Corporate Governance for Sustainability

The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock buybacks, excessive dividends and a failure to invest in productive capabilities. The result is a ‘tragedy of the horizon’, with corporations and their shareholders failing to consider environmental, social or even their own, long-term, economic sustainability. With less than a decade left to address the threat of climate change, and with consensus emerging that businesses need to be held accountable for their contribution, it is time to act and reform corporate governance in the EU. The statement puts forward specific recommendations to clarify the obligations of company boards and directors and make corporate governance practice significantly more sustainable and focused on the long term

A Telemedicine Application: ECG Data from Wireless Body Sensors on a Smartphone

Abstract -The development of information technology and telecommunications has reached a level where its usefulness can be applied for health care needs towards Telemedicine and Telecare. Using the advantages of ICT, in this paper, we propose an application that provides a comfortable option for telemonitoring of the heart activity. We use a wireless bipolar body electrode to record ECG wirelessly coupled with the advantages of existing portable smart devices to display the real-time data from the electrode. Additionally, from three wireless bipolar body electrodes the standard 12-lead ECG can be reconstructed and displayed, and stored for further analyses