Objectives To explore the challenges Health Information Technology (HIT) vendors face to satisfy the requirements for Meaningful Use (MU) and Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) of reportable diseases to the public health departments in Kentucky. Methodology A survey was conducted of Health Information Exchange (HIE) vendors in Kentucky through the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE...

Over the past few years, all of the major web browser vendors have embraced the concept of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), and added “private browsing” modes to their products. Publicly, the companies describe this feature as useful for consumers “shopping for a gift on a family PC” [14] or someone wishing to “to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays” [7]. The private browsing features ...

BACKGROUND To achieve health development goals, policymakers are increasingly focused on improving primary care in low- and middle-income countries, and private sector drug retailers offer one channel through which basic services may be delivered. In Nigeria, patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) serve as a main source of medications, but little is known about their clientele or how c...

Performance monitoring is often used by the principal to lower the rent paid to the agent due to moral hazard. However, in global sourcing of IT services, we observe a phenomenon wherein vendors voluntarily provide costly monitoring systems which allow the client to obtain accurate and timely information on their own performance. It is puzzling as why do vendors themselves offer mechanisms that...

A database is electronic information. Perhaps one of the most important information sources in medicine is that which is accessed electronically through a database named MEDLINE, the core medical literature published since 1966. MEDLINE is sold by three major vendors (BRS, Dialog, and the National Library of Medicine) to information experts and to medical experts. Information experts (librarian...

Recently there has been considerable interest among PKI vendors and researchers in the concept of password-enabled PKI. Several viable proposals and products have emerged. Fundamentally there are two distinct methods for using passwords with private keys. One method is to use the password to retrieve a private key, while the other uses the password as one component of the private key. We motiva...