O avanço tecnológico percebido nos últimos anos proporcionou a utilização em larga escala de equipamentos de aquisição de imagens médicas em formato digital, tais como: raios-X, tomografia computadorizada, ressonância magnética e ultrassom. O uso desses aparelhos na rotina diária de um hospital gera um volume expressivo de dados, o que demanda soluções para armazenamento, distribuição e visualização dessas imagens. Tal papel é desempenhado por sistemas de comunicação e arquivamento de imagens - PACS - através do protocolo de comunicação DICOM, o padrão internacional para codificação e transmissão de imagens médicas. Devido à sua natureza digital, recentemente várias aplicações voltadas para o processamento de imagens médicas foram desenvolvidas, inclusive programas para processar mamografia e tomografia computadorizada de tórax tornaram-se produtos comerciais nos últimos cinco anos. Tais aplicações são conhecidas por CAD ou diagnóstico auxiliado por computador. Sabe-se que soluções CAD podem aprimorar a eficiência e a precisão de diagnósticos clínicos detectando e/ou classificando automaticamente anormalidades e/ou doenças em exames médicos radiológicos. Entretanto, pouco esforço foi realizado no sentido de se integrar as ferramentas CAD a sistemas de comunicação e arquivamente de imagens. Para que o CAD auxilie no diagnóstico médico ele necessita processar imagens digitais que normalmente estão armazenadas no PACS. Atualmente, ainda o padrão para a utilização de sistemas especialistas em processamento de imagens médicas como CAD permanece sendo uma estação de trabalho isolada, e os resultados obtidos dos processamentos não são integrados de forma apropriada a outros sistemas de informação, tais como HIS (Sistema de Informação Hospitalar), RIS (Sistema de Informação em Radiologia) e PACS. O trabalho aqui descrito apresenta uma solução de integração CAD-PACS baseada em bibliotecas livres de de código aberto. Espera-se que essa solução possa contribuir de forma efetiva para um aumento da produtividade e melhoria dos processos na radiologia, beneficiando todo o ambiente hospitalar. / The technology evolution seen in the last years provided large adoption of digital image acquisition equipments, such as: X-rays, computed tomography, magnetic resonance and ultrasound. The use of these devices in daily hospital routine generates an expressive image data volume which demands intelligent solutions for image storage, distribution and visualization. Such role is played by picture archiving and communication systems - PACS - which make extensively use of the DICOM protocol, world industry standard for image transmission and codification in medicine. Due to its digital nature, recently several medical image processing applications were developed and some programs used to process mammography and chest computed tomography images became commercial products in the last five years. These applications are usually known as CAD or computer-aided diagnosis. It\'s known that CAD solutions may improve the diagnosis efficiency and accuracy by detecting and/or classifying automatically abnormalities and/or diseases in radiologic exams. However, little effort was done in the sense of integrating the CAD tools and picture archiving and communication systems. To really assist radiologist diagnosis CAD needs to process digital images that are usually stored in the PACS server. Nowadays, specialist image processing programs like CAD still remains being used on an isolated workstation and the processing results are not integrated in a suitable fashion to other information systems such as HIS (Hospital Information System), RIS (Radiology Information System) and PACS. The work described in this dissertation presents a CAD-PACS integration solution based on free and open source programming libraries. It\'s hoped that this solution may contribute in an effective manner to increase the productivity and improve the radiology workflow, bringing benefits to the whole hospital environment.

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BACKGROUND Integrated healthcare systems are believed to be enabled by the electronic exchange of clinical information. Canada and other national health systems are making substantial investments in information technology, in order to liberate and share clinical information between providers, improve the quality and safety of care, and reduce costs, yet we currently have no way of measuring these information flows, nor of understanding whether they contribute to the integration of care delivery. METHODS A literature review and consensus development process (nominal group) were used to provide guidance on system integration measures which are enabled by electronic information exchange. In order to conceptualize the components of electronic information exchange, establish a reference vocabulary for terminology, and guide the development of a questionnaire to gather field data, a formal ontology was developed. Validation of a sub-group of the survey data quality was achieved using the ontology and an unrelated database, demonstrating how ontologies may be used to adapt performance measurement methodologies to systems where constraints such as time-compression, lack of resources or access to needed information are prevalent. RESULTS The survey tool gathered cross-sectoral data from a regional health system which populated a summary measure of inter-provider electronic health information exchange (the eHIE), and measured perceptions of system integration from a single health region. The eHIE indicated that 7 -12% of clinical information that could be shared, was being shared electronically in the health region. ANOVA confirmed a significant correlation between the amount of information being exchanged electronically in this system and respondent perceptions of system integration suggesting that the eHIE may be used as a leading indicator for healthcare system integration. CONCLUSIONS It is possible to conceptualize and quantify inter-provider electronic health information exchange. As complex adaptive systems, healthcare systems are dynamic and open to correction; the use of a leading or proximal indicator such as the eHIE may inform effective policy-making and resource allocation in our pursuit of the goal of seamlessly integrated care.

Spending on investments in integrative information systems (IIS) has considerably risen during the last few years due to a high need for linking various information systems. The demand for integrating the systems stems from developments like mergers and acquisitions and is typically satisfied in practice using Enterprise Application Integration solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Portals, or Data Warehouses. For the valuation of such an investment previous literature recommends the use of a real options analysis (ROA) since traditional capital budgeting methods such as the Net Present Value underestimate its value. Contrary, the ROA is able to conveniently account for managerial flexibility, represented by the possibility to implement follow-on opportunities, generated by the IIS. However, in practice ROA suffers from a lack of appliance mainly because of its complexity. This thesis precisely closes this gap and develops a simplified process model for a ROA by exactly tailoring the broad real options concept to the requirements of an investment valuation of IIS. For that, it reviews option pricing models from the financial world as well as previous research in the area of ROA and creates the desired model by conducting a ROA for four case studies in detail. The study reveals new findings concerning the question of how a decision-maker can apply the real options method and at the same time, when he/she is able to abandon a detailed ROA or a ROA at all. (author's abstract)

The equipment makers all over the world face the economic recession. They face many uncertainties and challenges when operation. In order to reduce the product development time to market, make the best utilization of the company resource, a suitable information system is helpful to achieve the goal. Applied Materials founded in 1976 is the world biggest equipment maker in the semiconductor industry. Because the growth rate is getting lower and lower, the company steps into other industries by merge and acquisition. Applied Materials expects to get revenue from these growing rapidly market requirements. This research is focus on Applied Materials company strategies. We analyzed the data transferred and information system structure changed during the company acquired Applied Films. We found out the information strategies aligned to company strategies. Through this research, we can understand more the suitable information system for equipment makers and help the equipment makers to get the capability to face the changing dramatically market.

Past studies often discussed competition strategies in terms of SWOT analysis for establishing development strategies or in terms of game theory for drawing up short-term Co-opetition strategies. Yet, none of them can reveal the cause-and-effect phenomenon of information system integration companies that develop resources for performing contracts and the Co-opetition strategy at tendering period according to the condition of organizational resources; also, the companies improve knowledge and resources that will affect the tender game and the operation strategy. Hence, from a broader view, the enterprise competition strategies were discussed at ordinary and tender periods through case study of an information system integration company for department stores to investigate the Co-opetition model. From the history of the target company, this study analyzed the intended strategy at ordinary times and the emergent strategy for tendering, and investigated how enterprises accomplish strategic goals by means of resource leverage. Findings indicated that enterprises ¡§develop¡¨ the required resources according to the SWOT analysis and ¡§make full use¡¨ of existing resources to win the tender according to the PARTS analysis; and ¡§resource maintenance¡¨ affects the strategy and opportunity in subsequent games. The application of resource leverage in the above three arguments was also investigated. Furthermore, the ¡§synergy¡¨ of organizational resource development can affects the subsequent strategies and operations. Finally, a Co-opetition model for companies of information system integration is proposed as a reference model for Co-opetition strategy analysis.

<p>Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory, coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings, productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology, business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally. However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions coordinating the uniform communication is vital.</p><p>Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.</p><p>Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.</p><p>Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level when working with Application Integration.</p>

ITC/USA 2012 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Eighth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2012 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / Network-based telemetry systems have unprecedented amounts of flexibility due to the ability to manipulate configuration during a test. As a result of this flexibility, multiple tests can be conducted in a single flight; all it takes is reconfiguration of instrumentation. However, configuration of devices can be a complex task, and dynamic configuration can be even more daunting. As such, device configuration, control, and status must be managed in a coordinated fashion. A system manager implementation that performs coordinated status and control of instrumentation in the Test Article as well as test configuration authoring is presented in this paper, the Ground Test Article Manager (GTAM), which is being developed by the integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) program.

BACKGROUND Integrated healthcare systems are believed to be enabled by the electronic exchange of clinical information. Canada and other national health systems are making substantial investments in information technology, in order to liberate and share clinical information between providers, improve the quality and safety of care, and reduce costs, yet we currently have no way of measuring these information flows, nor of understanding whether they contribute to the integration of care delivery. METHODS A literature review and consensus development process (nominal group) were used to provide guidance on system integration measures which are enabled by electronic information exchange. In order to conceptualize the components of electronic information exchange, establish a reference vocabulary for terminology, and guide the development of a questionnaire to gather field data, a formal ontology was developed. Validation of a sub-group of the survey data quality was achieved using the ontology and an unrelated database, demonstrating how ontologies may be used to adapt performance measurement methodologies to systems where constraints such as time-compression, lack of resources or access to needed information are prevalent. RESULTS The survey tool gathered cross-sectoral data from a regional health system which populated a summary measure of inter-provider electronic health information exchange (the eHIE), and measured perceptions of system integration from a single health region. The eHIE indicated that 7 -12% of clinical information that could be shared, was being shared electronically in the health region. ANOVA confirmed a significant correlation between the amount of information being exchanged electronically in this system and respondent perceptions of system integration suggesting that the eHIE may be used as a leading indicator for healthcare system integration. CONCLUSIONS It is possible to conceptualize and quantify inter-provider electronic health information exchange. As complex adaptive systems, healthcare systems are dynamic and open to correction; the use of a leading or proximal indicator such as the eHIE may inform effective policy-making and resource allocation in our pursuit of the goal of seamlessly integrated care.

Product visual inspection is still performed manually or semi automatically in most industries from simple ceramic tile grading to complicated automotive body panel paint defect and surface quality inspection. Moreover, specular surfaces present additional challenges to conventional vision systems due to specular reflections, which may mask the true location of objects and lead to incorrect measurements. Some sophisticated optical inspection methods have already been developed for high precision surface defect inspection in recent years. Unfortunately, most of them are highly computational. Systems built on those methods are either inapplicable or costly to achieve real-time inspection. This thesis describes an integrated low-cost intelligent system developed to automatically capture and extract regular defects of the ceramic tiles with uniformly colored specular coatings. The proposed system is implemented on a group of smart cameras using its on-board processing ability to achieve real-time inspection. The results of this study will be used to facilitate the design of a robust, low-cost, closed-loop inspection system for a class of products with smooth specular coatings. The experimental results on real test panels demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of proposed system.