Since the early 2000s, Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have played a key role in the development of complex applications within a virtual organization (VO) context. Grids and workflows have emerged as vital technologies for addressing the (SOA) paradigm. Given the variety …
Innovation initiatives across the globe are currently transforming the spaces, practices and subjects of urban governance. An ever-increasing number has started to mobilise design thinking in the promise of empowering citizens to participate in city making. Design thinking origi…
There have been a number of researches that investigated ICT adoption in Malaysian healthcare. With the small number of hospitals that adopt ICT in their daily clinical and administrative operations, the possibility to enable data exchange across 131 public hospitals in Malaysia…
This dissertation provides a unique perspective on valuing the total monetary cost and the operational monetary and nonmonetary benefits of international pilot training (IPT) that have not been explored previously. We investigate the costs of IPT that result from the sale of def…
This dissertation investigates how healthcare provider networks are formed and their effects on patient health outcomes. The first chapter explores three types of hospital networks that are intended to improve coordination of patient care across different hospitals: integrated d…