Young B. Choi

Challenges Associated with Privacy in Health Care Industry: Implementation of HIPAA and the Security Rules

This paper discusses the challenges associated with privacy in health care in the electronic information age based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Security Rules. We examine the storing and transmission of sensitive patient data in the modern health care system and discuss current security practices that health care providers institute to comply with HIPAA Security Rule regulations. Based on our research results, we address current outstanding issues that act as impediments to the successful implementation of security measures and conclude the discussion and offer possible avenues of future research.

Telemedicine in the USA: standardization through information management and technical applications

In this article, we describe the need for telemedicine standards and classify various standards of telemedicine. The emerging issues in telecommunications standards, the application of these standards in the health care industry, and future development directions of telemedicine standards are described. Especially, the telemedicine code standardization of drugs and health care providers, multimedia-conferencing-based ISO telemedicine standards, information security management, wireless technology advances for telemedicine using sensor networks, and future standardization issues and considerations are introduced and discussed in detail.

The state-of-the-art of mobile payment architecture and emerging issues

This paper describes the state-of-the-art of mobile payment and how it affects our world. The results of the paper show that advancement of mobile technology is growing and with this comes many new opportunities with mobile payment. With this knowledge, the findings of this research show that mobile payment is within reach, but issues such as security, trust and privacy must first be handled clearly for successful delivery of service.

Toward Efficient Medication Error Reduction: Error-Reducing Information Management Systems

Hospitals and other health-care providers today are being pressed more than ever to use technologies for reducing medical errors. Particularly, medication errors are likely to increase fast as Americans age. This paper intends to provide a starting point for understanding information technologies and database systems supporting such technologies as Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Automated Dispensing System (ADS), and Bar Coding System designed to reduce medication errors in hospitals. Although vendors provide the necessary communication software and applications, actions involving governments, technology vendors, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical researchers are needed to put to actual use the applications with a massive potential to significantly reduce medication-related errors.

Applications of 'human factors' in wireless telecommunications service delivery

This paper describes how the application of human factors in wireless telecommunications service deals with human involvement and their ways to communicate across a distance and how to successfully deliver this task. The results of the paper show that wireless technology is being developed fast and mobile phone use is particularly on the rise. With this knowledge, the findings of this research show that human factors are essential in incorporating a successful service delivery system for wireless telecommunications.

Toward a future wireless classroom paradigm

The use of wireless computers in the classroom has become an increasing trend in the 21st century. This paper explains the roles and effectiveness of computers and the internet in an educational environment, as well as the importance of current technologies used in schools, including Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and tablet PCs. The use of handheld devices will be a valuable asset to students and teachers alike in future classrooms.

A comparison and classification framework for disaster information management systems

A disaster, whether artificial or natural, can overwhelm even the best prepared segment of a society. When not properly managed, the same disaster inflicts far more damage than necessary. At the core of disaster management lie the monumental tasks of collecting, distributing, processing, and presenting disaster-related data. Although many products and proposals claim to accomplish these critical undertakings, few actually do live up to the expectations mainly due to the complex and comprehensive nature of disaster information management. Noting the lack of standards and consensus on what constitutes an ideal Disaster Information Management System (DIMS), this paper sets out to first identify essential requirements for a truly useful DIMS and to eventually propose a comparison and classification framework that can be used by various organisations considering the adoption of a DIMS.

State of the Art of Network Security Perspectives in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is now regarded as one of social phenomenon that satisfy customers’ needs. It is possible that the customers’ needs and the primary principle of economy – gain maximum benefits from minimum investment – reflects realization of cloud computing. We are living in the connected society with flood of information and without connected computers to the Internet, our activities and work of daily living will be impossible. Cloud computing is able to provide customers with custom-tailored features of application software and user’s environment based on the customer’s needs by adopting on-demand outsourcing of computing resources through the Internet. It also provides cloud computing users with high-end computing power and expensive application software package, and accordingly the users will access their data and the application software where they are located at the remote system. As the cloud computing system is connected to the Internet, network security issues of cloud computing are considered as mandatory prior to real world service. In this paper, survey and issues on the network security in cloud computing are discussed from the perspective of real world service environments.

Corporate wireless LAN security: threats and an effective security assessment framework for wireless information assurance

In this paper, we propose the necessary steps in implementing strong WLAN security for companies using our visual security assessment framework for wireless information assurance. Through real case studies on the organisations with various security measures and by showing complete execution paths of our framework, we suggest the importance of continual assessment of the WLAN for strong corporate security assurance using our Corporate WLAN Security Assessment Framework.

International telecommunications service management

This paper discusses the importance of high-quality telecommunication service management and discusses the standards used in international telecommunications service management. Telecommunication service management and standards are tightly coupled with each other as better standards result in better service management. The major standardisation bodies that are responsible for creating the technical specifications of major telecommunication service management standards are ITU-T, TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). A state-of-the-art survey of the telecommunications service management arena and forecast of the future direction and applications of international telecommunications service management standardisation are described.