Blockchain is a promising technology in the context of digital healthcare systems, but there are issues related to control accessing electronic health records. In this paper, we propose novel framework based on blockchain and multiple certificate authority that implement smart contracts access records securely. Our proposed solution provides facilities flexible policies update record or invoke ...

The shortfall of workers for the Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) industry has prompted the need to better understand factors contributing to the decline of enrolments in this field at the tertiary education level. Most of previous research examining these factors have been conducted within Western contexts with less attention paid to the decline of enrolments within Asia. In th...

AIMS Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 98-04 sought to identify women with ‘good risk’ ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who receive no significant benefit from radiation. Enrolment criteria excluded close or positive margins and grade 3 disease. To ensure reproducibility in identifying good risk pathology, an optional web based teaching tool was developed and a random sampling of 10% of submitted...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether integrating antiretroviral therapy (ART) into antenatal care (ANC) and maternal and child health (MCH) clinics could improve programmatic and patient outcomes. METHODS The authors systematically searched PubMed, Embase, African Index Medicus and LiLACS for randomized controlled trials, prospective cohort studies, or retrospective cohort studies comparing outcome...

BACKGROUND Hyperparasitaemia is a feature of childhood severe malaria but there is little information on the risk factors for hyperparasitaemia in malarious children METHODS The risk factors associated with Plasmodium falciparum hyperparasitaemia, defined as asexual parasitaemia > 250,000/μl, at presentation were evaluated in 3338 malarious children enrolled prospectively between 2008 and 201...

BACKGROUND To optimise care HIV patients need to be promptly initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and subsequently retained on treatment. In this study we report on the interval between enrolment and treatment initiation, and investigate subsequent attrition and mortality of patients on ART at a rural clinic in Malawi. METHODS HIV-positive individuals were recruited to a cohort study bet...

State education systems in Sahelian countries do not teach religious education, which is provided by the informal sector. This article is a rst attempt to quantitatively study how this dual educational system works and whether the potential competition between both systems is a key factor behind low primary school enrolment in Senegal. The analysis is based on a unique national dataset covering...

In the last decade traditional identity documents have been equipped with an embedded NFC-chip to enable wireless access to the relevant data. This applies in particular to passports, following the ICAO standard, but increasingly also to other identification documents, such as driver’s licenses. Such electronic identity (eID) documents can now be used as “mother cards” by the users to remotely ...

Rapid and efficient identification of patients eligible for clinical trials is on the critical path to the effective treatment of patients in a radiation oncology clinical setting. However, the Trial Physician Assistants (TPAs) that perform this work must read through many unstructured documents that have been received from regional hospitals and scanned in. The TPA must be familiar with a larg...

In recent years, the technology of database has become more advanced where huge amount of data is required to be stored in the databases, and the wealth of information hidden in those datasets has been realized by business people as a useful tool for making business strategic decisions. Data mining then attract more attention as it promises to extract valuable information from the raw data that...