Editorial processing: to outsource or not?

To outsource or not to outsource.

Outsourcing work can be a positive intervention if the environment and strategies are properly coordinated, but there is no guarantee of success. Today, more than ever before, hospitals are suffering from two pressures: economic constraints and the migration of managerial talent out of the field to other sectors of the economy. With these two pressures, hospitals are searching for ways to reduc...

To outsource or not to outsource your physical therapy service line management?

You currently offer a physical therapy (PT) service line but feel like it could be doing better, or you are thinking of adding PT services and are not sure where to begin. Either way, the thought of your patients and bottom line benefiting from PT services within your practice but without you having to manage another service line is appealing. Although related to orthopedic surgery and an obvio...

A Software Tool that Supports Decisions for Companies to Outsource Information Technology or not

The decision process for companies to outsource information technology (IT) or not is a substantial business change and in many cases the competence to take such decisions is limited and has major consequences for the company future performance. Therefore in the paper we have proposed the development of a software application that can be used in the initial phase for deciding to outsource or no...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

How to Securely Outsource Cryptographic Computations

We address the problem of using untrusted (potentially malicious) cryptographic helpers. We provide a formal security definition for securely outsourcing computations from a computationally limited device to an untrusted helper. In our model, the adversarial environment writes the software for the helper, but then does not have direct communication with it once the device starts relying on it. ...