Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) form the core building blocks of any approach to creating the National Health Information Infrastructure. RHIOs are computer-supported information sharing alliances composed of health care institutions that need to exchange clinical, financial or administrative data. Many uncertainties, including institution conversion costs, price-to-participat...

ijur_1142 151..164 In an increasingly global India, an agricultural community in Pune, Maharashtra was faced with losing farmland to urbanization and devised an unusual solution. Pooling their land together, these farmers leveraged their social and political networks to take advantage of the changing economic climate in Pune and built a mixed-use township on their 400 acres of farmland. They fo...

Introduction. The relevance of the study lies in need to support managerial decision-making field interaction between participants regional strategic alliances. purpose article is develop a method for adjusting strategies with stakeholders an organization that has joined alliance. Materials and Methods. proposed based on fuzzy model choosing before after entry into quantitative values relations...

This paper explores the characteristics of expansion Wari empire. It reviews evidence across Andean region where data for relationship imperial elite with local ruling hierarchies is demonstrably varied. Assorted strategies pragmatically deployed by served to exert its control and reflect a client state approach growth. The political basis elites considered based on polygamous marriage structur...

Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For special issue of l’Homme 2013 Regardless of now marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multiple direct or indirect ties of consangu...

OBJECTIVES Multi-stakeholder healthcare alliances in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program brought together diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve healthcare in their local communities. This article evaluates how well the AF4Q alliances were collectively positioned to sustain themselves as AF4Q program support ended. METHODS This anal...