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A Study Of Access Control For Electronic Health Records, Sergio Vincent Senese Apr 2015

A Study Of Access Control For Electronic Health Records, Sergio Vincent Senese

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The expansion between Information Technology and Healthcare has created many new options for both disciplines, as well as challenges. One of these topics is the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the push for a universal record. A challenge for this topic is access control: how to keep patient’s personal health information secure, but at the same time accessible to all fields of healthcare and accomplish this within the federal privacy laws made by our government. This study focuses on the idea of a single EHR containing all the different medical information for all the areas of healthcare for a patient. …


Comparative Literature Analysis Of Peripheral Vestibular Function Assessment Tools, Riddhi Chinoy Apr 2015

Comparative Literature Analysis Of Peripheral Vestibular Function Assessment Tools, Riddhi Chinoy

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Objective Purpose: One main function of the peripheral vestibular system's semicircular canals is to stabilize images on a target during head movements through the important vestibula-ocular reflex (VOR) in order to maintain clear vision. Abnormal VOR response results in fast, compensatory, catch­ up saccadic eye movements suggesting dysfunction in the semicircular canals. Several functional assessment tools have been developed since the twentieth century to measure the VOR response and saccadic eye movement, and some are still widely used currently, such as the caloric test, rotary chair test, bedside head impulse test (bHIT), scleral search coil technique, and video head impulse …