Identifying opportunities for enhancing collaboration in the Australian health insurance sector

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 210-218

  Daneshgar, Farhad ^a   Bunker, Deborah ^a   Mawson Lee, Kym ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Awareness net; Health insurance e business: health and insurance sector; Inter organisational information systems; Knowledge sharing; Process integration; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750388148     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2006.010905     Document Type: Article

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