...Question 1 The evolution of computer hardware and software has allowed computer systems to become more accessible and user friendly. With computers only being used by programmers in the 1940’s anyone can now successfully operate a computer with very little experience. This evolution has also allowed for more advanced functions that can assist with day to day activities such as scheduling, personal networking, and mobile communications which current generations have become nearly dependent on. Question 2 Insurance adjusters can now operate more efficiently with mobile computers by being able to generate reports in the field versus having to take notes and doing this once they return to their office, losing time and productivity. They can also wirelessly transmit these reports while in the field from their mobile computers allowing claims to be processed faster improving customer satisfaction. General practitioner doctors can also benefit from mobile computers by only having to carry one device on a cloud network to easily access all patient files in one location. He or she can also use this same mobile computer to wirelessly transmit prescriptions, referrals, or other orders instantly and securely improving patient service and confidentiality. Question 3 1 Megabit is 1,000,000 bits and 1 Megabyte is also 1,000,000 bytes but they are actually not the same. There are 8 bits within 1 byte and making 1 Megabyte the same as 8 Megabits. "Megabit." Wikipedia. Wikimedia...
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...The Evolution of Operating Systems – Per Brinch Hansen (2000) Overall I found the paper to be quite informative especially as I had not been formally introduced to the history of operating systems from as far back as the 1950s. Early on in the writing and references, it is easy to see the characteristics of the Open Shop systems and the Batch processing systems as a “one computer for all” type of architecture and of particular interest for me was the massive scale of the expense (dollars) in terms of wasted computer time even though each user had only around 15 minutes to execute their programs. I could then see how the Atlas Supervisor, being called the earliest operating system made sense, as it was the first of its kind to explore concepts such as spooling, demand paging and supervisor calls, which we can see clearly exhibited in the operation of modern operating systems today. Most of us are familiar with the term spooling most commonly used in terms of printing in general or with a few other output devices that are much slower than our modern computers today. The concept of Timesharing which was proposed by Mc-Carthy in 1962 was also key in leading to much of our modern execution of multi-tasking and it was interesting to see how this developed from the demonstration of CTSS into the larger Multics File System at MIT which although it was not a huge success in its entirety, gave rise to the first hierarchical file system for both private and shared files. Unix, having...
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...Health Care System Evolution From the Medicare/Medicaid focus, I will attempt to break this down from the evolution of the old to the influence of the current or present systems. I would further consider the old concepts of supply and demand. Health care is no different. In early health care delivery, there was not much demand because there was not much known. In many instances, patients weren't as educated about healthcare and illnesses to know where to go to seek care. This is evident by the people using home remedies and other alternatives that prevented them from going to the doctor. Research was not available as much to the average patients or their families to educate them about the risk of not receiving treatment for certain conditions. When looking at doctors, they use to be just local folks who happened to be doctors, and they treated many conditions in their local offices without needing to file on Medicare/Medicaid. The people were their neighbors and the doctor and patients knew each other personally. Cost was not associated with this type of care. It was like doing a favor for neighbors and friends. Tools and supplies doctors used back then were less expensive. To make a long story short, there was not much patient care demand nor was there much cost. So there was not as much for Medicare/Medicaid to pay for. Finally, the people running Medicare and Medicaid trusted doctors more. If the doctor it stated it was needed, neither Medicare nor Medicaid...
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...Evolution of the Healthcare Delivery System in Hospitals The healthcare system has gone though many changes in its long history. . The American health care system has not only made drastic changes within the last 2 centuries but also continues to change and evolve. It is very important that those who have access to healthcare today understand the history of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, how it operates today, and what problems continues to be issues today. We are all consumers of health care. In this paper, I will discuss the origins of the first hospital, and how it has influenced out healthcare system today. Origins of Hospital Healthcare The evolution of hospitals in the Western world has been...
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...Information Systems Evolution Paper Health care is one of the many industries that use bar codes for efficiency. Bar codes are used in the health care industry to manage and maintain patient’s records, track medical supplies, check the status of medical equipment, and to manage data quickly and accurately. Since the use of bar codes in the health care industry, there have been studies, has shown bar codes reduce medical errors. Bar code has been around since 1952 and has helped every industry become more efficient in collecting and tracking services and products. Milestones On many products today people do not relies the importance of a bar code on items. One might even ask what is a bar code. A bar code is a way to track information data automatically by identifying the numbers on the UPC. In 1948, Bernard Silver was a graduate at Drexel Institute of Technology and a food store owner asked the university to research a way to of automatically read product information during checkout (About, n.d.). • October 20, 1949, Woodland and Silver filed their patent application for the “Classifying Apparatus and Method.” • October 7, 1952 inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver were the recipient of the first patent for bar coding. • Commercially in 1966, bar codes were used. • 1970, the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC) was written by a company called Logicon Inc. • In 1970, Monarch Marking was the first to use bar...
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...Contracts and licenses Contracts and licenses are not themselves intellectual property and are generally considered to be a distinct discipline, not part of the same area of law as intellectual property. Nevertheless, contracts are essential to our system of intellectual property. They are the means by which you share intellectual property. Contracts and licenses are the means by which people let their intellectual property out in a controlled way. Importance Normal people interact with contracts on a daily basis. There are contracts for cell phone service, contracts for parking your car, and contracts for starting a job. Each time you pay with a credit card, you are entering a contract. Contracts are also everywhere in the business world. Contracts are used to buy office supplies, arrange loans, sell assets, and enter partnerships. In one way of thinking, the only way for a corporation to interact with the world is through the language of contracts. That is because contracts are just agreements. People sometimes think of “contracts” as something official, whereas “agreements” are something less. This is not the case. Any binding arrangement is a contract under law and will be subject to the legal system. When dealing with intellectual property, we make agreements about how that IP can be used.These agreements, called licenses in this context, are contracts. You see these licenses all the time when you enter the world of software. For consumer-oriented or open...
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...Running head: Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Evolution of Health Care Information Systems HCS 533 Health Information Systems Tana M. Daniel Steven Fowler January 31, 2011 Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Bridging the gap in health care information technology will promote safe, proficient, patient-focused, and effective patient care in a timely manner. In this paper the subject is to examine two contemporary health care organizations and compare and contrast several features that will include the type of information systems currently in use, analyze the transmission of data 20 years ago and how the exchange of data today. In addition, this paper will cover two major events and technology advances that have influenced current HCIS practices. Five information systems seen in health care organizations are (Wagner, 2009) 1) computerized provider order entry 2) medication administration 3) telemedicine 4) telehealth, and 5) personal health records (p. 121). Each system can provide quality improvement, improve patient safety, and be cost effective. Skilled Nursing Facilities have made significant changes over the last 20 years, in comparison to now. Looking at a skilled nursing facility present time versus a skilled nursing facility operation of Dunseith Community Nursing Home in North Dakota 20 years ago. With the implementation of new rules and regulations, this requires skilled nursing facilities to focus...
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...The relationship between evolution and systems can be thought of as an endless cycle, with both factors continuously influencing each other. A General Theory of the Evolution of Artifacts discusses how evolution decides the properties of a system - the structure and function. In return, the system’s existence is then a factor in ruling the course of evolution. Generally, the change in size of a system requires a change in the components of the system’s structure or form. A system cannot adequately support its size without a change in its shape. A change in form can be brought upon by a change in scale of artifacts. Changing the artifacts, thus the form, then necessitates a change in the material being used in its structure. A change in material characteristics is needed especially for larger machines which require higher strength to weight ratios in comparison to smaller machines. A change in the size, artifacts, or materials of a system results in a complication of the overall structure, resulting in higher complexity. All of these processes will eventually lead to functional inconsistencies, thus creating limits to growth. Although these processes are what make evolution possible, they also cause the destruction of future evolution. In relation to technology, as the scale is constantly being changed, a point is reached where the rising costs of manufacturing and operating limit further advancements in capability. Development is eventually limited because the production costs...
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...Assignment 3 It has been saying that evolution should be objected these days because there are more and more counterexamples have been found. However, after reading related materials, I believe there are still many aspects to prove the evolution theory is valid. One of theories that go against evolution is that it violates the second law of thermodynamics. Many people think that according to the law, total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state or undergoing a reversible process. However, the evolution of species clearly violates this law because it’s an anti-entropy process. However, I think the most unconvincing point of this idea is that ecological system is not an isolated system at all. It is related to the world on all aspects. So this theory doesn’t even hold at all. Another theory is about eyes. Some people think that the evolution process of eyes is uncompleted. According to evolution theory, functions and structure of eyes evolved step by step. However, it has been questioned that there is very low probability that eyes evolve completely with brain at the same time. If there has been something wrong during the process, evolution would fail. In fact, Darwin already demonstrated in natural selection. He pointed out that except people, there are indeed many species need eyes to live but others don’t. Animals have to adapt to environment around them to survive. However, if specie...
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...Evolution in our Public Schools Student Name PHI 103: Informal Logic Instructor: Date Evolution in our Public Schools I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement One of the major concerns in the scientific studies of biology today is about evolution being taught in our public schools. This has been an ongoing concern for the religious sects, teachers, school board members, students, parents, and state officials. It has been the talk of the courts since the Darwin Theory came along. Many issues have risen over the years since evolution was introduced to the world and into the school system. The questions of whether mankind evolved from a monkey or the way of creationism, that man was created by God as stated in the book of Genesis (Bible). Other issues that came up were with the teachers themselves and having to teach evolution in their biology classes, when not fully understanding evolution itself. In this essay we will discuss the arguments of evolution versus creationism that is being taught in our public schools and whether it is acceptable to teach evolution to our school children. II. Body paragraph # 1 – Topic Sentence # 1 The disputes of evolution started back in the late 19th century, some years after Charles Darwin came to the conclusion of linking human ancestry to lower animals by his evolution theory. This evolution of reasoning caused a stir in the public schools when it was put into the biology text books and required to be taught to the students...
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...When speaking of this theory, it is understood that Leslie White as the precursor and principal model of this theory. The neo-evolutionary, as Leslie provided general guidance on the evolution and changes to cultures. Seeing this evolution as cause and effect, exploring into the nitty-envisioning of the future. Leslie White with a great Marxist and Symbolist influence, as well as interested in the meaning of the human symbols as a deposit of culture and how those symbols acquire meanings and those symbols are transmitted from generations to generations. Those symbols of culture are the thoughts, behaviors, objects and events symbolize dependent on an extra-somatic context. (Like sleep, intimacy, etc.). Subjectivity was a valid study the culture if we consider it in an extra-somatic...
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...Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Since the early 1980s, the U.S. health care system has experienced a rapid growth in the sector of health care information technology. This growth can be viewed as an attempt to standardize our fragmented health care system. The health care information technology is no longer an option but a necessity to be compliant with the mandated federal regulations. President George W. Bush in 2004 asked health care providers to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR) by 2014. The Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) also joined this initiative by asking health care providers to be compliant with the new legislation. Many community-based physician practices previously reluctant to embrace technology are realizing the benefits of the health care information systems, such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medical records (EMR), tele-medicine, complex disease management, and automated billing systems. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast a contemporary health care facility with a health care facility of 20 years ago. Additionally, the paper will identify at least two major events and technological advantages that influenced the current health care information system (HCIS) practices. Definition of Health Care Information Systems Prior to discussing the evolution of HCIS in the last two decades, it would...
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...To many people, especially religious ones, the idea that human kind began from the evolution of a fish seems to be the core of a revolution. Could this belief be an example of lacking evidence? To prove that something is not assimilated to be right or wrong thru the line of feelings and emotions William Clifford contends that a person should not trust or determine something without insufficient evidence. In the writing “The Ethics of Belief,” Clifford applies the example of the ship owner to convince the reader that actions without supported evidence could lead to a wrong outcome. The ship owner believes his longstanding ship can sail just as well as previous times since it had gone safely through so many times that he supposed it would come safely back home from the trip also. Erroneously, he was assured that he was not putting...
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...April 24th, 2014 Why Creationism Should be Taught in Schools Evolution is believed to have been scientifically proven, but really it’s not. It is only a theory. If Evolution is only a theory, why is it the only theory being taught in our schools today? Creationism is another theory about how the world was created. It is just as valid as an idea as evolution, so why is only one theory being taught in our classrooms? Creationism should be taught alongside Evolution because students should be able to think on their own and decide what theory to believe. Both theories cannot be proven, so why not teach different perspectives? Evolution is not a fact, just theory and hypothesis. It is a belief. Some may even say, a faith. It might seem that people claim that creationism is religious doctrine, and it is, but evolution is just as religious as creationism. Both cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Both take faith to believe them to be true. So creationism is just as valid as Evolution. Creationism came from religious views, but not everyone believes in the same religions. Evolution is a worldwide concept that many people have come to believe but they may not been exposed to these religions. “Dr. Bergman then went on to add, ‘If schools are to be a place where students can debate important questions, it would seem that eliminating religious questions would shelter students from an important area of debate which is crucial for living a well-rounded life.’” (Edwords...
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...History of Evolution The word "evolution" in its broadest sense refers to change or growth that occurs in a particular order. Although this broad version of the term would include astronomical evolution and the evolution of computer design, this article focuses on the evolution of biological organisms. That use of the term dates back to the ancient Greeks, but today the word is more often used to refer to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. This theory is sometimes crudely referred to as the theory of "survival of the fittest." It was proposed by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species in 1859 and, independently, by Alfred Wallace in 1858—although Wallace, unlike Darwin, said the human soul is not the product of evolution. Greek and medieval references to "evolution" use it as a descriptive term for a state of nature, in which everything in nature has a certain order or purpose. This is a teleological view of nature. For example, Aristotle classified all living organisms hierarchically in his great scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, with plants at the bottom, moving through lesser animals, and on to humans at the pinnacle of creation, each becoming progressively more perfect in form. It was the medieval philosophers, such as Augustine, who began to incorporate teleological views of nature with religion: God is the designer of all creatures, and everything has a purpose and a place as ordained by Him. In current times, to some, the terms "evolution" and "God"...
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