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In Bulgaria, a National Health Information System was launched, which started e-health care. The process covered all participants and main flows of information in the sector: - Electronic Health Record (patient file); - Electronic recipes (e-recipes); - Electronic directions (e-directions); This paper presents the results of a pilot study to create safety of obstetric care in e-health conditions. The aim of the study is to examine the opinion of working professionals providing obstetric care in conditions of e-health, increasing the safety of the processes. Methods and methodology: a survey was conducted among 106 medical specialists directly engaged in the activities of the hospital wards of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Varna for the period January-March 2023. The results are processed and presented graphically. Results and discussion: more than half of the respondents (53.13% of medics and 51.35% of healthcare pro)fessionals) have difficulty working with a database. More than 60% believe that the work process is facilitated with the introduced amendments regarding the work with electronic file, compared to paper media. Aggravating factors for the workflows are the frequent change of requirements in the regulatory framework and the lack of clear regulations for content and requisites of the electronic file. In conclusion, with the rapid development of electronic forms of communication and information technologies are the basis of the most successful economic, administrative, health activities that support the processes of diag)nosis, treatment in hospital structures. They save time, resources, ensure patient safety and improve the quality of service when providing electronic peripheral sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advanced (modern) health systems are based on the principles of solidarity, the right to choose and efficiency in spending the resources of the system. They have both social and economic characteristics. The role of public health resources in all developed countries is leading. The present paper examines the status and problems of public finance management. It is based on research realized in 2020. The research was conducted among health managers, university professors of health care management, health experts of Ministry of Health, National Health Insurance Fund, executive directors and managers of hospitals and laboratories, and other experts in the healthcare system. The authors investigate theirs positions about the changes in healthcare financing in Bulgaria. The aim of the study is to identify the main problems in public finance management in healthcare. The study shows that the Ministry of Health have to manage and finance some priority health activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employees are a key resource for each business. With the digital transformation going even more rapidly after the pandemic, there is a growing need for digital skills in various sectors. It should come as no surprise, as this seems to be relevant also to the Information and Communication Technology industry. Nowadays, there is a worldwide demand for Software Engineers, System Administrators, E-Commerce Developers and other tech professionals - roles that are vital even for companies that are not directly delivering technological solutions. 2022 started as a challenging year in terms of hiring technical talent and in Bulgaria, the situation is no different. For the last years, there has been a growth in the training and education of technology specialists, however, there is still a shortage on the market. Recruitment practices need to be optimized in accordance with the situation to develop more effective strategies for covering these shortages. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the existing recruitment practices specifically in the Information and Communication Technology industry. In the article, the current state of the labour market is reviewed along with the corresponding strategies applied to respond to the market demands. Globalization advanced innovation in employee selection strategies and led companies to applyig creative approaches to staffing. Candidate sources are now fully digital and easily accessible, which promotes competition among businesses to hire the best specialists. Yet, this only seems to shrink the talen pool, as the gap between business needs and supply of technology professionals remains. The positive outcome of this research suggests that managers of technology companies would be able to build a customized recruitment framework for their specific needs and to successfully hire new employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Service Marketing is a relatively new discipline taught in recent years at the Bulgarian universities. Within the contact and the relationship with the service, people are experiencing „the moment of true”. Thus, they evaluate the quality of the offered service by the company or university. The aim of the author of this paper is to go deeply through the world of the chosen target group – marketing students at the university “Prof. D-r. Assen Zlatarov” in Burgas, Bulgaria. Thereby data was collected and transformed into an information about their needs, wants, expectations, interest and role in the context of the subject Service Marketing. The survey is limited to marketing students, Bachelor of Science, 4th year in summer semester 2019 at the university “Prof. D-r. Assen Zlatarov” in Burgas. Service Marketing is an elective class, chosen by the majority of students as an alternative to Product Marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present paper is devoted to the youth entrepreneurship in the field of Creative Business trough the comparative analysis between situation in Bulgaria and Romania as member states of the European Union. For Creative Business the most important and key element is the creative idea – therefore it is possible that start-up company could equally compete with the company having global reputation and popularity. Our findings show that both countries have to develop special policy supporting focusing the youth entrepreneurship in the field of Creative Business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to provide both theoretical and empirical explanation of why population aging is often associated with deflationary processes nowadays. After a regression and correlation analysis of a data set for Bulgaria, it was found a correlation between some of the demography factors and low-frequency inflation which can easily transform into deflation. In particular, both the share of people at and over 65 ages to the total number of people and the average median age of the population are correlated with low inflation and even deflation. On the other hand, the number of live births is basically related with higher inflation rates. This can be explained by the effects of an increase in longevity and declined fertility rates. The two factors are a major premise for demographic shifts and thus decline in prices. The developed model covers 18 observations which mean that it could be said to be realistic, because it includes almost all available information for the specific period from the beginning of the new century up to nowadays, to be more accurate - from 2001 to 2018. Currently deflation seems to be one of the most dangerous threats for the economy generally and understanding what can cause it is a fundamental topic for the modern economists and politicians. The core challenge is to succeed managing it and thus to even prevent it. However, this could happen only if we know how deflation is created. Exactly, one of the ways deflation could occur in most of the developed countries including Bulgaria is by the above mentioned processes of increasing of longevity and decreasing of fertility rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies from historic aspect Continuing Medical Education practices in European countries. Conducting continuing medical education is an important element in the implementation of national health policy. Training of health professionals is essential for ensuring the required medical services quality and its efficiency. It is emphasized that the lack of regulations in the coordination, terms and condition of conducting ongoing training and monitoring of these activities is a prerequisite for reducing medical services quality. It was concluded that in Bulgaria the system lacks tools for evaluation, coordination and monitoring of the quality of CME events, priority of professional organizations as established by Health Law and the Law on professional organizations. It is concluded that to conduct an effective continuing education is necessary to establish specific regulations. A number of documents, including the draft Law amending the Law on doctors' and dentists (LAS OF LPOPPDM) are discussed and analysed. As an example of the impact of professional qualification on quality of medical services some inspection results of the Executive Agency ''Medical audit“ in the field of pediatrics are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies from historic aspect Continuing Medical Education practices in European countries. Conducting continuing medical education is an important element in the implementation of national health policy. Training of health professionals is essential for ensuring the required medical services quality and its efficiency. It is emphasized that the lack of regulations in the coordination, terms and condition of conducting ongoing training and monitoring of these activities is a prerequisite for reducing medical services quality. It was concluded that in Bulgaria the system lacks tools for evaluation, coordination and monitoring of the quality of CME events, priority of professional organizations as established by Health Law and the Law on professional organizations. It is concluded that to conduct an effective continuing education is necessary to establish specific regulations. A number of documents, including the draft Law amending the Law on doctors' and dentists (LAS OF LPOPPDM) are discussed and analysed. As an example of the impact of professional qualification on quality of medical services some inspection results of the Executive Agency ''Medical audit“ in the field of paediatrics are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sharing economy or collaborative economy changed the traditional economic relationships dramatically. Through last 10 years sharing economy showed intensive development and very optimistic perspectives for its future expansion. Despite the critical comments among economists, business investors and academic researchers, the sharing economy proved itself as a successful tool for business start-ups and as a profitable business format for many enterprises, including such in the traditional economic system. Tourism industry shows itself as a very suitable economic field for sharing relationships. Because of the specific characteristics of the up-to-date touristic product – mobility, individuality and technologically influenced, the shared economy found essential place in tourism industry, covering the specific needs and wishes of the modern tourist. The current paper tries to investigate the collaborative economy in the field of tourism business activities and tries to give insights about the things that have been shared, the people, who are sharing, and the attitude of different countries toward this modern form of economic relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objectives of the paper are to explore the relative importance of factors that influence the choice of a particular courier operator, and to evaluate the competitiveness of courier services in a specific market – the Bulgarian courier services market. A methodological approach for evaluation of the competitiveness of courier services was proposed and empirically tested. Based on the analysis it was found that the courier services competitiveness can be measure by the following indicators: timeliness of delivery, reliability, quality of services, competitive price, access to information, meeting customers’ requests and complaints in a satisfactory way. By applying Borda Count Method, it was found that the most important indicators for individual customers are service price, service quality and timeliness of delivery. The main competitors on the Bulgarian courier services market (Econt Express and Speedy) which are also the companies with the largest market share registered the highest level of competitiveness of theirs serviced. The reasons for this are mainly the good balance between consumer satisfactions with the individual indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at validating the measurement instruments of Logistics Service Quality (LSQ) Scale in Bulgarian courier sector. The objective of this paper is to explore by LSQ how customer satisfaction is generated. The theoretical model is tasted on data collected through an online questionnaire survey of 423 individual customers of courier services in Bulgaria. The findings demonstrate that courier service providers in Bulgaria can use LSQ scale to understand better the expectations and perceptions of the customers. The study also found that LSQ should be conceptualized as a process, rather than merely as a single concept or secondorder construct [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese tourism changed significantly trough last years. Especially after opening the Chinese economic to the wide world market and liberalizing the travelling of Chinese people, the general profile of China`s tourism got qualitative new characteristics and performance. Even more, for another year the majority of the economic indicators presented stable growth, which witnessed over again the great perspective to the future development of Chinese tourism – domestic and international. On the other side, EU is one of the most important long-term partners of China. This fact creates the necessity to elaborate strong basis for this relationship, which results in the development of many strategic documents. One of them is the strategy “EU – China 2020”, in which location 2018 was pronounced as a year of tourism. The current paper tries to investigate and characterize the tourism of China in the context of the strategy “EU – China 2020” and to summarize the future perspectives in front of EU-China partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]