Long-lived infrastructure is of value when aiming for lifelong EHRs, and by using web technology systems may have potential to evolve gracefully as long as the web does.
The president, who has led Zimbabwe since 1980, said the focus of his tenure would be on "issues of infrastructure, value addition and benefication, agriculture and climate change in the context of Africa's development".
But as of now, it's not even close in terms of value, infrastructure or user-friendliness.
Brett Frischmann is the author of Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources.
Global 24/7/356 information access through digital platforms, has transitioned traditional marketplaces into marketspaces where content, context, and infrastructure are recreating the concept of value (Rayport and Sviokla, 1994).
It spends just 1.5% of GDP on infrastructure, compared with a global average of 3.8%, even though its stock of infrastructure is valued at just 16% of GDP, compared with 71% in other big economies.
As the lack of ad infrastructure depreciates the value of developer inventory, Apple is providing a life support alternative in the form of higher revenue shares.
That applies to policy-makers, corporations, critical infrastructure and any organization working with information of value.
Cooke will be leaving the theatre in good financial shape, but is concerned that politicians are "not getting it, not understanding how central the arts are to the financial infrastructure of the country, to its value system, to its soul".
IT adoption described at the macro-level thus seems to be a function of at least two variables: firstly legal demand - as demonstrated by the nursing documentation systems - and secondly a good infrastructure of medical-technical devices whose value can be enhanced by a new system - as shown by PACS and RIS.
If we do it right, investments in city infrastructure become value drivers instead of cost drivers.
