Internet of Thing (IoT) is looking over to overhaul the business processes of many industries including insurance domain. The current line of business such as Property and Casualty, Health, and Life Insurance can avail tremendous benefits from the contextual and relevant data being generated from billions of connected devices; Smartphone's, wearable gadget and other electronic smart sensors. Fo...

In this paper, are highlighted concepts as: complete Java card application, life cycle of an applet, and a practical electronic wallet sample implemented in Java card technology. As a practical approach it would be interesting building applets for ID, Driving License, Health-Insurance smart cards, for encrypt and digitally sign documents, for E-Commerce and for accessing critical resources in g...

As an element of Electronic Commerce (particularly supply chain management), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has the potential to sustain competitive advantage for individual companies, yet the adoption of EDI has been considerably slower than anticipated. One of the major reasons for this slow uptake is the difficulty in justifying the high investment cost of EDI. Very little research has be...

Since the early 1990s, the federal government has set its sights on enacting legislation to establish a national infrastructure for the storage and transmission of electronic health records. In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect individuals from abuse by health insurance companies and to provide a “floor” of mandatory privacy standar...

OBJECTIVE To validate electronic health record (EHR) insurance information for low-income pediatric patients at Oregon community health centers (CHCs), compared to reimbursement data and Medicaid coverage data. MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects Children visiting any of 96 CHCs (N = 69 189) from 2011 to 2012. Analysis The authors measured correspondence (whether or not the visit was covered by Me...

The automotive industry has developed electronic immobilizers to reduce the number of car thefts since the mid nineties. However, there is not much information on the current solutions in the public domain, and the annual number of stolen cars still causes a significant loss. This generates other costs particularly regarding the increased insurance fees each individual has to pay. In this paper...

BACKGROUND In Japan, there have been approximately 50 000 deaths from gastric cancer annually for over 40 years with little variation. It has been reported that most gastric cancers in Japan are caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. H. pylori eradication therapy was approved for patients with chronic gastritis by the Japanese national health insurance scheme in February 2013 for patients wit...