One major concern with electronic healthcare data relates to preserving the privacy and confidentiality of such data. The recent Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has established national standards for the protection of health information. The National Institutes of Health also requires healthcare researchers to share data regarding their subjects, but without ...

An important concern for P2P developers is accountability. The few sources on P2P accountability define the term as a mechanism that makes the users accountable for their activity in the network. This general definition requires some refining to render it useful in the development of a P2P implementation. By ‘accountability’ we denote three general functions for the system. One is the system ab...

This paper investigates why end-users sometimes find difficult to fully invest themselves in a Living Lab initiative, at least on the long run. The paper builds insights on the basis of users’ feedback about four projects currently managed by the Wallonia e-health Living Lab (WeLL) and pave the way for renewed models of collaboration that could lead to sustainable satisfaction and long-term com...

1 Annotations for Productivity and Performance Portability 3 Boyana Norris, Albert Hartono, and William Gropp 1.

• Vulnerability identification—Identify system’s weaknesses. • Control analysis—Analyze controls in place to prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited. • Likelihood determination—Determine probability of a vulnerability being exploited. • Impact analysis—Analyze impact on organization should a vulnerability be exploited. • Risk determination—Develop prioritized listing of risks (ie, gaps in ...

The authors tested the effects of holding raters accountable for their performance ratings on the accuracy and the favorability of those ratings. Undergraduate research participants (N = 247) completed an inbasket exercise and observed a videotaped simulation during 2 sessions over a 2-week period. The simulation presented performance information on 4 simulated subordinates portrayed through vi...

Patient-Centered E-Health (PCEH) is an increasingly important part of health information technology. Yet the literature in this area is mainly descriptive and atheoretical, which limits opportunities for research advancement. This paper addresses the theoretical proposition that the benefits of PCEH can be maximized by incorporating three essential characteristics: Patientfocus, patient-activit...