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Security Without Secrecy? Counter-Terrorism, Asio And Access To Information, Mark Rix
Security Without Secrecy? Counter-Terrorism, Asio And Access To Information, Mark Rix
Sydney Business School - Papers
The Foreign Office declined to disclose the reasons for deciding that specific files should be withheld, with the result that the reason for the continuing secrecy is itself ... a secret.
Sociomateriality And Information Systems Success And Failure, Karlheinz Kautz, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
Sociomateriality And Information Systems Success And Failure, Karlheinz Kautz, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
Sydney Business School - Papers
The aim of this essay is to put forward a performative, sociomaterial perspective on Information Systems (IS) success and failure in organisations by focusing intently upon the discursive-material nature of IS development and use in practice. Through the application of Actor Network Theory (ANT) to the case of an IS that transacts insurance products we demonstrate the contribution of such a perspective to the understanding of how IS success and failure occur in practice. The manuscript puts our argument forward by first critiquing the existing perspectives on IS success and failure in the literature for their inadequate consideration of the …
Value Of Information And Pricing New Health Care Interventions, Andrew R. Willan, Simon Eckermann
Value Of Information And Pricing New Health Care Interventions, Andrew R. Willan, Simon Eckermann
Sydney Business School - Papers
Previous application of value-of-information methods to optimal clinical trial design have predominantly taken a societal decision-making perspective, implicitly assuming that healthcare costs are covered through public expenditure and trial research is funded by government or donation-based philanthropic agencies. In this paper, we consider the interaction between interrelated perspectives of a societal decision maker (e.g. the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] in the UK) charged with the responsibility for approving new health interventions for reimbursement and the company that holds the patent for a new intervention. We establish optimal decision making from societal and company perspectives, allowing for …
Counting Acute Inpatient Care. Abf Information Series No. 5, Kathy Eagar
Counting Acute Inpatient Care. Abf Information Series No. 5, Kathy Eagar
Sydney Business School - Papers
As outlined in ABF Information Paper Number 1, a critical element of Activity Based Funding (ABF) is the need to define, classify, count, cost and pay for each health care activity in a consistent manner. For acute patients who stay in hospital for more than a day, this is not an issue. These patients are classified as acute ‘overnight admitted patients’ and are counted by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG).
What Is Activity-Based Funding? Abf Information Series No. 1, Kathy Eagar
What Is Activity-Based Funding? Abf Information Series No. 1, Kathy Eagar
Sydney Business School - Papers
Activity-Based Funding (ABF) is a central feature of the Rudd hospital reform plan (‘A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s Future’). ABF is not a new idea, either to the health sector or to other industries. Indeed, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed in November 2008 to introduce a nationally consistent ABF approach as part of its National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform. The Rudd hospital reform plan proposes to accelerate the ABF work program that has already been agreed with the States and Territories.