Essays on Information Science and Technology

Obsession with smartphones and the social media can greatly affect stress levels and one’s relationships. Roberts (2016) argues that behavioral and substance addictions to social media can be categorized into six groups namely; tolerance, salience, conflict, euphoria, relapse and withdrawal symptoms. According to Dallas (2016), internet addiction is linked to mental...

Literature Review of Value Added through Incorporation of RFDI in Supply Chain Management Introduction This literature review is going to focus on providing a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the various research theories and empirical evidence that exist regarding how the RFID technology can be employed in adding value to the supply...

In modern-day healthcare practice, computers play a significant role and have contributed to vital progress in medical assistant administrative tasks such as patient health documentation, storage, and data recovery. Also, computers enhance the progression of a patient’s treatment by escalating the pace at which medical assistants and physicians alternate various...

Globally, the Jewellery industry has witnessed exponential growth concerning sales volume, the variety of jewels traded, market share for industry players and most importantly, profits in the past half-decade (Euromonitor International, 2018). The recession of 2008 to about 2013 significantly impacted on service industry sections such as jewelry in Britain...

Improving Value Stream Mapping for Business Organizations For any business organization to achieve its maximum profitability motive, it has to improve and evaluate its value stream mapping from time to time. According to Dinis-Carvalho et al. (2015), value stream mapping is a method of managing lean strategies for the analysis of...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) consists of a multi-disciplinary approach to preparing new systems, ensuring privacy and complying with security, designing practice workflows, training the care team and managing the process of adoption (Hodgkins, n.d.). A successful EHR implementation helps the practice in adapting to new systems with ease, which will...

Corporate social disclosure (CSD) can also be referred to as corporatetocorporate social responsibility disclosure, which is defined as information that companies disclose on environmental impact along with the relationship it has with stakeholders through approved communication channels. However, the approaches used by firms in this discourse differ from one country...

Both users and application are subject to authentication. EHRS application must provide mechanisms for users and applications to be authenticated. Users will have to be authenticate when they attempt to use the application, the applications themselves must authenticate themselves before accessing EHR...

Aim: The study was conducted to investigate the barriers and impact of cloud computing adoption and use on business organizations in public sector. The information would help to determine if cloud services were wholly beneficial and would always help organizations make profits. The setting of the study was London borough...

According to Nelson and Staggers (2016), computers have become an integral part of health informatics. Computers have combined various disciplines of health care including my focus that is consumer health informatics. The Consumer Health Informatics Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association has defined consumer health informatics as the...

1.0 Brief Background to the Study In the modern business environment, electronic commerce is not preferred by large corporations only but also Small and Medium Sized entities (SMEs) respectively. E-commerce is a term used to refer to the nature of transactions that are carried out using electronic devices such as computers...

1.1 Study Background Barnard (2013, p. 12) argues that human interaction with graphic design is so ubiquitous that it often goes unacknowledged. The author notes that from the moment one wakes up, the interaction begins with simple acts, such as viewing text and symbols in one’s bathroom to reading nutritional information...