The user in this paper is not a medical specialist, but a real user of healthcare, a patient. The first author's personal experiences as a Parkinson's Disease patient for over 12 years form the basis for concerns that need to be addressed if Healthcare Information Systems are to succeed. Seven short stories are told as the basis for supporting this user's perspective of these concerns. In particular, the theme of the paper is that ignoring the patient cannot lead to Information Systems success.
This article demonstrates the importance of collaboration between government departments as a backbone for interorganizational integration between agencies. It argues that the challenges related to information technology adoption in developing countries can be partially attributed to the lack of standard collaboration practices between government agencies. A case of a foreign financing decision-making process in Egypt was used as an example of a government process in which there was close collaboration between government agencies. The study identified a number of organizational and interorganizational problems such as difficulties in tracking and documenting the decisionmaking process across different departments within and across government agencies. It also shows the significance of intercollaboration barriers and the need to be considered seriously in any e-government project. The study results can be used by practitioners looking for best practices in the area of e-government development. C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
During the past few years organizations are moving towards the adoption of open innovation models to make use both internal and external knowledge. Recent efforts concerning open innovation involve building portfolio of relationships and networks that provide access to technology, information and knowledge. For successful open innovation implementation knowledge management (KM) strategies adopting its frameworks are important. This study investigates the critical success factors for the underlying KM frameworks in developing countries. The case of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been investigated as one of the few examples of KM initiatives in Egypt. A comparison of GSK's critical success factors of its KM framework between the cases of its headquarters and its Egyptian branch, resulted in identifying a set of factors that have been customized for GSK Egypt specifically. We further argue that these newly identified, additional factors, could serve as lessons learnt for others.
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Environmental projects are large scale public sector projects which demand the participation of a number of public and private sector agents working harmoniously towards the public good. Public health and damaging environmental influences is a social problem that has attracted the attention of governments worldwide and has been seen as a stepping stone to sustainable development. In this paper we look at electromagnetic fields as health hazards and technologies that have been developed to solve these problems such as biogeometry and geographical information systems. Based on these technologies we suggest a framework for a project that that can be used to advance the research in transdisciplinary large scale projects related to public health. This framework is contributing to the knowledge of managing large scale e-government projects related to public health. Our ideas can be extended to other public sector projects as well as various geographical settings.
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