Patient Information Maintaining & Analyzing

Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms

This paper examines the effect of hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) on health outcomes, particularly patient safety indicators (PSIs). We find evidence of a positive impact of EMRs on PSIs via decision support rather than care coordination. Consistent with this mechanism, we find an EMR with decision support is more effective at reducing PSIs for less complicated cases, usi...

Maintaining Class Membership Information

Maintaining Information Resources

With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, it has become very important to provide advanced tools for maintaining referential integrity of information resources. The growing tendency toward building increasingly complex Web sites makes it necessary to maintain not only physical files, but also logical resources, or views, which are composed of references to other resources and presentation p...

Maintaining Information Security during Downsizing

Today, companies of every size are relying on Internet and other network connections to support their business. For each of those businesses, information and network security have become increasingly important. Yet, achieving a security level that will adequately protect a business is a difficult task because information security is a multifaceted undertaking. A successful information security ...

Analyzing Organizational Information Gaps

In this paper, we analyze the relation of private and public information spaces in organizations and its implication for organizational knowledge management. By private information spaces, we mean all (electronic) information, which is only accessible by a single person in an organization (e.g. local files or personal E-Mails). The organizational information space in turn, consists of all elect...