The Kasabi Information Marketplace

Prescription practices & use of essential medicines in the primary health care system, Shimoga district, Karnataka, India

Magic Mountains and Multi-disciplines in International Medical Mobilities; Comment on “Patient Mobility in the Global Marketplace: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”

Medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. This tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. Multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.

The Study of e-Marketplace - A Case Study of Formosa Technologies e-Marketplace

Enterprises often need to communicate and exchange data among each other. Previously, such communication was mainly achieved by human contact, letter exchange, by telephone and by fax. In the early stage of the Internet and electronic procurement (e-Procurement), enterprises built the channel for exchanging data by using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). However, in the later stage of the deve...

Medical Tourism: A Fad or an Opportunity; Comment on “Patient Mobility in the Global Marketplace: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”

This article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by Lunt and Marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. The commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. The commentary als...

Effect of Information Revelation Policies on a Web - Services Marketplace

Competitive information revealed in a marketplace will have significant impact on the learning ability of the participating sellers across market sessions and therefore, on performance of the marketplace. The marketplace that we study in this paper has the following characteristics: a) Products transacted are custom-built – created specifically for a consumer and cannot be resold to other consu...