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Information Technology  | Re-Engineering Healthcare Delivery: the ICT Revolution
Ewart R. Carson, Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine, City University, London, UK (September 2003)
Traditionally healthcare delivery is thought of as a process, which involves the face-to-face interaction of patient and healthcare professional in which records are maintained in hard copy (paper or photographic film) format. This is a scenario, which is undergoing dramatic change as a consequence of the revolutionary impact of information and communications technologies (ICT).
Source: | | | Report on ITAB 2003
Ewart Carson, Christopher James (June 2003)
This report gives details of the conference ITAB 2003 - IT Applications in Biomedicine. The report is written by Christopher James and Ewart Carson both members of the Healthcare Techologies Professional Network Executive Team.
Source: ITAB 2003 | | | Providing secure remote access to legacy healthcare applications
A Young, D Chadwick, University of Salford and J New, Salford Royal Hosptials NHS Trust (July 2001)
While the widespread adoption of Internet and Intranet technology has been one of the exciting developments of recent years, many hospitals are finding that their data and legacy applications do not naturally fit into the new methods of dissemination. Many hospitals do not have the resources to develop new ?network-ready? versions of existing centralised applications. This article examines the issues that must be considered when providing network access to an existing healthcare application, and describes the implementation of the proposed solution in one healthcare application.
Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal August 2001 | | | Psychology of human face recognition
Graham Pike , Richard Kemp and Nicola Brace, University of Westminster, University of Leicester, Open University (February 2000)
The ability of humans to recognise faces tends towards two extremes. On the one hand we are extremely good at recognising faces we are familiar with and can do so despite changes in expression, viewpoint and hairstyle as well as image manipulations. However, when it comes to faces that we have been exposed to only briefly things are very different. Eyewitnesses to a crime find it very hard to describe and particularly to identify the perpetrator. The use of eyewitness evidence is problematic as the witness may express an inappropriate level of confidence in their decision. Research has found that 'operators' perform poorly when they are required to match two facial images, as is often the case in identification from surveillance footage or the use of identity cards.
Source: IEE Visual Biometrics Seminar, 2 March 2000. | | | Visual biometrics - an overview
Peter Hawkes, Association for Biometrics (February 2000)
PowerPoint presentation (slides only). Topics considered: Who? - the future of identification Needs The current scene and a taxonomy Big applications Selection criteria and the contenders Trends and issues Yet to come & where to look
Source: IEE Seminar - Visual Biometrics March 2000. |
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