Down to business

Primary care research conducted in networks: getting down to business.

This seventh annual practice-based research theme issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine highlights primary care research conducted in practice-based research networks (PBRNs). The issue includes discussion of (1) theoretical and methodological research, (2) health care research (studies addressing primary care processes), (3) clinical research (studies addressing the imp...

A Business Model to Detect Disease Outbreaks

Introduction: Every year several disease outbreaks, such as influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and other contagious illnesses, impose various costs to public and non-government agencies. Most of these expenses are due to not being ready to handle such disease outbreaks. An appropriate preparation will reduce the expenses. A system that is able to recognize these outbreaks can earn ...

Business to Business Integration

Getting down to business: Teaching cross-cultural social interaction skills in a serious game

We consider the use of virtual humans and an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for the teaching of cultural social conventions. Our learning environment is a serious game that requires the learner to establish trust and reach agreements with virtual characters of a different culture. An intelligent tutoring system provides culturally focused learning support during and after the meetings with t...

Strategic Contribution of a Business Process to Company’s Performance

The study is aimed at assessing the strategic importance of a business processes for achieving sustainable competitive advantage, therefore, in this article the theoretical approach for measuring the strategic contribution of a business process to an enterprise’s business system is presented.  For evaluating of a business process strategic importance the study proposes the system of economic an...