The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Patient-Centered e-Health (PCEH) conceptual aspects alongside a multidisciplinary project that combines state-of-the-art technologies like cloud computing. The project, by combining several aspects of PCEH, such as: (a) electronic Personal Healthcare Record (e-PHR), (b) homecare telemedicine technologies, (c) e-prescribing, e-referral, e-learning, w...

Available online 15 January 2014 To speed up strategic alliance in R&D activities, different forms of R&D organization structures can be summarized into different roles including the input-oriented, the output-oriented, and the matrix organization structure. Themost commonmode of strategic alliance consists of horizontal and vertical integrations. However, the study adopting absorptive capacity...

When similar business processes are deployed in different organizations, one typically adapts manually a template process to the different execution environments and organizational needs. Service-Oriented Architectures facilitate the task of adaptation by exposing the functionalities needed by the process in an abstract way, decoupled from the implementation. Nevertheless, manual intervention t...