Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about factors affecting business-to-business ecommerce adoption and implementation in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting similarities and differences between Danish and Australian SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on proposing a theoretical model of technological, environment...

BACKGROUND The prescription drug benefit is commonly designed and managed as a stand-alone health insurance product without consideration of how the design of other medical benefits may impact its use. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of member cost (copayment/coinsurance) increases on the relationship between the use of physician office visits and the type/tier of prescription medication p...

OBJECTIVES This report presents the latest information on the use of electronic medical records in physician offices. Percentages of medical practices and physicians within the practices using electronic medical records (EMR) are presented for 2006 by selected physician and practice characteristics. METHODS Data from the physician induction interviews of the 2006 National Ambulatory Medical C...

1College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 2Department of Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 3Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 4Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 5Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taic...