Today the intangible assets are the capital of knowledge and are the most important and the most valuable resource for organizations. All employees have knowledge independently of the kind of jobs they do. Knowledge is thus an asset, which influences business operations. The objective of this article is to identify knowledge continuity as an objective of business continuity management. The arti...

BACKGROUND There are no national data on levels of organizational capacity within the Canadian public health system to reduce the burden of chronic disease. METHODS Cross-sectional data were collected in a national survey (October 2004 to April 2005) of all 216 national, provincial and regional-level organizations engaged in chronic disease prevention through primary prevention or healthy lif...

Many organizations failed in adopting e-learning. A primary reason for this failure is the lack of assessment of organizational readiness for e-learning. To reduce failure risk, organizations should assess their readiness for adopting e-learning to identify some weak points which have to be improved by taking some improvement actions. In the literature we can find a variety of e-learning readin...

In the new Internet economy time-to-market has replaced quality as a primary concern in most software development organizations. Fortunately, that is not yet the case in organizations concerned with the development of critical systems. Most of these organizations consider design review as an efficient approach to improve the quality of their software products. In this paper, we discuss a set of...

The purpose of the study is to empirically examine the relationships between key sets of variables known to influence the successful implementation of change management necessitated due to implementation of incremental or radical changes in Government owned manufacturing organizations. The sets of variables are confined to management related barriers. Primary survey data has been collected from...

PURPOSE To evaluate the accuracy of insurance claims data indicating underutilization of primary care visits by children with special health care needs (CSHCN). DESIGN The study was a retrospective comparison of primary care provider (PCP) utilization by 1,131 CSHCN, using secondary data from electronic claims-and-encounters databases in a Medicaid health maintenance organization (HMO) and a ...

BACKGROUND Although health policy makers call for the transformation of health care organizations to health literacy responsive ones, there is limited evidence on the care experiences of patients with limited health literacy skills (HL) in respect to health care quality. We explored if HL and patient-reported experiences regarding access to care and support in care-coordination in primary care ...

Introduction Many widely used file organizations can be logically partitioned into two components; the index (also called directory) component and the data leaves component. The file records are maintained in data leaves where each data leaf (leaf for short) is one logical unit which is stored in contiguous disk pages. The index component is a search structure, usually a tree or a hash table, w...

A strong primary health care system is essential to provide effective and efficient health care in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. Although a direct link has not been proven, we can reasonably expect better economic status when the health of the population is improved. Research in primary care is essential to inform practice and to develop better health systems and health polici...