This contribution discusses management software for Application Service providing (ASP). For the development of such software systems numerous specific requirements have to be considered. As examples we discuss aspects of heterogeneity. Because of this a flexible software engineering approach is necessary, covering design and implementation. For that we propose design patterns and component tec...

Effective transitions to home care have been identified as among the factors leading to reducing hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge and improvements on various other quality measures. Innovative applications of published evidence-based models and best practices designed to improve care transitions have been implemented in various settings across the country in an effort to enhanc...

We present a comparison of weak and distant supervision methods for producing proxy examples for supervised relation extraction. We find that knowledge-based weak supervision tends to outperform popular distance supervision techniques, providing a higher yield of positive examples and more accurate models.