Removing “invisible” barriers: opening paths towards the future of accessible tourism

Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers to Independent Travel for Blind and Vision Impaired Residents and Visitors

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Telemedicine: the invisible legal barriers to the health care of the future.

Telemedicine has the potential to transform the world of health care just as the Internet transformed the world of commerce. Ms. Daly examines two legal obstacles to expanding the use of telemedicine: licensure and liability. She defines telemedicine and discusses its common applications and significant benefits. Licensure laws and liability rules result in formidable barriers to the expanded u...

“Almost invisible scars”: medical tourism to Brazil.

Along with a handful of other nations in the developing world, Brazil has emerged as a top destination for medical tourism. Drawing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in plastic surgery wards, this article examines diverse factors - some explicitly promoted in medical marketing and news sources, others less visible - contributing to Brazil's international reputation for excellence in cosmet...

Removing Interoperability Barriers Between theX

This paper concerns the barriers to interoperability that exist between the X.509 and EDIFACT Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), and proposes a method to overcome them. The solution lies in the DED-ICA 1 (Directory based EDI Certiicate Access and management) TELEM-ATIC Project, funded by the European Union. The main objective of this project is to deene and provide means to make these two infras...