Technology application such as health information system in health care affects health care delivery including its clinical process. Health information system is used extensively in healthcare to support the infrastructure of medicine. Improving clinical process enables better understanding of healthcare systems as technology and clinical process need to be aligned to each other. One of the int...

The properties of blends of banana, potato, and rice starches were studied to assess their suitability as an alternate for chemically modified starches. The blends of banana, potato, and rice starches were prepared in the respective ratio of 1:3:2, 3:2:1, and 2:1:3. The blend with higher proportion of banana and rice starches (BPR213) showed highest water absorption capacity and oil absorption ...

-—— In speaker-independent speech recognition. the disadvantage of the most di行used technology (HMMs.or Hidden Markov models)is not only the need of m any m ore training sam ples,but also long train tim e requirem ent. This PaPer describes the use of Biom im etic pattern recognition(BPR)in recognizing some mandarin continuous speech in a speaker-independent m anner. A speech database was develo...

This study endeavors to focus on developing an evaluation method for comparative analysis of process performance before and after reengineering. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a relatively recent concept that has stemmed from management and computer science roots. Process performance evaluations are crucial to managers in identifying the benefit of new process after reengineering. Curr...

Purpose – To investigate the role of business process redesign (BPR) in creating citizen-centred e-government. Design/methodology/approach – It is argued in this paper that the evolutionary-based development of BPR is better positioned to expand the use e-commerce technology in the public sector. The Venkatraman model of IT-enabled change is used in order to investigate the extent to which BPR ...

AIM This study sets out (a) to estimate the prevalence of admissions by birth defects, using the official database of hospitals of Ecuador; and (b) to set the basis for a new National Register of Birth Defects in Ecuador that works as a program for the clinical and epidemiological investigation of risk factors in the etiology of congenital anomalies in Ecuadorian hospitals, using a case-control...