...the Infrastructure Assessment Framework to assess, analyze, plan and deploy an IT roadmap for your organization. As part of the Infrastructure Assessment Framework, there are several individual assessments that we can provide for you in order to better understand and orient your key business drivers with your current IT infrastructure and proposed roadmaps. Some of the key assessment frameworks that we can deliver for you are : •Technology Assessment •Security Assessment We have several more customized frameworks for specific needs and scenarios. Contact us today to find out how an Infrastructure Assessment can help your business! Technology AssessmentWhy do I need a technology assessment? Simply ask yourself these questions: •Are you comfortable with your current technology investments and are they in line with your business goals and strategic objectives? •Does your current technology deliver clear bottom-line benefits for your company? •Are you confident that you can build a business case to evaluate new technology and deploy it in your business? •Are the benefits of IT in your business easily quantifiable when compared to cost? If you have any doubts relating to the above questions, then Quadra can be of service to your organization. Today, business owners and managers are justifying their technology investments. Many IT managers are now expected to demonstrate a return-on-investment (ROI) and business case for technology solutions they implement...
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...health technologies in the 21st century? New diagnostic techniques have often made it possible to detect disease in time to apply an appropriate therapy. Even in cases of diseases for which no effective preventive or therapeutic measures are available, technologies have aided in relief of pain, amelioration of symptoms, and rehabilitation of individuals affected by chronic conditions (88). Finally, some new technology has increased access to health care, some has reduced the cost of care, and some has improved the outcome of care (45). Health care costs are escalating rapidly. The expanded use of medical technologies is an important factor in the rising costs, imposing economic burdens which cause problems for patients, for their families, and for society. Medical technologies contribute to medical care costs in various ways: Some have large capital investments, some require the use of costly supportive services, some present the possibility or requirement of costly followup care, some establish the need for continued use, some are overused after initial proof of reliability of efficacy (particularly diagnostic technologies), and some are used for inappropriate purposes. (Technology Transfer at the National Institutes of Health, 1982) Discuss the evaluation of medical technologies. Clearly, some evaluation criteria pertain only to “product” technologies, such as devices or drugs. Other evaluation criteria pertain to the medical purpose for which the technology is used...
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...TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT JaCinta Oglesbee Strayer University HSA 520: Health Information Systems January 27, 2013 Harold Griffin, Ph.D. 1. Analyze the basic technology underlying health care information systems and determine the most pressing need for innovation. The modern health care system involves managing an enormous amount of information about millions of people. Only with the help of modern information technology can the health care industry provide quality care to its patients. Health care information systems come in two forms: practice management and electronic health records (EHR). Practice management software allows the organization of patient appointments, lab results, and referrals, but does not organize with the specific information on each patient. EHR stores data on a patient's health history. An electronic health record contains the same information about a patient as a regular medical chart, such as medical history, medications, allergies, lab results, immunizations, and billing information. All health information systems consist of the software itself and the hardware. Although health information technology (HIT) software is utilized on computers by receptionists and medical staff, the data is often stored and managed off site by the HIT provider. Scanners and printers play a big role in EHR because of the amount of data that must be transformed into and from a digital format. Wireless routers are the next essential piece of...
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...Drones Technology: An Emerging Wireless Communication Trend at Workplace Allison Maestas BIS/221 March 14th, 2016 Lisa Ricks Introduction Emerging Technologies: Emerging technologies are type of new era technology which is currently developing or will be developed over next five to ten years. Emerging technologies have potential to alter business and social environment. These include IT, Wireless data communication, robotics, and bio-technologies. Drone is best example of emerging IT and wireless data transfer technology. It helps humans in many ways despite fact it has many drawbacks also. Drone technology is a type of emerging technology in which we feed commands in a flying object controlled by wireless controller. It helps us plenty of ways like Policing, delivery, entertainment, surveillance & surveying, agriculture, journalism, arts, firefighting, and nonmilitary security work (Byman, 2013). The reason for using these drones is that they are cheaper and more durable than helicopters due to their mechanical simplicity. Delivery drones are type of drones which is used to send medicines or other necessary stuff at faraway places where presence of human is hazardous for his life for example RQ-7 Shadow is capable of delivering a 20 lb (09.1 kg) “Quick MEDS” canister to front line troops. Professional Usage of Drone Technology at Workplace: The development of Unmanned Aerial Automobiles permitted the world to consider of innovative techniques to implement mutual...
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...Technology Assessment Using internet databases, I have researched the regulatory requirements related to technology with the health care industry. Within this assignment, I have identified and analyzed my belief of the most significant new technology requirements for the health care industry. I have analyzed the basic technology underlying health care information systems. I also have made a recommendation of an innovation and explained how my recommendation can improve the overall level of health care in my community. Lastly, I have suggested a key action that senior health care leadership can take in the community to push the boundaries of information technology management. Most New Significant Technology Requirements for Health Care I believe that the most new significant technology requirement for health care is the use of electronic medical records (EMR). This is a digital form of a paper chart which encompasses the medical and treatment history of the patients in one office. An EMR permits a physician to track data over time, easily pinpoint which patients are due for preventive screenings, and check on how patients are doing on particular parameters like blood pressure readings or vaccines (Electronic Medical Record, 2014). They also monitor and improve the general quality of care within the clinic or hospital. Providers should approach the implementation of the EMR with seriousness. I say this because As of January 2014 all public and private healthcare providers...
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...A Sigma Medical Technologies Offering TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3 Problem Statement 4 Introduction 6 Analysis of the Facts 8 Expeditionary Marketing Tools 19 Summary of the Facts 27 Alternatives 30 Recommendations 35 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Founded in 2015, Sigma Medical Technologies (SIGMA) is located in the SE region of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the Sandia Industrial Park area east of Kirtland Air Force Base on Eubank Blvd. SIGMA, owned by Dr. Remy and Mr. Bob Sachs (of TEAM Technologies), serves as the patent holder and developer of “Ozone”. UNM Anderson has been contracted to provide an expeditionary marketing study. Ozone offers an invasive, defined space; gas based delivery system (generated by the product) to kill all living organisms in a room. It provides an affordable elimination and sterilization system for use by the Medical industry. It provides an additional layer of security against concealed germs, bacteria, and viral threats (pathogens). It may even be the cost effective solution to deliver solution based field units to disease hot spots that are engineered for quick and easy “Ozone” sterilization. The technology offers a “whole room” elimination solution (fills available defined space and kills pathogens) as opposed to standard “surface” based elimination systems (based on chemical wipe down style cleaning). Dr. Remy and his supportive team have a...
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...Technology Transfer to China: Guidance for Businesses Technology Transfer to China - Why Worry? Many European companies are keen to come to China. While in the past, European companies came to China to take advantage of low-cost manufacturing for export, more recently, they have come to enter the Chinese domestic market, establish R&D, engage in cooperative development, take advantage of a skilled work force, establish suppliers, and develop long-term partnerships in China. In order to achieve this, they are often willing to ‘transfer’ their key technology and designs to Chinese subsidiaries of European firms, joint-venture (JV) partners, or Chinese manufacturing and service companies. One of the challenges facing European companies coming to China is devising creative solutions to minimize the risk to their intellectual property (IP) associated with such technology transfers. A technology transfer happens in a number of different ways. European companies most commonly transfer their technology by licensing their patents, designs, software, trade secrets, and know-how. Ownership of the technology may be transferred, but this type of transfer is less common. A common misconception is that a technology transfer is limited to transfers of high technology. However, many European companies using contract manufacturing to manufacture low technology, consumer, or industrial products, for example based on product designs, must deal with many of the same risks to their IP as their high...
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...Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology Author(s): Bruce Kogut and Udo Zander Source: Organization Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, Focused Issue: Management of Technology (Aug., 1992), pp. 383-397 Summary: Carlos Ip Introduction: Why firms exist? A prevailing view is that firms serve to keep in check transaction costs from self-interested motivations of individuals. Authors said that firms do better than markets in sharing and trasnfer of knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization. Knowledge is held by individuals, but is also expressed in regularities by which members cooperate in a social community (i.e. group, organization, network). • Suggesting that firms learn new skills by recombining their current capabilties. • Growth occurs by building on social relationship existed in a firm. • Cumulative knowledge of the firm provides options to expand in new but uncertain markets in the future. Paradox identified: firm growth efforts by replication of its technology enhances potential for imitation. Authors view the central competitive dimension of what firms know how to do is to create and transfer knowledge efficiently within an organization content, • Suggest that organizations are social communities in which individual and social expertise is transformed into economically useful products and services by the application of a set of higher-order organizing princples. • Firms exist because they provide a social...
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...Based on earlierhypotheticalresearches, the present study integrates technology readiness (TR) into the technology acceptance model (TAM) in the context of consumer adoption of mobile shopping (m-shopping), and theorizes that the impact of TR on mobile shopping intention is mediated by both perceptions of usefulness and ease of use. Nested model was conducted inorder to investiagete the relations. Results show that technological readiness of a consumer influence the mobile shopping behavior. In adittion, perceived usefulness mediates the relation between technology readiness and m-shopping. Introduction M-shopping can be defined as purchase behaviour with a mobile device and has become aprogressivelyessential topic for prectitioners and manufacturers. According to eMarketer (2014), by 2016 smartphone users are enhanced (more than two billion users). Also results of “Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey" indicates that, by 2013 67% of the population in Turkey uses smarthphones(Deloitte, 2013).A smartphone is a type of mobile phone which uses an operating system such as Apple iOS or Android by installing applications. Although using smartphone apps is the recent way of using technology, understandingtechnology readiness of customer is crucial, because most of the technological innovations are fundamental changes (Garcia and Calantone, 2002). This can cause anxiety in those who concens negative feelings about technological products. Results of a latest industry...
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...Title page International trade, technology transfer and firm competitiveness: A comparative study of Zimbabwe exporting and non-exporting firms. By Michael Kamoyo Chinhoyi University of Technology Lecturer: Department of Marketing mkamoyo@cut.ac.zw ; rumbi12@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 263 67 29442 Abstract better positioned to adopt and assimilate international trade related technology because they possess better technological capabilities in the form of The paper examines the preparedness of exporting and non-exporting SMEs in harnessing the technological opportunities availed by international trade. Using cross sectional data for 131 SMEs, a logistic regression analysis was done to ascertain the extent to which factors like, technical skills, networking, firm’s innovation system, especially research and development activities and international involvement influence the adaptation and assimilation of technology for productive efficiency. The result shows that labour used in exporting firms is 3.164 times more productivity than that in non-exporting firms, high import composition, good networking abilities. However, it was noted that there is no significant difference between exporting and non-exporting firms on Information Communication Technology (ICT) diffusion and R&D activities. It is recommended that for technology transfer to be relevant and useful to non-exporting firms there is need to strengthen their technological absorptive capacity by scaling up their networking...
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...informationand communications-technology goods. Crossing the largely symbolic threshold should put to rest outdated notions of China as a manufacturer and exporter of cheap T-shirts, though the country won't give up its thriving garment exports as it steps up production of laptop computers and memory chips. Indeed, China's ability to hold on to the labour-intensive segments of the global marketplace as it climbs the technology ladder is one of the unique features of the country's ascent -- and a remarkable source of resilience for its economy. It's also a factor in the country's $100 billion-plus trade surplus with the rest of the world and double that figure with the U.S. KNOWLEDGE PLAYER. It's easy to dismiss the importance of China's taking the lead in technology exports. Its tech goods contain substantial imported content, not to mention foreign technology, be it transferred, licensed, or "borrowed." Roughly 60% of exports are made by foreign-invested enterprises, and the percentage progressively rises with the technology level. So is China merely an export platform, a convenient low-cost base for the world's multinationals, which in turn retain core knowledge and capabilities, farming out the simple, low-value parts of the value chain? Not really. China has absolutely no intention of remaining an assembler and proving ground for someone else's knowhow and advanced capabilities. Rather, it's gearing up to become a producer of indigenous technology and a global knowledge player...
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...when there is a gap of advanced production technology, managerial knowledge, and working practices between the receiver and the donator. Frequently, transnational corporation (TNCs) required domestic company to adjust new systems in order to remain market share and gain profit. Therefore, spill-over effect can be considered as the result of activity of FDI investor and modifications of local corporations. There are four types of spill-over effect: the labor mobility channel, demonstration channel, the forward and backward linkages and the competition channels. The labor mobility channel The movement of skilled personnel from foreign firms to domestic firms helps transferred advanced technology and management skills. Thanks to labor mobility, positive spill-over can be created by two ways: employees applied what they have learned to domestic companies or established the new ones. The demonstration channel It is one of the most important channel to create positive FDI effect There are three ways to transfer technology * Internal transfer: the transfer between parent company or TNC and their affiliates or subsidiary * Transfer among FDI companies and domestic ones within the same business: the local manager can set up their new business based on the knowledge and skill they have experienced. Although it can be called as a loss for FDI investors, this transformation can bring development and exposure of advanced technology to home country. Or another ways, local entities...
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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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...Risk Assessment in Information Technology Risk Assessment in Information Technology This paper will address risk assessment in Information Technology and discuss factors used to identify all kinds of risks in company network diagram. It will also assess the risk factors that are inclusive for the Company and give the assumptions related to the security data as well as regulatory issues surrounding risk assessment. In addressing the global implications, the paper will propose network security vulnerabilities and recommend the mitigation measures for the vulnerabilities. Cryptography recommendations based on data driven decision-making will be assessed, and develop risk assessment methodologies. Risk assessment in Information Technology Risk assessment is one of the mitigation methods for the Networks design. The scanners or vulnerability tools are used to identify the risks or vulnerabilities within the network design. The risks can be identified by these tools as they extend beyond software detects to incorporate other easily vulnerabilities including mis-configurations (Rouse, 2010). The shareware assessment tools are accessible online and can be used to supplement commercial scanners. Framework of risk assessment * Step 1 – categorizing information and information systems. Here unique department traits are highlighted and assigned impact levels (high, medium or low) in line with the security FISMA’s security objectives (confidentiality, integrity and availability)...
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...Assessment Information Technology Acts Paper Assessment: Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 Jennifer Dawson Lisa Hatherill With new technology advances, come new ethical problems. In this article, the information at hand will cover the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000, and the Family Education Rights & Privacy Act of 1974. For every act that has been created; there has been a legitimate cause for it. This article will use the most up to date and reliable information to back up the research on these specific topics. You will learn what caused the acts to be put in place and what the acts protect. The Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 was designed for public libraries and public schools to apply filter to all computers that will protect children from harmful content found on the internet. Federal funding is given when this condition is met. Initially this act was implemented on public schools first, until the 2003 Supreme Court ruling of United States vs. American Library Association, when they too were added. (Jaeger & Zheng, 2009) The reason for the act in the first place, which was added by Bill Clinton in December of 2000, was due to the growing understanding and use by children. The internet is one of the most widely used sources to review and receive research. This act was designed to protect children from Pornography, explicit adult content and adult language. (Jaeger & Zheng, 2009) They have found that this is not only inappropriate...
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