IT Evaluation Research Articles

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Settings-Let Us Not Reinvent the Wheel.

Given the requirement to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of technology applications in health care provision, there is an urgent need to incorporate theory-informed health IT (HIT) evaluation frameworks into existing and emerging guidelines for the evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI). Such frameworks can help developers, implementers, and strategic decision makers to build on experience and the existing empirical evidence base. We provide a pragmatic conceptual overview of selected concrete examples of how existing theory-informed HIT evaluation frameworks may be used to inform the safe development and implementation of AI in health care settings. The list is not exhaustive and is intended to illustrate applications in line with various stakeholder requirements. Existing HIT evaluation frameworks can help to inform AI-based development and implementation by supporting developers and strategic decision makers in considering relevant technology, user, and organizational dimensions. This can facilitate the design of technologies, their implementation in user and organizational settings, and the sustainability and scalability of technologies.

An In Silico Approach for Evaluation of ITS, rbcL, and psbA-trnH for DNA Barcoding of Eugenia spp.

The genus Eugenia is known to be complex with intricate synonyms and taxonomy, and morphological identification is often unreliable due to overlapping characteristics and environmental influences, particularly in the flowers. DNA barcoding provides a way around this problem, as it can identify specimens using very short gene sequence fragments obtained from a small number of tissues. The method used in this research is the in silico dengan menggunakan barcode DNA ITS, rbcL, dan psbA-trnH dari spesies Eugenia spp yang ditemukan di NCBI GenBank. The successful reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree from the three regions, including ITS, rbcL, and psbA-trnH shows that several species of Eugenia spp. are divided into 2 clades. Research successfully analyzed Eugenia plant relationship with using the ITS, rbcL, and psbA-trnH gene sequences in silico based shows that several species of Eugenia spp. are divided into 2 clades. In general, high bootstrap values are shown by phylogenetic trees based on the ITS region.ABSTRAK: Genus Eugenia dikenal kompleks dengan sinonim dan taksonomi yang rumit, serta identifikasi morfologis yang sering tidak dapat diandalkan karena karakter yang tumpang tindih dan dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan, terutama pada bagian bunga. Barcoding DNA memberikan jalan keluar dari masalah ini, karena dapat mengidentifikasi spesimen menggunakan fragmen urutan gen yang sangat pendek yang diperoleh dari sejumlah kecil jaringan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah in silico dengan menggunakan barcode DNA ITS, rbcL, dan psbA-trnH dari spesies Eugenia spp yang ditemukan di NCBI GenBank. Keberhasilan rekonstruksi pohon filogenetik dari tiga wilayah antara lain ITS, rbcL, dan psbA-trnH menunjukkan bahwa beberapa spesies Eugenia spp. dibagi menjadi 2 clade. Penelitian yang berhasil menganalisis hubungan tanaman Eugenia dengan menggunakan rangkaian gen ITS, rbcL, dan psbA-trnH secara silico menunjukkan bahwa beberapa spesies Eugenia spp. dibagi menjadi 2 clade. Secara umum nilai bootstrap yang tinggi ditunjukkan oleh pohon filogenetik berdasarkan wilayah ITS.

Bystander Intervention in Bullying and Sexual Harassment Training: Mixed-Method Evaluation of NAB IT!

The goal of the current pilot study was to examine the effects of bystander intervention training on a sample of 27 high school students who were selected by their peers as opinion leaders. Measures of bystander intervention knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors were included in the within-subjects design. Sixteen of the students also participated in focus groups to provide feedback about their experiences with the training. Results showed that participating students reported increases in knowledge about bullying and sexual harassment, confidence in intervening, acceptance of responsibility, knowing what to do, and acting to intervene (including direct intervention, providing support, and reporting to an adult) from pre-to posttest. Themes from focus groups indicated that students found the training relevant and helpful, particularly for focusing on both bullying and sexual harassment and for providing opportunities to learn and practice multiple intervention strategies. Barriers to intervening based on the type of violence (e.g., physical vs. relational or verbal) and relationship with the people involved were also themes. Directions for future research and implications for practice, such as focusing on dissemination to the larger student body and implementing bystander intervention training within the context of a positive school climate that emphasizes social and emotional competencies, are discussed.

Evaluation of IT Risk Management in DISKOMINFO of Magelang Regency using COBIT Framework 2019 Objectve EDM03 & APO12

Purpose: This research aims to measure the current condition level (capability level) of DISKOMINFO and then conduct a Gap analysis so that it can provide recommendations for improving IT governance related to IT risk management.Design/methodology/approach: The framework used is COBIT 2019, which will focus on 2 objectives: EDM03 (Evaluate, Direct, and Monitor) & APO12 (Align, Plan, and Organize). The data used in this study were obtained through interviews, observation, and distribution of questionnaires which had been mapped using the RACI Chart.Findings/result: The results of the assessment show that the capability level/capability level according to DISKOMINFO is level 2 for each objective. Recommendations focus on making documentation of risk management activities in the form of risk guidelines, risk acceptance, activities for risk management methods, as well as the application of risk management evaluation of IT which is used by DISKOMINFO on a regular basis.Originality/value/state of the art:From various types of risk management research with different frameworks, this research will use the COBIT 2019 performance standards to carry out information technology risk management. Where COBIT 2019 is the latest version of COBIT which was prepared to help companies manage and manage resources to achieve existing goals. COBIT 2019 has a broader scope than ISO SO/IEC 17799:2005 which includes a combination of principles that have been embedded and known as reference models (such as COSO), and are aligned with IT standard infrastructure.

Logic Models for Evaluation of Complex Health Information Systems.

Complex health IT needs to be planned and evaluated. To propose logic models for the evaluation of complex health IT. Logic models describe input, activities, output, outcome, and impact. This first example of a logic model for patient portals shows how health IT planning and evaluation may benefit from logic models.

A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study

There is a variety of libre/free and open-source software (LIFOSS) products for medicine and health care. To support health care and IT professionals select an appropriate software product for given tasks, several comparison studies and web platforms, such as Medfloss.org, are available. However, due to the lack of a uniform terminology for health informatics, ambiguous or imprecise terms are used to describe the functionalities of LIFOSS. This makes comparisons of LIFOSS difficult and may lead to inappropriate software selection decisions. Using Linked Open Data (LOD) promises to address these challenges. We describe LIFOSS systematically with the help of the underlying Health Information Technology Ontology (HITO). We publish HITO and HITO-based software product descriptions using LOD to obtain the following benefits: (1) linking and reusing existing terminologies and (2) using Semantic Web tools for viewing and querying the LIFOSS data on the World Wide Web. HITO was incrementally developed and implemented. First, classes for the description of software products in health IT evaluation studies were identified. Second, requirements for describing LIFOSS were elicited by interviewing domain experts. Third, to describe domain-specific functionalities of software products, existing catalogues of features and enterprise functions were analyzed and integrated into the HITO knowledge base. As a proof of concept, HITO was used to describe 25 LIFOSS products. HITO provides a defined set of classes and their relationships to describe LIFOSS in medicine and health care. With the help of linked or integrated catalogues for languages, programming languages, licenses, features, and enterprise functions, the functionalities of LIFOSS can be precisely described and compared. We publish HITO and the LIFOSS descriptions as LOD; they can be queried and viewed using different Semantic Web tools, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) browsers, SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries, and faceted searches. The advantages of providing HITO as LOD are demonstrated by practical examples. HITO is a building block to achieving unambiguous communication among health IT professionals and researchers. Providing LIFOSS product information as LOD enables barrier-free and easy access to data that are often hidden in user manuals of software products or are not available at all. Efforts to establish a unique terminology of medical and health informatics should be further supported and continued.

Synthesis of copper (II) citrate and evaluation ofits in vitro antifungaland antibacterial activities, and the suitability of using this chemicalas a plant protection agent

In this paper, copper (II) citrate Cu3(C6H5O7)2 was successfully synthesised in an aqueous solution. The factors for the synthesis process such as temperature and molar ratio of the reactants were investigated. The structural, properties and composition characteristics of the elements were investigated and evaluated by X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The yield of the copper (II) citrate in the reaction was 82.46% at the molar ratio of the CuSO4/C6H5Na3O7 of 1.5/1 at 70oC. The in vitro results showed that copper (II) citrate at a concentration of 1,000 ppm inhibits the mycelial growth of Sclerotium rolfsii and Fusarium oxysporumwith control values ranging from 19 to 53% after 2 days of incubation. Besides, it strongly suppressed the plant bacterial pathogens Xanthomonas axonopodis (bacterial strain causing citrus canker), Ralstonia solanacearum(bacterial wilt of tomato), and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (cause of bacterial wilt and canker of tomato). These results suggested that copper (II) citrate can be used as a promising fungicide/bactericide to control fungal and bacterial diseases on citrus and tomato plants.

Brief Reports Prepared by Students and Graduates of Master of Science in Biobanking.

Brief Reports Prepared by Students and Graduates of Master of Science in Biobanking.

IT Evaluation of Foundation Healthcare Group NHS Vanguard programme: IT simultaneously an enabler and a rate limiting factor

ABSTRACT The goal of the Foundation Healthcare Group (FHG) Vanguard model was to develop a sustainable local hospital model between two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts (a London Teaching Hospital Trust and a District General Hospital Trust) that makes best use of scarce resources and can be replicated across the NHS, UK. The aim of this study was to evaluate the provision, use, and implementation of the IT infrastructure based on qualitative interviews focused mainly on the perspectives of the IT staff and the clinicians’ perspectives. Methods: In total, 24 interview transcripts, along with ‘Acute Care Collaboration’ questionnaire responses, were analyzed using a thematic framework for IT infrastructure, sharing themes across the vascular, pediatric, and cardiovascular strands of the FHG programme. Results: Findings indicated that Skype for Business had been an innovative and helpful development widely available to be used between the two Trusts. Clinicians initially reported lack of IT support and infrastructure expected at the outset for a national Vanguard project but later appreciated that remote access to most clinical applications including scans between the two Trusts became operational. The Local Care Record (LCR), an IT project was perceived to have been delivered successfully in South London. Shared technology reduced patient traveling time by providing locally based shared care. Conclusion: Lesson learnt is that ensuring patient benefit and priorities is a strong driver to implementation and one needs to identify IT rate-limiting steps at an early stage and on a regular basis and then focus on rapid implementation of solutions. In fact, future work may also assess how the IT infrastructure developed by FHG vanguard project might have helped/boosted the ‘digital health’ practice during the COVID-19 times. Spreading and scaling-up innovations from the Vanguard sites was the aspiration and challenge for system leaders. After COVID-19, the use of IT is scaled up and now, the challenges in the use of IT are much less compared to the pre-COVID-19 time when this project was evaluated.

IT Evaluation of Foundation Healthcare Group Vanguard Project.

The aim of the Foundation Healthcare Group (FHG) Vanguard model was to develop a sustainable local hospital model between two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts (a London Teaching Hospital Trust and a District General Hospital Trust) that makes best use of scarce resources and can be replicated across the NHS, UK. The aim of this study was to evaluate the provision, use and implementation of the IT infrastructure; based on qualitative interviews and focused mainly on the perspectives of the IT staff and the clinicians' perspectives. In total 24 interview transcripts, along with 'Acute Care Collaboration' questionnaire responses, were analysed using a thematic framework for IT infrastructure, sharing themes across the vascular, paediatric and cardiovascular strands of the FHG programme. Findings indicated that Skype for Business had been an innovative and helpful development widely available to be used between the two Trusts. Clinicians initially reported lack of IT support and infrastructure expected at the outset for a national Vanguard project, but later appreciated that remote access to most clinical applications between the two Trusts became operational. The Local Care Record (LCR), an IT project was perceived to have been delivered successfully in South London. Shared technology reduced patient travelling time by providing locally based shared care. Spreading and scaling-up innovations from the Vanguard sites was the aspiration and challenge for system leaders.

Understanding and measuring formal communication quality for technology implementation: A test during the anticipation stage

Successfully introducing new technologies to employees remains a critical and challenging task for managers. Practitioner and academic research points to the crucial role of formal communication in the success of technology implementation. We developed a scale for measuring formal communication quality and assessed its influence using three samples of working professionals who were anticipating new technologies at work. Informed by the coping model of user adaptation, we examined the direct and indirect effects of formal communication quality during the anticipation stage of a technology implementation project on employees’ cognitions, emotions and intention to connect with colleagues in order to prepare themselves for the new technologies. The results validate our conceptualization of formal communication as a second-order formative construct with information quality in four content areas (i.e., what, how, why and when) as the first-order dimensions. Our findings affirm the role of formal communication as a managerial influence mechanism that positively affects an employee’s preliminary evaluation of a new IT during the anticipation stage. The evaluation of the new IT triggered emotions, and the emotions in turn motivated employees to seek opinions and camaraderie from others as a means of adapting to the new IT. Our post hoc analyses illustrate the dynamic nature of the relationship among formal communication quality, beliefs, emotions and coping intentions as the implementation unfolds. Our work contributes to the literature by improving the operationalization of formal communication quality, expanding the current understanding of seeking social support and revealing new insight about the temporal dynamics of the relationships in the nomological network during the anticipation stage. The validated scale of formal communication can be a useful tool for managers who wish to evaluate the effectiveness of their communication and to assess its impact on employees’ adaptation.

CONSTRUCTION OF SENSING UNIT MOUNTED ON A CAR AND ITS EVALUATION BY MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS

CONSTRUCTION OF SENSING UNIT MOUNTED ON A CAR AND ITS EVALUATION BY MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS

Design of IT Governance Evaluation Using COBIT Framework through Capability Maturity in Department of Transportation Cirebon

IT Governance Evaluation has not been carried out optimally because supervision and evaluation of IT is only done if there are complaints from work units regarding IT services. These problems relate to the services that need to be provided to users of the information system, starting from the operations that need to be carried out on data security, sustainability aspects, training of human resources that support the processes of the information system and related to the support processes that should first be determined to be able to give service. This research method used qualitative research by using COBIT 5 framework dealing with the system analysis and design using the Usecase Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and Class Diagram tools. The programming language used is PHP Hypertext Prepocessor (PHP) while the database uses MySQL. This application was created to provide information about managing the IT Governance Evaluation in Department of Transportation Cirebon. The results of this study is IT Governance Evaluation using Cobit 5 Framework. Regarding to the IT Governance using COBIT 5, the Capability Maturity Level is at 3.28 that means defined-process. It represents that the IT Governance has been implemented to reach the goal of this organization. This assessment was aimed to determine the capabilities of IT performance and make recommendations for the proper management of IT Performance Management so that it can be used as a guide that can be used by the user and can increase the use of facilities optimally for better improvement of Department of Transportation Cirebon.

PCR: An Effective, Faster and Relevant Method for the Detection of Clinical Isolates of Candida albicans

Background: Candida albicans is associated with infectious diseases with colonization, in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. Antibiotic treatment can develop candidiasis. Objective: Evaluation of ITS 4 and ITS5 primer expression on clinical isolates of C. albicans. Methods: Fifty clinical isolates of C. albicans were collected from different sites viz. Catheter Tip (CT), High Vaginal Swab (HVS) and Urine (U). Results: Using the universal fungal primers ITS4 and ITS5, PCR produced a single monomorphic amplification at 520 bp indicating that the strains are of same genetic identity. Conclusion: This is an effective, faster and relevant method for the detection and characterization of clinically isolated strains of C. albicans.

ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИБОРУ ВАРІАНТУ ПОБУДОВИ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-ТЕЛЕКОМУНІКАЦІЙНОЇ СИСТЕМИ ВІЙСЬКОВОГО ПРИЗНАЧЕННЯ

At the present time, the most relevant issues are the assessment of the ITSVP when choosing the option of building the ITSVP at the stage of communication planning. Evaluation of ITS is not an end in itself, but serves as the basis for a quantitative substantiation of the decision to organize communications. This determines the urgency of the problem of choosing an option for building a military information and telecommunications system. Complex systems (which also include the communication system), being in different conditions (situations, modes), reveal different system properties, including those incompatible with any of the situations separately. However, one cannot be neglected, since each characterizes some property of the phenomenon under study, and none of them can be accepted as the only one, since it does not express all its properties. The development of a formal apparatus for solving parametric problems of assessing the effectiveness of the functioning of a communication system provides for a systemic relationship of contradictory indicators. Based on this, an improved methodology for choosing an option for constructing an information and telecommunications system for military purposes is proposed, which differs from the existing one in that the person who makes a decision to organize communications, from certain possible options, chooses a rational one through the use of methods of analyzing hierarchies and taxonomy.

Use of Natural Language Processing for Precise Retrieval of Key Elements of Health IT Evaluation Studies.

Having precise information about health IT evaluation studies is important for evidence-based decisions in medical informatics. In a former feasibility study, we used a faceted search based on ontological modeling of key elements of studies to retrieve precisely described health IT evaluation studies. However, extracting the key elements manually for the modeling of the ontology was time and resource-intensive. We now aimed at applying natural language processing to substitute manual data extraction by automatic data extraction. Four methods (Named Entity Recognition, Bag-of-Words, Term-Frequency-Inverse-Document-Frequency, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling were applied to 24 health IT evaluation studies. We evaluated which of these methods was best suited for extracting key elements of each study. As gold standard, we used results from manual extraction. As a result, Named Entity Recognition is promising but needs to be adapted to the existing study context. After the adaption, key elements of studies could be collected in a more feasible, time- and resource-saving way.

Monitoring the Complexity of IT Architectures: Design Principles and an IT Artifact

Monitoring the complexity of a firm’s IT architecture is imperative to ensure a stable and flexible platform foundation for competing in the era of digital business strategy. However, IT architects lack IT support for dealing with this important problem. We engaged with five companies in a significant design science research (DSR) program and drew on the heuristic theorizing framework both to solve this problem through evolving IT artifacts and to accumulate nascent design knowledge. We base the design knowledge development on a conceptual framework involving three essential concepts for understanding and solving this problem: structural complexity, dynamic complexity, and problem-solving complexity. Drawing on this foundation, we address the research question: How can IT support be provided for reducing the problem-solving complexity of monitoring the structural and dynamic complexity of IT architectures in the context of a digital business strategy? To answer this question, we present a set of design principles that we derived from our iterative process of IT artifact construction and evaluation activities with five companies. Our nascent design knowledge contributes to the research on IT architecture management in the context of digital business strategy. In addition, we also contribute to the understanding of how, through the use and illustration of the heuristic theorizing framework, design knowledge can be accumulated systematically on the basis of generalization from IT artifact construction and evaluation outcomes generated across multiple contexts and companies.

Evaluating Information Technology Investment with New Information Economic (NIE): A Study Case Greenspan Packaging System Co. Ltd.

The objectives of this research are to analyze the business process in the production division of Greenspan Packaging System Co. Ltd., to evaluate IT of the IT investment, and to give recommendations based on the result of the IT valuation in order to get an efficient budgeting for the company. Methods that were used in this research are analysis of the literature, analysis of the collected data by interviewing and observing the running business processes and the method of analysis that was used is the New Information Economic (NIE). Results achieved in this research are results of the IT evaluation in a form of values on IT that are used in the company in order to assess the alignment between the IT investment with the company’s strategic intentions. Conclusion of this research is the recommendation that given to company can help the company to achieve their vision and mission and also their strategic intentions with the help of recommended IT investment.

IT Evaluation - are Individual Differences Relevant?

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COCRYSTALS: A COMPLETE REVIEW ON CONVENTIONAL AND NOVEL METHODS OF ITS FORMATION AND ITS EVALUATION

The active moiety with poor solubility is posing a challenge in drug development which may reduce the effectiveness in patients when administered orally. Cocrystal formation is one of the latest approaches for improving the various parameters of a drug molecule such as solubility, melting point, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and bioavailability. Cocrystals are crystalline single state materials composed of two or more than two different molecular amalgams held together in a fixed stoichiometric ratio. There are various techniques used for the preparation of cocrystals such as solvent evaporation, grinding, and cooling crystallization. The quantitative and qualitative aspects of these cocrystals are evaluated using various validated instruments such as nuclear magnetic resonance, powder X-ray diffraction, and differential scanning calorimetry.