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Information technology (IT) professionals : a practical career guide / by Dafforn, Erik,author.;

Includes bibliographical references.Why Choose a Career in Information Technology? -- Forming a Career Plan -- Pursuing the Education Path -- Writing Your Resume and Interviewing."Welcome to the Information Technology (IT) Professionals field! If you are interested in a career as an Information Technology (IT) professionals you've come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more. This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Technical Support Staff, Programmers, Web Developers, Systems Analysts, Network Architects, [and] Security Analysts." -- Publisher's description

Subjects: Information technology;

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Information technology for the health professions / by Burke, Lillian.; Weill, Barbara,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.An Introduction to Medical Informatics: Administrative uses of Computers in the Medical Office -- Telemedicine -- Information Technology in Public Health -- Information Technology in Radiology -- Information Technology in Surgery: The Cutting Edge -- Information Technology in Pharmacy -- Information Technology in Dentistry -- Informational Resources: Computer-Assisted Instruction, Expert Systems, Health Information Online -- Information Technology in Rehabilitative Therapies: Computerized Medical Devices, Assistive Technology, and Prosthetic Devices -- Security and Privacy in an Electronic Age."Clear and comprehensive, it explores the applications of healthcare IT across health professions, including medical administration, telemedicine, public health, radiology, surgery, pharmacy, dentistry, and rehabilitation. Students will learn about rapid technological advances shaping health care delivery, federal laws impacting health care IT, and strategies for protecting patient privacy"--Publisher's web site.

Subjects: Medical informatics.; Medical Informatics.; Information Systems.;

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Careers in health information technology / by Malec, Brian T.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.What is health information technology? / Brian T. Malec -- What is the field of health informatics? / Brian T. Malec -- Educational programs in health information technology / David Wyant -- Finding a career in health information technology / Brian T. Malec -- The future of HIT careers / David E. Garets and John Glaser -- The HIT job environment in the hospital sector -- HIT careers in the vendor sector -- HTI careers in the physician practice and medial group sectors -- HIT careers in the managed care and insurance sector -- HIT careers in the public health sector -- HIT careers in the education and training sector."Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment. The book describes quickest-route pathways for careers that require advanced training and professional associations that provide important information and resources. It examines the varied environments in which HIT careerists can work{́OCLCbr#80}{OCLCbr#95}hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, the managed care and insurance sector, public health organizations, consulting firms and HIT vendors, and education and training{́OCLCbr#80}{OCLCbr#95}along with related job opportunities. Seventy-five jobs include a description, experience and/or education requirements, core competencies, salary, employment outlook, and references. Interviews with individuals in varied HIT careers present a human face that offers valuable advice. An international perspective on HIT workforce development addresses issues and challenges within other countries, and an industry expert sheds light on future expectations for the HIT industry. Links to job resources, and listings of professional conferences and meetings, add further value to the guide, as do job seeker {́OCLCbr#80}{OCLCbr#9C}tips{́OCLCbr#80}? throughout.Key Features: *Provides comprehensive, practical information about health information technology (HIT) careers for students and mid-career job seekers; *Explores the great variety of work environments and job opportunities within them; *Details education requirements and quickest pathways to attain them; *Includes interviews with people currently in HIT careers, links to job resources, professional conferences and meetings, and helpful tips throughout; *Presents an expert analysis of curret and future HIT career development."--Page [4] of cover.

Subjects: Medical informatics; Medicine; Medical Informatics; Vocational Guidance.;

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The social life of information / by Brown, John Seely.; Duguid, Paul,1954-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.Introduction: Tunneling ahead -- Limits to information -- Agents and angels -- Home alone -- Practice makes process -- Learning - in theory and in practice -- Innovating organization, husbanding knowledge -- Reading the background -- Re-education -- Afterword: Beyond information."For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything - from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution." "Drawing from rich learning experiences at Xerox PARC, from examples such as IBM, Chiat/Day Advertising, and California's "Virtual University," and from historical, social, and cultural research, the authors sharply challenge the futurists' sweeping predictions. They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Rather than aiming technological bullets at these "relics," we should instead look for ways that the new world of bits can learn from and complement them."

Subjects: Information society.; Information technology;

© c2000., Harvard Business School Press,

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Mind change : how digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains / by Greenfield, Susan.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages331-332) and index."Google. Facebook. Twitter. Repeat. We live in a world unimaginable even a few decades ago, one like no other in human history. It's a parallel world where we can be on the move in the real world, yet always hooked into an alternative time and place. And although it's a two-dimensional world of sight and sound, it offers instant information, connected identities, and constant novelty. In this world, our screen technologies are increasingly where we work, where we unwind, where we relieve our boredom and where we learn. The subsequent transformation in how we live and think is a vitally important issue, perhaps even the most important issue of our time. When toddlers are given iPads, and adults spend ten hours a day staring at a screen, can we afford to assume that our brave new screen technologies are harmless tools? Blending a wide range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism with brio and verve, Mind Change presents an incisive snapshot of the global 'now.' Greenfield examines how the dawn of the Digital Age has already altered our cultural landscape, fueled an epidemic of oversharing, and transformed how we learn, remember and spread information -- and how these innovations are changing our physical brains. A warning cry, a shot across the bow, and a call to action, Mind Change explores the social, cultural and physiological ramifications of our new digital lifestyle"--Mind change: a global phenomenon -- Unprecedented times -- A controversial issue -- A multifaceted phenomenon -- How the brain works -- How the brain changes -- How the brain becomes a mind -- Out of your mind -- The something about social networking -- Social networking and identity -- Social networking and relationships -- Social networking and society -- The something about videogames -- Videogames and attention -- Videogames, aggression and recklessness -- The something about surfing -- The screen is the message -- Thinking differently -- Mind change beyond the screen -- Making connections.

Subjects: Cognition.; Information technology; Information technology;

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Privacy lost : how technology is endangering your privacy / by Holtzman, David H.,1956-;

Includes bibliographical references (page 279) and index.Introduction: how and why our privacy is at risk -- Privacy invasions hurt. The seven sins against privacy ; Collateral damage: the harm to society -- Why technology is key. Technology affects privacy: how and why ; New tech, new crimes: fresh wounds -- Privacy in context. Privacy and the law: a right ahead or left behind? ; Privacy and identity: the cult of me ; Privacy and culture in a technological world: shoji screens -- The technology. Voyeurism: surveillance technology ; Stalking: networks, tags, and locators -- The watchers. Marketing invasions: Garbos and greed ; Government invasions for security: mugwumps and momists -- What can be done? Fighting back: Gandhis, curmudgeons, and vigilantes ; The panopticon: see the bars, rattle the cage.While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman-a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker-presents a comprehensive insider's expose of the world of invasive technology, who's using it, and how our privacy is at risk. Holtzman starts out by categorizing privacy violations into "The 7 Sins Against Privacy" and then goes on to explain in compelling and easy-to-understand language exactly how privacy is being eroded in every aspect of our lives. Holtzman vividly reveals actual invasions and the dangers associated with the loss of privacy, and he takes a realistic look at the trade-offs between privacy and such vital issues as security, rights, and economic development.

Subjects: Privacy, Right of.; Information technology;

© ©2006., Jossey-Bass,

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How information technology is conquering the world : workplace, private life, and society / by Olsen, Kai A.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Fundamentals -- Welcome to the virtual world -- Information technology -- Formalization -- Cases of formalization -- Formalization levels -- Cases of formalization level -- Symbolic data -- Cost-benefit of formalization -- pt. 2. Constraints -- Computer intelligence -- Constraints on technology -- Case studies: technical constraints -- The devil is in the details -- Cultural constraints -- Case studies: cultural constraints -- Privacy and security -- Case study: Internet elections -- pt. 3. Usability -- Interactive computing -- Usability -- Simplicity -- Case: flexible user interfaces -- Bad systems -- pt. 4. System development -- Developing a system -- Software engineering -- Packages and ERP systems -- Simpler software development for niche companies -- Case 1. In-house programming -- Case 2. Developing apps -- pt. 5. Internet and WWW basics -- HTML and XML -- Internet protocols -- Development of web protocols -- E-mail, chat and text-messages (SMS) -- Browsers -- World Wide Web -- Searching the Web -- Organizing the Web: portals -- Web presence -- Mobile computing -- Automated Web and push technology -- Dynamic Web pages and the form tag -- Embedded scripts -- Peer-to-peer computing -- Social networks -- Web 2.0 -- pt. 6. Business-to-consumer applications -- Symbolic services: information providers -- Online symbolic services: case studies -- Long tail -- Online retail shopping, physical items -- A better model? -- pt. 7. Business-to-business applications -- Data exchange -- Formalized data exchange -- Electronic data interchange (EDI) -- XML -- Web services -- Automated value chain -- Electronic marketplaces -- Outsourcing -- pt. 8. Cloud computing and large data repositories -- Cloud computing -- Collecting data -- Automatic translation -- Case: proofreading -- Case: an adaptive system -- Crowdsourcing -- Cloud data for the individual: a personal assistant -- pt. 9. A digital world -- Continuously online -- Internet and democracy -- Changing the world -- Effects of IT technology -- Afterword.Information Technology (IT) is conquering the world. It affects our jobs, our lives as private citizens, and society. Its impact is greater than other technologies, such as railways, personal cars, and the telephone. However, while most can understand the potential and constraints of these technologies, IT is often experienced as a "black box," producing its effects without giving a clue as to how they are achieved. The aim of How Information Technology Is Conquering the World is to open this box and to offer a basic knowledge of the technology and how it works. We will then understand why IT can put toll booth operators, metro train engineers, and stockbrokers out of a job, but at the same time have limited impact on bus drivers, nurses, and teachers. This book focuses on the interface between the technologies and the real world in order to explore not only where these technologies have their advantages but also where their limitations become apparent. The difficulty of introducing a new technology is emphasized with the practical goal of enabling readers to use technology to full advantage. This book is useful for those involved in, affected by, or interested in the technology; for students taking an introductory course in computing; and for managers and others who are interested in seeing how this rapidly evolving technology will affect their lives, jobs, and businesses now and in the future. -- Publisher description.

Subjects: Internet.; Internet; Information technology.; Information technology; World Wide Web.; Electronic commerce.;

© ©2013., Scarecrow Press,

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You are not a gadget : a manifesto / by Lanier, Jaron.;

What is a person? -- Missing persons -- An apocalypse of self-abdication -- The noosphere is just another name for everyone's inner troll -- What will money be? -- Digital peasant chic -- The city is built to music -- The lords of the clouds renounce free will in order to become infinitely lucky -- The prospects for humanistic cloud economics -- Three possible future directions -- The unbearable thinness of flatness -- Retropolis -- Digital creativity eludes flat places -- All hail the membrane -- Making the best of bits -- I am a contrarian loop -- One story of how semantics might have evolved -- Future humors -- Home at last (my love affair with Bachelardian neoteny).Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices with enormous-and often unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. This book is a deeply felt defense of the individual, from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Information technology; Technological innovations; Technology;

© c2011., Vintage Books,

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Tubes : a journey to the center of the Internet / by Blum, Andrew.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The map -- A network of networks -- Only connect -- The whole Internet -- Cities of light -- The longest tubes -- Where data sleeps -- Home.When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who pieces together our networks by hand; where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. From the room in Los Angeles where the Internet first flickered to life to the caverns beneath Manhattan where new fiber-optic cable is buried; from the coast of Portugal, where a ten-thousand-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and Africa, to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built monumental data centers--Blum chronicles the dramatic story of the Internet's development, explains how it all works, and takes the first-ever in-depth look inside its hidden monuments. This is a book about real places on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who live there. For all the talk of the "placelessness" of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical spaces as the railroad or telephone. You can map it and touch it, and you can visit it. Is the Internet in fact "a series of tubes" as Ted Stevens, the late senator from Alaska, once famously described it? How can we know the Internet's possibilities if we don't know its parts? Like Tracy Kidder's classic The Soul of a New Machine or Tom Vanderbilt's recent bestseller Traffic, Tubes combines on-the-ground reporting and lucid explanation into an engaging, mind-bending narrative to help us understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives.

Subjects: Internet; Internet; Telecommunication systems.; Information technology.; Information superhighway.;

© c2012., Ecco,

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Social media for social good : a how-to guide for nonprofits / by Mansfield, Heather.;

Web 1.0: the static Web -- Websites, E-newsletters, and "donate now" campaigns -- Web 2.0: the social Web -- Getting started with social media -- Facebook and Facebook Apps -- Twitter and twitter Apps -- Youtube and Flickr -- Linkedin -- Blogging -- Web 3.0: the Mobile Web -- Social media and the Mobile Web -- Mobile Websites -- Group text messaging and text-to-give technology -- Smartphone Apps.

Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Social marketing.; Social media.;

© c2012., McGraw-Hill,

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