Clinician-administrator; challenges associated with changing roles

Improving patients' safety locally: changing clinician behaviour.

Safety initiatives in hospitals should focus on common health care interventions that when used appropriately can improve important health outcomes, and when used inappropriately or not at all, result in substantial harm. We suggest that errors of omission should be a safety priority. We focus on preventive health care interventions, and describe five steps that can improve patients' safety by ...

Changing challenges and paradigms.

Change comes as a surprise because things do not happen in a straight line. Concepts often evolve haphazardly, reacting to specific events. Assumptions are made but are not challenged, sometimes for political or social expedience. It has long been recognized that the dose makes the poison. Concepts of the relationship evolved from both events and the availability of exploratory tools. There are...

challenges associated with the concept of collaboration

Changing roles of IT in

The impact of global slowdown and busted Internet ventures may have led to a rationalized view of the role IT play in businesses. But that has not stopped global 2000 businesses from investing for collaborating with partners and customers. IT has drastically reduced cost of collaboration in the last 20 years. One consequent change in the business environment is the delineation in emphasis on po...

Changing Roles: Dynamic Role Assignment

Modeling roles as sets of normative behavior that agents can assume has been found to be a useful development technique. An important characteristic of real-world agent systems is that the roles played by an agent may change over time. These changes can be of several different kinds. We describe an illustrative application where such role changes are important, analyze and classify the various ...