These days smart cards are replacing traditional magnetic cards for payment transactions. One of the main reasons is the enhanced security capabilities built into a smart card. Most of the related works in smart card only concentrates on the single application such as network access control, prepaid phone card or debit card. With popularity in web technologies, there is a trend towards smart ca...

Electronic Health Records are key components to an efficient exploitation of information technologies in health care institutions. Nevertheless, several barriers that hinder its wide adoption subsists. The co-existence of dissimilar and incompatible health information systems and the absence of a unique central repository for personal medical data are some examples. This paper, we propose a web...

Many countries worldwide are striving for improving the quality of care and for reducing costs in the health care sector by establishing large IT infrastructures. In Germany, the introduction of the electronic health card and the national telematics infrastructure is lagging years behind the original schedule. In this paper, we describe and analyze a case study of one selected part of this ultr...

This paper looks at targeting performance of the Indonesian health card programme that was implemented in August 1998 to protect access to health care for the poor during the Indonesian economic crisis. By February 1999, 22 million people had received a health card. The health card provided a user fee waiver for public health care. Targeting of the health card was pro-poor, but with considerabl...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is a growing demand for quality improvement in the health care system. This study sought to generate "report cards" for primary care resident physicians on their use of quality markers related to diabetes care. METHODS Electronic medical records [electronic health records] were reviewed for the care provided to diabetics by resident physicians. RESULTS We wer...

Conventional credit card transactions are not consistent with Islamic principles, as exemplified by the Islamic banking system and the ‘Murabaha sale’. Thus, if Islamic principles are to be applied to e-commerce, where credit card transactions are the norm, a new and secure electronic payment process is required. In this paper we present a method for secure electronic Murabaha transactions. Aft...

The plan for "e-Government", and the need to facilitate interactions between citizen and Public Administration, make find in the electronic identity card EIC one of the most important means to access network services in a secure way. There are five inspiring principles: ??security for the complete lifecycle of the card from production of the physical support to initialisation, emission and its ...

Fraud is an unauthorized activity taking place in electronic payments systems, but these are treated as illegal activities. Fraud detection methods are continuously developed to defend criminals in adapting to their strategies. Fraud can be identified quickly and easily through fraud detection techniques. In this paper, clustering approach is used for credit card fraud detection. Data is genera...