The German compulsory health insurance system will introduce an electronic health card (eHC) in the near future. The eHC is supposed to enable new applications like securely storing electronic health records of patients in a central data center infrastructure so that health professionals can access these data via a common network. In this context, the card management system (CMS) is of special ...

the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of nigerian insurance companies using data envelopment analysis (dea). because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten nigerian insurance companies for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012. the input employed were commission expenses and management expenses, while premium and investment income...

Extended service contracts have been the major profit generator for many consumer electronics retailers as they contribute to half of the retailers' profit. My dissertation studies how consumers make purchase decisions of extended service contracts and how the ESC purchase decisions are related to the product purchase decisions. Essay 1: " Why Do Consumers Buy Extended Service Contracts? " The ...

The origins of the ongoing automotive – electronics components convergence can perhaps be traced back to the late 1980s, when Mercedes and its supplier Robert Bosch GmbH developed the electronic stability control, a system designed to help prevent accidents by monitoring a car's trajectory and correcting this when it strays from the direction in which the driver is steering. The enormous benefi...

The past several years have seen an exponential increase both in the number of available health information technology (HIT) applications and their use by health care providers [1,2]. This trend is supported by several developments: government stimulation in the way of laws and regulations (e.g., adoption of electronic health records and meaningful use), the proliferation and availability of va...

Trust has always been important in electronic commerce. Prior research in MIS has mainly focused on trust-building mechanisms and insurance against opportunistic behavior. We suggest a “trust-free system” approach, which addresses trust issues by eliminating the need for trust. Using Bitcoin, a decentralized electronic cash system, we illustrate how a system can solve trust issues by becoming “...

A relatively recent form of commerce, electronic commerce is increasingly becoming routine. Despite recent years’ turbulence, electronic commerce is on the rise in Canadian commercial landscape. Representing a sales volume of $4.7 billion, about 1.3% of Canadian retail sales, e-commerce is becoming an indispensable tool for retailers Statistics. In total, 67% of Canadian households use the Inte...

With the fast evolution of information technology, traditional healthcare is moving towards a more electronic stage. As a result, the e-Health term appears, and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) become a critical application of e-Health management systems. These computerized records have been widely used by clinicians, healthcare providers, patients, and health insurance companies for the purpos...

Liver toxicity is a recognized adverse event associated with small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Electronic Medical Record (EMR) databases offer the most precise data to investigate the rate of liver function test (LFT) elevations; however, they can be limited in sample size and costly to access and analyze. Health insurance claims databases often contain larger samples sizes but ...