To improve the quality of research and teaching, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) set up a Web-based, service-oriented portal, supporting students and lecturers alike in their daily business. To narrow the gap between the user’s requirements and the supporting IT systems, existing distributed legacy applications have to be leveraged to provide common interfaces that can be integrated...

BACKGROUND Internet can serve in opening the door to a brand new world of high quality medical information. However, the chaotic size of data available in the WWW is often misleading. We sought to provide the world medical community with a web portal that may be used as a clearinghouse providing the outlet for dissemination of high quality WWW educational products. METHODS Directories of the ...

BACKGROUND Personal health records (PHRs) have the potential to improve patient self-management for chronic conditions such as diabetes. However, evidence is mixed as to whether there is an association between PHR use and improved health outcomes. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between sustained use of specific patient portal features (Web-based prescription r...

BACKGROUND The Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Program is a web-based program incorporating a comprehensive risk engine, care protocols, and clinical decision support to improve ambulatory diabetes care. METHODS The JADE Program uses information technology to facilitate healthcare professionals to create a diabetes registry and to deliver an evidence-based care and education protocol ta...

This research aims to study the effect of using digital (web-based) analyses in performance measurement and optimization of digital marketing in digital-based companies in Tehran. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. A panel of experts and supervisor were asked to measure the validity of the questionnaire. For reliability analysis of this tool, Cronbach’s alpha test was...

Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources (providers). Providing fast response time is one of the critical issues in such applications. Dissatisfaction of users dramatically increases with increasing response time, resulting in abandonment of Web sites, which in turn could result in loss of revenue by businesses. In ...

Background: Semantic interoperability between routine healthcare and clinical research is an unsolved issue, as information systems in the healthcare domain still use proprietary and site-specific data models. However, information exchange and data harmonization are essential for physicians and scientists if they want to collect and analyze data from different hospitals in order to build up reg...

It is a strongly held view that the scientific branch of computer security that deals with Web-powered databases (Rahayu & Taniar, 2002) than can be accessed through Web portals (Tatnall, 2005) is both complex and challenging. This is mainly due to the fact that there are numerous avenues available for a potential intruder to follow in order to break into the Web portal and compromise its asset...

We introduce the Business Process Services Portal as an approach to make business processes more actionable and to reduce the entrance barrier for tool developers in adopting novel process-related technologies. The business process services portal makes several process-related web services available in a toolindependent manner, relying on REST technology and making use of the BPMN 2.0 standard....

Content-aggregating Web portals such as yahoo.com are becoming increasingly popular. Until recently, many of these Web sites positioned themselves as ‘search engines’ or ‘navigational directories’. However, over time, these sites made the transition to Web portals by incorporating additional features such as news, maps, driving directions, chat rooms, email services, and many others. By doing s...