Recent health care reform is one of the biggest changes that the health care industry has ever faced. This reform represents paradigm changing opportunities and challenges for the company providing health insurance in a managed care environment. The CIO of a premier managed care health insurance provider (ABC Company) wants to take advantage of the new environment using Information Technology. ...

We study the effect of secondary markets on equity-linked life insurance contracts with surrender guarantees. The policyholders are assumed to be boundedly rational in giving up their contracts, and a proportion of policyholders will access the secondary markets instead of surrendering the contracts to the insurance company. We formulate the valuation problems from both the insurance company’s ...

This article summarises findings from a qualitative study conducted in rural Uganda, East Africa. The main aim of the study was to investigate the accessibility and use of health information in the lower echelons of Primary Health Care (PHC). Women, as PHC providers in an African family, were the focus as well as health workers. An interview schedule that consisted of open questions and one rel...

Background: The morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes can be significantly reduced by timely and effective treatment. However, unless patients with diabetes have access to this treatment, and resources to utilize it, outcomes will not meet goals. We wanted to explore the impediments to effective care for the pediatric diabetes population. However, most studies evaluating diabetes car...

Health Services Research, by now a mature field, has never developed precise terminology for most of the characteristics of health systems and services. Like Alice, its practitioners use terms to mean what they want them to mean, no more, no less. So it is with access. Everyone knows that, above all, people need “access” to health services to benefit from whatever health services have to offer....

Critical Infrastructure control systems continue to foster predictable communication paths, static configurations, and unpatched systems that allow easy access to our nation’s most critical assets. This makes them attractive targets for cyber intrusion. We seek to address these attack vectors by automatically randomizing network settings, randomizing applications on the end devices themselves, ...

A widely debated issue in recent years is cyber crime. Breaches in security of accessibility, integrity and confidentiality of information involve potentially high explicit and implicit costs for firms. This paper investigates the impact of information security breaches on stock returns. Using event-study methodology, we provide empirical evidence on the effect of announcements of cyber attacks...

Attempts to explain disparities in access to health care faced by racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations often focus on individual-level factors such as demographics, personal health beliefs, and health insurance status. This article proposes an examination of these disparities—and an effort to redress them—through the lens of public health. Public health agencies can li...

Government regulations are increasingly affecting the security, privacy and governance of information systems in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Consequently, companies and software developers are required to ensure that their software systems comply with relevant regulations, either through design or re-engineering. We previously proposed a methodology for extracting stakeholder requi...