A model of knowledge management system and early warning system (KMS@EWS) for clinical diagnostic environment

Early warning system (EWS) is a technology to mitigate risk in multi disciplinary areas. Issues on timeliness for timely reporting are still regarded as a main challenge in EWS. Therefore in this paper, we suggest the model of the integration between knowledge management system (KMS) and EWS known as KMS@EWS for clinical diagnostics (CD) environment. The integration model is to combine the advantage of KM system with the EWS functionalities and its components. The proposed model is based on empirical study by using literatures on KMS and EWS. We synthesize the findings of KMS and EWS model of integration. To demonstrate the application of this model, we propose into CD environment as a platform KMS@EWS system implementation. Our propose model can provide early warning when any abnormalities or peculiar pattern of disease and symptoms arise and detected during the interaction between physicians and patients. Thus, this model can support the managing of data and information for timely reporting and detection by providing decision facilitation thru early warning during the CD processes

MANAJEMEN PENGETAHUAN UNTUK RISIKO BENCANA TSUNAMI –LITERATURE REVIEW

The application of knowledge management (KM) using Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is able to capture, store, and disseminate disaster information in all phases of the tsunami disaster. IoT promises to provide continuous fast data, AI used in several disaster risk management applications promises to automate the analysis and dissemination of potential disaster information, as well as the results of disaster event analysis more accurately and faster. This study aims to develop an AI and IoT-based KM model for tsunami risk management based on the comparative results of previous research. The results of the comparison show that most KM, AI, and IoT research focus on the process of knowledge capture, knowledge store, knowledge sharing and mostly focus on pre-disaster. Some other KM research focuses on KM systems without AI, and IoT on the process of knowledge capture, knowledge store, knowledge sharing and only focuses on the stage of a disaster. There is very limited KM research that simultaneously examines KMS, AI, IoT in all knowledge management processes for all stages of tsunami disaster risk. The results of the comparison utilize to develop AI and IoT-based KM models for all stages of tsunami disaster risk management. This study can be a good guidance for stakeholders on the application of AI-based KM and IoT technology to manage tsunami disaster risk in Indonesia.Penerapan manajemen pengetahuan atau knowledge management (KM) dengan menggunakan Teknologi Internet of Things (IoT) dan Artificial Intelligence (AI) mampu menangkap, menyimpan, dan menyebarluaskan informasi kebencanaan pada semua fase bencana tsunami. IoT menjanjikan penyediaan data secara terus menerus dan cepat, AI yang digunakan dalam beberapa aplikasi manajemen risiko bencana menjanjikan otomasi analisis dan penyebarluasan informasi potensi bencana, maupun hasil analisis kejadian bencana dengan lebih akurat dan lebih cepat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyusun model KM berbasis AI dan IoT untuk manajemen risiko tsunami berdasarkan hasil komparasi penelitian yang sudah dilakukan sebelumnya. Hasil komparasi menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar penelitian KM, AI, dan IoT fokus pada proses knowledge capture, knowledge store, knowledge sharing dan hanya fokus pada tahan pra bencana. Sebagian penelitian KM lainnya hanya fokus pada Sistem KM tanpa AI, dan IoT pada proses knowledge capture, knowledge store, knowledge sharing dan hanya fokus pada tahap ketika bencana. Belum ada penelitian KM yang sekaligus meneliti KMS, AI, IoT pada semua proses manajemen pengetahuan untuk semua tahapan risiko bencana tsunami. Hasil komparasi menjadi bahan untuk membangun model KM berbasis AI dan IoT untuk semua tahapan manajemen risiko bencana tsunami. Studi ini dapat menjadi panduan yang baik bagi pemangku kepentingan tentang penerapan KM berbasis AI dan teknologi IoT untuk mengelola risiko bencana tsunami di Indonesia

Opportunities And Challenges of E-Health and Telemedicine Via Satelite

The introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the health scenario is instrumental for the development of sustainable services of direct benefit for the European citizen. The setting up of satellite based applications will enhance rapidly the decentralisation and the enrichment of the European territory driving it towards a homogenous environment for healthcare

Social protection, rural development and the role of public administration in Ethiopia: an examination of the potential for developing employment generation schemes

Over fifty per cent of the population of Ethiopia live below the poverty line and are therefore food insecure. Increasingly viewed as an important component of poverty reduction, social protection policies, such as the promotion of labour intensive public works, can serve as a springboard for pro-poor growth and a foundation for social risk management. The research assesses the Ethiopian Employment Generation Scheme (EGS) in the context of Amhara and Tigrai regional states through comparative research into Maharashtran experience. The aim of the research is to assess the implementation of EGS programmes against the objectives of the national policy and to examine the role of public administration in delivering social protection through EGS thereby reducing poverty levels by supporting sustainable rural livelihoods. The national policy seeks to effectively harness a potential 150 million labour days on the basis of existing relief resources alone thereby creating livelihood assets. However, social protection is often considered to be a high cost, low returns component of democratic governance. Experience highlights poor performance in planning and implementation. Reforms must be based on informed and applied study of the areas explored in the research: policy frameworks; implementation; organisational responsibilities; programme efficiency, effectiveness and relevance; short and long term impact; and. sustainability. Such research necessitates a sensitive combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Research findings show that the national policy provides an appropriate pro-poor framework for employment provision and asset creation while essential supportive measures have been neglected. Grassroots administrations remain incapacitated and central support for reform is often lacking. The research establishes a clear set of conclusions and recommendations for reform acknowledging the requirement for a decentralised, demand driven approach to policy design and expenditure management which promotes the comparative advantage of the poor and mainstreams EGS into other strategies for poverty reduction

Final report of the Conference on the eradicability of Onchocerciasis

Sixty-four experts from a variety of disciplines attended a Conference on the Eradicability of Onchocerciasis at The Carter Center, in Atlanta GA, held January 22-24, 2002. The Conference, which was organized by The Carter Center and the World Health Organization, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed the question: "Is onchocerciasis (River Blindness) eradicable with current knowledge and tools?" Former US President Jimmy Carter attended part of the final plenary proceedings on January 24. The Conference consisted of a series of presentations by invited expert speakers (Appendix C) and further deliberations in four workgroups (Appendix D) followed by plenary discussion of major conclusions. The presentations underlined epidemiological and entomological differences between onchocerciasis in Africa and the Americas. Whilst onchocerciasis in Africa covers extensive areas and is associated with striking human and fly population migrations and remarkably efficient black fly vectors, in the Americas onchocerciasis is found in limited foci. Human and fly population migration are not major problems in the Americas, where most black fly species are inefficient, though some efficient black flies are also found there. Vector control has been effectively applied in the Onchocerciasis Control Program in West Africa (OCP) with remarkable results, interrupting transmission in most parts of the original Program area. The use of ivermectin has given variable results: while ivermectin treatment has been effective in all endemic areas in controlling onchocerciasis as a public health problem, its potential for interrupting transmission is more promising in hypo- and mesoendemic areas. The African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), which supports onchocerciasis control in endemic African countries outside the OCP, applies ivermectin, its principal control tool, to communities in high-risk areas as determined by rapid epidemiological mapping of onchocerciasis (REMO) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In the Americas, through support of the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program in the Americas (OEPA), a strategy of bi-annual ivermectin treatment of at least 85% of the eligible populations in all endemic communities is showing very good results and promises to be effective in eliminating onchocerciasis in the region.The Conference concluded that onchocerciasis is not eradicable using current tools due to the major barriers to eradication in Africa. However, the Conference also concluded that in most if not all the Americas, and possibly Yemen and some sites in Africa, transmission of onchocerciasis can be eliminated using current tools. The Conference recommended that where interruption of transmission is feasible and cost effective, programs should aim for that goal using all appropriate and available interventions so that the Onchocerca volvulus can eventually be eliminated and interventions halted. Although interruption of transmission of onchocerciasis cannot currently be achieved in most of Africa, the Conference recommended that efforts be made to preserve areas in West Africa made free of onchocerciasis transmission through the Onchocerciasis Control Program over the past 25 years. In the remaining hyper and mesoendemic foci in Africa, continued annual distribution of ivermectin will keep onchocerciasis controlled to a point where it is no longer a public health problem or constraint to economic development

Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction

Proceedings of The 9th Annual International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction. The conference was held at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia from 8-10 July 2013. The event title for the 9th Annual Conference was: Risk-informed Disaster Management: Planning for Response, Recovery and Resilience. All papers were double blind peer reviewed and the Proceedings were published online in March 2015

An interdisciplinary study of the hazards associated with an AD1754 style eruption of Taal Volcano, Philippines

Taal Volcano, 60 km south of Metro Manila in Batangas Province, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines. With 33 known eruptions, Taal has caused tremendous impacts on lives, property, economy and environment. The exposure of people and assets around Taal has increased greatly in recent years with around two million people living within a 35 km radius all at risk to volcanic hazards. The risk from Taal poses multiple challenges for local volcano disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts. This interdisciplinary study combines a synthesis and critical review of historical eruptions of Taal; physical studies (geologic mapping, stratigraphic analyses and grain size measurements of the AD1754 tephra deposit); reconstruction of tephra dispersal for the AD1754 Plinian event using TEPHRA2 inversion modelling; and consideration of the social aspects of volcanic hazard and risk (e.g. socio-economic, political and DRR contexts for Batangas Province, and a pilot study assessing the knowledge, education, awareness and preparedness of Barangay Captains who are responsible for local level volcano disaster preparedness and response). Key outputs of the research include: 1) the first single, comprehensive chronology of identified historical eruptions of Taal; 2) discovery, mapping and sampling of 41 suspected AD1754 tephra outcrops; 3) first detailed field-based verification of two of the four identified phases of this event; 4) determination of likely eruption source parameters for the AD1754 event and new tephra dispersal isopachs through inversion modelling; and 5) preliminary insights into the knowledge, awareness and preparedness of the Barangay Captains, which show that while they do take volcanic risk seriously, they are ill-prepared to effectively support their communities in the case of a major volcanic crisis at Taal. The results and recommendations are aimed at strengthening volcano disaster risk management plans for Batangas Province