Following a Design Science approach, at the core of this paper we propose a technically innovative parallel platform for Big Data analytics. The design of the proposed platform allows for analyzing and filtering billions of records, querying data structures with 1,000s of columns, getting...

Patients use various sources to obtain information on pharmaceutical drugs they take. Mobile health care applications (apps) providing drug information to users are increasingly made available and of in-creasing importance for the health care domain. However, apps usually only offer...

The health care domain is undergoing a sweeping shift from a model of paternalism towards increased patient-centered care. Vendors offering patient-centered health IT use incentive mechanisms to motivate the continued use of health IT. However, incentive mechanisms may not always be beneficial...

During the past decade, distributed ledger technology (DLT) has found its way into application areas outside finance, such as supply chain management, the Internet of Things, or health care. To this end, this novel technology phenomenon has recently also caught the attention of researchers and...

Dieses Buch zum Projekt Next Generation Certification (NGCert) betrachtet die Grundlagen vertrauenswürdiger Cloud-Services. Es wird ein Konzept für eine dynamische Zertifizierung zur Förderung von Vertrauen, Rechtsverträglichkeit, Qualität und Nutzen von Cloud-Services am deutschen Markt...

Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Grundlagen zur Zertifzierung von Cloud-Services -- 3. Kriterienkatalog zur Zertifizierungen von Cloud-Services -- 4. Gestaltungsempfehlungen für Cloud-Service-Zertifizierungen -- 5. Fazit und Ausblick -- 6. Anhang: Vorgehensweise.