Triple-S Settlement: $3.5M Fine After Series of HIPAA Violations by US HHS OCR

 Introduction to Health Informatics (HIM 6118) UNIT REPORT 1 Submitted by George McGee, MD March 16, 2016 Subject:  Triple-S Management Corporation HIPAA Violation Settlement Agreement and Fine   On November 30, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Triple-S Management Corporation, a Puerto Rico-based … Read more

Explain What the Dutch Railway Company Is and Why It’s Important

 INTRODUCTION Motivation for this topic The introduction of the internet has changed the way consumers communicate.  The last decade the popularity of online forums, blogs, social networking sites, instant messages and online opinion communities increased enormously. People spread electronic word of mouth (eWOM) and spread thus their opinions and experiences with their co-web-users. Many … Read more

Why Use Project Management? Benefits for Organizations & Teams

 The technical definition of project management is,” the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria”. ‘Project’ and ‘Project Management’ are two terms which continues to grow in the society we live in and its organizations. One can achieve goals … Read more

Modify CONSORT for Reporting mHealth Possibilities: eDelphi Study Recommendations

 Do the CONSORT guidelines need modifications for reporting Psycho-Social Interventions delivered through mobile Health? Recommendations from an eDelphi Study There has been extensive research on the use of mobile Health (mHealth) technologies for a variety of mental and emotional health problems. A number of literature reviews of mHealth delivered interventions for a variety of … Read more

Study of 3PL in India (methodology, conclusions, recommendations & references)

METHODOLOGY 4.1 Introduction This chapter explains the quantitative methods that have been used for conducting the research and for the analysis of the data used in this study. It presents the study sites and participants, the working procedures used for this study, the tools used for data collection, and analysis, and the techniques of questionnaire … Read more

Abolish Sedition Act 1948 to Next Level Democracy in Malaysia

 Sedition Act 1948 is currently the government’s primary weapon against disssent apart from Internal Security Act in Malaysia. The Sedition Act criminalizes expressing seditious words or acting with seditious tendencies in ways that incite hatred, dissatisfaction with the government or the courts, hostility between racial or class groups, or questioning of provisions of the … Read more

Quadplay Advantage with Tetra by BT – Latest Advances in Telecommunication

 INTRODUCTION On January 15 2016, BT Group’s £12.5bn acquisition of EE was cleared by Competition and Markets Authority (12), successfully creating a new player in UK’s telecom market. With EE’s best and fastest 4G coverage of UK, BT’s ownership of Openreach, and largest market share in their respective markets, the merged company certainly is … Read more

Human Resources Management responsibilities and tasks

Human Resources Management is “all managerial action carried out at any level regarding the organization of work and the entry, development and exit of people in the organization so that their competencies are used at their best in order to achieve corporate objectives”. (KAMALF) This counts the responsibilities and tasks of HR facing many challenges … Read more

How Women’s Work in the UK Changed Over a Century

 ‘Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing’ The term ‘Women’s work’ can be defined both as work done by women and work that is traditionally domestic in nature. Women have always worked; whether in agriculture, as seamstresses, as domestic servants; they have been celebrated as Queens, authors, activists and politicians. … Read more

Close the Quality Gap in Health Care: Quality Audits and Their Influence Explored

 Over the past decades, quality and safety issues have become increasingly important in health care, having a direct effect on both clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. Health care suffers from a quality gap, referring to a difference between the practice according to the best available medical evidence and the practice that is observed in … Read more

Overcome Shopping Addiction: 12 Steps to Stop Compulsive Shopping & Spending

 12. Addiction To Pornography Viewing Pornography addiction is a model type of addiction that are compulsive sexual activity with concurrently using of pornographic material, despite of negative consequences to one's physical and mental state, social or the type of financial well-being. The addictive type of rewarding and reinforcing properties of the cybersex have been … Read more