The paper analyzes the evidence regarding freight road pricing, complements it with game theoretic analyses, and concludes that moving trucks to the off-peak hours require comprehensive policies targeting key components of the supply chain (i.e., receivers and carriers). The paper shows that a request from receivers asking carriers to do off-peak deliveries is likely to have an impact across th...

Developments in information technology offer new opportunities to design electronic patient record systems (EPR) which integrate a broad range of functions such as clinical decision support, order entry, or electronic alerts. It has been recently suggested that EPR could support new applications for disease surveillance and patient safety. We describe the integration of a voluntary incident rep...

In this paper we discuss our approach for integrating electronic patient records into health professional education. Electronic patient record (EPR) use is increasing globally. The EPR is considered the cornerstone of the modernization and streamlining of healthcare worldwide. However, despite the importance of the EPR, health professional education in much of the world provides health professi...

We consider a bilevel road pricing problem. The lower level models a traffic assignment problem, whereas the upper level represents a toll problem which has impact on the distribution of the users on the network. We investigate the structure of this problem and consider a special lower level objective function. We show that a solution algorithm [10] can be applied to the optimal value reformula...

BACKGROUND Several countries are implementing a national electronic patient record (n-EPR). Despite the assumed positive effects of n-EPRs on the efficiency, continuity, safety and quality of care, their overall adoption remains low and meets resistance from involved parties. The implementation of the Dutch n-EPR also raised considerable controversy, which eventually caused the Dutch government...

This paper deals with the following question associated with congestion pricing in a general network with either fixed or elastic travel demand: what is the maximum efficiency loss of a general second-best pricing scheme due to inexact marginal-cost pricing in comparison with the first-best pricing or system optimum case? A formal answer to this question is provided by establishing an inefficie...

Road pricing has been promoted by transport economists for decades as a means of solving congestion problems in big cities. Congestion causes enormous costs to society in a number of ways; for example, overall transport costs rise, polluting emissions increase, the demand for infrastructure is artificially driven up. The social benefits of solving the congestion problem would therefore be enorm...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of a fully functional electronic patient record (EPR) system on clinicians' work during team conferences, ward rounds, and nursing handovers. METHOD In collaboration with clinicians an EPR system was configured for a stroke unit and in trial use for 5 days, 24h a day. During the trial period the EPR system was used by all clinicians at the stroke unit and it...

-Road pricing is widely advocated as a solution to congestion problems The underlying theory is well developed, and we even have the technology to implement it without toll booths Only political barriers remain Decision makers are reluctant to retrofit tolls on existing highways because they do not know what circumstances might make such an action acceptable to the pubhc This paper develops a g...