...Internet of Things: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities Antonio Marcos Alberti Dhananjay Singh Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel P.O. Box 05 - 37540-000 Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil alberti@inatel.br Department of Electronics Engineering Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign studies Global Campus: Yongin, South Korea dsingh@hufs.ac.kr Abstract – The Internet of things can be defined as to make the “things” belong to the Internet. However, many wonder if the current Internet can support such a challenge. For this and other reasons, hundreds of worldwide initiatives to redesign the Internet are underway. This article discusses the perspectives, challenges and opportunities behind a future Internet that fully supports the “things”, as well as how the “things” can help in the design of a more synergistic future Internet. Keywords–Internet of things, smart things, future Internet, software-defined networking, service-centrism, informationcentrism, ID/Loc splitting, security, privacy, trust. I. INTRODUCTION The Internet of things (IoT) refers to uniquely addressable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure [18][19][20]. We can say that it is an extension of Internet with uniquely addressable objects becoming a part of existing Internet. The objects forming the IoT will have distinct characteristics about them. They may hold selfidentifying information; they may even transmit the...
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...of the Community Master Patient Index and all clinical data sent by the data suppliers. The repository authenticates the requester, authorizes the transaction, and records it for audit and reporting purposes. Because the Centralized model is designed to store and maintain data centrally, response for data through a portal or exchange query is quicker than the other models; and duplication of clinical information such as medications, allergies, and problems can be located and eliminated as the data comes...
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...Stephan Danner, Aleksandar Ruzicic, Patrick Biecheler Study Commercial excellence in the pharmaceutical industry Delivering superior value to your customers in challenging times Stephan Danner, Aleksandar Ruzicic, Patrick Biecheler Study Commercial excellence in the pharmaceutical industry Delivering superior value to your customers in challenging times 2 | Study Contents Letter from the authors Executive summary 1. At a glance: Turbulent times, here to stay? 2. Taking the first steps towards commercial excellence 3. Sales excellence: Still a worthwhile investment 4. The nuts and bolts of customer excellence a) The importance of customer relationship management (CRM) b) Towards a customer-centric approach c) The promotional mix as a stepping-stone to customer excellence 5. New business models: Making the necessary changes 6. Mapping out the road to commercial excellence 7. Sources 8. Who to contact about commercial excellence 3 4 6 10 14 18 19 22 26 30 38 41 42 3 | Commercial excellence in the pharmaceutical industry Letter from the authors For a while now, pharmaceutical companies have been faced with a multitude of difficult challenges. Financial pressures, regulatory changes and increasingly active stakeholders have put the industry’s sales growth and profitability to an ongoing and demanding test. In the past, many companies reacted to these obstacles by simply restructuring and downsizing their sales forces. Yet many onlookers now...
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...the secular world. True servant-leadership is to emulate how Jesus led those around him - with complete selflessness and by serving others. Moreover, it is challenging for humans to be servant-leaders as they often desire personal recognition in life; yet, dedication to the Word and quiet reflection in God can help one to lead like Jesus. Larry Spears labeled Greenleaf a Grandfather of empowerment movement in business leadership (Greenleaf, 1996) because of his zeal toward servant-leadership. Greenleaf’s viewpoint, though commendable, conflicts with biblical principles. Thus, this paper analyzes Greenleaf’s work from a Christian worldview and institutes a biblical basis for servant leadership. Keywords: servant leadership, biblical perspective, gifts, loving, individual Introduction Servant-leadership is widely researched and discussed from a secular and Christian worldview (Fischer, 2010; see also Blanchard & Hodges, 2005). Paul encouraged believers to be imitators of Christ in this area when he said "[f]ollow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV). Although life can be challenging when one deals with the spiritual and secular context, one can ascertain from this verse that a Christian is called to imitate God in all he does. Nevertheless, Christ wants his followers to operate within the context of the secular...
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...health care gain access to it at minimal costs to different organizations. These organizations offer economic incentives for physicians and patients to select forms of treatment and care that have lower costs while still maintaining quality of care. By incentivizing this type of behavior, health care organizations broaden the availability of basic medical necessities. Today health care organizations are experiences different changes in the workplace. Employees are expected to assume an increase of workload delegated by the intent of work process evaluation. Since its inception in 1953, Memorial Healthcare System has been a leader in providing high-quality health care services to South Florida residents. Today, it is the fifth-largest public health care system in the nation and highly regarded for its exceptional patient- and family-centered care. Memorial's patient, physician and employee satisfaction rates are some of the most admired in the country, and the system is recognized as a national leader in quality health care. Memorial Healthcare System provides safe, quality, cost-effective, patient- and family-centered care, regardless of one's ability to pay, with the goal of improving the health of the community it serves. Through more integrated relationships with physicians, Memorial Healthcare System will deliver patient- and family-centric care in a highly efficient manner with exceptional quality and safety outcomes for the benefit of the residents of the South Broward Hospital...
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...plan to re evaluate the strategy. In depth-Problem Analysis. The major issues that lead to the re-evaluation of the relationship between the two companies can be summarized as * Failure to achieve forecasted returns When the JV was signed both companies aimed to leverage the maximum efficiency and gain a market leader position. They expected the company to break even within three years of operation. But even in the fifth year company is losing about $100,000 a month. With company running at close to full capacity, having client mix of transplants and Big 3 and still not able to make money made Wilson managers sceptical about the capability of JV. * Different Perspective about profit. Wilson focussed on making quick money out of the deal and they are profit centric, whereas Morota had a quality centric long term vision emphasizing on strong customer relationships. They articulated the philosophy of reducing cost and increasing quality to match with the Japanese standard. And once they establish that reputation, the reputation will bring in business. This contradictory view doesn’t come along well in forming strategic decisions. * Cultural unfit. There is a huge disparity in the...
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...have different views on moral reasoning and the factors that contribute to an individual’s level of reasoning capabilities. Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan developed cognitive theories to explain moral reasoning in a series of stages. The movie John Q, raises the question of what is considered morally right and what is wrong and by whose perspective. The characters in the movie can be classified into either Kohlberg’s or Gilligan’s theories of reasoning. Theorist Lawrence Kohlberg (1973) had a qualitative perspective of moral development. His theory breaks development into three levels, each of which is divided further into two stages. The levels consist of: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. These can be loosely correlated with age. He theorized that moral growth begins at the beginning of life and continues until the day one dies. He believed that people proceed through each stage of moral development consecutively without skipping or going back to a previous stage. Level One, the Pre-Conventional level, is the level of moral reasoning based solely on a person’s own needs. The person is ego-centric and does not take into consideration the intention or motivation behind the behavior. Kohlberg theorized that people cannot move past this level until they are past nine years of age, but a person can be caught in this level and never move to the next. Stage one is characterized by punishment and obedience. A person in this stage obeys the rules...
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...October 26, 2013 CIO Story ThedaCare, Wisconsin: Successful Integration through Leadership The History ThedaCare’s roots in Northeast Wisconsin are more than a century deep. Having different names and different partnerships over the years; the merger of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center formed Novus Health Group, Novus partnered with United Health of Wisconsin Insurance Company and became United Health Group. Finally in August of 1999 ThedaCare is born from its modest beginning as a merger of two community hospitals. But In 1997, ThedaCare was an organization facing increased competitive pressure; higher costs, lower reimbursements, and a nationwide nursing shortage. The organization encompassed 3 hospitals, physicians' offices, and a health plan. Regrettably, ThedaCare was not connected to the Internet or intranet. All organizational and business communication was conducted by snail mail, phone, and fax. Current State ThedaCare grew through consolidation and acquisition. It became a fragmented organization growing beyond its ability to operate as a cohesive unit. Its infrastructure had a disparate computer system, a disconnected care process and often-conflicting goals. The ThedaCare organization encompassed 3 hospitals, physician's offices and a Health Plan. Each hospital had its own system for registration, scheduling, pharmacy, lab, radiology and billing. Physician's offices had their own system for registration, scheduling and billing. The...
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...boomers • Rapid expansion and increasing consumer preference for assisted living and home health care Environmental and industry threats to GHH include: • Highly regulated and fragmented industry (difficulty in gaining significant market share) • Reduced nursing home use (due to growing availability of alternatives such as home‐delivered eldercare) • Pressure from the government and general public to increase quality of care while reducing expenses • Reduced federal funding and healthcare reform measures (changing regulations and reimbursement cuts) • Increased number of lawsuits and patient care liability costs (leading to reduced liability insurance) • Increased profitability and market share of competitors [Add overall conclusion around industry attractiveness and attractiveness for GHH, and what this means] Internal Analysis GHH’s strengths include: • Major player in nursing home market (largest market share) • “Family...
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...has the ability to lead an incredibly fast growing and dynamic company with limitless potential such as CareCentrix. His goals becoming CEO is to meet and exceed the expectations of their customers and to provide exemplary care to the patients. Moreover, as a company the goal is to move patients out of acute and sub-acute care to their homes where they can leverage technology in innovative ways to improve quality care and sustainable outcomes, all in a setting that is emotionally and physically beneficial to the patient. (CareCentrix) According to John Driscoll, “CareCentrix is not only a premier company to do business with, but also a great place to work.” In 2014, was implemented, for the first time ever, performance reviews, with merit increases awarded for performance. Another initiative rolled out was the “Golden Thread” which connects everyone’s individual objectives with their unit’s objective and overall corporate objective. This is designed to ensure that every team member knows how their day-to-day work contributes to CareCentrix’s corporate objectives and ultimate success. It all begins with the vision, mission and values. CareCentrix’s vision is to create a world where anyone can heal and age at home. Its mission is to improve patients’ lives by delivering innovative home health solutions that produce better outcomes and reduce overall costs through...
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...For many years, the world has developed constantly in all fields including economics, society, and politics and specially technology. Thus, people does not have only a lot of choices for themselves to decide what they want or where they would like to go shopping but also more influence than before to the success of products. Although the price is a vital factor to decide whether they should buy this product or not, it is not enough for firms to maintain the buying of customers and also compete with their competitors. In fact, there are too many businesses in a market that customer can choose to purchase any products, but consumers’ psychology always want to come back a firm, which makes them to feel happy. As a result, a major task for firm is how to make consumer feel satisfy and continue use their products or services. To gain the success, companies need to have a positive relationship with their customers. Thus, firms have invested a lot of time and costs to develop their interaction with customers before, during and after purchasing because this will help businesses to maximize their profits. In addition, due to the development of information technology, customer relationship management has assisted effectively for companies to achieve several major benefits. Indeed, customer relationship management is extremely important to support firms that not only to understand deeply all customers’ needs but also to give effective strategies on time to take the consumers’ satisfaction...
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...clinics which directly interacts with patients. The main objective of the report is to identify important determinants of organizational performance in healthcare and to present examples of solutions which can improve its functioning and performance. Identifying present performance: Before formatting future strategy for any organization, it is important to evaluate its present performance. It is important for any organization to deliver healthcare of high quality, high efficiency, easy accessibility, and easy utility; to be considered as a high performance organization. Additionally, the high performance organization must be open to enable learning and to have well planned strategies to access support from different parts of the society to attain sustainability. Thus section discusses the six main outcomes required by high performance organization which are quality, efficiency, utilization, access, learning, and sustainability. 1. Quality: Research on the clinical quality of the healthcare is as old as the healthcare delivery system itself. The researchers identify clinical quality as safe and medically appropriate healthcare. Furthermore, while identifying the performance of the organization clinical quality is also assessed for the population health like vaccination and antenatal care along with the best clinical practice for those who utilize the immediate services of organization (IOM, 2001). Confirming clinical quality for the patients always remains a main objective...
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...significant variations when it comes to their Human Development Index (HDI). Indeed, while Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and Honduras have a similar GNP per capita, the female literacy rate is 23% in Pakistan, 60% in Zimbabwe, and 71.6% in Honduras (Nussbaum, 2000:28). While people’s incomes are important, they can be considered as instrumental because of what they allow a person to “do or be” (Sen, 1999). Indeed, not all capacity deprivations are due to a lack of resources and can be considered as a case of poverty (Lister, 2004). For instance, the ability to participate in the life of society is not always due to a lack of resources; other constraints can impede participation such as discrimination or disability. Furthermore, adopting a capability perspective can allow to account for inter-country and inter-community differences showing how people in rich nations can live in poverty and be capability deprived, compared to poorer countries. As outlined by Sen in “Development as Freedom”, US African-American men have less chances of “reaching advanced ages than do people in the immensely poorer economies of China or the Indian state of Kerala” (as cited in Hick and Burchardt,...
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...MOV E R S S H A KE RS A LOOK AT HUMANA’S INTEGRATED HEALTH APPROACH: A Conversation with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Roy Beveridge March 2014 “We Accelerate Growth” MOV E R S & S H A KE R S Movers & Shakers Inter view with Dr. Roy Beveridge Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Humana March 2014 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading provider of commercial health plans, specialty insurance plans, and integrated health and wellness services. Headquartered in Louisville, Ky., the company was founded in 1961 and currently serves 12 million members across the US through individual and employer markets. Humana is the fifth-largest company in terms of medical membership in the country. Humana is particularly strong in the Medicare market and has developed deep expertise over its 25-plus year experience with the program. Humana currently has Medicare offerings in all 50 states and offers Medicare Advantage plans and standalone prescription drug coverage for approximately 5.8 million members. In addition to selling insurance products, Humana also delivers primary care, urgent care, wellness, and other healthcare services through its operation of medical centers and worksite medical facilities via its Concentra subsidiary, CAC Medical Centers in South Florida, wellness company LifeSynch and other affiliated businesses. Humana’s president and CEO is Bruce Broussard, who was named president in late 2011 and appointed CEO in 2013.The company reported $41.31 billion...
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...In addition social media has had a significant impact in Africa, with specific application on the healthcare sector. Adejumo, (2014), stated that social media can create communities in which health information can be disseminated to communities which would otherwise not be easily accessible. “Through these virtual communities, critical information can be shared among patients and creating great social peer support for healthcare providers. This is important because empowered patients can manage their health better”. In Tanzania, the use of social media particularly, facebook presented a platform through which certain health messages could be targeted to young people (Dolan, 2011, Pieffer, Kleeb, Mbelwa & Ahorlu, 2014). Here, many authors have alluded to the use of social media in Africa. Africa, having many infrastructure issues and health care problems can make use of social media in order to get their messages across very quickly. This section provided an overview of social media in Africa, the next subsection of this chapter provides and overview of social media in South Africa...
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