The digital and online revolution is having a profound impact on radiology journals, forcing a migration from print to online publication and altering traditional revenue streams needed to sustain the journals. The 2013 Intersociety Committee Summer Conference attendees reviewed the history of the development of radiology journals, explored the forces driving the transition from print to electr...

Die medizinische Lehre im klinischen Abschnitt ist geprägt durch die Ausbildung der Studierenden am Krankenbett. An der Charité wurde ein System entwickelt, mit dem diese Form der Lehre elektronisch unterstützt und partiell verbessert werden kann. Basis des Systems ist die audiovisuelle Kommunikation über Notebooks und ein Wireless LAN-gestütztes Lehrnetz, welches als VPN auf der IP-Infrastrukt...

BACKGROUND In year 2000, the entire population in Indonesia was 201 million and 57.6 percent of that was living in rural areas. This paper reports analyses that address to what extent the rural structure influence the way TB patients seek care prior to diagnosis by a DOTS facility. METHODS We documented healthcare utilization pattern of smear positive TB patients prior to diagnosis and treatm...

This paper examines the phenomenon of risk management in the public-private network strategy process. The concept of risk in this study is defined as follows: events with a negative impact represent risks, which can prevent value creation or erode existing value. The study employs action research approach. Also, the study shows that different risks in public-private network strategy processes c...

INTRODUCTION One of the important factors of correct management is to identify the reasons for patient tendency toward private hospitals. This study measures these factors based on service marketing mixes. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study used a cross sectional descriptive methodology. The study was conducted during 6 months in 2015. The studied population included patients of private hospital...

This paper is an exploration of a topic whose specific intrapsychic significance has remained relatively unformulated in the psychoanalytic literature. Though nannies (that is, caregivers whose job it is to care for children at home in their parents' absence) have had a ubiquitous presence among professional working women and are frequently involved in the lives of patients seen in private prac...

Private handshaking allows pairs of users to determine which (secret) groups they are both a member of. Group membership is kept secret to everybody else. Private handshaking is a more private form of secret handshaking [BDS03], because it does not allow the group administrator to trace users. We extend the original definition of a handshaking protocol to allow and test for membership of multip...

A random matching environment is constructed where banks mitigate a mismatch between the timing of investment payo¤s and when agents wish to consume. Claims on banks may serve as media of exchange, i.e. private money. Two problems can emerge with private money. First, there may exist welfaredominated equilibria where banks hold low-return assets. Second, private media of exchange may be subject...

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows the provisioning of private network services for an organization over a public network such as the Internet. In other words a VPN can transform the characteristics of a public which may be non-secure network into those of a private secure network through using encrypted tunnels. This work customized a standard VPN to a newly one called EEVPN (Effective Ext...