Often referred as Government to Citizen (G2C) egovernment services, many governments around the world are developing and utilizing ICT technologies to provide information and services to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia (KSA) egovernment projects have been identified as one of the top government priority areas. However, the adoption of egovernment is facing many challenges and barriers including...

Public transaction services (such as e-forms), although perceived the future of e-government have not yet realised their full potential. E-forms have a significant role in e-government, as they are the basis for realising most of the twenty public services that all European Union member states have to provide to their citizens and businesses. The aim of this paper is to present a knowledgebased...

objective of this work is to develop a platform supporting the secure and quick deployment of distributed medical applications creating an environment and associated tools for the usage of medical personnel in their interaction with patients. We adopted the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Architecture Blueprint as developed by Canada Health Infoway [1], which proposes Web service technology as a...

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e-health is a process of providing health care via electronic means, in particular over the Internet. The term e-health has been used to describe the variety of activities related to the electronic exchange of health-related data, voice or video. e-health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information del...

BACKGROUND The major problem facing health and social care systems globally today is the growing challenge of an elderly population with complex health and social care needs. A longstanding challenge to the provision of high quality, effectively coordinated care for those with complex needs has been the historical separation of health and social care. Access to timely and accurate data about pa...

the electronics industry is one of fastest growing manufacturing industries in india. however, the increase in the sales of electronic goods and their rapid obsolescence has resulted in the large-scale generation of electronic waste, popularly known as e-waste. e-waste has become a matter of concern due to the presence of toxic and hazardous substances present in electronic goods which, if not ...