Past IS research suggests it is challenging to build digital infrastructures and then make sure they grow. While more users, innovative services, and new partners spur infrastructure evolution, we know little of the specific contextual triggers that set these generative mechanisms in motion. To this end, we conduct a case study of a digitalized public transport infrastructure to identify such t...

The proliferation of advanced technologies led researchers within the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Telerehabilitation (RERC-TR) to devise an integrated infrastructure for clinical services using the University of Pittsburgh (PITT) model. This model describes five required characteristics for a telerehabilitation (TR) infrastructure: openness, extensibility, scalability, cost-ef...

The authors propose a way to improve the quality of results generated through the fragile clinical laboratory infrastructure in resource poor counties in Africa and elsewhere.

To analyze ways in which aid can be made more effective, we develop a growth model in which aid finances infrastructure investment and pro-poor spending. We assume that the recipient countries are aid-dependent in the early phase of development and ultimately become independent. In the model, donors can accelerate the independence of a recipient from aid by investing in infrastructure. We demon...

The development of international performance measures offers a way of indirectly introducing competitive pressures to infrastructure industries by comparing actual performance to international benchmarks. Efficiency measures for infrastructure services can be used by enterprise managers, government, regulators and business users to identify areas where there is potential to improve performance....

[Johanna Gribble]: Technological advances in recent years have resulted in a dramatic increase in the possibilities offered by teleaudiology, the ability to deliver audiology services via telecommunications technologies. These advances could improve access for a range of services including diagnostic audiology and remote hearing aid fittings, downloadable hearing aid applications, or even real-...

The use of cell phone text messaging to improve access to continuing healthcare education in under-resourced settings is not well documented. We aimed to assess whether this method of education is acceptable to South African midwives in both the public and private sectors. Essential healthcare lessons from the Maternal Care book of the Perinatal Education Programme (PEP) were delivered via text...

BACKGROUND Policies that improve access to healthy, affordable foods may improve population health and reduce health disparities. In the United States most food access policy research focuses on urban communities even though residents of rural communities face disproportionately higher risk for nutrition-related chronic diseases compared to residents of urban communities. The purpose of this st...

Replication of data items among different nodes of a wireless infrastructureless network may be an efficient technique to increase data availability and improve access latency. This paper proposes a novel algorithm to distribute data items among nodes in these networks. The goal of the algorithm is to deploy the replicas of the data items in a way such that they are sufficiently distant from ea...