One of the key elements of the NHS information strategy of 1998 was the development of electronic patient records. These were expected to be developed within organisations and to be capable of being linked into a patient focused electronic health record, which would form a lifetime record of health and health care for each patient within the NHS. This vision has been modified slightly by update...

Recent years in the field of mobile communications have brought two significant requirements – seamless service delivery and Quality of Service provisioning. Seamless mobility goes hand in hand with Mobile IPv6 protocol and various handover schemes of this protocol are trying to solve the QoS issue. In this paper we are presenting a method for evaluation of the Layer 3 handover schemes from the...

BACKGROUND Enhancing service efficiency and quality has always been one of the most important factors to heighten competitiveness in the health care service industry. Thus, how to utilize information technology to reduce work load for staff and expeditiously improve work efficiency and healthcare service quality is presently the top priority for every healthcare institution. In this fast changi...

Big data applications are constructed under the cloud environment to process the big data values. Public cloud provides easily scaled up and scaled down computing power and storage to everyone. Private cloud services are provided to group of people only. Big data can be used in disaster management, high energy physics, genomics, connectomics, automobile simulations and medical imaging applicati...

this report presents a new record of iranolacerta brandtii brandtii from 30 km south of tekab city, west azarbaijan province and 130 km south of the previously known distribution range of the subspecies; a new record of iranolacerta zagrosica in kaljonun mountain peak, lorestan province, about 70 km northwest of the type locality; a new record of apathya cappadocica urmiana in the manesht prote...

civil liability in electronic communications is one the most important issues of information and communications technology (ict) law. civil liability may be arisen from different causes such as copyright and trade mark infringement invasion of privacy and defamation. when discussing civil liability, two different civil liability systems may be considered: direct and indirect civil liability. in...

This paper examines the use of Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a lens to get a better understanding of the implementation of the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Actor Network Theory has been deployed in various environments to achieve a better understanding of the roles of not only the humans but also the artifacts that constitute, in this case, heal...

In a sequence of random variables, record values are observations that exceed or fall below the current extreme value.Now consider a sequence of pairwise random variables  {(Xi,Yi), i>=1}, when the experimenter is interested in studying just thesequence of records of the first component, the second component associated with a record value of the first one is termed the concomitant of that ...