Managing Crises in the Healthcare Service Chain

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Panos Constantinides
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Service Chain ◽  
Using Data ◽  
H1n1 Outbreak

This paper explores the strategic importance of information systems for managing such crises as the H1N1 outbreak and the Haiti earthquake in the healthcare service chain. The paper synthesizes the literature on crisis management and information systems for emergency response and draws some key lessons for healthcare service chains. The paper illustrates these lessons by using data from an empirical case study in the region of Crete in Greece. The author concludes by discussing some future directions in managing crises in the healthcare service chain, including the importance of distributive, adaptive crisis management through new technologies like mashups.

Managing Crises in the Healthcare Service Chain

2012 ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
Panos Constantinides
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Haiti Earthquake ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Service Chain ◽  
Using Data ◽  
H1n1 Outbreak

This paper explores the strategic importance of information systems for managing such crises as the H1N1 outbreak and the Haiti earthquake in the healthcare service chain. The paper synthesizes the literature on crisis management and information systems for emergency response and draws some key lessons for healthcare service chains. The paper illustrates these lessons by using data from an empirical case study in the region of Crete in Greece. The author concludes by discussing some future directions in managing crises in the healthcare service chain, including the importance of distributive, adaptive crisis management through new technologies like mashups.

Achieving a low carbon transition in Japan, the role of motor vehicle lifetime

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigemi Kagawa ◽  
Daisuke Nishijima ◽  
Yuya Nakamoto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Using Data

In order to achieve climate change mitigation goals, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Japan’s household sector is critical. Accomplishing a transition to low carbon and energy efficient consumer goods is particularly valuable as a policy tool for reducing emissions in the residential sector. This case study presents an analysis of the lifetime of personal vehicles in Japan, and considers the optimal scenario in terms of retention and disposal, specifically as it relates to GHG emissions. Using data from Japan, the case study shows the critical importance of including whole-of-life energy and carbon calculations when assessing the contributions that new technologies can make towards low carbon mobility transitions. While energy-efficiency gains are important, replacing technologies can overlook the energy and carbon embedded in the production phase. Without this perspective, policy designed to reduce GHG emissions may result in increased emissions and further exacerbate global climate change.

Exploring Socio-Technical Design of Crisis Management Information Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 514-530
Author(s):  
Dan Harnesk ◽  
John Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Wild Fire ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Technology Processes

In this chapter, we explore design foundations and conceptualize a design approach to examine the socio-technical knowledge that crisis organizations have about crisis management Information Systems. We use findings from a case study across four crisis organizations to illustrate how the network of knowledge, information management, and integration of technology and information were interpreted by stakeholders during a large wild fire in 2006. The design approach illustrates that design foundations of crisis management Information Systems encompass: a network of knowledge, IT management, and information integration. We argue that the design foundation is promising for analysis and explanation of the enrolment of actors, adaptation of technology/processes, and stabilization of crisis management Information Systems.

scholarly journals Le abetine di Vallombrosa nel 1791. I monaci vallombrosani e l'assestamento forestale nel XVIII secolo: un patrimonio culturale da salvaguardare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Galipò ◽  
Duccio Baldassini
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The study of microtoponomastics, the examination of sources and the use of new technologies for the creation of geographic information systems capable of gathering various layers of information, allows the extraction of extremely interesting materials for land planning. The case study of the Vallombrosa Forest, probably the best-known forest area in Italy, is indicative of how the exploration of the world of historical archives is important still today. From the evidence that the Vallombrosan Benedictine monks, in the last years of the eighteenth century, had already drawn up a forest regulation plan, we can see the need and urgency to preserve a real scientific and cultural heritage. The creation of a Silvomuseum in Vallombrosa is confirmed as a brilliant intuition and its careful and punctual realization represents the challenge that awaits the current managers of the millenary forest, the cradle of Italian forestry sciences.

Life Cycle Cost-Benefit Model for Road Weather Information Systems

1998 ◽  
Vol 1627 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin McKeever ◽  
Carl Haas ◽  
Jose Weissmann ◽  
Rich Greer
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Weather Information ◽  
State Highway ◽  
State Highway Agencies

To ensure safer driving conditions on highways, state highway agencies are exploring the use of new technologies that will improve the flow of information about hazardous road conditions. These technologies are called Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS). The objective of this paper is to provide a systematic methodology for highway agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits associated with implementing RWIS. This objective was achieved through the development of a life cycle cost-benefit model for RWIS. This analysis tool provides highway agency decision makers with a methodology through which different RWIS implementation alternatives can be evaluated from economic, qualitative, and environmental perspectives. A case study demonstrating the use of the RWIS cost-benefit model also is included. The purpose of the case study is to evaluate whether or not it is cost-beneficial to implement an RWIS on Interstate 20 near Abilene, Texas. The model determined that it was cost-beneficial to implement this system.

scholarly journals A New Big Data Benchmark for OLAP Cube Design Using Data Pre-Aggregation Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 8674
Author(s):  
Roberto Tardío ◽  
Alejandro Maté ◽  
Juan Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Data Querying ◽  
Aggregation Techniques ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Analytic Models

In recent years, several new technologies have enabled OLAP processing over Big Data sources. Among these technologies, we highlight those that allow data pre-aggregation because of their demonstrated performance in data querying. This is the case of Apache Kylin, a Hadoop based technology that supports sub-second queries over fact tables with billions of rows combined with ultra high cardinality dimensions. However, taking advantage of data pre-aggregation techniques to designing analytic models for Big Data OLAP is not a trivial task. It requires very advanced knowledge of the underlying technologies and user querying patterns. A wrong design of the OLAP cube alters significantly several key performance metrics, including: (i) the analytic capabilities of the cube (time and ability to provide an answer to a query), (ii) size of the OLAP cube, and (iii) time required to build the OLAP cube. Therefore, in this paper we (i) propose a benchmark to aid Big Data OLAP designers to choose the most suitable cube design for their goals, (ii) we identify and describe the main requirements and trade-offs for effectively designing a Big Data OLAP cube taking advantage of data pre-aggregation techniques, and (iii) we validate our benchmark in a case study.

Risk in Partnerships Involving Information Systems Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 316-327
Author(s):  
G. Harindranath ◽  
John A. A. Sillince
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Form

This is a case study of a US$ 30 million project to establish a new form of rapid healthcare service delivery within the context of a highly politicised National Health Service Hospital (NHS) Trust in the United Kingdom (UK). This project involved large-scale redesign of long-established healthcare procedures and the development of sophisticated new information systems (IS) through a unique partnership between the public sector (the UKs NHS) and a number of private sector companies (a software developer, a facilities manager, a hardware vendor and a builder). The case study concentrates on, what is often, one of the more important determinants of the success or failure of such partnerships involved in information systems development, i.e. risk.

Exploring Socio-Technical Design of Crisis Management Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Dan Harnesk ◽  
John Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Wild Fire ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Technology Processes

In this chapter, we explore design foundations and conceptualize a design approach to examine the socio-technical knowledge that crisis organizations have about crisis management Information Systems. We use findings from a case study across four crisis organizations to illustrate how the network of knowledge, information management, and integration of technology and information were interpreted by stakeholders during a large wild fire in 2006. The design approach illustrates that design foundations of crisis management Information Systems encompass: a network of knowledge, IT management, and information integration. We argue that the design foundation is promising for analysis and explanation of the enrolment of actors, adaptation of technology/processes, and stabilization of crisis management Information Systems.

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