Cost-Effective Laboratory Management

Laboratory computing--process and information management supporting high-quality, cost-effective healthcare.

One currently observes many healthcare institutions rushing to reengineer and install information systems with the expectation of achieving enhanced efficiency, competitiveness, and, it is hoped, higher patient satisfaction resulting from timely, high-quality care. Unfortunately, information system concepts, design, and implementation have not yet addressed the complexity of representing and ma...

Cost-effective management of diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes is one of the most common noncommunicable diseases (NCD) globally and a leading cause of death in many countries; the global epidemic of type 2 diabetes will most affect the developing world. The burden of diabetes is related to its chronic complications, both the specific microvascular and the nonspecific macrovascular (atherosclerosis), making diabetes one of the leading causes of de...

Cost-effective resource management for distributed computing

Current distributed computing and resource management infrastructures (e.g., Cluster and Grid) suffer from a wide variety of problems related to resource management, which include scalability bottleneck, resource allocation delay, limited quality-of-service (QoS) support, and lack of cost-aware and service level agreement (SLA) mechanisms. This thesis addresses these issues by presenting a cost...

Assessing Cost Effective Management Options of Eichhornia crassipes in Ecotourism Ramsar Sites, Nepal

Ecotourism is growing business in Nepal due to domestic and international visitors. Specifically, natural lakes in Ramsar sites are very potential avenues for boating, scenic beauty and study the aquatic ecosystem. However Eichhornia crassipes has been threatening the beauty, ecosystem and eco-tourism business. This research was objectively carried out to explore income generation from ecotouri...

IT Financial Management-Cost transparency and effective IT governance