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The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in healthcare is driven by the need to contain costs while maximizing quality and efficiency. However, ICT adoption for healthcare information management has brought far-reaching effects and implications on the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, patient privacy and confidentiality. A wave of security breaches have led to pressing calls for opt-in and opt-out provisions where patients are free to choose to or not have their healthcare information collected and recorded within healthcare information systems. Such provisions have negative impact on cost, efficiency and quality of patient care. Thus determined efforts to gain patient ...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing and Embedded and Multimedia Computing (HumanCom & EMC 2011) will cover topics of HumanCom and EMC, the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs. Human-centric computing is to create novel solutions so that the humans are always connected, portable, and available. As with pervasive-computing, human-centric computing requires a variety of devices; however, such devices exist simply to obtain inputs from the human and are embedded in objects that humans interact with on a daily basis. Moreover, during the past couple of decades, Information Science technologies influenced and changed every aspect of o...
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation. This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are taking place. It examines the way in which schools live and work with these changes, and the policies which result from them. The book examines policy making at each level, from perspectives both inside and outside the state bureaucracy. It has a particular focus on social justice. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students will find that this book enables them to understand the reasoning behind the changes they are expected to implement. It will help to prepare them to confront an uncertain educational world, whilst still retaining their enthusiasm for education.
Der öffentliche Diskurs in Bezug auf kulturelle Umbrüche durch die Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung ist von einem hohen Maß an Skepsis und Ablehnung gegenüber neuen Technologien geprägt. Das gilt – abgesehen von den Speerspitzen des Fortschritts – besonders auch für jene Branchen, die professionell mit Literatur zu tun haben, wie den Buchhandel, das Verlagswesen, die Literaturwissenschaft oder auch die AutorInnenverbände. Genauere Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass die Buchkultur nicht in der Digitalisierung endet, sondern sich in ihr fortsetzt. Denn viele Vorzüge der dezentralen Wissensbereitstellung durch digitale Medien sind lediglich perfektionierte, beschleunigte und in der Hand...
Are the sweeping changes to Ontario's education system introduced under the Harris government bad or wrong? Gidney places them in context, charting the major landmarks and debates that have washed over the educational landscape in Ontario from the 1950s.
This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over the last thirty-five years by award-winning psychologist, Joan Freeman, these fascinating accounts reveal the frustrations and triumphs of her participants, and investigates why some fell by the wayside whilst others reached fame and fortune. These exceptional people possess a range of intellectual, social and emotional gifts in fields such as mathematics, the arts, music and spirituality. Through their particular abilities, they were often confronted with extra emotional challenges, such as over-anxious and pushy parents, teacher put-downs, socia...
This volume presents a collection of peer-reviewed, scientific articles from the 14th International Conference on Information Technology – New Generations, held at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on April 10–12, at Tuscany Suites Hotel in Las Vegas. The Book of Chapters addresses critical areas of information technology including web technology, communications, computing architectures, software engineering, security, and data mining.
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