Information technologies that facilitate care coordination: provider and patient perspectives

Health information technology is a core infrastructure for the chronic care model, integrated care, and other organized care delivery models. From the provider perspective, health information exchange (HIE) helps aggregate and share information about a patient or population from several sources. HIE technologies include direct messages, transfer of care, and event notification services. From the patient perspective, personal health records, secure messaging, text messages, and other mHealth applications may coordinate patients and providers. Patient-reported outcomes and social media technologies enable patients to share health information with many stakeholders, including providers, caregivers, and other patients. An information architecture that integrates personal health record and mHealth applications, with HIEs that combine the electronic health records of multiple healthcare systems will create a rich, dynamic ecosystem for patient collaboration

Reformasi Pentadbiran Awam di Malaysia pada Masa Kepemimpinan Tun Mahathir

Administrative Development of Malaysia public sector has been done from time to time. However under Tun Mahathir leadership Malaysia public sector has gone through major changes. The changes can be classified mainly into four areas; structure, system, procedure and culture. The result of this reformation can be seen on the excellent economic growth that Malaysia achieved for many years

Korelasi Strategi Dengan Motivasi Dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab (The Correlation Between Language Learning Strategies And Motivation In Arabic Language Learning)

Beberapa kajian menunjukkan bahawa terdapat perkaitan yang signifikan antara penggunaan Strategi Pembelajaran Bahasa (SPB) dengan Motivasi Pembelajaran Bahasa (Oxford & Nyikos, 1989; Ehrman, 1990; Macaro, 2001). Kertas ini memerihalkan satu kajian yang direka bentuk untuk mengkaji korelasi di antara SPB dengan Motivasi Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab. Data kajian dikumpul dengan menggunakan soal selidik kendiri yang diubah suai daripada Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) (Oxford, 1990) dengan tambahan satu konstruk baru, dan soal selidik motivasi daripada Affective Survey (Ehrman & Oxford, 1991). Seramai 457 orang pelajar Tingkatan empat yang dipilih secara rawak daripada 13 buah sekolah menengah agama di Terengganu terlibat dengan kajian ini. Ujian statistik Pearson digunakan bagi menjawab soalan kajian dan menguji hipotesis berkaitan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan terdapat korelasi positif yang tinggi di antara SPB secara keseluruhan dengan Motivasi Pembelajaran Bahasa secara keseluruhan. Korelasi bermagnitud positif yang signifikan di antara penggunaan kategori SPB dengan kategori Motivasi Pembelajaran Bahasa turut dapat dikesan. Pelajar yang bermotivasi tinggi lebih kerap dan banyak menggunakan SPB berbanding pelajar yang bermotivasi rendah

Sistem Pelayanan Publik Era Otonomi Daerah di Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara

The effectiveness of public service delivery system is an important aspect to ensure that national development can be implemented effectively. The effectiveness of publicservice delivery system will raise community satisfaction on the services delivered. Thusto improve the public service delivery system from time to time, the study on the existingproblems should be conducted eventually. Therefore this article articulates the problemsof public service delivery system in Indonesia, especially in Kutai Kartanegara Regency

Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country’s scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of these sub-indices on country’s H-index. To this purpose, required data for the panel of 14 Middle East countries over the period 1995 to 2009 is collected. Findings of the current study show that ICT development increases the H-index of the sample countries. The results also indicate that ICT Use and ICT Skill sub-indices positively contribute to higher H-index but the effect of ICT access on country’s H-index is not clear

Pelibatan Kaum Cina dalam Sektor Awam di Malaysia

The Chinese involvement in Malaysia Public Sector is quite small compared to the Malays group. Like other Chinese in South-East Asia, Malaysian Chinese are more likely to get involved in business sector rather than in public sector. Although they are outnumbered by Malays in public sector but in some prestigious profession such as doctor, accountant and engineer the Chinese representation are much better than the Malays

Kepercayaan Mahasiswa terhadap Kerajaan

The level of trust in government is important because its reflect the support of people to their government. The higher level of trust will give government more power to implement development to the country. Moreover, government that gain higher confidence from the people's can play their role effectively compared to the government who failed to gain support from them. This paper will discuss the level of trust among local universities students' in Malaysia. Their opinion is crucial because they are our future leader

Budaya Kerja Ewuh Pakewuh di Kalangan Pegawai Negeri Sipil Etnik Jawa (Studi pada Kabupaten Pasaman Barat, Provinsi Sumatera Barat)

This research aims to analyze the influence of ethnic work culture ‘ewuh pakewuh' of civil servant working in the West Pasaman regency. Ethnic work culture ‘ewuh pakewuh' is someone's behavior of worrying his/her attitude or remark wiil offend other people. This research used qualitative approach. Informants are selected using purposive sampling of civil servants from Javanese ethnic group who work in West Pasaman administration. The sample are also selected using snowball and convenience/accidental method. The research is conducted in local inspectorate, plantation agency, civil servant agencies, education and training agency, and local secretariat. Informants consist of 2 echelon III officials, 2 echelon IV and 8 staff. Data is interpreted using thick description method; so that the cultural significance of this work ethic can be explored more intensely in order to elaborate deeply the ewuh pakewuh work culture beyond what is visible. The results obtained indicate that the ethnic work culture ewuh pakewuh have positive and negative sides. The positive side shows high appreciation for higher authority, and an effort to respect and implement sincerely the policies made by the authority. However the ewuh pakewuh ethnic work culture discourages the staff to give suggestions and opinions, causing uncritical (nrimo) work culture. A change is needed to encourage them implement less the ewuh pakewuh that leads to ethnic work culture in order to create creative and innovative work culture. This change has to be started by the leaders and staff to establish an egalitarian culture in the working environment of the local goverment agencies

Enhancing the Quality of the Findings of a Longitudinal Case Study: Reviewing Trustworthiness via ATLAS.ti

Case study often implies the collection of unstructured data and qualitative analysis of those data. Additionally, it is often argued that the aim of case study research should be to capture cases in their uniqueness, rather than to use them as a basis for wider generalization or theoretical inference of some kind. Hence, it often raises a fundamental issue about the aspect of trustworthiness. This paper aims to examine the extent of support by using ATLAS.ti for data analysis in establishing trustworthiness in a longitudinal case study. The case study is on the use of e-portfolio as a continuing professional development tool for six Japanese language non-native teachers in the secondary schools in Malaysia. This study adopts the interpretivist perspective and uses three main strategies: triangulation (data and methodological triangulation), member checking and audit trail to establish trustworthiness. The use of ATLAS.ti does indeed help to substantiate the analysis and interpretation of the data. Additionally, by using the software programme, it facilitated the three strategies, specifically in capturing triangulation and audit trail of the longitudinal study with its features of merging code and memo, and member checking with its thematic network viewing or an alternative textual report features. Particularly, the researchers advocate the use of CAQDAS in a longitudinal study as it enables the analysis of various data collected under different project files; called “Hermeneutic Units” at the different phases throughout the period of study and subsequently by merging them together at the end of the study, it allows the richness of the analysed data and thus, enhances the quality of the qualitative inquiry in this study