Developing and implementing a set of personal health device interoperability standards is key to cultivating a healthy global industry ecosystem. The standardization organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073 Personal Health Device Workgroup (IEEE 11073-PHD WG) and Continua Health Alliance, are striving for this purpose. However, factors like the medial...

Today, many countries are launching E-Government projects to effectively enhance the provision of governmental services. E-Government encompasses the usage of all information and communications technologies (so far mainly by using the Internet) to deliver governmental services to citizens and improve the quality of governmental activities. However, various EGovernment ranking surveys show that ...

Background In early 1990s, Tanzania like other African countries, adopted health sector reform (HSR). The most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. It was within the realm of HSR process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. Along with user fees, various typ...

on " The Evolution of the American Girl" ! We have read the book from beginning to end with astonishment, almost with awe. It is brimful of noble sentiments and elevating advice; it bristles with figures of speech, and is not devoid of distinct efforts at logical reasoning. But somehow we cannot help smiling as we read; for bathos jumbles pathos, the ridiculous ousts the sublime, the culture of...

This article presents the results of a study algorithms, methods and approaches to depersonalization enrichment data, including personal data. Among types data enrichment, demographic, geographic behavioral enrichments were considered, as well statistical, semantic pragmatic algorithms studied. In addition categories ontology namely expressive ontologies, lightweight ontologies such taxonomies,...

Patient-generated health data are coming into broader use across the health care spectrum and hold great promise as a means to improve care and health outcomes. At the same time, rapid evolution in the social media and mobile health (mHealth) market has promoted an environment in which creation and transmission of personal health information is easy, quick, and appealing to patients. However, a...

Mobile technologies and more precisely apps have disrupted technology scenario. Bring your own application (BYOA) is a new trend that has emerged after the “bring your own device” (BYOD) vogue. However, and in spite of its intrinsic benefits, the trend presents also several caveats and Enterprise app stores are seen as a way to tackle these risks. In this paper, authors present ModEAS, a system...

Social reformers such as John Stuart Mill and John Dewey have long expressed concern about a tension between democratic principles and organizational practices that appear undemocratic.' More recently, a substantial body of academic literature advocating changes in organizations to make them more democratic has been produced.2 Change has been advocated on a variety of normative grounds. In a no...

OBJECTIVES Japan has a relatively high prevalence of smoking in men. Despite the importance of behavioral patterns on successful smoking cessation, only limited information is available in Japan. The present study collected data from former smokers in a rural community in Japan in order to identify health status at the time of cessation, predominant motivating factors, and the role of smoking c...

background and aims: beauty salons are considered as the places which the environmental health and renovation are adhered too. they can improve the society’s health and influence controlling the diseases. not considering this issue causes the spread of skin and hair diseases and infections and louse. this study was aimed to determine the health status of beauty salons of kashan in 2014. methods...