Telehealth is defined as the use of telecommunication and information technologies to provide health care services at a distance. Telehealth modalities include mobile health, remote monitoring, store-and-forward, and videoconferencing.
The ability to enhance team performance is more important than ever in 2017. Teamwork is still at the heart of the well-performing organization, but with a difference. The digital economy is forcing companies large and small to become agile, with flexible and adaptable networks of teams. New technologies have also obliterated distances and time zones.
Healthcare organizations are characterized by tensions emanating from multiple and sometimes divergent objectives and interests, different power and influence bases, as well as distributed knowledge required for decision making. Tensions tend to be particularly strong between managers and physicians. In North America and Europe, there have been significant efforts to bring management and medical communities forward constructively toward overarching goals.
Corporate risk reporting is a recent challenge faced by business firms, investors, analysts, regulators and other stakeholders. Around the globe the financial and economic crises have highlighted the deficits and the importance of corporate risk reporting beyond financial sectors. This presentation summarizes and discusses research on corporate risk reporting that has emerged over the last two decades taking a conceptual, an analytical and an empirical perspective. How do corporate risk management and risk reporting interact?
Le bureau de la recherche de l’École de gestion Telfer a créé cette série de séminaires dans le but de mettre en valeur ses nouveaux professeurs. C’est une excellente opportunité pour les professeurs, les étudiants et les membres de la communauté de venir rencontrer nos professeurs et d’en apprendre davantage sur leurs programmes de recherche.
Joignez-vous à nous pour assister à une présentation de Mohamed Chelli : Voluntary Corporate Water Disclosures: The Substitution Effect between Formal and Informal Institutions
This seminar series was launched by the Telfer School of Management Research Office to promote its new professors. It represents an excellent opportunity for professors, students and community members to meet new faculty and to learn more about their research programs.
Please join us for a presentation by Mohamed Chelli: Voluntary Corporate Water Disclosures: The Substitution Effect between Formal and Informal Institutions
This study contributes to our understanding of the dark side of the entrepreneurship/marketing interface in respect of potential unwanted and undesirable behaviour that in certain cases may be detrimental to businesses. It employs a strategy as practice perspective in respect of regional coopetition within New Zealand’s wine sector. Coopetition is: “a dynamic and paradoxical relationship which arises when two companies cooperate together in some areas, such as strategic alliances but simultaneously compete with each other in other areas”.
Since the first knee replacement surgery was carried out in 1968, total knee replacements have become not only one of the most common, but also most successful procedures in all of medicine. Improvements in surgical materials and techniques have greatly increased the procedure’s effectiveness, and according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 600,000 knee replacements are performed each year in the United States alone.
Virtual (video) visits are a new form of primary care that is increasingly available in parts of Canada. There is a need to develop an understanding of patient perspectives on virtual visits and how they affect patient experience, access to care, and health services utilization patterns from a system perspective. We conducted a patient survey and an observation study on the users and providers of virtual visits in BC, where there has been public funding for this care since October 2012.
