SENSE PARK Thanks to a multimodal sensor information system, designed to be modular and minimally obtrusive,
and the visible and invisible computing power around us. ICT services and devices have become an integral part of our way of life,
also for European institutions. fight against cybercrime and cyberattacks attacks against information systems are a growing threat,
and there is an increasing concern about the potential for terrorist or politically motivated attacks against information systems
DEMONS's objective is to realise this infrastructure by applying novel distributed systems technologies and leveraging their native scalability and fault tolerance characteristics.
The project builds on existing industry standards from the ICT and the energy sectors and communication and computing capabilities which are widespread in normal houses and working environments.
While there is an insatiable need for more computation and storage power, the energy consumption in data centres poses an energy wall that must be addressed to be able to advance to more powerful data centres.
It enhances existing deployment strategies by moving computation and services around a federation of data centres sites.
It has been designed to work for any data centre, Computing style, Monitoring and Automation frameworks and also federated data centres.
The project dynamically tunes the amount of computing resources to the workload, unused servers are turned off
Advanced Traveler Information systems (mobile)( private. Advanced Drivers'Assistance (ADAS)( cruise control, speed adaptation)( in-vehicle)( private.
Navigation Systems Geographic positioning systems (GPS) in conjunction with geographic information systems (GIS) offer the possibility of decreasing the amount of time spent on search behavior by motorists.
If we have a very accurate geographic information system for an area and a very reliable global positioning system (GPS),
Video Surveillance and Response, Informational Signing (variable messages), Advanced Traveler Information systems, Adaptive Cruise control, Intelligent Speed Adaptation, Congestion Free Zoning and Lanes,
Advanced Traveler Information systems Personal information systems may take different forms and may be in-vehicle for car drivers
Vehicle Radar Warning, Blind spot Information systems and Night View Systems, and applications that serve both congestion relief and reduction of fatalities, i e.
ICT Innovation and Sustainability of the Transport Sector European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research 54 Blind spot Information systems and Night View Systems A number of accidents occur due to blind spots.
Advanced Traveler Information systems (mobile)( private. Advanced Drivers'Assistance (ADAS)( cruise control, speed adaptation)( in-vehicle)( private.
Most healthcare information is siloed currently in paper records, bespoke hospital information systems and clinical research databases.
and the Individual'The purpose of this section is to position Information technology in the context of the benefits across the entire continuum of individual and patient care.
and gives examples of the benefits that are already being realised through the strategic implementation of information technology.
Industry Group Page 23 Specific examples of benefits realised through information technology, as outlined in the Gartner study of 6 EU member states on behalf of the Swedish Ministry of Health
European commission Health IT, Explaining International IT Application Leadership, Daniel Castro, Sept 2009, The Information technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) ehealth Strategy 2008 to 2011, The Scottish government/NHS Scotland
Gartner Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information technology, Recommendations for the Obama Administration and 111th Congress, Dec 2008, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) Financing ehealth, Sources of financing and policy recommendations to Member
, Narges Kasiri, Dainis Zegners, Stefan Lilischkis, empirica, Germany, Dec 2008, European commission Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information technology, May 2008, Congress of The United states
2008), and quality upgrades have featured prominently in this regard (Codogno, 2009. Export quality cannot be observed directly,
The computation of the method consists of four main steps: Step 1: Compute midpoint growth rates For a country i exporting a value x to a country c of product k at time t,
Computation of the indices from the estimated coefficients From the estimated coefficients, growth is decomposed for each exporter (i e.,
Pharmaceutical Programming 1 (1)( 2008) 13 19 7. Andrade, S.,Kahler, K.,Frech, F.,Chan, K.:
A role-based delegation framework for healthcare information systems. In: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Access control Models and Technologies, ACM (2002) 125 134 27.
Access control in healthcare information systems. Phd thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2008) 29. Hart, M.,Johnson, R.,Stent, A.:
Proceedings of the Conference on Information technology Education, ACM (2011) 251 256 33. Tzelepi, S. K.,Koukopoulos, D. K.,Pangalos, G.:
32 1. 1. Health information technology can drive improvements in quality and efficiency in health care...33 1. 2. Reducing operating costs of clinical services...
36 Box 1. 4. Report on the costs and benefits of health information technologies in the United states (US Congressional Budget Office...
provider AUD Australian dollar CAD Canadian dollar CCHIT Certification Commission for Healthcare Information technology CDM Chronic disease management CITL Center for Information technology Leadership CHF Congestive heart failure
/IT Information management and Information technology 10 ABBREVIATIONS IMPROVING HEALTH SECTOR EFFICIENCY: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OECD 2010 MAEHC Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative MOA Medical office assistant NEHEN New england Healthcare Electronic Data
Transition Fund PIN Pharmaceutical Information Network PIP Australian Practice Incentive Programme PITO Physician Information technology Office POC Proof of concept POSP Physician
all six countries are aiming to use ICTS also to enhance their health information systems. Electronic data collection and processing can provide data in an accessible form that facilitates reporting on different quality metrics,
and consistently implemented standards While health care organisations have access to an ever-increasing number of information technology products,
Patient consent was identified also often as the main road block to creating a coordinated information system for patient care.
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THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OECD 2010 1. 1. Health information technology can drive improvements in quality
In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (Institute of Medicine, 2001) reported that improving patient safety requires an information system that can prevent errors from occurring in the first place,
Implementation involved the development of an interim, web-based information system for three chronic conditions: diabetes, congestive heart failure and major depressive disorder.
and benefits of health information technologies in the United states (US Congressional Budget Office) The CBO report, published in 2008,
provides an overview of the current challenges in estimating the value of health information technologies (ITS).
The report analysed the cost saving estimates from two major studies performed by the RAND Corporation and the Center for Information technology Leadership (CITL.*
2001), Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 8, pp. 299-308.
Improving Safety with Information technology, The New england Journal of Medicine, Vol. 348, pp. 2526-2534. Chaudhry, B. et al.
Impact of Health Information technology on Quality, Efficiency and Costs of Medical care, Annals of Internal medicine, Vol. 144, pp.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)( 2008), Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information technology, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D c. CHAPTER 1. GENERATING VALUE FROM HEALTH ICTS
Devaraj, S. and R. Kohli (2000), Information technology Payoff in the Healthcare Industry: A Longitudinal Study, Journal of Management Information systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 41-67.
Garg A x. et al. 2005), Effects of Computerized Clinical Decision Support systems on Practitioner Performance and Patient Outcomes:
Government Accountability Office (GAO)( 2003), Information technology: Benefits Realized for Selected Health care Functions, GAO-04-224, GAO, Washington, D c. Halamka, J. D. 2000), New england Healthcare EDI Network, The New england Approach
Pan, E. 2004), The Value of Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability, Center for Information technology Leadership (HIMSS), Washington, D c. Pricewaterhouse Coopers (2007), The Economics of IT and Hospital Performance.
Shekelle, P. and C. L. Goldzweig (2009), Costs and Benefits of Health Information technology: An Updated Systematic Review, The Health Foundation, London.
which health information technology functionalities are most likely to achieve certain health benefits and the assessment of costs is even more uncertain.
and who benefits from health information technology implementation in any health care organisation except those, such as Kaiser and the Veterans Administration,
In Canada, the Physician Information technology Office (PITO) programme established by the B c. Government in 2006 to coordinate,
facilitate and support information technology planning and implementation for physicians has adopted a different approach based on the ASP model.
which add up as well as costs for eventual major upgrades or system replacement. Physicians in all six of our case studies repeatedly referred to cost,
Information systems in separate health care business entities must be able to exchange clinical information on patients,
which the various components of the planned exchange of patient information between existing health care information systems were tested for their compatibility.
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OECD 2010 for compatible information systems and ensure broader interoperability.
In another sign of increasing support for open source software, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information technology (CCHIT) has created recently three separate pathways to electronic health records certification.
and interoperability a conceptual framework describing how health care entities can share information has been developed by the Center for Information technology Leadership (CITL).
Center for Information technology Leadership; Walker et al. 2005). 2. 6. Privacy and security are crucial How health care organisations handle their digital information environment affects the uptake of health ICTS.
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Since 1999, the PIP includes a number of incentives to encourage practices to keep upto-date with the latest developments in Information management and Information technology (IM/IT.
Over half these practices (55.6%)had received a PIP payment for information technology/information management, and nearly a third (31.5%)had received payments through another incentives programme intended to stimulate broadband uptake (Broadband for Health).
The Physician Information technology Office in British columbia, Canada In British columbia (Canada) the Physician Information technology Office (PITO) was established in 2006 as a voluntary programme to assist physicians with the adoption and use of EMRS.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 A carrot and stick approach was adopted in 2009 by the United states to push for provider adoption of interoperable health information technology through the Health Information technology for Economic and Clinical Health
Information technology (HIT) Provisions, American Medical Association, Chicago. Beaulieu, N d. and D. R. Horrigan (2005), Putting Smart money to Work for Quality Improvement, Health Services Research, Vol. 40, pp. 1318-1334.
2009), Community-wide Implementation of Health Information technology: The Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative Experience, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 16, pp. 132-139.
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OECD 2010 Chapter 4. Enabling a Secure Exchange of Information While health care organisations have access to an ever-increasing number of information technology products,
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OECD 2010 Introduction While health care organisations have access to an ever-increasing number of information technology products,
and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
Canada Health Infoway, an independent, not-for-profit corporation, was formed in 2001 by the Government of Canada to accelerate the development and adoption of information technology. 3. European commission Recommendation of 2 july 2008 on cross-border interoperability
Achieving interoperability of health information technology solutions requires detailed negotiations between the vendors involved. This must also be coupled with a highly developed community
Box 4. 2. Health care IT product certification in the United states The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information technology (CCHIT) is an independent
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information technology 2009, www. CCHIT. org, accessed 12,july 2009. Although numerous products have already been certified in these countries,
Through a combination of funding, information technology services and change management services, POSP has helped nearly half of Alberta's practicing physicians to incorporate information technology into their practices.
Issues and Challenges in the Context of Treatment for Mental health and Substance Use, BNA's Health care Policy Report, Vol. 16, No. 2. Blumenthal, D. 2009), Stimulating the Adoption of Health Information technology
G. W. School of Public health and Health Services (2009), Patient Privacy in the Era of Health Information technology:
2009), Community-wide Implementation of Health Information technology: The Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative Experience, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 16, pp. 132-139.
2007), Adoption of Information technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Demark, Part 2:
Nevertheless, they can aid in detecting common obstacles to the diffusion of new information technologies and may be used with other types of quantitative indicators to explain differences in the intensity of use of new technologies across countries.
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2003), The Value of Computerized Provider Order Entry in Ambulatory Settings, Center for Information technology Leadership, Boston, MA.
and Information technology (IM/IT) scheme facilitated effective computerisation and widespread information transfer and storage. The broadband for health subsidy supported
1. Physician compensation. 2. Information technology. 3. Privacy legislation. 4. Guidelines development. 5. Implementation of new service delivery models.
Targeted support and incentives encouraged and sustained change To encourage the adoption and use of information technologies,
it provides an excellent entry to the world of information technology and getting a first glimpse of
which included the deployment and use of information technologies. These efforts, including those aimed at addressing care gaps and the rapidly increasing chronic disease trends
and the NHA's information systems to enable quick and secure retrieval of laboratory results, and spur adoption of EMRS.
national health ICT efforts led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information technology within the US Department of health and human services (US DHHS) is providing leadership for the development
and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
Determinants of success Government leadership and strong political commitment to widespread implementation Critical to the effective delivery of this form of acute stroke care has been Ib-Salut's overarching health information technology modernisation effort
radiology information system (RIS)/ picture archiving and communication system (PACS), pharmacy information system, and others. The guiding vision of the plan to deliver equal access to health services regardless of patient location
a move away from mainframe computing to desktop PCS. Combined with continued research and live implementations throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
which the various components of the planned national health care information system were tested. ICT suppliers were invited to take part in the POC
1) use an information system tested and approved by professional associations; 2) implement a patient management system within two years from the purchase of a computer;
The national information system is based on a central locator service, the Landelijk Schakelpunt or National Switch Point (LSP),
A group of OECD experts in health information technology was established to help guide the work, the development of a framework for the selection and analysis of case studies and interpretation of results.
and implement the‘Coding across the curriculum'programme to enhance computer programming skills across the curriculum;
and further funding for National Highway Upgrades, Black Spots and Roads to Recovery programmes. Provided a concessional loan of up to $2 billion to the New south wales Government to accelerate the delivery of stage two of the Westconnex motorway project in Sydney.
In some cases this debt financed critical infrastructure, like upgrades to the Pacific Highway in NSW.
science and computing in schools The Chief Scientist has identified a critical need for learning resources that will engage students in mathematics,
which consistently emphasises a looming acute shortage of computer programming skills. It is anticipated that a consortia of organisations with appropriate professional capacity
Students will undertake regular high school curriculum subjects alongside technical subjects such as computer programming, graphics, logic and problem solving.
Northern territory road upgrades; $229 million in a National Highway Upgrade Programme; additional funding of $200 million for the Black Spot Programme;
and an additional $350 million for the Roads to Recovery Programme. The package further includes $2. 9 billion towards the ten-year,
The Government will examine further investments and upgrades to the national rail network where appropriate.
$75 million for the next stage of upgrades to the Port Botany Rail line in Sydney; $38 million to the Melbourne Metropolitan Intermodal System;
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and organisations to successfully develop new products or upgrade existing ones through a series of logical steps, starting from the process of idea generation and ending at the launch of the product into a market.
"After initial discussions the product development environment at ENERGEX was reviewed. This involved structured interviews with both the users and customers of the current product development process.
This team represented all functional groups in the product development environment. ENERGEX has seen that process development by an empowered crossfunctional team is crucial to long-term project success. Such teams must have the authority to make real decisions as well as the personal backing of the senior management team.
The various CAD packages use a number of different algorithms to represent solid objects. To establish consistency, the STL (stereolithography,
do not usually include access to the source code, which may be granted only in exceptional cases and can be made subject to separate agreements.
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BITKOM, Germany's industry association for Information technology (IT), reports a shortage of 40,000 IT professionals (BITKOM, 2007a.
While the most obvious example is provided by rapidly declining product life cycles in the information technology field
As with all new technologies, small businesses have been slower to adopt information technology than large ones (Figure 4). In many cases this reflects the lack of applicability in sectors where SMES are represented heavily
and to foster business environments that facilitate e-business and the use of more complex applications of information technology.
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We also identified five mini-cases of SMES that developed compelling new business models that were accompanied by the creative use of information technology
Advances in information technology increasingly may remove the person-to-person interaction as a service is provided. Examples of this are the ubiquitous deployment of ATMS
but needs), such as installation, operation, upgrades, maintenance, spare parts, decommission, etc.,requires some sort of service (Oliva and Kallenberg, 2003.
The latest information technology standards and infrastructure can be used to provide services that were conceived not even by customers until their providers innovate.
Again we see the power of using information technology innovatively to create added-value for customers while building barriers to competitors.
2002) 3. 8 Role of Information technology (IT) in Product-Related Service Innovation We saw in the three mini-cases, Greif Packaging, Taprogge,
Start-up companies can now harvest information technology to provide their customers with greater value and to create subtle barriers to competition.
and customized services supported with proprietary information systems. Source: Warren and Susman, 2004. Customer Lock in: Information can be shared between customers
In addition to using information technology (IT) to enable creative business models, SMES can, of course, derive benefits from the use of IT in their operations.
service may now include upgrades and refurbishing. One major challenge is to assure that the installed base is not more widely dispersed geographically than the firm can reach easily.
"The role of innovation characteristics and perceived voluntariness in the acceptance of information technologies.""Decision Sciences 28 (3): 557-582.
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For example, Audretsch (1995) has demonstrated that SMES contribute more to innovative activity in electronic computing equipment
-The information technology strategy, which makes innovative uses of information technology in order to reduce SME costs and increase productivity.
-The niche strategy, in which SMES choose to become sophisticated global players in a narrow product line.
The Information technology Strategy 37. A second strategy SMES can use to improve their competitiveness in global markets involves the application
New web-based information technologies are enabling SMES to attain global marketing capabilities at very low costs.
Close to 80%of all new technology startups are in information technologies--software, Internet, and telecommunication software.
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since this economy is influenced by the Information technology (IT) revolution. When assessing the current system, the numerical, clear-cut,
Organizations can benefit from utilizing information technologies (IT) in their daily operations (Fink and Kazakroff 1997.
Journal of Management Information systems 14 (2), 201 216. Jaques, E. 1951. The changing culture of a factory.
Information technology management: Making connections for strategic advantages. 2nd Edition. John Willey & Sons Inc.,Hoboken, New jersey, USA.
Weaknesses in networking Lack of internal research capabilities Shortage of financial resources Shortage of innovation management skills Insufficient marketing of innovation ERIK ACTION Upgrade the innovation capacity
The Tuscany Region has selected this good practice to potentially contribute to its 2014-2020 regional programming
and are suited therefore well to be addressed jointly, for example, between the partners of European Research Area and with the support of European policies and measures (e g. through the Joint Programming Initiatives).
ICT companies have a very strong association of enterprises Estonian Association of Information technology and Telecommunications,
information channels of communication, staff exchanges and interagency joint programming (OECD, 2012f). ) Some of these new challenges can be grouped as follows:
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but more in particular to the pivotal role of the regional development agencies BOM (the provincial‘agency'in regional innovation and competitiveness programming) and Brainport Development.
which is in the heart of the new Structural Funds programming period 2014-2020. In terms of vision and ambition Brainport 2020 sets the stage for smart development of the region.
Critical in programming will be the national willingness and ability to (co) finance. Brainport 2020 has been designed as a Smart Specialisation Strategy
A challenge in view of smart specialisation regional programming is the (so far non-resolved) lack of national public matching funds, also for cross-border collaboration.
Moreover, in the runner-up to the new programming period 2014-2020 current available funding for regional projects is almost zero,
new smart specialisation programming offers a number of advantages for Brainport Eindhoven, of which the opportunities to extend
Priority setting is defined by the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation for 2007-2013 (PAIDI), the main tool for programming, coordinating
Finally, this Plan takes the programming documents of the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 into account,
ii) to prepare the region for the new 2007-13 EU programming period in order to efficiently stream financial funds into the region;
and are suited therefore well to be addressed jointly between the partners of European Research Area and with the support of European policies and measures for example through the Joint Programming Initiatives.
The Multimedia and Information system Cluster in Nowy Sacz (cluster), which is an interregional network of collaboration created at the initiative of the Nowy Sacz Business school National Louis University and medium-sized enterprises predominantly from the regions of Malopolska, Silesia and Mazovia.
Baseline indicator computations and their results are available for all countries and regions listed in Table 1
regionalisation of publication data currently requires text mining and programming procedures. Regionalization of the Scopus data is given even more cumbersome the lower quality of the address information in this database.
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In Europe, research is being conducted to develop user-oriented information technologies and optimal channels to meet the needs of different user groups.
EU-funded research is also developing transport information systems to meet the specific needs of the disabled.
The role of information technology in education of biotechnology for health care and our food, and the significance of new materials for clothing and consumer products and the high level of penetration of high-tech equipment into our homes 9 are only a few examples. 2. 2. Invention
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