This paper examines the Taiwanese government’s ways of constructing a measurement model and an empirical study of digital divide among government agencies. On the basis of Gowin's Vee structure, this paper first refers to the Grounded Theory in the establishment of the draft list for the measurement of the digital divide in local governments. Furthermore, it constructs five dimensions and 42 me...

Medicine management is at the core of hospital care and digitalization of prescribing and administration of medicines is often the focus of attention of health IT programs. This may be conveyed to the public in terms of the elimination of paper-based drug charts and increased readability of doctors' prescriptions. Based on analysis of documents about hospital medicines supply and use (including...

Business digitalization is changing the competitive landscape in many industries. Digitally savvy customers are demanding more while threats of digital disruptions from new entrants are rising. The full article describes how DBS, a large Asian bank, responded to digital threats and opportunities by adopting a digital business strategy. It identifies the capabilities needed and provides lessons ...

Two forms of variety have been noted in organizational processes: sequential and configural. These describe variations in how a work process is ordered (sequential) or what is involved in enacting each work activity (configural). Each has been mainly studied in isolation. In organizations, these two types of variety are always co-present and scholars will miss important insights if their depend...

Recently, the digitalization of the astronomical scientific heritage has been considered an important task that can facilitate much researches in astronomy. The creation of digital libraries and databases of astronomical photographic plates brings up the problem of digitalization astronomical logbooks , since the data contained in them is crucial for the usage of the plates . An optical charact...

The current wave of digitalization has an impact of several industries, including the financial service sector. While the current situation and arising challenges have been analyzed from a strategic perspective and from the customer perspective, research on the internal end-user perspective is scarce so far. Based on an online survey in the German banking industry, our study identifies several ...

In todays industries requirements are put upon that the different actors integrate their performance for the purpose of the transportation system as a whole. Door-to-door processes, seamless integration, and multi-modal integration are expressions for such movement where the requirements of the beneficiaries are put at the core. Digitalization could enable such movement. For midand long-range t...

One hundred and twenty patients undergoing aortocoronary bypass procedures were randomly placed into control and digitalized groups. All were initially in normal sinus rhythm and without evidence of congestive heart failure. Supraventricular arrhythmias occurred in 17 of 66 controls and in only three of 54 digitalized patients (P less than 0.01). There was no evidence of digitals toxicity. Base...

Digitalization has transformed industries and societies in profound manner. Some changes have been documented as increased productivity and reduced costs of communications and information processing, to name a few. However, new technologies are not always fully embraced by organizations. This paper delves into barriers and facilitators surrounding adoption of digital technologies. The study was...