Digital Rx: Obama pushing for paperless prescriptions

Digital Rx: Obama pushing for paperless prescriptions.

Paperless Organization

During the itinerary of evolution, man started to think in a dissimilar way other than the animal by observing the nature. According to Adam smith “it is the invisible hand that carries the human action towards the progress”. This has led to the concept of specialization, industrialization industrial revolution and so on and so forth. The negative side of industrial revolution is global warming...

Toward the paperless hospital?

This report describes an ethnographic study of document use by anaesthetists. In doing so, it focuses on the role of the preoperative risk assessment form as used in anaesthetic practice at a cardiothoracic hospital, and considers what would be the advantages and disadvantages of shifting the paper into the electronic form. Evidence from this case study is used to comment on how the practical u...

A Paperless Gamble

A s our 2015 IEEE Computer Society membership renewal form made clear, a mailed hardcopy of Computer no longer will be a core member benefit , as it has been since 1968. Print copies— for those members opting to purchase them—will now cost an additional US$149. To paraphrase the legendary New Zealand philosopher-politician Fred Dagg, " We don't know how unpropitious are these circumstances. " I...

Paperless Independently-Verifiable Voting

We present a new model for polling-booth voting: the voter enters the polling booth with a computational assistant which helps her verify that her vote is correctly recorded. The assistant interacts with the voting system while the voter votes on the machine in the polling booth. We present an independentlyverifiable, coercion-resistant protocol based on this model. Unlike all other independent...