Recent health care reform is one of the biggest changes that the health care industry has ever faced. This reform represents paradigm changing opportunities and challenges for the company providing health insurance in a managed care environment. The CIO of a premier managed care health insurance provider (ABC Company) wants to take advantage of the new environment using Information Technology. ...

Modern information technologies allow for an ever increasing digitization of business processes in various industries around the globe. This requires an organization-wide digital mind-set and IT capabilities to react agile in turbulent business environments. Which enabling role CIOs have to develop IT capabilities as necessary predecessor to develop organization-wide strategic IT alignment is s...

Over the years, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has evolved from one of being a Functional Head to a Strategic Partner to today’s demands for that of a Business Integrator and Innovator. Many CEOs now expect their CIOs not just to specify and manage the IT infrastructure but to drive the transformation agenda. However, what our research is indicting is that CIOs are struggling w...

In today’s ever more competitive world, boards of directors and executives demand that CIOs and their teams deliver “more with less.” Studies show, without any real surprise, that there is no onesize-fits-all method to suit all software initiatives, and that a practice-based approach with some light but effective degree of order and governance is the goal of most software-development department...

For this study, ½ blood nelore × aberdeen angus heifers (n = 40; 14 months) were divided into two groups: control (n=20; 310 kg) and pró-cio 304 kg). for group, 20g of homeopathic product (pró-cio®, real h, campo grande, brazil) was supplied together with corn eighteen days prior (d-18) to the beginning fixed-time artificial insemination protocol (ftai). on d0, all females received an intravagi...

Journal of Healthcare Information Management — Vol. 20, No. 4 23 The healthcare industry has discovered information technology is a strategic asset. It has moved from a tactical function within individual provider, payer, and supplier organizations to a driver of clinical care redesign, regional information sharing and collaboration, pay for performance, and research. Most health systems, today...

This special issue of the CEPS Journal aims to make room for new expe-riences and insights, define challenges exchange experiences, ana-lyse factors that have influenced education ways – coping strategies dealing with “educational stress” in given circumstances. The aim is analyse experiences different countries, so-cio-cultural contexts subjects, as well perceptions teachers, students, parents...

O propósito deste texto é apresentar algumas das formas pelas quais letrados reagiram a obras de literatura, partir do exame pareceres elaborados por censores ligados à Sagrada Congregação Índice, no Vaticano, e ao poder real, em Portugal na Fran- ça, entre o final século XVIII iní- cio XIX. A documentação evidencia que esses organismos eram muito mais máquinas condenar proibir livros. análise ...

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo recuperar la experiencia del sindicalismo norteamericano, principalmente de central American Federation of Labor and Congress Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), en su intervención el marco movimiento antiglobalización. Se propone un análisis participación llamada “Batalla Seattle” ante Conferencia Organización Mundial Comercio (OMC) 1999 y, luego, poster...