introduction: in a comprehensive health approach, emphasis has been more on education and self-care than care itself, and aims to increase patient’s knowledge to give decision making and independence ability to improve quality of lifestyle. these can develop with progress of information technology. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital information system (his) in meeting the patient dr...

iran’s industry has had a considerable number of difficulties to perform so well as was expected in the post – revolutionary era. unfavorable legal, political environments combined with eight –year imposed war may be singled out as the root causes of such performances. however, this paper argues that our industry’s lack of realization of its dire need to adapt to the emerging unprecedented envi...

The main thesis of this book is that while technology may change, economic laws do not. The authors, Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian point out that the information economy is driven by advances in information technology and infrastructure. What is new is, not the total amount of information available but our ability to manipulate information across industries. Technology is allowing people to do mo...

This paper analyzes the effect of ICT infrastructure availability on FDI inflow in D8countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey). Panel data for period 1997-2018 has been used analysis done using fix model suggested by Hausman specification test. The result shows positive significant between inflows, along with other controlling variables like market s...

Inspections are inherent in many steps throughout the management life cycle of municipal infrastructure. Mobile technology has the potential to improve information capture and management for inspections allowing for easier access, review, and increased detail. A plethora of possible technology solutions do exist but with few comprehensive techniques available to industry for adoption and implem...

In our information-age, the necessary scientic exploration is mainly driven by mining new insights from many diverse data sets. While there is a consensus that a collaborative data infrastructure is needed to allow researchers in dierent domains to collaborate on the same data sets in order to get new insights, there are signicant barriers to the realization of this vision. One of the key chall...