This study explores how health care organizations mitigate risks due to infrastructure interdependencies using the information systems success framework. Specifically, this study examines whether interdependent risks affect information infrastructure effectiveness and, if so, what are the critical factors? How are interdependent risks mitigated by those factors across stakeholders? And how does...

Research infrastructure – the assets, facilities and services that support research and maintain the capacity of researchers to undertake research – is an important contributor to research excellence. A key theme in the 2008 review of public health research funding in Australia was the need for strategic investment in public health research infrastructure, including centres of research excellen...

Ship–infrastructure cooperation, i.e., infrastructure scheduling, is significant for optimizing the utilization of spatial-temporal resources infrastructures and improving efficiency safety waterborne transportation systems. This paper carries out a systematic review scheduling problems in systems, including locks, terminals, berths, waterway intersections. The are linked to classical optimizat...

Health systems all over Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering the consequences of a lack of organization and planning for the increase in the demand for—and use of— services. The advent of a new infectious disease undermines already limited capacity to ensure access to quality care for everyone according to established standards. Few governments in the region have managed to implement t...

Background While responsible innovation in health (RIH) suggests that health innovations could be purposefully designed to better support health systems, little is known about the system-level challenges that it should address. The goal of this paper is thus to document what is known about health systems’ demand for innovations.   Methods We searched 8 databases to perfo...