Background Out of eight commonly agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDG), six are related to the attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) throughout the globe. This universalization of health status suggests policies to narrow the gap in access and benefit sharing between different socially and economically underprivileged classes with that of the better placed ones and a consequent expa...

This chapter addresses library research services at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), an institution engaged with science and technology that clearly emerges as a university. Due to attributes of UPC, its library, publications, archives differ from traditional libraries have been transformed over lifetime offer researchers fit their current future needs. Librarians...

In this paper we propose the use of semantic web services to achieve a universal clinical decision support system (CDSS). Our goal is to develop a semi-automated approach to discover, select and compose CDSSs available as web services. Ontologies and tools support is necessary to achieve this goal. We describe similar efforts for ontologies and tools development and explain how our work is diff...

human saliva plays an important role in the health of the oral cavity and of the body as a whole. salivary diagnostics is a dynamic and emerging fi   fl   fi   fi key words: biomarker, microbiome, proteome, saliva, transcriptome   ve diagnostic alphabets proteins, mrnas, mirnas, metabolic compounds, and microbes   offering substantial advantages because disease states may be accompanied by dete...

background and objectives: many iranian public hospitals are faced with serious financial challenges such as shortage of income and heavy debts. nevertheless, many of the healthcare services are often remained unearned for not being included in the clinical records or patient bill, resulting in considerable loss of legitimate hospital in­come. given the limited studies in this area in iran, the...

BACKGROUND The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human alerted the healthcare industry and the public to the lack of consistency in the delivery of quality care to the US population. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have become a leading response to this report, and to the growing demand for the promotion of standards-based care delivery. The objective of this paper is t...

BACKGROUND Poor quality of care is among the causes of high maternal and newborn disease burden in Tanzania. Potential reason for poor quality of care is the existence of a "know-do gap" where by health workers do not perform to the best of their knowledge. An electronic clinical decision support system (CDSS) for maternal health care was piloted in six rural primary health centers of Tanzania ...

BACKGROUND Electronic guideline-based decision support systems have been suggested to successfully deliver the knowledge embedded in clinical practice guidelines. A number of studies have already shown positive findings for decision support systems such as drug-dosing systems and computer-generated reminder systems for preventive care services. METHODS A systematic literature search (1990 to ...

Traditionally, diagnostics of vehicles is done by plugging a physical device into a diagnostics interface in the vehicle; however, over the last years OEMs are considering to perform remote diagnostics. But connecting remotely to a vehicle opens a new entrypoint for attackers. Hence, it is important to secure the remote diagnostics procedure. We first provide an analysis of the security propert...