Charting point-of-care results is generally not performed by the laboratory point-of-care team; however, the oversight of this activity remains the responsibility of the point-of-care program. Although point-of-care management and interfacing are not new, there remain a significant number of hospitals not yet utilizing automated electronic interfaces for charting of results to tests performed o...

In this paper we explore the ethics of business-to-business electronic commerce, with a focus on the banking sector. A case study of online foreign exchange developments at an investment bank is used to help illustrate some key moral issues. Important areas identified for further research include freedom of choice, trust and transparency of business-to-business transactions and limits to respon...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a repository of patient health information shared among multiple authorized users. As a modern method of storing and processing health information, it is a solution for improving quality, safety and efficiency of patient care and health system. However, establishment of EHR requires a significant investment of time and money. While many of healthcare providers ...

• Since Wilkie’s result [9] (which established that the elementary theory Texp of (R, exp) is model complete and o-minimal), many o-minimal expansions of the reals have been investigated. The problem of constructing nonarchimedean models of Texp (and more generally, of an ominimal expansion of the reals) gained much interest. • In [2] it was shown that fields of generalized power series cannot ...

The Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR) effect is a change in the resistance of a device upon the application of a magnetic field in hybrid structures, consisting of a semiconductor and a metal. The underlying principle of this phenomenon is a change of the current path in the hybrid structure upon application of a magnetic field, due to the Lorentz force. Specifically, the ratio of current, ...

Health care providers remain uncertain about how they will fare financially if they adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems. We used survey data from forty-nine community practices in a large EHR pilot, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, to project five-year returns on investment. We found that the average physician would lose $43,743 over five years; just 27 percent of practices wou...

Implementing Learning Management Systems (LMS) in universities is becoming one of the most critical decisions in higher education environment as they could yield long term benefit particularly in terms of enhancing the quality of teaching and learning processes and gaining competitive positions. Like IT and IS investment in other sectors generally, there is a need to develop a more comprehensiv...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol3/i1547-3465-03-201.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 3:201-207 (2005) Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA-Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, SPAIN. [email protected] Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Vincent Vadez & Tomás Huanca, Sustainable International Development Program, Heller School for Social Po...

The usual focus in authorship studies is on authorship attribution, i.e. determining which author (of a given set) wrote a piece of unknown provenance. The usual setting involves a small number of candidate authors, which means that the focus quickly revolves around a search for features that discriminate among the candidates. Whether the features that serve to discriminate among the authors ar...