The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM) believe that the rapidly emerging hospitalist model of inpatient care offers new and significant opportunities to optimize patient care through collaboration among hospitalists, hospital pharmacists (hereinafter, “pharmacists”), and other health care providers. The emerging model of care allows ...

Interorganizational theories of management contend that collaboration and interdependencies between organizations can lead to distinct competitive advantages. Yet, this theory is largely rooted in the consumer goods industry (not healthcare) and has been examined primarily from the advantages provided to individual firms (not the community as a whole). In this research, we will explore the natu...

In this research, we study inter-organizational collaboration from the perspective of multi-relational networks. We develop an agent-based model to simulate how a collaboration network among organizations emerges from organizations’ interactions through another network: the inter-organizational communication network. Our model adds links (or edges) into the collaboration network on the basis of...

Joint ventures among telecommunications firms have become increasingly common in recent years. These joint ventures have occurred in almost all areas of telecommunications including information services, manufacturing, and mobile service. The firms involved in the collaboration have often been domestic U.S. corporations, such as AT&T and GTE, or international corporations, such as GPT (General ...

The ability to infer goals , consequences of one’s own and others’ actions is a critical desirable feature for robots to truly become our companions-thereby opening up applications in several domains. This article proposes the viewpoint that the ability to remember our own past experiences based on present context enables us to infer future consequences of both our actions/goals and observed ac...

This paper investigates the performance analysis of cognitive-inspired wireless-powered non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where two collaborative schemes are jointly proposed to enhance quality-of-signal at primary cell-edge (CE) user in dead zones. In particular, first scheme, namely internal schemes, is developed based on availability cell-near users (CU), while rest, called exte...