The use of ICT in healthcare, which resulted into e-healthcare, has many benefits to both individuals and governments. These benefits include reduction in medical errors, improvements in physician efficiency and an increase in the quality of care delivered. Unfortunately, there are many challenges associated with electronic healthcare adoption. In this paper we investigate the challenges associated with electronic healthcare adoption in Tanzania, and propose solutions to them. The proposed solutions will help the Tanzanian government in its design and implementation of electronic healthcare projects.
Central to any context-aware application is a context-aware architecture. A context-aware architecture monitors and analyzes its environment to enable context-aware applications and subsequently computing devices to effortlessly and appropriately respond to users' computing needs. This paper presents a Knowledge-driven Distributed Architecture (KoDA), describes implementation of its prototype and illustrates how it can be applied and used in a real-world environment. KoDA is unique as is developed based on a knowledge intensive model, which provides a comprehensive model of the real-world in which the users and computing devices interact. Thus apart from monitoring ability, KoDA can intelligently use relevant information that is accessible in a room to recognize the users' ongoing context. KoDA collectively takes into account information about who, what, when and where to recognize ongoing context.
This article describes how many public organizations today are embracing ICT; the use of ICT has become widespread in every aspect of the organizations' endeavors in supporting and evolving public service delivery. The widespread use of ICT has caused a serious reliance on ICT, which in this atmosphere involves business reengineering, change of organization culture which requires good management. ICT strategic plans as a managerial tool will rationalize ICT solutions and coordinate all efforts. It is noticed that public organizations in Tanzania are marginally use ICT; therefore, this article identifies internal control mechanisms and ICT challenges that affect ICT strategic plan implementation. Four public organizations were chosen and 24 respondents were interviewed from these organizations. Analysis of data showed both internal control mechanisms and ICT strategic plan executor capabilities affects ICT strategic plans implementation. Lastly, this article recommends public organizations to put in internal control mechanisms for successfully implementing ICT strategic plans as well as to address executor issues.
Modeling context is a key factor for enabling context-aware systems to be responsive to users' needs and consequently for making computing "invisible". A context model, which is a product of context modeling, provides a systematic way of identifying and representing knowledge about users' environment in context-aware architecture. Through this knowledge, and its sensing and reasoning capabilities, a context-aware architecture is able to determine what is going on in the environment and share this knowledge with context-aware systems. This article presents a research work for modeling context. In particular, the article explains development of a Knowledge-intensive Context Model (KiCM). KiCM extends theory-based context models by including knowledge of users' computers and their computer-related activities. 2.1. Categories of context-aware systems Schilit et al. [3] categorize context-aware systems based on their ability to provide information or execute computing services. Similarly, Dey and Abowd [4] categorize these systems by their ability
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