While sustainability indicator systems (SIs) have proven to be valuable rational tools for improving the availability of information related to the relationship of cities and communities to natural limits, the indicators movement has achieved limited instrumental uptake in policy.
This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of the DIABTel system in clinical routine use and its potential benefits for diabetes care: improving the availability of information necessary for therapy adjustments; offering new physician patient communication tools; increasing patient empowerment and education; and showing a positive trend towards improving the metabolic control of patients.
The TINN project has already begun to improve the availability of information on fluconazole and ciprofloxacin, as also documented in published articles [ 20, 40, 41], and will provide additional clinical evidence in the early future.
Although many efforts have significantly improved the availability of sequence information for CHO cells in the last years, forthcoming draft genomes still lack the information depth known from the mouse or human genomes.
In the last years, online-tools like ISI Web of Knowledge, the SCImago Journal & Country Rank Portal, Google Scholar, and GoPubmed have dramatically improved the availability of bibliometric information [ 4, 5].
Electronically "alerting" the ordering provider about an abnormal test result such as positive FOBT can improve the availability of vital information at the point of care [ 18].
During hospitalization, new templates for prescribing microbiological tests are in progress to improve the availability of clinical information to the laboratory and to the Vigiguard® (Biomérieux) program.
The AMA instead adopted a policy statement urging "government, industry, consumer advocacy groups, and the scientific and medical communities to educate the public and improve the availability of unbiased information and research activities on bioengineered foods".
First, as integrated PHRs improve the availability of patient information at the point of care, interactions between patients and medical professionals will likely improve because practitioners will need to spend less time gathering patient history and be able to spend more time with patients probing deeper into concerns, questions, and clarification about their conditions [ 22- 24].
Many countries are thus introducing eHealth solutions to improve the availability of this medication information on a national scale (often called "e-medication").
