This paper is based upon detailed research that has taken place on the implementation strategies for city road user charging (RUC) in the UK and Italy. In the UK, both in London and Durham, the RUC schemes required new legislation, and were implemented rapidly. The time from announcement to implementation took three years and the schemes were introduced after short periods of intensive planning...

Traditional policies of road expansion involved a relatively simple system of actors and processes around which expertise, knowledge, and skills had built up over many decades. Some of the more radical Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures, including urban road pricing policies, involve a complicated set of institutions, processes, people and procedures. Road pricing schemes often get held up...

Many information systems do not meet the expectations of the end-users. For electronic patient records (EPR) it is even worse, they are often not implemented yet. For more than a decade the society boasts the advantages of an EPR varying from millions of dollars to thousands of lives. Why do these IT based innovations not come to improvements of healthcare performance? This paper explores the t...

Abstract The photo-excited triplet state of Zn-protoporphyrin IX located in the heme pocket human neuroglobin has been investigated by time-resolved EPR coupled to magnetophotoselection. protein matrix compared with model complex organic glass, considering both non-coordinating and coordinating solvent mixtures. plays an important role stabilizing coordination embedded chromophore, resulting a ...

Policymakers in the UK and US continue to present the electronic patient record (EPR) as a panacea for improving and reforming healthcare, themes common to many large scale IT projects which have gone before. Yet the promises of numerous EPR programmes, big and small, have been challenged by failed adoptions. Heterogeneity in methods and epistemologies presents a challenge for the traditional ‘...

The increasing progress in the development and deployment of electronic patient records (EPR), especially those for mobile devices like tablets, offers new opportunities for the health care sector. In the field of prevention, health care professionals can gain benefits from the consolidation of complementary data sources and the ubiquitous access to patient information. Hence, this work present...

The “seamless” integration of a collection of information systems has been recognised as vital in promoting and realising the collaborative aspects of work. This emphasis on the collaborative role of integration supplements other studies in CSCW focusing on more singular tools for collaboration. Empirically, we analyse the design and use of an electronic patient record system (EPR) in large hos...

Electronic patient records (EPR) information systems maintain the patients’ medical information on the web servers, and remain available to the medical institutions, practitioners, and the academia. The transmission of data is being done over the public network, which increases the privacy and security risk. However, authentication mechanism tries to ensure secure and authorized communication o...