integration between service chains in different domains, including business convergence, interface convergence and value convergence. This task is very difficult and there is currently no common method. In order to change such a situation, this paper proposes an interactive trans-boundary convergence method for health service ecosystem based on micro-service architecture. Firstly, the method confirms the value of service convergence, and then uses this as a driving force to achieve business process integration of different service chains. Then, the business coupling between different service chains is converted into asynchronous data communication to achieve interface convergence. Finally, the value assessment of service convergence is given to realize the value convergence. This method has been verified in the construction of National healthcare service platform for the elderly in China. The results demonstrate that our method has a substantial promise.

Fixed and mobile service convergence and reconfiguration of telecommunications value chains

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Hoon Yang ◽  
Seongcheol Kim ◽  
Changi Nam ◽  
Ji-Sook Moon
Keyword(s):  
Value Chains ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Service Convergence
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