Cedar Solutions

The medical profession is faced with rapid change and a huge surge of new developments, and it can be difficult for busy clinicians to keep up to date and informed of new developments across the world.

The aim of HMJ is to address the problem of "information overload" by providing one key summary in each issue to help busy clinicians gain an overview of the latest developments in their area of specialty. These will be supported by original research articles,interviews, opinions and stories of the latest breakthroughs in the medical field. We hope that the journal will provide a platform for the sharing of experiences to help improve health care across the world.

The journal is led by Professor Harald Rosen and supported by the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences. Over the years the Award has created a rich resource of works by leading researchers and doctors from across the world and this serves asthe foundation for the journal.

The journal will publish articles online as soon as they have undergone peer review and been accepted. The content will then be allocated to three issues per year. For details about the peer review system, please read the author guidelines. All content will be freely accessible online, and there are no publication fees.

The journal welcomes submissions, proposals and comments from medical practitioners around the world.

Cochin SEZ is a Special Economic Zone in Cochin, Kerala, set up for export- oriented ventures. It can be considered as a foreign territory within India with special rules for facilitating foreign direct investment. The Zone is run directly by the Government of India.

Special Customs Unit is deployed exclusively for CSEZ. All customs procedure and documentation are done in the Zone itself. The Customs MIS (Management Information System) software is a LAN based software package that was created to manage all the customs based operations carried out in CSEZ.

There are a variety of processes carried out in the customs section of CSEZ from data management to report generation. The customs related data involved capturing details of the bills files by the Units under CSEZ such as Shipping Bills, Bills of Entries, etc. The reports generated were also directly validated and entered by the various staff of CSEZ. Both of this process consumed a lot of time, lacked precision and mental strain for the staff.

The Customs MIS software we created covered the filing process of bills, generation of registers and reports generation based on the data. The administrator allots permission to various staffs for accessing various sections of the software (that also supported zonal based operations). Unlike the conventional entry method, the software provided data entry forms for various sections with inbuilt validations, thereby facilitating fast and precise management of customs data. The data collected
from various forms were used for automatic generation of a wide variety of reports with wellequipped search section (for extracting the required data), supported with print facility, thereby reducing the strenuous efforts of the staff, who created all these reports and registers manually.

By implementing this software the efficiency of the section is increased by 40 %.

Office of the Development Commission Cochin Special Economic Zone is a sub- ordinate office under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry established as jurisdictional licensing authority of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Export oriented units in the state of Kerala and Karnataka. There are about 57 zones under the jurisdiction of DC, CSEZ.

The Payroll System is intended to manage the services details and salary generations of all employees posted in CSEZ Head office at Cochin, sub offices at Bangalore and all other officers posted in various SEZ’s. The payroll system will be used to create/modify and update the master entries required for generating salary and other payments to employees and generating reports.