...Metrics To Human Characteristics: Biometrics Degree (950 Words) From law enforcement to financial services to gaming and security, biometrics is an area that has seen a lot of use in recent years. If you want to be part of this exciting industry, then a degree in Biometrics can be an important first step. Whether you are interested in making life more convenient for people through biometric systems, enhancing security or improving privacy, it is a challenging, but rewarding industry to work in. There are also numerous specialties within the field of Biometrics, which makes it easy to focus on your particular areas of interest. As people become more dependent on technology in areas such as banking and healthcare, there is a need for...
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...2005 Jackie Fenn, Alexander Linden This year, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gartner's Hype Cycles. More than 1,600 information technologies and trends across 68 markets, regions and industries are evaluated in the most comprehensive assessment of technology maturity in the IT industry. © 2005 Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Gartner disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. Although Gartner's research may discuss legal issues related to the information technology business, Gartner does not provide legal advice or services and its research should not be construed or used as such. Gartner shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. ANALYSIS Gartner's Hype Cycles highlight the relative maturity of technologies across a wide range of IT domains, targeting different IT roles and responsibilities. Each Hype Cycle provides a snapshot of the position of technologies relative to a market, region or industry, identifying which technologies are hyped, which are suffering the inevitable disillusionment and which are stable enough to allow for a reasonable understanding of when...
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...Strengthening Patient Registration and Fraud Prevention using Cloud Computing Technology at George Hopesman-Wubarte Hospital By XXX Managerial Applications of Information Technology – MIS535 Professor XXX DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management August 17, 2013 Table of Contents 1.0 ABSTRACT3 2.0 BRIEF COMPANY BACKGROUND4 3.0 BUSINESS PROBLEM4 4.0 HIGH LEVEL SOLUTION5 5.0 GENERAL BENEFITS6 6.0 BUSINESS/TECHNICAL APPROACH AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 8 7.0 BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGES13 8.0 HISTORICAL RESEARCH15 9.0 TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS PRACTICE19 10.0 CONCLUSION AND OVERALL RECOMMENDATIONS25 11.0 REFERENCE27 1.0 ABSTRACT George Hopesman-Wubarte Hospital (GHW) has been a nationally recognized leader in the healthcare industry for several years. However, in order to remain the innovative leader of its kind, the Greinly and Associates Consulting Group (GACG) has been asked to give some recommendations on how Information Technology can bring some improvements. The results of a conducted study of the patient information and medical records system indicted that a biometric known as Electronic Health Records (EHR) would drastically improve the timeliness and security of this process. A complete comprehensive study of the current antiquated system has been done. This study has allowed for the recommendations of how to implement the business and technical changes of the old system into the new EHR system to be brought forth. A theoretical analysis, backed...
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...2013 – www.ijais.org Fingerprint Biometric Authentication for Enhancing Staff Attendance System Oloyede Muhtahir O. Dept. of Info. and Comm. Science University of Ilorin, Ilorin. Adedoyin Adeyinka O. Dept. of Info. and Comm. Science University of Ilorin, Ilorin. ABSTRACT Biometric technology that involves the identification and verification of individuals by analyzing the human body characteristics has been widely used in various aspect of life for different purposes, most importantly as regards this study the issue of staff attendance. Despite the numerous advantages of the biometric system and its impact to various work sectors across the globe, most biometric technology users face the issue of defining the right and accurate biometric technology system that will be cost effective in solving particular problems in specific environment. In this paper, a study was conducted using a telecommunication company in the South West region of Nigeria, in order to determine the specific biometric identifier that can be used to enhance their traditional staff attendance system which presently affects the productivity of the organization. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach by designing a questionnaire as the data collection instrument based on different biometric technologies. The survey involved 37 employees based on stratified random sampling technique. The results however show that fingerprint biometric identifier was found suitable for...
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...realise is that our health care system is not a ‘system’ yet. There is indeed an urgent need to work on this area and bring about improvements in the overall quality of the prevailing health service system. From the statistics shown below, it is evident that a major contributor to the deaths in India is limited accessibility to healthcare. It can be observed that more than 50% of the deaths that happen in India are at the residences. Source: www.icmr.nic.in/final/causes_death However, there is a paradigm shift with regard to home care due to convergence of several technologies. Increasingly capable tele-health systems and the internet are not only moving the point of care closer to the patient, but the patient can now assume a more active role in his or her own care. The migration of healthcare industry to electronic patient records and the emergence of a growing number of enabling healthcare technologies coupled with these developments, demonstrate the unprecedented potential for delivering highly automated, intelligent health care in the home while at the same time reducing the cost of care. Integration of health care and smart technology for Home care How it works An example of a home equipped with smart health care system would be as follows: * Sensors supported by a local area network (LAN) is distributed throughout the home and the immediate outside environment * Transmitters and receivers will be distributed throughout the home allowing wireless sensors...
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...also attempts to identify and describe the OSI layers directly involved in the hospital network and also provides evidence of each layer identified. Last, the paper attempts to identify the various protocols that are available for use and provides a recommended standard that should be used for the hospital. The website of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital contains a top view diagram that represents the hospital structure from an IT network perspective. The Red outlined boxes are the areas related to clinics including Drs Personal Offices, ORs and ERs, Labs, Pharmacy, Radiology, Outpatient Examining Rooms, Wards, and ICUa. The Black outlined boxes represent functions related to administration, including Discharging and Admissions, Technology, HR, Facilities, Finance, and Hospital Senior Management. [pic] For all kinds of data transmission, the entire hospital has an overall network using 1000 BaseT using CAT 6 cable. Some of the individual departments have separate network structure, such as Radiology use different standards, such as 1000 BaseF using single mode fiber, as shown in the logical network diagram below. The Ethernet cable runs throughout the hospital, connecting all areas through a Network Bridge located between the network containing the clinical areas and administrative function areas of the hospital. The bus architecture of the networks is shown in the diagram below, with nodes connected to the Ethernet backbone. [pic] In all Radiology modalities...
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...community for over thirty years, but what truly makes us unique is our tradition of providing comprehensive health-care—whenever and wherever our patients need it. Tri-County Life Care, Inc. offers the highest quality and most reliable in home wellness care in the convenience and comfort of client home. (TLC) have been providing superior service to there clients and have help them in achieving their goals. Whatever your needs are, TLC home health team will design a plan that is specific to you and your situation. Whenever your health needs can be met at home, TLC staff is on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Owners and officers representing TLC are Chief Executive Officer - Eric Maar, Chief Financial Officer - Satchell Peterkin, Chief Technology Officer - Raquel Queen, and Chief Information Officer - Kerry Cosner. These individuals are committed to providing the clinical staff with the most technologically advanced tools available to effect patient care in the most advantageous way possible. This article will address some of the challenges faced by the Information Systems department and its’ relationship with the clinical field staff that support the needs of the patients in the communities the TLC serves. A few of those challenges involve the following: · Enhancing the privacy and security of the patient information stored on and transmitted by...
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...or she provided to the patient. However, that is mostly a thing of the past. Patients are already armed with tons of information they obtained from the internet. Health care has changed drastically over the years. Advancements in technology played and continue to play a huge role in the ever-evolving delivery of health care. The internet empowers patients in many ways. Sites such as the Mayo clinic allows patients to research their symptoms and even find a specialist. Many health care organizations have patient portals that allow the patient to book appointments and communicate with their physician. However, it is not just patients who use the Internet for health care purposes. Health care organizations use websites and social media such as Facebook to connect with a large demographic of potential patients. Health care organizations can advertise new treatment programs they have available by using Twitter, Facebook, or even YouTube. The Internet is not the only major advancement in technology. There are new technologies such as surgery robots, new magnetic resonance imaging scans, and even new computerized heart monitors. Electronic health record (EHR) systems such as EPIC present another major advancement in health care technology. EHR systems simplify many tasks that used to require several...
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...Use of Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Nursing Care Introduction We are in a great evolution in the way we are gathering data, gaining information, and increasing our knowledge to provide our patients’ with safe quality care. Without information technology (IT) in today’s healthcare industry, it would be impossible to delivery high quality care. The purpose of this paper is to explore data accuracy & safety, data integrity, and the contributions of IT. Data Accuracy and Safety One of the biggest obstacles to interoperability among information systems is the vast amount of medical terms used to describe the same concept. One strategy that is being implemented in IT to increase data accuracy and safety is to ensure that all electronic health records (EHRs) in all hospitals share common standards for data, classifications, coding systems (Qamar, R., Kola, J.S., & Rector, A.L., 2007). The aim is to standardize medical vocabulary to reduce differing interpretation of information and errors resulting from the traditional paper records. This is an accomplishment that groups have been working on for the last decade. The health IT Standards committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards and a single guide for putting them in place for each area of quality reporting measures (Mosquera, 2011). Two work groups, The Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) and The Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes...
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...Module 3 - Smart Cards Module 3 - Smart Cards Kari Wachs Grand Canyon University: HCA - 360 November 19, 2011 Module 3 - Smart Cards Smart card technology is becoming commonplace in todays society. Smart cards are also referred to as chip cards. The smart card is a plastic card that contains an embedded computer chip that stores and transacts data (Smart card basics, n.d.). The computer chip could function strictly as memory or as a microprocessor depending on the intended use of the smart card. “The data is usually associated with either value, information or both and is stored and processed within the card’s chip” (Smart card basics, n.d.). Smart cards are being used in several different markets currently in the United States. European countries have been utilizing smart card technology for almost three decades. (Smart card basics, n.d.). The Smart Card Alliance is a group of businesses that have a vested interest in the adoption of smart card technology. The Smart Card Alliance’s mission is to help the forward momentum of the use of smart card technology in health care in the United States (Smart card alliance, 2007). Europe initially used the smart card as a tool for reducing theft at pay phones. Their use has advanced tremendously over the last three decades. They are used for credit purchases and for record keeping instead of paper (Smart card basics, n.d.). In the United States, smart cards are being used by consumers in many ways. Several states...
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...Final Business Proposal: Healthcare Kiosks Nephateri White ECO/561 October 12, 2015 Nancy Irizarry Healthcare Kiosks Intro- The healthcare industry is an industry that has endless possibilities as far as innovation is concerned. This is why I think that improving the whole kiosk movement would be worth the capital for hospitals, pharmacies and other medicinal clinics to use. Not only are these industries taking advantage of kiosks, but so are colleges and universities to better help aid students. Kiosks have been introduced throughout the US as early as 2010 for the healthcare industry to utilize for patient check-ins and/or dispersing some medicines to patients. Let’s further discuss how this could be beneficial to the market. Market Structure- It is said that this is a new age for healthcare kiosks. So many people are adept to new and constantly changing technology. The health care industry is one that has proven to be recession free in terms of the business cycle stages. Unaffected by catastrophic events due to the industry making more in dividends and excelling in marginal revenue (Wunker, 2013). Healthcare self-service innovators such as Allscripts and Fujitsu, Clearwave, Nova Medical, HealthAsyst, MedHost, and Interior Health have turned to KIOSK’s custom design expertise to bring new patient check-in solutions to market (Kiosk, 2015). KIOSK’s ability to leverage modular design efficiency and integrate highly custom peripherals has provided these clients with...
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...tourism is becoming a popular option for tourists across the globe. It includes primarily and predominantly healthcare facilities, combined with travel and tourism. The term medical tourism describes the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain cost-effective and high quality medical care. Various countries like Thailand, Malaysia, India, etc are promoting medical tourism aggressively. The key competitive advantages of India in medical tourism stem from the following: low cost advantage, strong reputation in the advanced healthcare segment (cardiovascular surgery, organ transplants, eye surgery etc.) and the diversity of tourist destinations available in the country. The key concerns facing the industry include: absence of government initiative, lack of a coordinated effort to promote the industry, no accreditation mechanism for hospitals and the lack of uniform pricing policies and standards across hospitals. Medical tourism or health care tourism is a rapidly growing multibillion-dollar industry around the world. It is an economic activity that comprises trade in medical services and represents the mixing of two of the largest world industries: medicine and tourism. The case identifies the strengths of India’s medical tourism service providers and points at a number of problems that may reduce the growth opportunity of this industry. This paper focuses on the key issues and opportunities possessed by Indian medical tourism sector that enable...
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...Automated Attendance Tracking System A card reader is an automated system that collects class attendance by students swiping their DeVry ID cards for every scheduled lecture and lab session. The card readers are conveniently located in each classroom and lab. Additional individual instructor policies for determining tardiness and absence are outlined in course syllabi. Remember to swipe your card for every class you attend. Many students have shown absences (especially in labs) for classes that they have been attending because they have forgotten to swipe. Please remember to swipe your card for lecture and lab attendance. If you forget to swipe your card, you may request that your instructor submit an 'Attendance Revision Form' to update your attendance. Check with your instructors (or course syllabus) to find out whether or not their attendance recording policy will allow for modifications after the class session has been conducted. Please do not get into the habit of swiping more than one card. It is in your own best interest to be the one in control of your ID card and your attendance record. Swiping your classmates' cards can be considered a violation of Article III of the student code of conduct and is subject to the disciplinary actions outlined in Article V of the Student Handbook. Students are not allowed to use an instructor's ID code or card to record attendance for a class. This is for your protection. If the instructor is running late, please wait for the instructor...
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...Aadhaar: India’s ‘Unique Identification’ System In our politics, we have yet to tap into our new language of hope. For this to be mirrored in our political institutions it requires us to imagine an India that rests not on the struggles of our past, but on the promise and challenges of the future. It requires us to shape systems and policies that give people the ability to travel in search of work, to educate their children and to tap into economic growth.1 — Nandan Nilekani Nandan Nilekani, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), sipped his coffee while thinking about how to reply to the journalist badgering him and his core team about UIDAI’s challenges. “Will you actually be able to deliver ‘unique identification’ to every Indian resident?” asked the journalist. It was August 30, 2012, three years after the government of India (GoI) had approved the UIDAI project plan. In that time, UIDAI had chalked up some victories. 190 million people had been enrolled within two years of the initial rollout in September 2010. The Australian and Indonesian governments were studying the UIDAI system to adapt it for themselves. Yet some were skeptical that UIDAI would meet its interim goal to cover 600 million of India’s 1.2 billion residents by 2014, and whether the time, cost, and effort were justified. Nilekani responded, “175 million Indians have received a letter in the post giving them a 12-digit number.” India had the largest number of post offices...
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...Telemedicine: An Important Force in the Transformation of Healthcare 1. Introduction As we enter the new decade, healthcare for an aging population is a top-of-mind issue for government policy makers, business leaders and consumers alike. Healthcare costs have been steadily increasing, and a growing number of healthcare providers and patients worry that the recent budget crunches faced by healthcare providers will affect patient care in the years ahead. Healthcare providers are taking advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus funding to launch telehealth initiatives to face down some of healthcare’s most daunting challenges. According to the American Telemedicine Association: "Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status. Closely associated with telemedicine is the term 'telehealth,' which is often used to encompass a broader definition of remote health care that does not always involve clinical services. Videoconferencing, transmission of still images, e-health including patient portals, remote monitoring of vital signs, continuing medical education and nursing call centers are all considered part of telemedicine and telehealth." Following decades of media attention focused on the potential for telemedicine to transform health care delivery, the technology has matured, as has the acceptance of its use among providers and payers. ...
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