HR Information Systems: Exploiting the Full Potential

[Excerpt] Human resource management has always faced a fundamental paradox: Top managers in any company will readily agree that the people are the keys to success, but few believe they know whether their people are well managed or if they are prepared to fortify and enhance the transformations facing the organization. The information tools applied to the employees of an organization pale by comparison with the tools used to analyze markets, financial resources and production design

The Promise of Health Information Technology: Ensuring that Florida's Children Benefit

Substantial policy interest in supporting the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by the public and private sectors over the last 5 -- 7 years, was spurred in particular by the release of multiple Institute of Medicine reports documenting the widespread occurrence of medical errors and poor quality of care (Institute of Medicine, 1999 & 2001). However, efforts to focus on issues unique to children's health have been left out of many of initiatives. The purpose of this report is to identify strategies that can be taken by public and private entities to promote the use of HIT among providers who serve children in Florida

Computerized Maintenance and Management System

Computerized Maintenance and Management System (CMMS) is an application that is used to manage the assets in an organization. This system can reduce the waste of space and time as compared to the old or manual paper-based system. The CMMS software is built as a web-based application, using the Internet as the medium to make it accessible from anywhere in the world for a better, easier and faster asset management. The designed system requires only a computer machine as a server where it is installed at. Any other computers will have the ability to access the system as long as it has an Internet browser. The knowledge management strategy has been applied to the system. The forum and history features in the system allow the process of knowledge sharing between human and software, as well as human and human. Chapter 1 will explain on the introduction of this report. It explains about the background, problem statement, objectives and scope of studies for this project. The next chapter is Literature Review and Theory. It will explain about the theory ofKM and CMMS. It also includes the related journals, articles and findings on the KM and CMMS. Chapter 3 will explain on the methodology of the project. The author uses the prototype model for definition and development processes of the CMMS. This methodology allows redoing the requirement definition, system design, coding and testing until the system completion. Chapter 4 will cover the Result and Discussion part where it includes the research findings, where it explains on the researches that have been done by author. Result discussion explains the actions taken by author to meet the objectives ofthe project. The last chapter consists of Conclusion and Recommendations part. Keyword: CMMS - Computerized Maintenance and Management System, Knowledge Management, knowledge sharing, explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge

Reconciliation of Multiple Guidelines for Decision Support: A case study on the multidisciplinary management of breast cancer within the DESIREE project

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. DESIREE is a European project which aims at developing web-based services for the management of primary breast cancer by multidisciplinary breast units (BUs). We describe the guideline-based decision support system (GL-DSS) of the project. Various breast cancer clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been selected to be concurrently applied to provide state-of-the-art patient-specific recommendations. The aim is to reconcile CPG recommendations with the objective of complementarity to enlarge the number of clinical situations covered by the GL-DSS. Input and output data exchange with the GL-DSS is performed using FHIR. We used a knowledge model of the domain as an ontology on which relies the reasoning process performed by rules that encode the selected CPGs. Semantic web tools were used, notably the Euler/EYE inference engine, to implement the GL-DSS. "Rainbow boxes" are a synthetic tabular display used to visualize the inferred recommendations

Web Based Clinical System for UTP Panels

Health institutions like clinics and hospitals can improve in their efficiency through implementation ofan information system where tedious paper work can be avoided and vital information regarding patients can be retrieved immediately between different clinics. Malaysian Clinics are yet to fully discover the advantages of implementing information systems in helping and supporting the business process and daily operations. Therefore, this project aims at conducting research on common business processes among UTP panel clinics, to develop a web-based clinical information sharing system for UTP panels and to conduct research on distributed system issues &development for the system. This helps towards early and fast diagnosis and gives possible treatment plans for patients and a networking between clinics. There are, however, a few problems or drawbacks. As business processes are done manually by clinics which increase the tendency for errors, lack ofdata sharing between clinics regarding the same patient has hindered the research as there is no reference of medical records from previous clinics or hospitals regarding patients when they seek medical treatment in a different clinic. Various techniques were involved in requirement gathering namely research, interview, observation and questionnaire. The Prototyping model approach which consists of building an experimental system rapidly was used for the systems development. The implementation of Web Based Clinical System for UTP panels can ensure reduced tendencies for errors, save time and space for recording & storing when dealing with patient's information and medical records and at the same time increases the patients' convenience

Vision Statements and Road-Map Methodology for Knowledge Management Adoption

The present paper describes the strategy of introducing future knowledge management system at farms. The FUTUREFARM and PREZEM projects strive to apply new knowledge management methods in arable farming where they guarantee an easy adaptation of the farming sector to the everchanging conditions in short, middle and long-term perspective. The knowledge management methods have to be put into practice on strategic, tactic and operational planning levels. Based on the project analysis and workshops with farmers, the paper brings an outline of the main goals and obstacles for new knowledge management methods adoption and furthermore defines the target groups and relevant methods of dealing with them.Knowledge management, adaptation, arable farming, Farm Management, GA, IN,

Updated version of final design and of the architecture of SEAMLESS-IF

Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use, Livestock Production/Industries,

Developing a Prototype System for Integrating Pharmacogenomics Findings into Clinical Practice

Findings from pharmacogenomics (PGx) studies have the potential to be applied to individualize drug therapy to improve efficacy and reduce adverse drug events. Researchers have identified factors influencing uptake of genomics in medicine, but little is known about the specific technical barriers to incorporating PGx into existing clinical frameworks. We present the design and development of a prototype PGx clinical decision support (CDS) system that builds on existing clinical infrastructure and incorporates semi-active and active CDS. Informing this work, we updated previous evaluations of PGx knowledge characteristics, and of how the CDS capabilities of three local clinical systems align with data and functional requirements for PGx CDS. We summarize characteristics of PGx knowledge and technical needs for implementing PGx CDS within existing clinical frameworks. PGx decision support rules derived from FDA drug labels primarily involve drug metabolizing genes, vary in maturity, and the majority support the post-analytic phase of genetic testing. Computerized provider order entry capabilities are key functional requirements for PGx CDS and were best supported by one of the three systems we evaluated. We identified two technical needs when building on this system, the need for (1) new or existing standards for data exchange to connect clinical data to PGx knowledge, and (2) a method for implementing semi-active CDS. Our analyses enhance our understanding of principles for designing and implementing CDS for drug therapy individualization and our current understanding of PGx characteristics in a clinical context. Characteristics of PGx knowledge and capabilities of current clinical systems can help govern decisions about CDS implementation, and can help guide decisions made by groups that develop and maintain knowledge resources such that delivery of content for clinical care is supported