Online referral and OPD booking from the GP desktop

The quality of GP diagnosis and referral

Irish GP referral rates and influencing factors

Background General practitioners (GPs) play a key role as the gatekeepers of access to secondary care in Ireland, and indeed in many healthcare systems worldwide [1]. This role has been shown to be crucial in providing cost-effective healthcare delivery. Our study aimed to analyse the GP referral process and the factors by which referral rates may be influenced, particularly those that are uniq...

Consumers' Preferred Criteria for Hotel Online Booking

Online bookings of hotels have increased drastically throughout recent years. Studies in tourism and hospitality have investigated the relevance of hotel attributes influencing choice but did not yet explore them in an online booking setting. This paper presents findings about consumers’ stated preferences for decision criteria from an adaptive conjoint study among 346 respondents. The results ...

JOBS: Javacard-based Online-ticket Booking System

It is expected that the next generation of smart card will be more intelligent, more interactive and more interoperable. We call these the 3i requirements. A smart card wallet system for meeting these 3i requirements is presented. A novel objectoriented framework is proposed, such that everything is stored in the smart card wallet as an object and the extensible markup language (XML) is employe...

Travel Agents vs. Online Booking: Tackling the Shortcomings of Nowadays Online Tourism Portals

In this paper we present the findings of a study that aims at identifying the reasons that let many people still rely on traditional travel agents instead of booking their trips online. The prime motivation for investigating this issue is that it is impossible to have direct experience with the product prior to consumption in the domain of tourism. The Internet provides a powerful environment f...