The International Research Conference On Humanities and Social Science 2015http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/35682024-03-29T08:12:54Z2024-03-29T08:12:54ZUniversal HL7 Interpolation for International InteroperabilitySabar, M.I.Jayaweera, P.M.Edirisuriya, E.A.T.A.http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/40282022-02-24T05:31:30Z2015-12-01T00:00:00ZUniversal HL7 Interpolation for International Interoperability
Sabar, M.I.; Jayaweera, P.M.; Edirisuriya, E.A.T.A.
The Medical fraternity and the healthcare sector have long acknowledged the benefits of IT investment. The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) worldwide can levitate service levels, improve patient care and safety, and lower costs. The clamour for new, smart computer systems for healthcare is allied with a commensurate need for standardized, regulated global operation, facilitating •the free but controlled exchange, storage, management, and access to valued healthcare information. Enhancing Semantic Interoperability is key, which is the meaningful interchange of healthcare information with homogenous understanding. But of tantamount importance is also the implemented standard’s ubiquitous appeal, facilitating International Interoperability.
Health Level Seven (HL7) is the predominant interoperability-related global healthcare standard in operation today. Introduced in 1987 by the HL7 International Inc., its current version 3 has a few issues. Besides being difficult to implement and maintain, true international interoperability the germinal thought behind HL7, is still an illusion. Member countries need to be able to exchange healthcare information expeditiously and efficiently. The EHR of any patient should be available to the treating medical practitioner irrespective of the geographical location of the patient or his migration habits. Current HL7 implementations are deficient in this respect, and as such the achievement of these goals undercore the thrust of this research.
This paper presents a pragmatic and practical approach to achieving true HL7-based International Interoperability. It discusses challenges to the global use of the standard, and examines deleterious adaptations which subvert exchange. Systematic expansion of HL7's use is recommended, capitalizing on the abounding benefits afforded, and manifold cogent considerations in the present day's context are discussed. Uniform, universal, HL7 use overarching socio-economic boundaries and other demographic stratifications is advocated, confluent towards our principle, superlative interoperability goal.
Current implementations of the HL7 standard are non-uniform, non-contiguous, nationally-oriented pockets of interoperability; true international exchange is veritably subverted. This paper propounds an unerring, reliable, and secure approach to actualize ubiquitous exchange and International Interoperability.
2015-12-01T00:00:00ZA Comparative Study on Inmates Attitudes towards Watareka Prison Work Camp and Closed Prison at WelikadaJayasundara, M.W.http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/38442022-02-24T05:37:37Z2015-12-01T00:00:00ZA Comparative Study on Inmates Attitudes towards Watareka Prison Work Camp and Closed Prison at Welikada
Jayasundara, M.W.
In Sri Lanka, the widely used punishment for offenders is imprisonment. During the last 2-3 decades, m many countries in the World, the prison population has increased rapidly. In Sri Lanka, imprisonment per 100,000 was 50 in 1989 but it was increased up to 150.1 in 2013. This was due to the fact that both grave crime offenders and minor offenders were punished with imprisonment. This research reviewed the attitudes of prison inmates towards the work camp at Watareka and closed prison at Welikada. The research problem of this study was articulated with reference to the functioning of the prison institutions with different programs and the response of inmates to those correctional programs. The Sri Lankan prison system has been struggling with a problem of overcrowding due to the increasing rate of incarceration. The total system should reconsider all the programs from a criminological perspective and need to revise the programs so that they may solve the problem to a considerable extent. If this is done, the prison system can address the problem of increasing prison population and perform the functions of prison system properly. The objective of this study is to understand the practical importance of work camps conducted by the prison system and the programs of closed prisons. In particular, inmates attitudes towards correctional programs of those institutions were explored and explained. During the month of April in 2015, the data were gathered by interviewing a randomly selected sample of 30 prisoners from 183 inmates who had been placed in Watareka work camp in Homagama, Sri Lanka. 84.4% of prisoners appreciated the environment of the work camp, resource availability, rehabilitating activities and prison officials’ friendliness compared to the closed prisons. About 15.6% of prisoners valued the closed prisons as they have less work and accesses to narcotic drugs. The study came to the conclusion that 84.4% of inmates of the work camp were satisfied with their rehabilitation at their facility and the freedom that they enjoy at the work camp than being in Closed prisons.
2015-12-01T00:00:00ZA Criminological Study of the Factors Affecting Growth in Child Sexual Abuse in Rural Social Contexts of Sri LankaHewawasam, H.P.K.N.http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/38432022-02-24T05:37:37Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZA Criminological Study of the Factors Affecting Growth in Child Sexual Abuse in Rural Social Contexts of Sri Lanka
Hewawasam, H.P.K.N.
This research is concerned with the factors affecting the rise in child sexual abuse in rural social contexts of Sri Lanka. The rapid growth of such abuse and other forms of deviant behavior is a recent phenomenon, which also harms individuals living in urban areas of the country. The research objective is to identify the causal factors associated with the rise in child sexual abuse in rural societies. Statistically, 147 child abuses have been reported in the Kaluthara District since 2005. Out of these cases, 50 were reported in the Meegahatenna Police area, prompting the researcher to select this particular area as the sample for the study. Data were gathered using in-depth interviews and questionnaires. In analyzing the data, one can identify different socio-environmental factors giving rise to deviant behavior against children. In addition, the findings reveal that there were many enduring effects of child abuse, such as physical and emotional harm. Most of the individuals were abused by their relatives and neighbours, and girls were disproportionately victimized. The main factor causing crimes proved to be the carelessness of parents. In order to resolve this problem, the Sri Lankan government needs to enforce laws and regulations regarding child abuse. Furthermore, educating children about sex and the risks of abuse is also essential.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZWeak Adaptation of Global Trends is Impact on Role and Objectives of Local Government Institutions in the Developing CountriesGamlath, K.B.G.S.K.http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/35982022-02-24T05:27:16Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZWeak Adaptation of Global Trends is Impact on Role and Objectives of Local Government Institutions in the Developing Countries
Gamlath, K.B.G.S.K.
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