Access to Information: Individual's rights to obtain and use information collected or generated by others.Health Services Accessibility: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical: Surgical shunt allowing direct passage of blood from an artery to a vein. (From Dorland, 28th ed)Catheters, Indwelling: Catheters designed to be left within an organ or passage for an extended period of time.Vascular Access Devices: Devices to be inserted into veins or arteries for the purpose of carrying fluids into or from a peripheral or central vascular location. They may include component parts such as catheters, ports, reservoirs, and valves. They may be left in place temporarily for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.Internet: A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.Renal Dialysis: Therapy for the insufficient cleansing of the BLOOD by the kidneys based on dialysis and including hemodialysis, PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, and HEMODIAFILTRATION.United StatesHealthcare Disparities: Differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services.Catheterization, Central Venous: Placement of an intravenous CATHETER in the subclavian, jugular, or other central vein.User-Computer Interface: The portion of an interactive computer program that issues messages to and receives commands from a user.Catheterization, Peripheral: Insertion of a catheter into a peripheral artery, vein, or airway for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.Socioeconomic Factors: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Computer Communication Networks: A system containing any combination of computers, computer terminals, printers, audio or visual display devices, or telephones interconnected by telecommunications equipment or cables: used to transmit or receive information. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Information Storage and Retrieval: Organized activities related to the storage, location, search, and retrieval of information.Insurance, Health: Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.Online Systems: Systems where the input data enter the computer directly from the point of origin (usually a terminal or workstation) and/or in which output data are transmitted directly to that terminal point of origin. (Sippl, Computer Dictionary, 4th ed)Poverty: A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level.Delivery of Health Care: The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.Vascular Patency: The degree to which BLOOD VESSELS are not blocked or obstructed.Rural Health Services: Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Commerce: The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)Computer Security: Protective measures against unauthorized access to or interference with computer operating systems, telecommunications, or data structures, especially the modification, deletion, destruction, or release of data in computers. It includes methods of forestalling interference by computer viruses or so-called computer hackers aiming to compromise stored data.Insurance Coverage: Generally refers to the amount of protection available and the kind of loss which would be paid for under an insurance contract with an insurer. (Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms, 2d ed)Radial Artery: The direct continuation of the brachial trunk, originating at the bifurcation of the brachial artery opposite the neck of the radius. Its branches may be divided into three groups corresponding to the three regions in which the vessel is situated, the forearm, wrist, and hand.Software: Sequential operating programs and data which instruct the functioning of a digital computer.Rural Population: The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Health Policy: Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.Punctures: Incision of tissues for injection of medication or for other diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Punctures of the skin, for example may be used for diagnostic drainage; of blood vessels for diagnostic imaging procedures.Information Dissemination: The circulation or wide dispersal of information.Polytetrafluoroethylene: Homopolymer of tetrafluoroethylene. Nonflammable, tough, inert plastic tubing or sheeting; used to line vessels, insulate, protect or lubricate apparatus; also as filter, coating for surgical implants or as prosthetic material. Synonyms: Fluoroflex; Fluoroplast; Ftoroplast; Halon; Polyfene; PTFE; Tetron.Patient Acceptance of Health Care: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.Primary Health Care: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)Referral and Consultation: The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Medicaid: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.Appointments and Schedules: The different methods of scheduling patient visits, appointment systems, individual or group appointments, waiting times, waiting lists for hospitals, walk-in clinics, etc.Kidney Failure, Chronic: The end-stage of CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. It is characterized by the severe irreversible kidney damage (as measured by the level of PROTEINURIA) and the reduction in GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE to less than 15 ml per min (Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative, 2002). These patients generally require HEMODIALYSIS or KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION.Confidentiality: The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Information Services: Organized services to provide information on any questions an individual might have using databases and other sources. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Databases, Factual: Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.Data Collection: Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.Waiting Lists: Prospective patient listings for appointments or treatments.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Vulnerable Populations: Groups of persons whose range of options is severely limited, who are frequently subjected to COERCION in their DECISION MAKING, or who may be compromised in their ability to give INFORMED CONSENT.Urban Health Services: Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Quality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Food Supply: The production and movement of food items from point of origin to use or consumption.Axillary Vein: The venous trunk of the upper limb; a continuation of the basilar and brachial veins running from the lower border of the teres major muscle to the outer border of the first rib where it becomes the subclavian vein.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Private Sector: That distinct portion of the institutional, industrial, or economic structure of a country that is controlled or owned by non-governmental, private interests.Developing Countries: Countries in the process of change with economic growth, that is, an increase in production, per capita consumption, and income. The process of economic growth involves better utilization of natural and human resources, which results in a change in the social, political, and economic structures.Residence Characteristics: Elements of residence that characterize a population. They are applicable in determining need for and utilization of health services.Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice: Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).Medically Underserved Area: A geographic location which has insufficient health resources (manpower and/or facilities) to meet the medical needs of the resident population.Telemedicine: Delivery of health services via remote telecommunications. This includes interactive consultative and diagnostic services.Health Care Reform: Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.State Health Plans: State plans prepared by the State Health Planning and Development Agencies which are made up from plans submitted by the Health Systems Agencies and subject to review and revision by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.National Health Programs: Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance.Infusions, Intraosseous: The administration of medication or fluid through a needle directly into the bone marrow. The technique is especially useful in the management of pediatric emergencies when intravenous access to the systemic circulation is difficult.Periodicals as Topic: A publication issued at stated, more or less regular, intervals.Social Justice: An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all.Brachiocephalic Veins: Large veins on either side of the root of the neck formed by the junction of the internal jugular and subclavian veins. They drain blood from the head, neck, and upper extremities, and unite to form the superior vena cava.HIV Infections: Includes the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infections that range from asymptomatic seropositivity, thru AIDS-related complex (ARC), to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).Child Health Services: Organized services to provide health care for children.Medical Records Systems, Computerized: Computer-based systems for input, storage, display, retrieval, and printing of information contained in a patient's medical record.Femoral Vein: The vein accompanying the femoral artery in the same sheath; it is a continuation of the popliteal vein and becomes the external iliac vein.Copyright: It is a form of protection provided by law. In the United States this protection is granted to authors of original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. (from Circular of the United States Copyright Office, 6/30/2008)Community Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.Program Evaluation: Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact.Database Management Systems: Software designed to store, manipulate, manage, and control data for specific uses.Systems Integration: The procedures involved in combining separately developed modules, components, or subsystems so that they work together as a complete system. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Attitude of Health Personnel: Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.Human Rights: The rights of the individual to cultural, social, economic, and educational opportunities as provided by society, e.g., right to work, right to education, and right to social security.Health Services: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.Public Sector: The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control.Libraries, Digital: Libraries in which a major proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format, rather than on paper or MICROFORM.Geographic Information Systems: Computer systems capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.Urban Population: The inhabitants of a city or town, including metropolitan areas and suburban areas.Universal Coverage: Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.CaliforniaPatents as Topic: Exclusive legal rights or privileges applied to inventions, plants, etc.Qualitative Research: Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)Publishing: "The business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature" (Webster's 3d). It includes the publisher, publication processes, editing and editors. Production may be by conventional printing methods or by electronic publishing.Computer Systems: Systems composed of a computer or computers, peripheral equipment, such as disks, printers, and terminals, and telecommunications capabilities.Fees and Charges: Amounts charged to the patient as payer for health care services.Equipment Design: Methods of creating machines and devices.Canada: The largest country in North America, comprising 10 provinces and three territories. Its capital is Ottawa.Maternal Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.Focus Groups: A method of data collection and a QUALITATIVE RESEARCH tool in which a small group of individuals are brought together and allowed to interact in a discussion of their opinions about topics, issues, or questions.Needs Assessment: Systematic identification of a population's needs or the assessment of individuals to determine the proper level of services needed.Financing, Government: Federal, state, or local government organized methods of financial assistance.Pharmacies: Facilities for the preparation and dispensing of drugs.Family Practice: A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family.Self Administration: Administration of a drug or chemical by the individual under the direction of a physician. It includes administration clinically or experimentally, by human or animal.Electronic Mail: Messages between computer users via COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. This feature duplicates most of the features of paper mail, such as forwarding, multiple copies, and attachments of images and other file types, but with a speed advantage. The term also refers to an individual message sent in this way.CD-ROM: An optical disk storage system for computers on which data can be read or from which data can be retrieved but not entered or modified. A CD-ROM unit is almost identical to the compact disk playback device for home use.Databases, Genetic: Databases devoted to knowledge about specific genes and gene products.Intellectual Property: Property, such as patents, trademarks, and copyright, that results from creative effort. The Patent and Copyright Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, cl. 8) of the United States Constitution provides for promoting the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 5th ed, p1014)Databases as Topic: Organized collections of computer records, standardized in format and content, that are stored in any of a variety of computer-readable modes. They are the basic sets of data from which computer-readable files are created. (from ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)Information Systems: Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.Managed Care Programs: Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.Income: Revenues or receipts accruing from business enterprise, labor, or invested capital.Ethnic Groups: A group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships.Femoral Artery: The main artery of the thigh, a continuation of the external iliac artery.Syringes: Instruments used for injecting or withdrawing fluids. (Stedman, 25th ed)Ontario: A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)Great BritainRisk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Poverty Areas: City, urban, rural, or suburban areas which are characterized by severe economic deprivation and by accompanying physical and social decay.Hispanic Americans: Persons living in the United States of Mexican (MEXICAN AMERICANS), Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin. The concept does not include Brazilian Americans or Portuguese Americans.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Continuity of Patient Care: Health care provided on a continuing basis from the initial contact, following the patient through all phases of medical care.Constriction, Pathologic: The condition of an anatomical structure's being constricted beyond normal dimensions.Feasibility Studies: Studies to determine the advantages or disadvantages, practicability, or capability of accomplishing a projected plan, study, or project.Consumer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a benefit or service received.Catheterization: Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from INTUBATION in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions.Minority Groups: A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group.Communication Barriers: Those factors, such as language or sociocultural relationships, which interfere in the meaningful interpretation and transmission of ideas between individuals or groups.Blood Vessel Prosthesis: Device constructed of either synthetic or biological material that is used for the repair of injured or diseased blood vessels.Privacy: The state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, 1993)Health Facilities: Institutions which provide medical or health-related services.Veterans Health: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of VETERANS.ArchivesEnglandSubclavian Vein: The continuation of the axillary vein which follows the subclavian artery and then joins the internal jugular vein to form the brachiocephalic vein.Eating: The consumption of edible substances.Databases, Bibliographic: Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of references and citations to books, articles, publications, etc., generally on a single subject or specialized subject area. Databases can operate through automated files, libraries, or computer disks. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, FACTUAL which is used for collections of data and facts apart from bibliographic references to them.Mental Health Services: Organized services to provide mental health care.Dental Care: The total of dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient (from Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry, 1982).Hospitals, Rural: Hospitals located in a rural area.Ethics, Dental: The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the dentist, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the dentist in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families. (From Stedman, 25th ed)Health Status Disparities: Variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, economic resources, or gender and populations identified geographically or similar measures.Family Characteristics: Size and composition of the family.Medical Assistance: Financing of medical care provided to public assistance recipients.Telecommunications: Transmission of information over distances via electronic means.Microcomputers: Small computers using LSI (large-scale integration) microprocessor chips as the CPU (central processing unit) and semiconductor memories for compact, inexpensive storage of program instructions and data. They are smaller and less expensive than minicomputers and are usually built into a dedicated system where they are optimized for a particular application. "Microprocessor" may refer to just the CPU or the entire microcomputer.Health Care Rationing: Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources.Rural Health: The status of health in rural populations.Pilot Projects: Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.Ambulatory Care: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation: Surgical insertion of BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES to repair injured or diseased blood vessels.African Americans: Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.Social Class: A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.Gatekeeping: The controlling of access to health services, usually by primary care providers; often used in managed care settings to reduce utilization of expensive services and reduce referrals. (From BIOETHICS Thesaurus, 1999)Feeding Behavior: Behavioral responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals.Computer Literacy: Familiarity and comfort in using computers efficiently.Medical Informatics: The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.Medical Indigency: The condition in which individuals are financially unable to access adequate medical care without depriving themselves and their dependents of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials of living.Models, Molecular: Models used experimentally or theoretically to study molecular shape, electronic properties, or interactions; includes analogous molecules, computer-generated graphics, and mechanical structures.Community Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood.Libraries, MedicalAmbulatory Care Facilities: Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Radiography, Interventional: Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are invasive or surgical in nature, and require the expertise of a specially trained radiologist. In general, they are more invasive than diagnostic imaging but less invasive than major surgery. They often involve catheterization, fluoroscopy, or computed tomography. Some examples include percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, percutaneous transthoracic biopsy, balloon angioplasty, and arterial embolization.Australia: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.Equipment Failure: Failure of equipment to perform to standard. The failure may be due to defects or improper use.Thrombosis: Formation and development of a thrombus or blood clot in the blood vessel.Transportation: The means of moving persons, animals, goods, or materials from one place to another.Models, Organizational: Theoretical representations and constructs that describe or explain the structure and hierarchy of relationships and interactions within or between formal organizational entities or informal social groups.State Medicine: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.National Library of Medicine (U.S.): An agency of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to advancement of medical and related sciences. Major activities of this institute include the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health, research in medical informatics and support for medical library development.Patient Selection: Criteria and standards used for the determination of the appropriateness of the inclusion of patients with specific conditions in proposed treatment plans and the criteria used for the inclusion of subjects in various clinical trials and other research protocols.Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Emergency Service, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.Attitude to Health: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.New York CityEmigrants and Immigrants: People who leave their place of residence in one country and settle in a different country.Nova Scotia: A province of eastern Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces with NEW BRUNSWICK; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; and sometimes NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Its capital is Halifax. The territory was granted in 1621 by James I to the Scotsman Sir William Alexander and was called Nova Scotia, the Latin for New Scotland. The territory had earlier belonged to the French, under the name of Acadia. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p871 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p384)Transients and Migrants: People who frequently change their place of residence.Government Regulation: Exercise of governmental authority to control conduct.Upper Extremity: The region of the upper limb in animals, extending from the deltoid region to the HAND, and including the ARM; AXILLA; and SHOULDER.Remote Consultation: Consultation via remote telecommunications, generally for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of a patient at a site remote from the patient or primary physician.Preventive Health Services: Services designed for HEALTH PROMOTION and prevention of disease.Physicians: Individuals licensed to practice medicine.Health Expenditures: The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.Health Records, Personal: Longitudinal patient-maintained records of individual health history and tools that allow individual control of access.Health Personnel: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)Veins: The vessels carrying blood away from the capillary beds.Health Promotion: Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.Reproductive Health Services: Health care services related to human REPRODUCTION and diseases of the reproductive system. Services are provided to both sexes and usually by physicians in the medical or the surgical specialties such as REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; ANDROLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; and PERINATOLOGY.Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Dental Health Services: Services designed to promote, maintain, or restore dental health.Sanitation: The development and establishment of environmental conditions favorable to the health of the public.Public Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.Choice Behavior: The act of making a selection among two or more alternatives, usually after a period of deliberation.Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Health Care Costs: The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.Biomedical Research: Research that involves the application of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to medicine.Insurance, Health, Reimbursement: Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Health Status: The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.Multivariate Analysis: A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.
What is the role of clinical ethics support in the era of e-medicine? (1/509)
The internet is becoming increasingly important in health care practice. The number of health-related web sites is rising exponentially as people seek health-related information and services to supplement traditional sources, such as their local doctor, friends, or family. The development of e-medicine poses important ethical challenges, both for health professionals and for those who provide clinical ethics support for them. This paper describes some of these challenges and explores some of the ways in which those who provide clinical ethics support might respond creatively to them. By offering ways of responding to such challenges, both electronically and face-to-face, the providers of clinical ethics support can show themselves to be an indispensable part of good quality health care provision. (+info)A framework for an institutional high level security policy for the processing of medical data and their transmission through the Internet. (2/509)
BACKGROUND: The Internet provides many advantages when used for interaction and data sharing among health care providers, patients, and researchers. However, the advantages provided by the Internet come with a significantly greater element of risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It is therefore essential that Health Care Establishments processing and exchanging medical data use an appropriate security policy. OBJECTIVE: To develop a High Level Security Policy for the processing of medical data and their transmission through the Internet, which is a set of high-level statements intended to guide Health Care Establishment personnel who process and manage sensitive health care information. METHODS: We developed the policy based on a detailed study of the existing framework in the EU countries, USA, and Canada, and on consultations with users in the context of the Intranet Health Clinic project. More specifically, this paper has taken into account the major directives, technical reports, law, and recommendations that are related to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, and the protection of privacy and medical data on the Internet. RESULTS: We present a High Level Security Policy for Health Care Establishments, which includes a set of 7 principles and 45 guidelines detailed in this paper. The proposed principles and guidelines have been made as generic and open to specific implementations as possible, to provide for maximum flexibility and adaptability to local environments. The High Level Security Policy establishes the basic security requirements that must be addressed to use the Internet to safely transmit patient and other sensitive health care information. CONCLUSIONS: The High Level Security Policy is primarily intended for large Health Care Establishments in Europe, USA, and Canada. It is clear however that the general framework presented here can only serve as reference material for developing an appropriate High Level Security Policy in a specific implementation environment. When implemented in specific environments, these principles and guidelines must also be complemented by measures, which are more specific. Even when a High Level Security Policy already exists in an institution, it is advisable that the management of the Health Care Establishment periodically revisits it to see whether it should be modified or augmented. (+info)Evidence-based patient choice and consumer health informatics in the Internet age. (3/509)
In this paper we explore current access to and barriers to health information for consumers. We discuss how computers and other developments in information technology are ushering in the era of consumer health informatics, and the potential that lies ahead. It is clear that we witness a period in which the public will have unprecedented ability to access information and to participate actively in evidence-based health care. We propose that consumer health informatics be regarded as a whole new academic discipline, one that should be devoted to the exploration of the new possibilities that informatics is creating for consumers in relation to health and health care issues. (+info)Let the consumer decide? The regulation of commercial genetic testing. (4/509)
OBJECTIVES: The development of predictive genetic tests provides a new area where consumers can gain knowledge of their health status and commercial opportunities. "Over-the-counter" or mail order genetic tests are most likely to provide information on carrier status or the risk of developing a multifactorial disease. The paper considers the social and ethical implications of individuals purchasing genetic tests and whether genetic information is different from other types of health information which individuals can obtain for themselves. DESIGN: The discussion is illustrated by findings from a questionnaire survey of university students as potential consumers. Topics covered included what health tests they had already used, expectations of genetic tests, willingness to pay, who should have access to the results and whether there need to be restrictions on such tests. SAMPLE-Six hundred and fifteen first-year students in the universities of Leuven, Cardiff, Central Lancashire, Vienna and Nijmegen studying either medicine or a non-science subject. RESULTS: Students were enthusiastic about genetic tests and had high expectations of their accuracy and usefulness but most thought they should be available through the health service and a minority thought that some tests, for example for sex selection, should not be available at all. There were few differences in responses by sex or subject of study but some by country. The paper also considers ethical and social issues outside the scope of a questionnaire survey of this type. CONCLUSION: To address some of these issues the sale of genetic tests to individuals can be made subject to ethical guidelines or codes of practice, for example to protect vulnerable groups, but there are fundamental social and ethical questions which such guidelines cannot address. (+info)Open Source Software meets gene expression. (5/509)
Use of the Open Source Software (OSS) development model has been crucial in a number of recent technological areas, including operating systems, applications and bioinformatics. The rationale for why OSS is often a better development model than proprietary development and some of the results of this model in the field of Gene Expression are reviewed. The paper concludes with a discussion of why funding agencies should endorse OSS and require funded software projects to be released Open Source. (+info)Consumer-driven, patient-centered health care in the age of electronic information. (6/509)
Americans are turning in increasing numbers to the Internet for information related to their health. Access to information that was previously difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to obtain has helped drive a shift in traditional roles for patients and physicians. Technology has made possible additional avenues for communication that can enhance new relationships. Ample opportunities exist for librarians to participate in a collaborative practice role, helping to serve the needs of both consumers and physicians as consumer-driven, patient-centered health care evolves to meet its full potential. (+info)Personal health records: evaluation of functionality and utility. (7/509)
OBJECTIVES: Web-based applications have been developed that allow patients to enter their own information into secure personal health records. These applications are being promoted as a means of providing patients and providers with universal access to updated medical information. The authors evaluated the functionality and utility of a selection of personal health records. DESIGN: A targeted search strategy was used to identify eleven Web sites promoting different personal health records. Specific criteria related to the entry and display of data elements were developed to evaluate the functionality of each PHR. Information abstracted from an actual case was used to create a series of representative PHRs. Output generated for review was evaluated to assess the accuracy and completeness of clinical information related to the diagnosis and treatment of specific disorders. RESULTS: The PHRs selected for review employed data entry methods that limited the range and content of patient-entered information related to medical history, medications, laboratory tests, diagnostic studies, and immunizations. Representative PHRs created with information abstracted from an actual case displayed varying amounts of information at basic and comprehensive levels of representation. CONCLUSIONS: Currently available PHRs demonstrate limited functionality. The data entry, validation, and information display methods they employ may limit their utility as representations of medical information. (+info)Giving patients access to their medical records via the internet: the PCASSO experience. (8/509)
OBJECTIVE: The Patient-Centered Access to Secure Systems Online (PCASSO) project is designed to apply state-of-the-art-security to the communication of clinical information over the Internet. DESIGN: The authors report the legal and regulatory issues associated with deploying the system, and results of its use by providers and patients. Human subject protection concerns raised by the Institutional Review Board focused on three areas-unauthorized access to information by persons other than the patient; the effect of startling or poorly understood information; and the effect of patient access to records on the record-keeping behavior of providers. MEASUREMENTS: Objective and subjective measures of security and usability were obtained. RESULTS: During its initial deployment phase, the project enrolled 216 physicians and 41 patients; of these, 68 physicians and 26 patients used the system one or more times. The system performed as designed, with no unauthorized information access or intrusions detected. Providers rated the usability of the system low because of the complexity of the secure login and other security features and restrictions limiting their access to those patients with whom they had a professional relationship. In contrast, patients rated the usability and functionality of the system favorably. CONCLUSION: High-assurance systems that serve both patients and providers will need to address differing expectations regarding security and ease of use. (+info)"Access Information". Hiroshima Airport. Retrieved 27 April 2015. Kaminsky-Morrow, David. "Asiana A320 involved in Hiroshima ...
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- Under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, the Access Board published proposed standards for electronic and information technology on March 31, 2000. (access-board.gov)
- The first version of the system became available in late February 2000 and contains information about approximately 5000 trials. (annals.org)
- The Promotion of Access to Information Act (No. 2 of 2000) gives effect to Section 32 of the Constitution, subject to justifiable limitations. (polity.org.za)
- The right to access information contained in disclosure records is more specifically outlined in the Executive Members' Ethics Act (No. 82 of 1998), the Local Government Municipal Systems Act (No. 32 of 2000) and the various Codes of Conduct across the different branches and spheres of government. (polity.org.za)
- As a recent White House (2000) report emphasized, the gap between people who have access to the latest Information Age tools and those who do not is widening, and the Digital Divide is growing along racial and ethnic lines. (publicsphereproject.org)
- The 2010 Healthy People (2000) report for the first time has a section on health communications, with goals for access to health communications. (publicsphereproject.org)
- There are various research efforts in information access which objective is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information.A person who is searching for information uses a search engine to achieve their information hunt. (wikipedia.org)
- Enterprise content management Intranet Gartner Forecast: Information Access and Search Technology in the Enterprise, 2006-2010. (wikipedia.org)
- This includes research on human factors in search, bridging artificial intelligence and information retrieval, and domain-specific search applications. (springer.com)
- 2. The system of claim 1 wherein items relating to an abstract from within phonetic signal information relating to the document present in the searching means search results are transmitted by the central system to the terminal. (google.com)
- 3. The system of claim 1 wherein said central system further includes central speech recognition means for recognizing the speech inputted to the input means, and further wherein the keywords for the desired document are inputted to the input means verbally and the search means searches for phonetic signal information relating to the document on the database using central speech recognition means recognition results. (google.com)
- 8. The system of claim 6 wherein the attribute data is constituted by items for which speech has been recognized, and the search means carries out the search from the phonetic signal information relating to the document corresponding to the attribute data for which the plausibility of the speech recognition results is highest. (google.com)
- 10. The system of claim 7 wherein the central system further includes past search information recording means for storing document identity numbers and attribute identity numbers which were searched in the past, wherein the search means searches by initially referring to the past search information recording means. (google.com)
- The web site, www.sobanukirwa.rw, allows people to send and receive responses from information officers of public institutions, the information also automatically published it on the web and becomes accessible thereafter to anyone using search engines. (co.rw)
- The media fraternity also welcomed the development, saying it would help fast-track their search for information. (co.rw)
- Access to ScienceDirect has been very warmly received by universities in Pakistan, with acclaim accorded specifically to the user-friendliness of the Science Direct interface, the powerful search functionality that it offers, as well as its 'Online Tutorials' feature. (elsevier.com)
- You are able to search for a particular herb, using this section first, or look here for more information on an herb, having seen it listed under treatment options for a particular condition. (google.co.in)
- Finally, in the data access step, a client application makes a request for an interpolated value, which triggers a data fetch from the Knowledge Base through the libKBI interface, a walking triangle search for the containing triangle, and finally the NNI interpolation. (unt.edu)
- Search the summaries of completed Access to Information (ATI) requests to find information about ATI requests previously made to the Government of Canada. (canada.ca)
- To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. (polity.org.za)
- You should have equitable access to trusted information and education to empower informed choices. (leukaemia.org.au)
- Information access is the freedom or ability to identify, obtain and make use of data or information effectively. (wikipedia.org)
- The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) does not replace informal channels for sharing information. (queensu.ca)
- The right of access to information is a fundamental human right, contained in the Liberian Constitution and made effective through the Liberian Freedom of Information Law of 2010. (cartercenter.org)
- Leading up to the event, UCS hosted a webinar to highlight the consequences of inadequate information and recent attacks on the Freedom of Information Act, and a conference call to introduce the Forum topic and the new director of the Center for Science and Democracy to an engaged national audience. (ucsusa.org)
- One of the most significant is the legislation known as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was passed in 1966. (ucsusa.org)
- We urge the Ghanaian Parliament to consider our recommendations and adopt a Law that is line with international standards for freedom of information. (ifex.org)
- The African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information is organised by the Carter Center, in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, the Commissioner of the African Commission of Human and People's Rights, and the Media Foundation for West Africa. (ifex.org)
- The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 give you the right of access to our information. (sepa.org.uk)
- Our responses to requests for information handled under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 are held within a repository [which can be accessed free of charge at any time]. (sepa.org.uk)
- If you do not agree with the findings of our internal review, you can appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner , who is responsible for enforcing Scotland's freedom of information laws. (sepa.org.uk)
- Mexico already has a government-wide freedom-of-information portal, and the United States launched its own pilot project last week, called FOIAonline. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- In England, the dividing line between these two competing interests has been explored in a number of cases, including the landmark case of the Office of Communications v the Information Commissioner. (lexology.com)
- The majority of respondents (84%) are not aware of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. (oaic.gov.au)
- Woolcott Research was commissioned by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to measure citizens' awareness of their right to access government held information and investigate their experiences and outcomes when exercising that right. (oaic.gov.au)
- We have adopted the Model Publication Scheme 2011 produced by the Scottish Information Commissioner, who has approved this scheme until 31 May 2015. (sepa.org.uk)
- You can view the model scheme on the website of the Scottish Information Commissioner . (sepa.org.uk)
- Canada's information commissioner, who acts as an ombudsman for frustrated requesters, has pressed the Harper government to revive a publicly searchable request database. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- 1) Health care information is personal and sensitive information that if improperly used or released may do significant harm to a patient's interests in privacy, health care, or other interests. (wa.gov)
- It is the public policy of this state that a patient's interest in the proper use and disclosure of the patient's health care information survives even when the information is held by persons other than health care providers. (wa.gov)
- The physicians love the ability to access a patient's account from anywhere using the new iPad application. (yahoo.com)
- The system has been tried and proven in Tallahassee and Bradenton , where many doctors can access a patient's comprehensive medical records across the communities. (medindia.net)
- Section 26 (1) of the Disabilities Act 2005 requires a public body to provide access to its services to people with disabilities where practical and appropriate. (rte.ie)
- Organizers hope the report will increase dialogue about the inequities faced by women in seeking the public information they need to transform their lives and that it will lead to a call for concrete action. (cartercenter.org)
- Release of information to protect the public. (wa.gov)
- Department of social and health services - Release of information to protect the public. (wa.gov)
- We need government to be proactive, not reactive, on making information available to the public. (ucsusa.org)
- It is accepted wisdom that, in the field of the environment, improved access to information and public participation in decision- making enhances the quality and the implementation of decisions, contributes to public awareness of environmental issues and gives the public the opportunity to express its concerns and take part in the debate - indeed, that wisdom is enshrined in the preamble to the Aarhus Convention itself. (lexology.com)
- Although this article examines access to environmental information under the EIR, it should be noted that the tension between public access and transparency of Government on the one hand and confidentiality on the other is not unique to environmental information. (lexology.com)
- One of the responsibilities of the Legal and Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Coordinator is to provide information to the public on access to information and privacy matters, on behalf of IDRC, in the official language of your choice. (idrc.ca)
- The Act also specifies that it is intended to complement existing procedures for obtaining information and is not to limit in any way the type of information that is normally available to the public, thereby denoting the importance of informal access. (idrc.ca)
- The Expanded Public Health Information Access Project would extend the geographic scope and duration of the initial Digital Library effort. (nnlm.gov)
- The project is designed to gain insight into what evidence-based information resources are needed within public health departments, and to provide support for a sustainable cost-effective national model for providing information services to public health departments. (nnlm.gov)
- The purpose of the project is to better understand the usefulness of providing public health departments with access to and training for using selected licensed e-resources (databases, books, journal articles). (nnlm.gov)
- This analysis goes public in advance of the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information, taking place from 7-9 February in Accra, Ghana. (ifex.org)
- The Draft Law, which has been tabled for adoption in Parliament, contains several positive features, including granting the right to access information to every person, without requiring a reason for information requests, and the crucial recognition of the public interest override. (ifex.org)
- DAS serves as a resource that provides public information, consultation, training and technical assistance to state and local government, consumers, employers and businesses to help prevent accessibility issues. (cahwnet.gov)
- The Disability Access Info site provides specific information and links on the major laws, regulations, resources, and referrals regarding disability access and rights in California for public entities, citizens, businesses, and other interested persons. (cahwnet.gov)
- Access to public information is expected to improve following the launch of a portal that will act as central processing unit for people seeking information in public institutions. (co.rw)
- The law was enacted to enable the public and journalists access information possessed by public and some vital private entities as a way of enhancing accountability in governance. (co.rw)
- Currently, the web site has more than 540 contacts of information officers of various public institutions, ranging from ministries, districts and sectors. (co.rw)
- The law also stipulates that one can turn to the courts of jurisprudence - as a last resort - if they feel they have been denied information by a public institution without justification. (co.rw)
- The Act is intended to complement existing procedures for access to government information and not to limit, in any way, information that is normally available to the public. (gc.ca)
- The objective of said Act is to facilitate and ensure the availability of required information to natural and legal entities by a transparent and public operation of public authority bodies in accordance with the law. (hep.hr)
- The opportunity for the consortium of 30 leading public-sector universities in Pakistan to gain access to ScienceDirect is unparalleled. (elsevier.com)
- Public register information is also available directly from our registries . (sepa.org.uk)
- The social networking giant wants violations of its corporate policy against using automated scripts to access public information on its website to count as felony "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , a 1986 federal law meant to criminalize breaking into private computer systems to access non-public information. (slashdot.org)
- 14. All public information videos and DVDs should be signed and captioned. (scod.org.uk)
- Pat-INFORMED will clearly link public patent information to registered medicines in a new online global gateway, helping health professionals to navigate the medicine-procurement process for the benefit of their citizens. (wipo.int)
- Helping ease access to patent information for public health authorities can help them establish smarter procurement strategies, one building block of improved global health," said Mr. Thomas Cueni, Director General IFPMA. (wipo.int)
- For the first time this information is being made available in a user-friendly format aimed directly at the general public. (google.co.in)
- This policy defines the data management environment and assigned roles and responsibilities for protecting UB's non-public information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse. (buffalo.edu)
- It is the responsibility of every university employee who accesses non-public data and information to secure and protect that data. (buffalo.edu)
- Access to university administrative data(1) is granted by data custodians and trustees who are required to develop and maintain clear and consistent procedures for access and use of the data, prevent unauthorized access, and protect non-public data. (buffalo.edu)
- All university data must be classified by data trustees according to one of the classification levels below, and non-public information must be consistently protected throughout its life cycle (from its creation to its destruction) in a manner corresponding to its sensitivity and/or criticality regardless of where it resides, what form it takes, what technology is used to handle it, and what purpose it serves. (buffalo.edu)
- My co-panel members Laura Reichenbach from icddr,b, Andrea Goetschius from the Harvard School of Public Health, and Vanessa Mitchell from Johns Hopkins University shared their work and experiences in improving access to maternal health knowledge. (plos.org)
- By making this information publicly available the conduct of public officials is made more transparent, thereby allowing democratic institutions and citizens to hold politicians accountable. (polity.org.za)
- South Africa's disclosure regime is therefore strongly characterised by public access to information and in this respect is more open than many disclosure regimes globally. (polity.org.za)
- The Conflicts of Interest project based at the Institute for Security Studies Cape Town office tested the right to access information held in the public declarations through the exercise of collecting disclosure records from various legislatures and executives at the three levels of government between 2004 and 2008. (polity.org.za)
- This report presents the research on public access to information and communication landscape in Indonesia. (washington.edu)
- In addition, lack of information limited the opportunities for the public-including the poor families and other vulnerable groups that suffered the most from pollution -to discuss their environmental concerns and agree on solutions with government officials. (worldbank.org)
- In addition, the project will support SINIA in improving its databases and in developing platforms through which the public can access up-to-date, reliable information, and that will also help the Ministry of Environment in solving cases of environmental violations. (worldbank.org)
- That means there's no way to quickly collect and view patient information across health plans, hospitals, walk-in clinics, county public health departments, and other providers and that's a problem for health care treatment. (medindia.net)
- In order to take up this challenge FAO has put in place the Dimitra Project which uses the new information technologies and the traditional media to collect, disseminate and exchange information on the experiences of NGOs, other organisations of civil society and research centres that are working with and for rural women. (fao.org)
- Dimitra is based on a network of local partners who collect and disseminate information in their own countries and sub-regions. (fao.org)
- But the survey findings clearly demonstrate the power and potential of these alternative outlets to disseminate health information to the disparate segments of the Latino population. (pewtrusts.org)
- For example, if I have a website that stipulates you must agree not to disseminate the information made available to you by agreeing to these terms of use, you remain free to ignore that agreement? (slashdot.org)
- The capacity to deal efficiently with electronic records and conduct effective searches of requests and responses is limited and impedes the ability to publicly disseminate the information in a timely manner. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- Among the new data categories are various kinds of clinical notes, pediatric vital signs, patient contact information, and information on the provenance of clinical data. (medscape.com)
- We will provide access to credible information about disease-specific blood cancers, treatment options, including clinical trials, and resources to live well after treatment, including managing symptoms and side effects. (leukaemia.org.au)
- Information is critical to the success of clinical interactions among parties that may possess different abilities, levels of medical comprehension, and preparedness to take action. (springer.com)
- Stages of information utilization in clinical settings. (springer.com)
- We discovered that inadequate engagement with their provider left these women feeling indifferent about the prenatal care and information they received in the clinical setting. (news-medical.net)
- Clinical providers are increasingly dependent on instant access to electronic information to care for patients and cannot afford to deal with delays caused by problems involving IDs and passwords. (webwire.com)
- Designed to improve operational efficiency while helping providers deliver the highest possible quality of care, the application provides secure, read-only access for Vitera Intergy v8.00 users to critical clinical and practice information from the user's Apple iPad. (yahoo.com)
- However, this information needed for rapid decision-making is commonly lacking in clinical practice. (medworm.com)
- Access to information about clinical trials is important to researchers, health care professionals, and patients. (annals.org)
- 5-26-15 Accessible Emergency Information, and Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video Description: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. (fcc.gov)
- Explanation of barrier-free condition and accessibility information on a map. (tnm.jp)
- The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board1 (Access Board) is responsible for developing accessibility guidelines under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) to ensure that new construction and alterations of facilities covered by the law are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. (access-board.gov)
- The Access Board initially issued the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) in 1991. (access-board.gov)
- The site features a fresh new format and an upgraded architecture for enhanced accessibility to information about USI's growing portfolio of high-performance spray coating equipment for the solar, fuel cell, semiconductor, electronics, and other markets. (altenergymag.com)
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the research-based pharmaceutical industry today launched a new partnership to promote the accessibility of patent information for health agencies tasked with procurement of medicines. (wipo.int)
- These are the colleagues who continue to publish in non-open access journals and continue to limit the accessibility of their (largely) publicly funded work by a variety of pay wall barriers. (michaelridley.ca)
- As a Crown corporation, IDRC is subject to Canada's laws on access to information and privacy protection. (idrc.ca)
- We fulfill our obligations in implementing Canada's laws on access to information and privacy protection. (idrc.ca)
- contribute to market access for Canada's food, plants, and animals. (gc.ca)
- OTTAWA - Canada's archaic access-to-information regime is about to establish a toehold in the online world. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- Canada's access-to-information legislation was born in 1982, before the age of the Internet, and the current system largely reflects a bygone era of paper cheques and forms, envelopes and postage stamps. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- Canada's version will be launched early next year, comprising Citizenship and Immigration, Shared Services Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat, the federal agency responsible for setting access-to-information standards and policies across all government. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- Hospitals or physicians that acknowledge obstructing the exchange of information with patients or with each other will be publicly identified. (medscape.com)
- Using automated scripts to access publicly available data is not "hacking," and neither is violating a website's terms of use. (slashdot.org)
- Using them to access publicly available information on the open Internet should not be punishable by years in federal prison. (slashdot.org)
- So all terms of use are null and void (if my browser can find it, it's publicly accessible, no matter what I have to agree to in order to get access to it? (slashdot.org)
- Nope, because that's no longer publicly available information. (slashdot.org)
- While patent information is publicly available around the world, resources that directly link granted patents to marketed medicines are currently only available publicly in certain countries (e.g. the USA's 'Orange Book') or through private third-party databases. (wipo.int)
- And starting in 2014, Treasury Board plans to create a publicly searchable online database of released access-to-information request summaries from every department and agency. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on February 11 rolled out complementary proposed rules to improve the interoperability of health IT systems, increase the access of patients to their electronic health information (EHI), and prevent information blocking. (medscape.com)
- Contact: Alphonsus Zeon, senior program coordinator, Access to Information Project, The Carter Center at 0886522916. (cartercenter.org)
- Ghana urgently needs access to information laws to ensure good governance, transparency and fight corruption," comments Amadou Kanoute, ARTICLE 19 Programme Coordinator for West Africa. (ifex.org)
- If you don't find what you are looking for you can request additional government records under an institution's control by contacting the institution's Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator . (canada.ca)
- Before submitting a formal request please contact the faculty, school, or department that has the records that you wish to access, as many records held by Queen's University can be disclosed without making a formal request. (queensu.ca)
- The following details the various ways in which you can request access to your personal health information. (hse.ie)
- Luckily, there are some methods in place for citizens to request information from the government. (ucsusa.org)
- The following resources will help you learn more about IDRC and the access to information and privacy acts, including instructions for submitting an access to information or privacy act (ATIP) request. (idrc.ca)
- A written request is needed to release personal health information. (albertahealthservices.ca)
- Access to Information Law requires a government official who has received a request to release information to give feedback within three [working] days. (co.rw)
- However, the organisation is looking into a introducing a toll free line where one can file an information request through the company (Tumenye), and it (company) does the follow up on their behalf. (co.rw)
- As part of its commitment to openness and transparency, the CFIA recognizes the right to access information in government records and is making every reasonable effort to help anyone making an access to information request. (gc.ca)
- The Board seeks comment on the issues outlined in this request for information. (access-board.gov)
- After evaluating responses to this request for information, the Board will determine a course of action. (access-board.gov)
- The right to access information owned by Hrvatska elektroprivreda d.d. and all the subsidiaries in a 100% ownership of HEP d.d. (except Hrvatski operator prijenosnog sustava d.o.o.) is achieved by submitting the Request for Access to Information to HEP Group's Information Officer . (hep.hr)
- The temporary authorization has consumer-defined attributes that define access privileges to be granted to a person who presents the temporary authorization along with a request for further access to the information account. (freepatentsonline.com)
- Please note that it is not always necessary to make a formal request to access our information, much of which can be found on our website. (sepa.org.uk)
- However, if you are unable to find what you need in these ways, you can request any information, regardless of who you are, where you live or what you want the information for. (sepa.org.uk)
- To submit a request for information, you can contact our team directly using the contact details below. (sepa.org.uk)
- However, if your request concerns environmental information, we are, in exceptional circumstances, allowed to take up to 40 working days to respond. (sepa.org.uk)
- There are a number of ways to request information from SEPA - please contact us for more information. (sepa.org.uk)
- Once your request has been received, you will receive a response to your enquiry along with the requested information and/or an explanation regarding any withheld information. (sepa.org.uk)
- The Harper government plans a pilot project early next year to allow ordinary citizens and others to request internal documents under the Access to Information Act via the Internet. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- Beginning with a focus group of nine women, the investigators identified three barriers these women faced in getting quality prenatal health information including the quality of patient-provider engagement, a lack of social support, and acculturalization of immigrant women. (news-medical.net)
- In today's society, smart phones are ubiquitous and information delivered through them cuts across most social, cultural and economic barriers. (news-medical.net)
- Even with a small sample size, these results clearly demonstrate how mhealth apps, focused on prenatal health, can go a long way in overcoming the economic, social and cultural barriers these women face in receiving the prenatal health information and care they need to have a healthy pregnancy. (news-medical.net)
- This article, published for The Rockefeller Foundation's conference series 'Making the eHealth Connection', assesses the barriers to quality health information in developing countries, which hamper the development of health systems and services. (scidev.net)
- The authors assess the current status of such barriers and explain how training, open access publishing and recent innovations in Internet access can help. (scidev.net)
- Comments should be sent to the Office of Technical and Information Services, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, 1331 F Street NW. (access-board.gov)
- The effect of other Medicaid and CHIP policies on access to covered items and services, including policies relating to transportation and language barriers and preventive, acute, and long-term services and supports. (cornell.edu)
- In a series of articles that analyzes "the gap between research and practice," Haynes and Haines (11) suggest that there are many barriers to practicing evidence-based medicine, including the volume and complexity of the research that is being conducted and poor access to information about it. (annals.org)
- We also discussed the ongoing challenges of barriers to access - these include language, technology, and cost, among others. (plos.org)
- Currently, substantial barriers prevent major segments of the population from seeking and/or using online health information. (publicsphereproject.org)
- There is a worldwide Free Access to Law Movement which advocates free access to legal information. (wikipedia.org)
- Advocates for people with cognitive disabilities may use this declaration to stimulate greater attention nationally and worldwide to the possibilities now at hand for people with cognitive disabilities through technology while championing their rights as citizens to access to it. (aaidd.org)
- Attendees were asked to join the HIFA 2015 campaign , which advocates for health care information for all. (plos.org)
- a) Release of regulated employee information contained in records required to be maintained under § 219.901 must be in accordance with part 40 of this title and with this section. (cornell.edu)
- On one hand, every employee needs enough access to do his job. (techtarget.com)
- On the other hand, every time you give an employee more access, there's more risk: he could abuse that access, or lose information he has access to, or be socially engineered into giving that access to a malfeasant. (techtarget.com)
- So a smart, risk-conscious organization will give each employee the exact level of access he needs to do his job, and no more. (techtarget.com)
- Even worse, employees' roles change all the time--Johnson chronicled one business group of 3,000 people that made 1,000 role changes in just three months--and it's often not obvious what information an employee needs until he actually needs it. (techtarget.com)
- In the uncommon instance where an employee needs access to something he normally doesn't have, there's generally some process for him to get it. (techtarget.com)
- Collective gardens will no longer be allowed as of July 2016, but can apply to form non-commercial cooperatives to provide an alternative to access from retail stores. (safeaccessnow.org)
- In 2016, DHHS put the patient applications online and begin issuing temporary cards allowing patients to enroll and access medicine more quickly. (safeaccessnow.org)
- ROME/KAMPALA , 19 July 2002 -- A few days before the opening in Kampala (Uganda) of the Know How Conference 2002 on the collection and dissemination of information relevant to women (23-27 July) the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has denounced the limited access by rural women to the new information technologies. (fao.org)
- The implementation of an online portal to facilitate and improve the process of making access-to-information requests, as well as the dissemination of government information, is long overdue. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- A substantial body of research has examined the process of information exchange (e.g., communication, incorporation of patient-reported outcomes measures in workflows, etc.) between clinicians and patients/families, and its impact on both processes and outcomes in the context of critical illness. (springer.com)
- And this works both ways: clinicians should design and use systems that allow patients/families to provide information that is relevant to care and important to them. (springer.com)
- This depends on the clinicians having access to the information they need to make the best, most informed, care decisions. (bibsys.no)
- As a result, in emergency or otherwise unexpected situations, clinicians need to be able to bypass access control. (bibsys.no)
- Another benefit is that new and visiting clinicians can quickly gain access to the applications they need to perform their job, such as the hospital s Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system, which is used to authorize virtually anything that needs to be done for a patient, such as ordering medications or requesting lab tests. (webwire.com)
- Patient authorization of disclosure - Health care information - Requirement to provide free copy to patient appealing denial of social security benefits. (wa.gov)
- This law states that any citizen has the right to make written requests for records of federal agencies and that the agencies need to provide the information requested, unless it falls under one of nine exempted classes of information. (ucsusa.org)
- We will provide digital access to information people living with blood cancer need when they need it to access the right care. (leukaemia.org.au)
- Please note that medical information found on this website is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient and physician/doctor and the medical advice they may provide. (news-medical.net)
- If that ends up being the answer and climbing is permanently banned, then I think that it would serve best to have the Access Fund provide the de-bolting and repair of the rock. (rockclimbing.com)
- A subscription access code can be purchased as a bundle with an iClicker model 2 through the eCampus online store (instructors will provide the link to the store in SPIRE). (umass.edu)
- Students who purchase an iClicker model 2 through the eCampus online store (instructors will provide the link to the store in SPIRE) will receive a 5-year subscription to the REEF polling app which can be redeemed using the enclosed access code. (umass.edu)
- Despite the rise of digital in the life science industry, the ability to provide the right information to doctors quickly and effectively remains a challenge. (pmlive.com)
- Pat-INFORMED also offers qualified procurement agencies a communication channel for follow-on inquiries, through which participating companies have agreed to provide more detailed information about granted patents on specific products. (wipo.int)
- However, for collections within limited domains it is possible to provide more powerful access tools. (sciweavers.org)
- The initial aim of the project was to build an electronic database and webportal that would provide South Africans with easy access to a politician's declarations of interests and assets (can be viewed at www.ipocafrica.org). (polity.org.za)
- Access to the world's knowledge transforms lives. (sabinet.co.za)
- New Delhi, May 6, 2005 - Elsevier, a world-leading healthcare and scientific publisher, recently signed an agreement with the Higher Education Commission of the Government of Pakistan to enable thirty premier universities in Pakistan to receive access to ScienceDirect , the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. (elsevier.com)
- The goal of Align Biopharma is to make it faster and easier for HCPs to connect with life science companies using universal technology standards that will simplify access to information. (pmlive.com)
- Presentation made at the Second Conference of the IAALD Africa Chapter on the theme 'Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa' held at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana, 15th - 17th July 2009. (slideshare.net)
- Under the leadership of former United States President Jimmy Carter, the conference will explore the state of the right of access to information in Africa and identify additional steps necessary to promote, entrench and sustain this right. (ifex.org)
- 2) Patients need access to their own health care information as a matter of fairness to enable them to make informed decisions about their health care and correct inaccurate or incomplete information about themselves. (wa.gov)
- 3) In order to retain the full trust and confidence of patients, health care providers have an interest in assuring that health care information is not improperly disclosed and in having clear and certain rules for the disclosure of health care information. (wa.gov)
- This section includes an overview of state requirements for qualifying patients and links to other helpful information. (safeaccessnow.org)
- By supporting patients with access to relevant and trusted information , people living with blood cancer will know the right questions to ask and make informed decisions that are best for them and their circumstances. (leukaemia.org.au)
- The technology will also help Duke Medicine remain compliant with federal legislation, such as HIPAA, that dictates who should and should not have access to patients medical records. (webwire.com)
- If a problem is detected, the software will alert IT staff so they can take immediate action and prevent failures to critical systems, such as intensive care equipment that monitors patients vital signs, or a server that holds medical records, which staff rely on to screen for important background information on a patient s health, like allergies and adverse reactions to certain drugs. (webwire.com)
- Pioneered by a medical doctor, a technology entrepreneur, and a self-described health care policy wonk, Tallahassee -based HIE Networks allows patient records from any source to be uploaded and aggregated into a secure, patient-specific portal, where medical teams and patients can access them in real time across geographies and different types of EHR systems. (medindia.net)
- The new federal rule is designed to drive patient access and sharing of their electronic health information, allowing the patients the ability to coordinate their own health care. (medindia.net)
- This study - the first of its kind - was conducted by the Carter Center's Access to Information Project in association with WONGOSOL, and the support of the government of Liberia. (cartercenter.org)
- Historically, the withholding of information by the government has had serious consequences. (ucsusa.org)
- In the aftermath of devastating September 11 attacks, the federal government instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withhold information about the dangers of the air quality around ground zero. (ucsusa.org)
- This forum will engage a number of experts both within government and within communities fighting for open access to begin a dialogue about the best ways we as citizens can tackle these important issues and push government in the right direction. (ucsusa.org)
- These further restrictions on access to information show the Government is no more interested in the free flow of information," the PFUJ's Secretary-General, Mazhar Abbas, said today. (ifj.org)
- Three quarters of respondents feel that their right to access information held by the government is 'very' (52%) or 'quite' (32%) important and the majority (87%) are aware of their right to do so. (oaic.gov.au)
- Overall, most would access government information via the internet or a government agency website, particularly younger 18-34 year olds. (oaic.gov.au)
- Over a third of respondents had attempted to access government held information, with younger respondents being more likely to have done so in the last three years. (oaic.gov.au)
- Government agencies (27%) were the most common entity for respondents to have accessed. (oaic.gov.au)
- The majority of the respondents were aware they had the right to access information held by a range of Australian Government agencies. (oaic.gov.au)
- Three quarters of participants felt that their right to access information held by the government is 'very' or 'quite' important. (oaic.gov.au)
- How important is it to you that you have a right to access government information? (oaic.gov.au)
- ARTICLE 19 commends the Government of Ghana for recognising the importance of the right to access information. (ifex.org)
- protects the privacy of Canadian citizens and permanent residents against the unauthorized use and disclosure of personal information about themselves held by a government institution. (gc.ca)
- The Access to Information Act (hereafter referred to as the Act) gives Canadian citizens as well as people and corporations present in Canada, the right to access records under the control of federal government institutions with limited and specific exceptions. (gc.ca)
- FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research. (freegovinfo.info)
- Hispanics are a diverse community, and the 2007 Latino Health Survey explores not only their access to health care, but also their sources of health information and their knowledge about a key disease (diabetes) at greater depth and breadth than any national survey done to date by another research organization or the federal government. (pewtrusts.org)
- The book discusses environmental research tactics and resources and it also covers methods for obtaining information from nontraditional sources like government offices and open meetings. (westacademic.com)
- Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports and was provided by UNT Libraries Government Documents Department to Digital Library , a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries . (unt.edu)
- The database will replace an earlier information registry, known as CAIRS, that the Harper government killed in early 2008. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- With support from the government, various Community Access Points (CAP) have been established in Indonesia. (washington.edu)
- Every Warmasif was founded by collaboration between The Department of Communication and Information (Indonesian Government), PT, Indonesian Post Office, and local governments in every city. (washington.edu)
- It is therefore encouraging to see the government turning its attention to strengthening the National Environmental Information System (SINIA) with World Bank support . (worldbank.org)
- A temporary authorization may also be associated with the information account. (freepatentsonline.com)
- and granting a level of access to the information account by the authentication module based on the temporary authorization. (freepatentsonline.com)
- 62. The method of claim 60, wherein the temporary authorization comprises consumer-defined attributes that define access privileges. (freepatentsonline.com)
- 64. The method of claim 62, wherein the consumer-defined attributes comprise at least one of the access privileges relating to: a number of times that the temporary authorization may be used to access the information account, a period of validity associated with the temporary authorization, a type of the consumer information elements that can be accessed, and a specification of read, write and/or modify privileges. (freepatentsonline.com)
- ii] NY State requires that state entities notify NY State residents if their private information has been acquired by a person without valid authorization. (buffalo.edu)
- This forum, the first in the Lewis M. Branscomb Science and Democracy Forum series, set out to identify and advocate for ways to improve access to governmental scientific information. (ucsusa.org)
- The study, 'Using Text Messaging to Improve Access to Prenatal Health Information in Urban African American and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Pregnant Women: Mixed Methods Analysis of Text4baby Usage', was published online today in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth . (news-medical.net)
- 2020) Using Text Messaging to Improve Access to Prenatal Health Information in Urban African American and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Pregnant Women: Mixed Methods Analysis of Text4baby Usage. (news-medical.net)
- The official launch and celebration took place at the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 in a session devoted to discussing how to improve access to high-quality maternal health knowledge. (plos.org)
- In the session today, I spoke about the commitment of PLOS Medicine to improve access to high quality evidence and to the debates in the maternal health field, and how the three-year MHTF-PLOS partnership hopes to achieve that. (plos.org)
- In other words, to improve access to information in entire Indonesian society especially for the underserved people. (washington.edu)
- Single copies of this publication may be obtained at no cost by calling the Access Board's automated publications order line (202) 272-5434, by pressing 1 on the telephone keypad, then 1 again, and requesting publication C-11. (access-board.gov)
- Regardless of the depth of your research, you have to admit that your access to trustworthy information made all the difference. (springer.com)
- Another important reason was the absence of a system of reliable environmental information to support the government's decision-making process. (worldbank.org)
- Care processes are often unpredictable and hard to map to strict access control rules. (bibsys.no)
- Results from this work include methods for access controlrequirements elicitation in addition to the actual requirements discovered.C2 Process-based access control: The main conclusion from the requirementswork is that access control should be tailored to care processes. (bibsys.no)
- The ATIP Office processes all requests for information and coordinates all activities related to the Act, along with associated regulations, directives and guidelines. (gc.ca)
- As it is a highly regulated industry, most life science companies maintain rigorous registration processes for access to their branded sites and portals. (pmlive.com)
- It also regulates how personal information under IDRC's control is managed, by providing protection against unauthorized disclosure of personal information and controls how IDRC will collect, use, store, disclose, and dispose of any personal information in the administration of its programs and activities. (idrc.ca)
- And information simply isn't that granular. (techtarget.com)
- Become A Member of Americans for Safe Access Today! (safeaccessnow.org)
- The FDA seems to think that Americans can't be trusted with more information about their potential health risks because some people might make rash decisions with it. (reason.com)
- However, there is a natural tension between openness and transparency in decision-making and the protection of commercially sensitive information such as pricing structures or intellectual property. (lexology.com)
- Groups such as the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, Ralph Nader's Taxpayers Assets Project have advocated for free access to legal information. (wikipedia.org)
- Those of us of a certain age remember the debates in libraries over "access vs. ownership. (freegovinfo.info)
- Maybe if the consumer press continues this trend and continues to point to the distinction between access and ownership, the idea will migrate to libraries and we'll begin to see more libraries fighting to control information for their communities. (freegovinfo.info)
- 5-28-15 FCC Takes Additional Steps to Make Emergency Information in TV Programming Accessible to Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired. (fcc.gov)
- This is an access map for visually-impaired visitors. (tnm.jp)
- During discussions on free access to information as well as on information policy, information access is understood as concerning the insurance of free and closed access to information. (wikipedia.org)
- Start my free, unlimited access. (techtarget.com)
- If you require any specific information please feel free to contact us. (scod.org.uk)
- Access by subscription, but non-subscribers to the TRIP database are allowed five free searches. (who.int)
- In addition, each sector and region and institution has an Access to Information and Privacy liaison who assists the national ATIP Division in administering its overall responsibilities. (gc.ca)
- It is through FOIA requests that we are able to attempt to find important information such as locations of coal ash dumps , or how the FDA is using categorical exclusions to avoid regulating the use of livestock antibiotics . (ucsusa.org)
- All requests are charged a fee in accordance with the Health Information Act. (albertahealthservices.ca)
- One of the challenges on exercising access to information rights in the country is lack of a simplified system to make requests to information officers. (co.rw)
- For additional information, please see the " About Access to Information Requests " webpage. (canada.ca)
- Download datasets of the summaries of completed access to information requests . (canada.ca)
- Given their expertise and experience with online payments, CIC (Citizenship and Immigration) has been selected to host the software that will allow requester to submit Access to Information and Privacy requests online and pay for them through the receiver general's buy button, using a secure link and an appropriate credit card," Knowles said. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- As of this year, departments and Crown corporations have been required to post online monthly lists of completed access-to-information requests but there has been no central, searchable repository. (huffingtonpost.ca)
- I now only publish in open access journals and what I publish myself (or with teams) is either CC BY or CC BY-NC-SA . (michaelridley.ca)
- Lack of access to governmental information has had significant negative consequences for both the environment and human health. (ucsusa.org)
- Vitera Stat is a subscription-based integrated practice management and electronic health record solution designed for independent physicians who want secure, online access to patient and practice records at any time. (yahoo.com)
- Many studies show that certain ethnic minorities and low-income, less-educated populations in the USA suffer a disproportionate cancer burden and have limited access to electronic information about health (2). (publicsphereproject.org)
- That seamless access has been hampered by the territorial nature of electronic health record (EHR) solutions, but a health information exchange system in place in Tallahassee and Bradenton could hold the key by building bridges between EHRs. (medindia.net)
- Health care information - Use or disclosure prohibited. (wa.gov)
- 4) Persons other than health care providers obtain, use, and disclose health record information in many different contexts and for many different purposes. (wa.gov)
- MACPAC shall create an early-warning system to identify provider shortage areas, as well as other factors that adversely affect, or have the potential to adversely affect, access to care by, or the health care status of, Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries. (cornell.edu)
- Health and health care are universal issues that affect all people and relevant health information is a critical resource that empowers people to make good decisions to enhance their health and well-being. (publicsphereproject.org)
- While information and knowledge are not guarantees of good health care decisions and adherence to recommended health behaviors, there is ample evidence that they contribute to them. (publicsphereproject.org)
- I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), a leading organization coordinating efforts to improve the evidence, programmes, and advocacy of maternal health. (plos.org)
- Fields where there are numerous, quality open access journals. (michaelridley.ca)
- So, as of January 2014 I'm only going to read open access academic journals in my fields of interest. (michaelridley.ca)
- I'm going to willfully ignore the work by my colleagues that is published in journals that are not open access. (michaelridley.ca)
- Not publishing in non-open access journals puts pressure on the publishers, not reading them put pressure on our colleagues. (michaelridley.ca)
- information" under FoIA. (lexology.com)
- For example, critical re-sources, like financial records, must be protected at all costs, while an intranet page listing corporate polices or events can still be accessed by clients that have security flaws. (techtarget.com)
- The Access to Information Act gives Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and any individual or corporation present in Canada, the right to access records under the control of IDRC, subject to limited and specific exceptions. (idrc.ca)
- Access to facilities and records. (cornell.edu)
- Just as it's much easier to give someone access to an entire file cabinet than to only the particular files he needs, it's much easier to give someone access to an entire database than only the particular records he needs. (techtarget.com)
- This thesis suggests how existing sources of process information, bothexplicit and implicit, may be used for this purpose.C3 Personally controlled health records (PCHR): This thesis explores theconsequences of making the patient the administrator of access control andproposes a model based on these initial requirements. (bibsys.no)
- Vitera Intergy Mobile, developed with ongoing input from the Vitera user community, meets the needs of providers desiring fingertip access to patient records on-the-go. (yahoo.com)
- It is therefore imperative that citizens can regularly access these records. (polity.org.za)
- But how easy is it for an ordinary citizen to access these records? (polity.org.za)
- However, the actual process of collecting the records led us to realize that we had a unique opportunity to investigate both the disclosure regime and test the 'access to information' principle. (polity.org.za)
- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. , March 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- If Florida is forced to contend with a massive outbreak of COVID-19, quickly accessing patient records from all sources becomes crucial. (medindia.net)
- Use NetLaw to keep your business informed and up to date through easy access to all the legislative information you need. (sabinet.co.za)
- Preservation of your valuable documents for easy access electronically. (sabinet.co.za)
- They also don't solve the issue of easy access to information and can lead to continued lost revenue. (information-management.com)
- The Carter Center's Global Access to Information (ATI) Program works in partnership with governments, civil society, and international and regional bodies to improve governance and transform lives through a meaningful right of access to information. (cartercenter.org)
- MONROVIA - The Ministry of Gender and Development, the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism, and the Women's NGO Secretariat (WONGOSOL), working with the Access to Information Project of The Carter Center, will release the study "Women and the Right of Access to Information in Liberia. (cartercenter.org)
- The report release on Wednesday will be followed by a stakeholder dialogue on Thursday, July 10, to jointly consider creative solutions to overcome obstacles facing women and to develop priority recommendations to advance women's right of access to information. (cartercenter.org)
- A citizen's right of access to information is enshrined in Section 32 of the Constitution. (polity.org.za)
- a database server, in communication with the computing system, and having a second memory for storing logic instructions to be executed thereon and a storage device in communication with the database server or the computing system for storing the information associated with the telecommunication network. (google.com)
- 2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein storing the information associated with the telecommunication network in a database includes storing the information in a common database. (google.com)
- 6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein maintaining a log entry includes maintaining a log entry of access to the database by one or more users. (google.com)
- Consumer authentication information is associated with an information account stored in a central database, such that access to the information account by the consumer is conditioned upon receipt and verification of the consumer authentication information. (freepatentsonline.com)
- Quick Access is an information database developed by Integrative Medicine Communications to allow health professionals from various educational and philosophical backgrounds access to a complete picture of the different approaches used to maintain health, treat disease or manage conditions. (google.co.in)