background recognizing the significant impact of wait times for care for individuals with complex chronic conditions, we applied a lean methodology, namely – an adaptation of value stream mapping (vsm) to meet the needs of people with multiple chronic conditions and to improve wait times without additional resources or funding.   methods over an 18-month time period, staff applied a patient-cen...

The UML is a collection of 13 diagram notations to describe different views of a software system. The existing diagram types display model elements and their relations. Software engineering is becoming more and more model-centric, such that software engineers start using UML models for more tasks than just describing the system. Tasks such as analysis or prediction of system properties require ...

Web archives constitute a valuable source for researchers from many disciplines. However, their sheer size, the typically broad scope and their temporal dimension make them difficult to work with. We have identified three approaches to access and explore Web archives from different perspectives: user-, dataand graph-centric. In this paper we present related works on these three views as well as...

Delivery systems are now the norm in the health care industry. With the incorporation of many entities into one organization, the functionality and maintenance of the master patient index (MPI) has been transformed into a more complex Enterprise MPI (EMPI), which allows a patient to be identified both longitudinally and across the continuum of care. The EMPI becomes the access point for linking...