Who Shares Wins! Cross-Border Integrated Care IT Solution

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Gambling, Who Wins

Gambling, Who Wins? Who loses?, edited by Gerda Reith, Ph.D, examines several wide-ranging yet important topics related to gambling. This multidisciplinary compilation of essays, some written by prominent scholars in their fields, examines such questions as: How can the alluring economic benefits of gambling be balanced against the potential harm caused to a significant minority? Is problem or ...

Pnm-7: Cross-Border Reproductive Care or Fertility Tourism

Background: The fertility tourism is a term refers to the cross-border movements made by infertile patients in order to receive reproductive treatment through assisted reproductive technology. In recent years the number of countries involved in medical tourism has been increased. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of crossborder reproductiv...

Who dares, wins?

Despite the tremendous achievements of tissue engineering, its clinical counterpart, regenerative medicine, has rather been slow in delivering on its promise of producing natural organs from synthetic materials. It appeared that Dr. Paolo Macchiarini had broken through the stalemate in regenerative medicine when he performed an operation in which a synthetic trachea seeded with stem cells was t...

PREFACE Cross-organizational and cross-border IS/IT collaboration

As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being deployed across organizations located in different countries and world regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for gl...