March 2000 39 medicamundi This article addresses various aspects of the integration of imaging systems and information systems in the radiology department and the hospital as a whole. It includes the technical and organizational obstacles, the role of standards, and some promising recent developments for overcoming the obstacles. Particular attention is paid to the IHE (Integrating the Healthca...

This article proposes and evaluates a comprehensive agent-based architecture for an Interorganizational Intelligent Meeting-Scheduler. The article extends and generalizes the Intelligent Meeting-Scheduler conceptual model [EXPERSYS 95-Proc. Seventh Intl Conf. Artificial Intelligence Expert Syst. Appl. (1995) 279; J. Organizational Comput. Electron. Commerce, 9 (1999) 233] which focused on intra...

EGovernment would be a lot easier if it could be handled like eBusiness. Unfortunately there are organizational and legal obstacles that make it virtually impossible. The security level needed for public administrations is usually at the level of top private sector industries and service organizations like banks. In project management there has been a paradigm shift towards new methodologies fo...

Today’s enterprise environment is more sophisticated than ever and being able to manage this complexity is not possible without having a planned approach. Enterprise architecture (EA) has emerge as a planned approach to mitigate the organizational complexities and control the constant environmental changes. However, despite the numerous EA development step-by-step methods and approaches not all...

Grid computing can meet computational demands and offers a promising resource utilization approach. However, little research details the drivers of and obstacles to adoption of this technology. Institutional and organizational capability theory suggests an adoption model that accounts for interand intra-organizational influences. An empirical study with 233 high-ranking IT executives reveals th...

Service Oriented Architectures with underlying technologies like web services and web services orchestration have opened the door to a wide range of novel application scenarios, especially in the context of inter-organizational cooperation. One of the remaining obstacles for a widespread use of these techniques is security. Companies and organizations open their systems and core business proces...

thought-based and wisdom-centered actions have always made different civilizations and cultures closer together. these actions need continuous and stable trends. remaining fixed in a changing world inflicts severe damages on the society and culture. in this regard, the dialogue among civilizations can open many new ways which were non-existent or hardly achievable in the past. meanwhile, the di...