E lectronic patient portals have received increasing interest with Meaningful Use criteria and the move toward patientcentered medical homes.1-4 Portals typically allow patients and physicians to send electronic messages to one another in a secure environment. Other functions might include renewing prescriptions, making appointments, and viewing portions of one’s own medical record. Despite pot...

Somatically acquired genomic alterations that drive oncogenic cellular processes are of great scientific and clinical interest. Since the initiation of large-scale cancer genomic projects (e.g., the Cancer Genome Project, The Cancer Genome Atlas, and the International Cancer Genome Consortium cancer genome projects), a number of web-based portals have been created to facilitate access to multid...

The evolution of web portals has reached a stage where it is possible to identify canonical content that constitutes typical portals. Examples of typical content include information about the organization, product descriptions, papers, personal information, contact, etc. The Semantic Web approach, through the use of ontologies, provides several advantages for web portals. Firstly, ontologies ar...

We simulate the process of possible interactions between a set of competitive services, web infrastructure agents (portals) that provide online rating for these services, and users of these services. We argue that to have a profitable business, these portals are forced to have subscribed services that are rated by the portals. We follow the what-if methodology, analysing strategies that a servi...

The revenue model of online portals is based on access to consumers and their preference information through offerings of “free” personalized services. Extant research has characterized consumer behavior in this context by a personalization for privacy (p4p) ratio, which represents consumer’s tradeoff between value for personalized services and nonmonetary privacy costs incurred in sharing thei...

We have recently been witnessing the growing establishment of map-centered web-based geo-portals on national, regional and local levels. However, a particular issue with these geo-portals is that each instance has been implemented in different ways in terms of design, usability, functionality, interaction possibilities, map size and symbologies. In this paper, we try to tackle these shortcoming...

UNLABELLED We assessed the proximity of neurological structures to arthroscopic portals in a cadaveric study and through a systematic review. Arthroscopy was performed on ten cadaveric wrists. Subsequently the specimens were dissected to isolate the superficial branch of the radial nerve, the dorsal branch of the ulnar nerve, the posterior interosseous nerve and the extensor tendons. We measure...

In the area of Human Resource Management, the trend is towards online exchange of information about human resources. For example, online applications for employment become standard and job offerings are posted in many job portals. However, there are too many job portals to monitor all of them if someone is interested in a new job. We developed a prototype for integrating information of differen...

Healthcare portals provide abundant information to consumers. This study examines the factors influencing consumers’ decisions to adopt and continue using healthcare portals. A research model is developed using constructs from past Information Systems (IS) literature. Research hypotheses derived from this model were empirically validated using a filed survey. Data collected from the survey (N=2...