...Twenty years many changes has occurred in technology at Methodist Hospital. Each nurse’s station has computers that are never idle. Technology has improved patient care by leaps and bounds. Patient information is readily available to caregivers with a click of a little button and the help of information technology (IT) and the electronic medical record (EMR). Changes seen from charting to receiving information about a patient . Computers has changed from using a large central computer with many dumb terminals to the microcomputer (Kidd, 2010). Centralized computer services supported by Information Management Services (IMS), which is under the umbrella of information technology (IT). When the microcomputer showed up in the workplace, they connected to the mainframe as a dummy terminal, it did not take long before the development of Local Area Networks (LANs) took over providing a wider area for computers to talk to one another. Today Wide Area Networks (WAN’s) communicate over a wider area in hospitals and businesses. The 90s saw the introduction of the Internet, which enabled communication and collaboration across distances (Ozbolt & Saba, 2008). Billing patients improved as the computer have changed. Billing the customer was the beginning for the need to use computers. The primary focus was to collect funds in a timely manner (Wager, Lee, Glaser, 2009). If the bills went out quickly, the hospital would be paid more quickly. The larger hospitals had no problem...
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...Today, the world is moving in lighting fast pace in terms of research and technology, but it does make sense to those who can afford its benefits and accessibility. Though, we are building satellites and nuclear reactors, but are these really helping the common middle man? Yes, television broadcast and weather forecasting or determining atmospheric characteristics by remote sensing makes it more relevant and indirect. I know it’s not an individualistic approach but a nation’s approach towards building a sustainable future, but again how is the future sustainable, if the basic necessities of human life is not fulfilled? From Cloud Computing to Solar Technology to Quantum supercomputers to Nanotechnology to Robotics, this century will be identified as the global technological age sooner or later. There are few initiatives which I would like to mention in eradicating the social causes and making the world a better society to live in. Apple Inc. is building an application which is digitizing the textbook content and converting into e-books making it more convenient for the students to access it. It will be a revolution in terms of Education and a mentioned dream of Steve Jobs in Walter Issacsons’ book. As per an article from BBC News, “More than 600 million people worldwide have some sort of access to the internet, but that still leaves about 5.5 billion people who do not use the net and who have no access. Most of these people live outside the developed Western countries...
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...computing power would double every two years; this 40 year old prediction is colloquially referred to as “Moore’s Law” and has yet to be disproven. With the raw computing power at their disposal effectively doubling every year, hardware and software makers are free to make some interesting contributions to the paperless office. An additional benefit of this technology explosion is a reduction in costs: the more time spent producing these technologies, the more efficiency that can be realized, hence the cost is driven down. Two technologies stand out as being the most influential on the paperless office: storage and optical character recognition (OCR). OCR has improved vastly over the last decade, approaching the point where it is a viable business technology. Storage technology is obviously crucial to the paperless office – after all, every document has to be stored somewhere whether in a file cabinet or a CD-ROM. Here, too, Moore’s law is at work, doubling the amount of storage in the same physical space roughly every two years. A key stumbling block for the truly paperless office has yet to be fully overcome: technology is not infallible. Even the most well-designed computer system will occasionally experience service outages. Paper, on the other hand, is concrete. Paper does not require electricity and is easily shared or copied. There is also a psychological advantage to paper, in that it is a physical object that can’t just “disappear into cyberspace”. Electronic documents...
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...Technology and Social Change Technology is defined as the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems (Technology, 2016). Social change happens when there is a change in society. It seems that there everyone including small children have either a computer or a cell phone and access to the internet. The advancements in technology have paved the way to social changes throughout the United States. Where would we be without cell phones, internet, the automobile, or electricity? Social changes happened with the implementation of this technology advancements. In the last 20 years there have been many technological changes. Personal computers are faster and more compact. Cell phones give their user Internet access just about anywhere you can access the cellular network. As a nation we have become almost chained to our cell phones and computers. A relatively new form of social media, crowdsourcing is when a services are needed and the ideas or information is spread to a large group of people. For instance, Kickstarter is a web-based company that helps to raise large amounts of money in a short period of time. Another use of the Internet and crowdsourcing happened in January 2010 when an earthquake devastated Haiti. Relief groups were able to take advantage of crowdsourcing efforts to get the medical aid, food, shelter, and rescue help that was needed (Introduction to Sociology, 2015, p. 493). Without the advancements that have been...
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...Technology and Social Change Veronica Garcia February 22,2016 SOC/100 Lynn Ma Technology and Social Change Technology is the scientific knowledge of making tools in order t solve problems that are very specific. Automobiles, airplanes, cell phones, computers and the radio are examples of technological advances. These advancements have helped revolutionize the way people interact, meet, and conduct business. The increase of technology provides an influx of storage and retrieval, and in return it opens up the channels for knowledge and information. This then leads to better technological advances. All these changes then create concern as to how society will learn to deal with the advancements in technology. Computer technology allows the offices to connect electronically via a phone, a computer and a fax machine. The internet is what allows millions of people to interact and socialize with each other. Technology has also had many breakthroughs in medicine. Although many breakthroughs are considered controversial, most breakthroughs have helped more in medicine than hurt any. Technology has been applied in the advancement of sex preselection, surrogate parenthood, and genetic engineering. These advancements have raised concern in politics, it has questioned the ethical value of such technology and has questioned the morality of these breakthroughs. The impact that technology has had on society is overwhelming. The use of a cell phone, a personal computer...
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...Technology and Social Change TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Introduction Social change is any change that occurs in nature, social institutions, behavior and relations of people (Mutekwe, 2012). Social change is also change in the organization of the society and particularly in the practices and beliefs of people. All societies go through change, whether significant or subtle. For example, public opinion on abortion, smoking, divorce and homosexuality have changed in the last fifty years. Macro scale changes affect primary social institutions like family, politics and religion. Micro-scale changes, on the other hand, shape people’s attitudes, values, and beliefs. Sources of change include the media, environmental pressures, dramatic events and technological innovations. Technology, on the other hand, is an object, a method, or an invention that alters the social environment of people and extends their natural abilities (Rosa, Yee, Sweeney, & Dator, 2013). Technology and social change are inseparable. As mentioned above, technology is one of the major factors that create changes in the society. Technology improves on some aspects of human qualities. Hence, a significant tool for social change. For example, the wheel enables human beings to go to places where their feet would never reach. Positive impact of technology on society Technology has resulted in many positive impacts on the society. Computers, for example, have brought enormous changes in medicine, the workplace...
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...Paulla Fowler Message to Prepare for Future Challenges March 11, 2012 MBA 6006 Nayar at HCL Technologies prides himself and his office on being transparent. They encourage their employees to be responsible for their actions: Through the value portal where employees and customers collaborate together to develop new innovations. With the improved use the of Blue Print portal for the main managers peer-to-peer reviews to create new innovations. To the various forms of internal and external messaging used on a local bases to improve overall employee passion and customer satisfaction. In 2006 the CEO had recast the role of his office and transferred the responsibility for change on to his employees for many initiatives. One example is that of the value portal. The company wanted to change the relationship with their customer by enabling them to be more responsible for their partnership with the company. Nayar wanted his customers to be actively involved while also challenging his employees to go beyond their defined roles and responsibility. He accomplished this by creating a portal that could be used between customers and employees. This portal the “Value Portal” allowed customers to evaluate and rate the new ideas that HCLT employees generated. The portal was very successful and hundreds of HCLT customers join and thousands of ideas were generated with a potential savings of hundreds of millions of dollars(Nayar, V. 2010) . With this success Nayar felt his employees...
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...Technology and Social Change SOC 100 One of our best well-known scientists, Albert Einstein, quoted “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology have exceeded our humanity” that was credited in a 1995 movie called “Powder”. It is no secret that the advancement of technology is drastically increasing in a rate where it is almost impossible to keep up with. Many individuals believe that it is slowly taking our attention away to what is really valuable in our lives, while others strongly considering that it will bring us together and provide cost-effective solutions to our everyday life and industry field. Social change refers to a modification or adjustment in the social order of the society (Schaeffer 2015, p.392). This can be influenced by any traumatic event that took place, culture of the society and even the geographical location. Technology alone does not cause social change, but it is highly characterized related in different aspect of society across the world. It is inevitable to escape from social change because the society is continuously advancing in order to extend human capabilities by the use of different tools, equipment, and innovative software. The Pace of Technology, magazine article by Ron Johnston, states “Much of innovation is stimulated by the identification of new needs, which drives a search for new or existing technologies that can be adapted to meet that need.” Computer technology became one of the top essential needs following the cellular...
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...Technology and Social Change SOC/100 Rachel Winningham 02/22/2016 Technology has been developing since the early 1980’s, however, home computers were unheard of then. By the early 1990’s everyone had at least one home computer, laptops were in their infancy. Along with technology social media started about the same time in the 1990’s, and has flourished into the 21st century of what we are today with Facebook, Twitter, and Insta-grams. Between technology and social media, we have quite the socialization all over the world. In some instances this could not be a good thing they way technology has advanced, although so have the criminals with their hacking, lying, and deceit on the social media sites. All of this was made for people to meet people, get in touch with people you have lost touch with over the years, and reconnecting with family. The way computers have become so much a way of life for people along with cell phones, and the internet. Most people can’t function without their laptops, and cell phones, including tablets, during a day. In fact I have seen some young people become irate, due to not being able to reach anybody without their internet use, or non-functioning computer, laptop, or cell phone. So with these necessities, or so younger people feel that it is a big issue if they can’t post on Facebook, or reach someone through the internet. I personally like to become unplugged on the weekends. I get outside and feel much better for...
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...Technology and Social Change Page 1 Leslie Chappell SOC/100 University of Phoenix 03/28/2016 Technology and Social Change Page 2 Americans are faced with increasing change of technology in everyday life. Most of the time, the change happens, and we don't realize how it affects our lives. I remember talking to my grandparents about their younger years; it made me realize how technology changes from generation to generation. Technology is scientific knowledge and the making of tools to solve problems. The technological advances are vehicles, airplanes, radio, TV, cell phones, and computers. The 20th century has changed how people meet, interact, learn, work, and do business. This type of knowledge doubles every several years. Sociologists are concerned how these technological societies will adapt to the social changes that technology continues to bring. Social change is alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values. Sociologists acknowledge the role that social movements play in members to bring about social change. There are ways to understand the nature of long-term social change; it includes looking for patterns and causes which led sociologists to understand the evolutionary, functionalist, and conflict theories of change. According to The Pew Internet and American Life Project, 45% of American adults own a smartphone which is a 10% increase since May 2011. But smartphones are more popular with the young adults and...
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...Technology and Social Change Tina Medina SOC/100 May 2, 2016 Andrea Harris Technology and Social Change This essay is about technology and social change, which are two things that have a huge impact in our world today. Ramey (2013), "Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools, processing actions and extracting of materials. We use technology to accomplish various tasks in our daily lives, in brief; we can describe technology as products, processes or organizations.” (para. 1). According to "Social Change Defined" (n.d.), "Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms.” (para. 1). Now that we have the definitions of technology and social change it is easy to see how they are related. No matter where or what you are going in your life it has been impacted my technology some way and have socially changed how we accomplish things in our everyday life. Some examples; checking out at the store can now be done through a self-checkout lane, you no longer need a map to travel with GPS available in your car, and people can work from home because of computers and advanced technology. All of these technology changes have made people learn new ways to complete tasks throughout their day and social change has occurred. Impact of Technology in Society Computers, cell phone, and the Internet have changed are lives drastically and is a part of everyone’s life in one form or another. Communication across...
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...Explaining technical change can be done by using (evolutionary) economic arguments such as path dependency, lock in and paradigms. However I argue that for a better, more enriched, picture of technical change quantitative data falls short and qualitative sources are essential for understanding technical change. The actual practices of producers but also of consumers play an important role in the explanation of technical variety. Since the invention of the first automobile in 1885, there have been a number of additions and improvements. The automobile is a technology that has changed society dramatically over the last century. But not only society changed, the technology of the motorcar itself has changed significantly. Few parts of our society have seen advancements as incredible as those seen in the automotive market during the past decade. Think about it. Ten years ago, automakers were touting the number of cup holders in the cabin. Today, automakers are boasting about hands-free mobile communication technologies, fuel economy you couldn’t have dreamed about 10 years ago and life-saving technologies that help drivers avoid accidents. Today, cars are a lot safer, reliable, and more entertaining than they once were. Could you imagine being in a car that didn't have brakes or indicators? There would be madness and chaos on the roads. No other area of automotive technology has advanced more than safety. In 2001, the average car had at least two airbags. Today, vehicles have at...
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...Assessment, Technology and Change | Despite the recent advancement in information and communication technology, most schools are still using primitive methods of academic assessment such as, pencil and paper. The current assessment method prohibits the creation of new and more effective models of testing students’ knowledge, this is because it does not test higher intellectual thinking. The assessment models are proficient in cognition and interpretation, but weak in assessing observation. Modern technology is essential since it can be used to create digital environments that stimulate valuable learning, and also programmed to assess user interaction in order to ease assessment of learning. Gifford, (2012), suggest that digital learning environments are innovative since they can present richer and complex problems that test students’ learning. Inadequate assessment of students’ knowledge makes curriculum focus more on simplifying concepts, rather than emphasising on the critical importance of learning. In the long term, the students will be unable to demonstrate critical thinking and skills when employed. The primary role of technology in assessment is to improve the method of access and grading. However, technology allows flexibility where tests can be customized to meet different students’ learning needs. Science is one subject that has mostly embraced technology based assessments (Gifford, 2012). According to research, students’ performance varies in every exam while...
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...Technology change the world In China, we have a saying that “Science and technology is the first productive force”. Technology affects people’s daily life, with the innovation of technology, the world developed rapidly in recent centuries. Image that if our forefathers do not create new technology, how our life will be today; we will not have lots kind of food like today; we will not have vehicles such as car, train, aircraft, and we will not have so many high buildings to live. In this class, we learnt a lot of historical events before 1500 AD. In ancient time, there is no advanced technology in the world; our ancestors can merely use their hands to change the nature. Gradually, they find some regularity in the world, such as round objects can move much easier than other shape; then they use their intelligence create lots of new technologies, and innovate the technologies as needed. In this paper, I will talk about five great inventions which affect the world significantly; they are wheel, water wheel, compass, paper, and plow. The invention of the wheel is one of the most important inventions in the ancient time. Without the wheel, the world would not develop so fast. According to the existing data, the wheel is invented by the Mesopotamian in about 2500 BC ("The invention of," 2010). The development of wheel has 6 stages, starting from rolling cylinder, moving to two wheels connect with axles by spokes (Bellis, 2012). At the beginning, people realized that round objects...
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...Organizational Change Plan Part 1 HCS/587 March 24, 2014 Organizational Change Plan Part 1 Information technology (IT) has a great impact on today’s business with the high usage of and accessibility of the internet Borkowski (2002). It has the potential to improve safety and efficiency in the ever changing healthcare system. The administrators of Brokovitz General Hospital are introducing Information technology as an organization wide change process. IT enhance productivity, improve security of patient information and reduce cost, this allows the HS to be more competitive with their counterparts. Information Technology will replace doing things manually, save time, reduces errors, and decrease cost as well as improves safety and quality of care of clients. This paper will explore the need for development, organizational and individual barriers, factors that might influence the proposed development, summarize organizational readiness for change, the theoretical models that relates to the change, and internal and external resources that are available to support the development. The change will be piloted in the emergency room and if successful it will be implemented throughout the institution. Need for Proposed Organizational Change According to Borkowski (2002), there is a great need for information technology in healthcare. The external forces have had a significant impact on the changes within the healthcare industry. For example, clients are knowledgeable consumers...
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