...Technology Article Review Evelyn Barnum HCS/212 Monday, April 6, 2015 Deatrice Willis Health Care Experience The famous question, should we welcome or fear new technology? Surgeons can replace a heart valve with a plastic and metal one that unfolds once threaded through arteries. These are repairs that used to be made by cracking open the chest, and a very major surgery, now it is a simple surgery. In recent years cancer meds make the promise of diseases treatable (Skinner, 2013). Technology makes storing all the records in electronic systems easily accessible and highly convenient. However not all new technology is electronic based. So we will look at some different technological discoveries and how they differ from our normal thoughts of technology and still bottom line save lives. Looking at all the studies and ways of technology are important as it makes a difference on how and what the patient needs. Studies show that the category with the greatest benefit is low-cost antibiotics for bacterial infections, a cast for a simple fracture, or simply an aspirin and certain medications for heart attack patients (Skinner, 2013). CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation is simply human based and that saves as many lives as open heart surgeries ever have. Not all treatments in this category are inexpensive, things like antiretroviral drugs for people with HIV (Aids) may cost as much as $20,000 per year, but they are still an awesome technology based treatment because...
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...Technology Article Review When it comes to technology within the health care industry and in the field of health management, it can be safely said that it is evolving each day. How we use technology like smartphones and tablets to document, communicate and research to other medical professionals and keep records of essential information. In the article, Developing a Health Care Technology Strategy for Population Health Management, according to the author, “the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, coupled with the concepts of affordable care act, is predicted to lower the cost of health care delivery. Part of the anticipated reduction in costs is a predicted significant improvement in the development of technology.” (Keil, 2013). The author continues to elaborate on the concept that healthcare facilities have adopted the use of electronic health care systems for treatment, communicating and diagnosis. Just like the Electronic Medical Records (EMR), the author believes that they will use a system with technologies that is capable of engaging multiple of sites that offers the same health care service to the use of one technology base, called cloud computing technology. They use this to where medical personnel can have access to individual health records and other health information, any time and anywhere, but even though there might be concerns of safety issues about exchanging patients vital information in the cloud system, it will allow people who live in areas with...
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...Introduction Technology, when used as an aid in learning, does much more than educate the human individual it also motivates the student to learn. I chose to review the article on the pros and cons of Ipads in the classroom. There was a study that was conducted at the University of Notre Dame for seven weeks by Professor Corey Angst. These students used the Ipad devices for reading and other course related work. The original concept was to use the Ipad as a e-reader and to replace the actual textbook. In the case study though, Angst found that the Ipad could be used as an aggregation tool. Students that were working on a project could brainstorm and put their thoughts down in the tablet and then save the work in a online storage site. The next time the group got together, all students had access to the information. Another outstanding feature is that because they all had the same device, there would not be any technical issues or compatibility problems. (Forbes.com) During the time of the surveys done throughout the semester, most of the students said the iPads helped them to organize their schedules. They said were able to 1. take the initiative to explore additional course topics 2. help manage their time, 3. provided new functions/tools for learning, 4. increased their learning 5. and made their courses more interesting. I thought it was interesting that they students also used the Ipads to study other courses and to also use the device...
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...Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Georgeanna Chapman BIS/221 March 23, 2015 C. Randall Shirley Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Memorandum To: C. Randall Shirley From: Georgeanna L. Chapman Date: 4/26/2015 Re: Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Summary Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology The article that I chose to use is from MIT Technology Review. In the article; it was discussed on how Ethics can’t keep up with the growing use of Technology. 1. Employers can get into trouble in interviews asking potential applicants about their sexual preference, religion or political affiliation, yet can find all this information on social media and it isn’t against the law. 2. Laws forbid lenders from discriminating on the basis of race, gender and sexuality, but if their work history on Facebook doesn’t match their work history on LinkedIn, they are socially undesirable. “We haven’t come to grips with what is ethical, let alone with what the laws should be, in relation to technologies such as social media.” (Wadhwa, 2014, p. 1) The laws and ethical practices are forever evolving. With the public uproar about the surveillance by the NSA this actually pales in association with the data that Google, Apple and Facebook are collecting and people don’t seem to be concerned about that. You give these sites permission to collect this information and store it. We will have similar debates about self-driving cars, drones...
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...movement to 0.01 mm (Pierce, 2012). Also it can track all ten of your fingers and thumbs individually as well as anything you may have in your hands. It creates a 3-D workspace of about eight cubic feet, however multiple devices can be linked together to create a bigger space. According to David Pierce on the website www.theverge.com, “VGA camera sensors within the device create the space”. The Leap can open up the possibilities for many different uses. The most basic thing it does is virtually turn any computer type display into a touch screen. However you don’t have to “touch” anything. You may wonder who created this technology and why. Co-founder and CTO David Holz was working on a PhD in mathematics ("About," n.d.) and “learning how to build 3-D models on his computer when he got frustrated with how long it took to create them with the existing technology” (Trinh, 2012). On the website abcnews.go.com...
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...Subsistence and Sustainability: From Micro-Level Behavioral Insights to Macro-Level Implications on Consumption, Conservation, and the Environment The main goal of this article is to develop micro-level behavioral insights at the intersection of poverty and the environment and derive macro-marketing implications. The behavior aspect includes psychological and socio-cultural aspects and emphasizes consumption and conservation. The findings of the article emphasize the importance of different levels of spatial and psychological distance, as well as coping strategies for communities to sustain themselves. The introduction and literature review is broken down into two main parts: poverty and micro-level behavior, and poverty and the environment. Research on subsistence marketplaces has adopted the bottom up behavioral perspective for micro-level. This research has examined underlying variables that affect how the poor interact with marketplaces, specifically focusing on behavior such as thinking styles, emotional factors, and social relationships. It found that individuals are concrete in their thinking in the following ways. Individuals who subsist use information at a tangible level rather than interpreting or combining it to reach more abstract conclusions. Second, individuals focus on the “what” and “how” rather than the “why” in abstract realms. This suggests a focus on the immediate in terms of environmental issues. Another tendency is pictographic thinking, which...
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...Technology and Jobs Abstract Have you ever asked yourself whether or not technology may possibly be taking away multiple jobs from us humans? Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done by a computer. Now, when you go to the grocery store, there are self-checkout registers in which you, the consumer, do the work while the cashier’s job becomes less aggravating. Also, in the medical field, there are many operations and procedures that can now be calculated with certain technology. Moreover, in the engineering world, jobs are becoming deleted because of computers. Go back a few decades in time and try to imagine calculating something without a calculator. At an alarming rate, technology is decreasing our jobs at a very alarming rate. At this pace, in the future, all work will eventually be carried out by robots and computers. Keywords: technology, jobs, computer, calculate, work Technology and Jobs “The U.S. economy hit an important milestone last week: Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the country, returned to pre-recession levels. But the gains were made with millions fewer workers. Part of the reason is technology, as computers and machines continue to replace humans.” You must ask yourself whether or not technology may possibly be taking away multiple jobs from us humans. Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done...
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...How Technology and Automation Affect Employment, the Economy, and You By Cody Ferenchak March 16th 2015 Automation is definitely a topic of concern in almost all of today’s industries. Especially for those in the service industry. Automation is making the processes used in the product and service industry less labor intensive and more productive. Over the last three decades manufacturing companies in the industrialized world have seen what great change automation is bringing to the world in terms of production. Assembly lines in the automotive industry are faster than ever. Electronics such as the iPhone are being constructed in just minutes due to hands of automated robotics. Upgrading to automated technology is becoming more and more accepted. Companies are spending much time and resources on implementing the use of automated labor to cope with the increasing competition from non-industrialized countries whose production costs are much lower. Where there were once hundreds of thousand of laborers filling factories assembling the everyday technological, textile, and household products we use today; are now machines that require no hourly wage, only monthly to sometimes yearly maintenance, up-keep and energy costs. The world of industry we are currently living in has changed. From labor-intensive production, to capital-intensive automation. Not only are we focusing on the tangible side of production, also the many intangible service industries are experiencing change. There...
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...Amber Anaya Project Introduction Internet and new technologies have shaped the world and its history. While human kind is increasingly dependent on technology and internet, communication and jobs are being affected as the need of human interaction at local businesses is slowly phasing out. This research project will try to answer a fundamental question: how does technology affect jobs and communication? According to Daniel Stockhaus, Editor Chief of Ligo.co.uk, individuals across the United States, as well as the whole world, are talking on the phone less than ever in history. In fact, the average phone call is now 50% shorter than it was 5 years ago (Stockhaus, 2009). Another impact technology has had on communication, is the fact that face to face interaction has decreased by 9%. All this data shows a downward trend in human communication, which poses threats not only to humankind but also to businesses and the way our world functions. The increasing reduction in human interactions is causing economists and experts in the job market to evaluate how this trend will impact job growth and the overall basics of human nature. One of the experts who has spent many years in researching the relation between technology and jobs is David Rotman, editor and journalist for MIT Technology Review. According to an interview David Rotman conducted with Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, David Rotman has found that technology plays a big role in the automation of jobs, which result...
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...signs report released by the CDC, 7 in 10 patients with sepsis had used healthcare services recently or had chronic diseases that required frequent medical care. These represent opportunities for healthcare providers to prevent, recognize, and treat sepsis long before it can cause life-threatening illness or death. Sepsis mortality rate is as high as 50% in patients with septic shock and can increase by 7.6% per hour if the appropriate treatment is not started (CDC, 2016). Physicians fully understand the devastating consequences of patients who contract sepsis. The severity of sepsis and the increasing mortality rate have led to vast amounts of clinical and statistical research. In today’s healthcare industry, advances in medicine and technology have helped create more effective ways to prevent, recognize, and respond to those who contract this potentially deadly infection....
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...Research in Information Technology The Bi-annual Publication of the ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education In This Issue: The Editor’s Note Information for Authors Feature Article: Risk Forecast Using Hidden Markov Models, by Charles Pak and James Cannady, Nova Southeastern University 1 2 4 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Rob Friedman, New Jersey Institute of Technology email: friedman@njit.edu The Editor’s Note RIT continues its efforts to disseminate fresh ideas and new knowledge based on our scholarly pursuits in user-centered computing. Our mission is to publish peer-reviewed articles that present original research findings germane to the theories and practices of information technology. We seek papers that present substantive additions, comments and challenges to the theory and practice of programming, networking, information management, web systems and user-centered design. This issue presents an example of research continuity and progress. Charles Pak and James Cannady have expanded their previously published research into Hidden Markov Models as an approach to apprising IT security analysts, managers and administrators of changes to the nature and intensity of the threats that plague our increasingly networked world. As the authors conclude, “The research results of this study offer a valuable contribution to the field of information security. When risk can be forecasted before the actual risk materializes, stakeholders can effectively...
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...Writing a journal article review You may be asked to write a journal article review. Although this may be an unfamiliar exercise, it is not as complex a task as writing an essay requiring a lot of library research, and not the same as a review in The Canberra Times which is written for the general reader. Your journal article review is written for a reader (eg, your supervisor, lecturer or tutor) who is knowledgeable in the discipline and is interested not just in the coverage and content of the article being reviewed, but also in your critical assessment of the ideas and argument that are being presented by the author. Your review might therefore be guided by the following questions: Objectives | What does the article set out to do? | Theory | Is there an explicit theoretical framework? If not, are there important theoretical assumptions? | Concepts | What are the central concepts? Are they clearly defined? | Argument | What is the central argument? Are there specific hypotheses? | Method | What methods are employed to test these? | Evidence | Is evidence provided? How adequate is it? | Values | Are value positions clear or are they implicit? | Literature | How does the work fit into the wider literature? | Contribution | How well does the work advance our knowledge of the subject? | Style | How clear is the author's language/style/expression? | Conclusion | A brief overall assessment. | | | | | This image shows a close-up view of the next-generation...
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...International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET) Editor: Dr. P. Singh Dear Professors, Engineers Researchers, Professionals, Academicians, Technologists, students, Freelancers and scientist, research articles, review articles and short communications are invited for the forth coming issue of International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology (IJAET) IJAET is a scholarly online, open access, peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary, bimonthly, and fully refereed journal focusing on advances in the field of Engineering and Technology. IJAET is managed by a strong team of editorial board, advisory board & research volunteers. The journal covers all areas of engineering and Technology. Journal publishes original research articles, review articles, new concepts, literature surveys, state of the art, research implementations, simulation/practical experiments, applications of engineering and technology, industrial case studies and technical notes. Articles included in this publication will receive very high publicity and acquire very high reputation. ISSN: 2231-1963 Published: bi- monthly; Est. 2011 Individual Online Access and E-Journal Access: Open Access Institution Access: Open Access coverage Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Ad hoc & sensor networks, Adaptive applications, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, AI and Image Recognition, Allied engineering materials, Applied...
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...Article Critique of Caring and Technology in an Intensive Care Unit Article Critique of Caring and Technology in an Intensive Care Unit The growing presence of technology in healthcare has changed the way critical care is delivered to patients. Although caring has been synonymous with nursing in the past, the integration of technology in critical care units has somewhat altered these views. The increased dependence on technology has spawned debates directed at the ethical and economical aspects of nursing care. One of the biggest concerns is the appropriateness and cost of new technology used to treat and monitor patients. While studies have shown technology can certainly improve the quality of care, increased utilization of technology in healthcare could also lead to dehumanizing patients. Understanding the effects this phenomenon has on patient care therefore requires an examination of the most current research available. Research Question: What aspects are considered to be troublesome to registered health care professionals’ ability to deliver care services to their patients by the use of technology especially in the critical care unit? The authors of the article have formulated a research question that is aimed at identifying the effect of technology. This is in a bid to come up with a model that is aimed at enhancing medical care for the patients from not only the nurses but also all medical practitioners. It is sufficient in giving compounding results...
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... | |Degree/Program |Master of Management/Master in Business Administration | |Course Description |The information systems function in an organization has a broad responsibility to plan, develop or acquire, implement, and manage an infrastructure of information technology (computers and | | |communications), data (both internal and external), and enterprise-wide information processing systems. It has the responsibility to track new information technology and assist in incorporating | | |it into organization’s strategy, planning, and practices. The activity of developing or acquiring information technology/information systems applications for organizational and | | |inter-organizational processes involves projects that define creative and productive use of technological tools and resources for transaction processing, data acquisition, communication,...
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