Through case-study reports, this paper examines the development of two induction-year teachers (years one to three) through their participation in a professional development community in the United States: the Invitational Summer Institute (ISI) of the National Writing Project. Typically, the ISI focuses its professional development efforts on veteran educators as they negotiate sound writing pedagogy and become teacher-...

Economic analysis on the financial benefits and risks is crucial for deciding whether an IT transformation should take place. While the financial analysis techniques for general investment is well known, and there have been case studies for many IT types of IT transformations, there is no good methodology that an IT professional can follow and readily conduct return on investment ...

Individual and social are the two foci of the mission of change that drives the social work profession. This dual-focus provides not only a cultural mechanism by which the profession can negotiate its professional boundaries but the flexibility for the profession to adjust its focus when its social assignment changes. However, the uncritical pursuit of a full-fledged professional ...

We propose a market based design for trading component-based software products bundled with reuse licenses that allows clients to customize software solutions onsite by reusing and reintegrating components across software systems using their own software development platforms. Using economic experiments in the laboratory with IT professionals we find that introducing reuse licenses has social welfare benefits in terms of ...

The article attempts to define the characteristics of students at the beginning of their social work studies in institutes of higher education in Israel, including demographic characteristics, motives for choosing the profession, perceptions about the profession, and commitment to the profession. The study was conducted among a sample of 450 students, all beginning their first academic year, at four social ...

This research study explored the information security technologies that are currently being used within organizations; attempted to determine if, according to information technology security professionals, these technologies are performing the security tasks they were designed to perform; and evaluated the survivability of the infrastructure network after the infrastructure has been attacked or penetrated. The Technology-to-Performance Chain and the ...

In today's highly distributed and networked world, common misconceptions in computer and information security often cause IT professionals to spend money on useless mechanisms and services.

The diverse ways in which technologies are modified and appropriated into local contexts are an important theme in CSCW research. Today, translocal processes such as the formation of international corporations and the movement of people and ideas across nation states increasingly shape these local contexts of technology use and design. We draw from prior work on appropriation in CSCW and ...

The management of information technology (IT) professionals is an important managerial concern. The way that IT organizations manage their IT professionals is essentially manifested in their implementation of human resource management (HRM) practices, such as those related to work environment and career development opportunities, social support, compensation, and employment security. This paper briefly introduces person-environment (P-E) fit theory ...

Results of an examination of with-gender variation in gender stereotypes about the skills and knowledge in the IT profession demonstrates the value of applying an intersectionality perspective in the study of under represented groups in the IT field. Focusing on gender or ethnicity, alone, is insufficient to explain the under representation of women and minorities in IT careers. Rather, ...

Results of an investigation of the effect of intersectionality on perceptions of university students about IT careers are presented. This analysis deepens the discussion began at the 2011 iConference by presenting an examination of responses of African American males and females on the topic of gender norms and stereotypes about IT professionals. The findings provide evidence of the influence of ...

The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys is an organization with an agenda. This advocacy group works to improve legislation affecting its professionals and their clients.

Mechanical design engineering colleges based course is highly practical in a comprehensive technology foundation courses, Professional courses for students plays a role as a bridge linking its professional coverage of about 80% of engineering class. In order to stimulate and develop students interest in learning, change boring as interesting, the content of the abstract simplicity to enhance students analyze and ...

Is ethical behavior good for business? In pondering this question, consider what "good for business" actually means. Is it just increased profits, or something more? Does being known as an ethical IT professional offer a competitive advantage? Here, Keith Miller critically examines these and related questions.

The Assistant Commandant for Human Resources at the US Coast Guard discusses efforts to implement and support both the US Department of Homeland Security's Information Technology Strategic Human Capital Plan and the US Coast Guard's STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) diversity outreach and recruitment strategies. In particular, he explains how the Coast Guard's environment of inclusion ...

We analyse whether there is a linkage between performance measures of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and earnings management. We find that earnings management decreases with the higher performance of ERP systems. The empirical result is as expected. We further analyse how the dimension of the DeLone and McLean model of information systems success affects earnings management. We find that ...

T Subjects such as knowledge engineering, pervasive computing, unified communication, ubiquitous sensing and actuation and situation awareness are gaining the most critical and crucial attention from information technology (IT) professionals and pundits across the globe these days in order to accomplish the vision of ambient intelligence (AmI). It is all about effective and round-the-clock gleaning of data and ...

Association football is now a multi-billion dollar global industry whose emergence spans the post-medieval to the modern world. With its professional roots in late nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire, stadiums built for the professionalization of football first appear in any numbers in the North of England. While many historians of sport focus on consumerism and ‘topophilia’ (attachment to place) ...

Despite the current difficulties in the economy, the demand for information technology (IT) workers is expected to grow substantially in the next several years. The need for talented IT workers is exacerbated by the looming retirement of many IT professionals. Thus, it is becoming increasingly important for organizations to find ways to retain their valuable and skilled IT employees. One ...

In this paper, we describe the research questions and methodology for a research project investigating excellent performance in Information Technology consulting, both technical and behavioral attributes. Exploratory qualitative data will be gathered using a multi-city focus group and interviews with IT consultants. Based upon the exploratory data and the IS skills literature, a survey will also be created, validated, ...

Recent studies have shown that turnover is a major issue in IT environments (Armstrong & Riemenschneider, 2011; Carayon, Schoepke, Hoonakker, Haims, & Brunette, 2006; Moore, 2000a; Rigas, 2009). In fact, the research literature in IT and the popular press suggest that IT professionals are particularly vulnerable to burnout (Armstrong & Riemenschneider, 2011; Kalimo & Toppinen, 1995; McGee, 1996; Moore, 2000a). ...

Knowledge hoarding in Requirements Elicitation (RE) phase could lead to Information Systems Development (ISD) project failure. Many researchers have discussed important factors in knowledge sharing. Nevertheless, the success rate for ISD projects is low and there are other major factors for consideration. Review was conducted to identify potential gaps in existing literature and to explore new factors that impact ISD ...

Engineering education has a long history in the IEEE. One of the IEEE’s parent organizations, the Institute of Radio Engineers, formed its Professional Group on Education (IRE-PGE)in1957andlaunchedtheIRETRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATIONin March 1958. With the merger of the IRE and the American Institute forElectrical Engineering (AIEE)in 1963,theIRE-PGEbecametheIEEEProfessionalTechnical Group on Education, and the journal became the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ...

As the requests for technical solutions to meet the changing demands of the struggling US economy grow, the IT professional is once again in the spotlight. While a significant stream of research has studied IT professionals within the context of the job and/or organization, to date little research has focused on the context of the IT profession. We address ...

This study takes the first step in IT literature to examine the role of time-based and strain-based work-life conflicts on turnover and turnaway. Prior research on work-life (and work-family) conflicts and turnover typically examines it as a unidimensional construct. This study examines work-life conflict as a multidimensional construct comprising of time-based and strain-...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are believed to have the potential to enhance efficiency and provide better health care. However, the benefits could be easily compromised if EHRs are not used appropriately. This paper applies a modified waterfall life cycle model to evaluate the roles of health IT professionals in the adoption and management of EHRs. We then present our development ...

How to stimulate student interest in social policy, while reinforcing its professional significance for social work, remains an understudied topic. This paper reports an evaluation of a teaching intervention that sought to enhance student interest in social policy by: more explicitly connecting social policy with professional social work practice; introducing an assessment exercise that involved visiting Parliament House; and undertaking ...

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The Israeli Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society has taken on the goal of promoting computer and software technology in Israel through study, research, and application. Innovation can come from without as well as within. This approach is known as network innovation, and is not limited to electronics. It has been embraced by companies which have realized the power of ...

Recalling its origins as a research journal addressing educationists this article seeks to understand historical research published in History of Education as aimed at a professional audience. Primary schooling provides a significant focus as the study of education history was fostered especially in the training of elementary teachers. In that context a traditional strand of research on structures and systems ...

We built a standalone tool, the Business Content Explorer, to provide domain-specific content, consisting of concepts, business rules, metrics and business processes that are readily available to IT professionals (software architects and developers). This tool structures content based on the Business Content Hierarchy (BCH). The novelties in the tool are: (a) how the user can use the tool, and (...

This paper describes the concept of a social network of the ICT specialists in the regions of the Czech Republic. In particular, we focus on the web portal under development, i.e. a software tool serving for the network implementation. Associated activities concerning collecting and analyzing ICT requirements from companies and educational ICT knowledge of university graduates are presented. The ...

This article proposes a quantitative evaluation framework of all the dimensions provided by hotel websites. The proposed framework evaluates the richness of specific and comprehensive information. A proposed conceptual model that describes the hotel websites' features is used in order to summarize the data and consider how sound websites are in terms of technology and management. The model combines various ...

With the action research method, the senior physicians and nurses became involved with the community: they interviewed 32 seniors, ages 50 to 80, through a focus group to understand their needs and suggestions regarding issues related to terminal medical decisions. The following five points regarding the presentation are summarized: (1) be easy to understand, not boring; (2) be realistic and ...

In order to meet the current demand for IT professionals, this paper presents the reform idea of 2C+E (Core professional knowledge, Core professional ability, Engineering environment) training system with the goal of training ideal professionals. The idea needs students to master core professional knowledge, to train core professional ability in the university, and to enhance their capability of engineering practice ...

In the field of instructional technology (IT), working professionals find themselves in a world of rapidly changing information. By engaging with both professional and personal communities simultaneously via the Internet, IT professionals can stay "connected" to information in its real- time form. Using connectivism as a framework, in this survey- based study we explored ways in which IT professionals manage ...

The implementation of information technology in healthcare is a significant focus for many nations around the world. However, information technology support for clinical care, research and education in oral medicine is currently poorly developed. This situation hampers our ability to transform oral medicine into a 'learning healthcare discipline' in which the divide between clinical practice and research is diminished and, ...

Revenue from application development and maintenance projectsare significant for Indian IT service providers. Knowledge of scripting languages along with code-reading skills is imperative to effectively execute maintenance projects. This paper outlines some of the higher order challenges faced by an IT graduate in learning scripting language from a project perspective or as an additional skill set. It also proposes ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine if the professional information technology (IT) in Puerto Rico has had an impact during the job search process, financial compensation and success in the industry, from the point of view of management, with the emergence of certification. Design/methodology/approach – The design used in this research was the cross-sectional and ...

As the role of information technology (IT) in business grows and IT users become more technologically dependent, the IT professional is increasingly expected to work with individuals from other areas of the organization. Dealing with customers, either internal or external, brings the expectation that one will conform to societal, occupational, or organizational norms regarding the display of emotion. This paper ...

We addressed both the well documented perception that information technology (IT) organizations fail to maximize returns on the significant investments firms make in them − and the paucity of empirical evidence about how IT professionals contribute to the problem . We focused on people, seeking to shed light on the competencies of professionals overseeing or executing IT projects in three multinational ...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate how accountants working in a large public sector accounting organization perceive KM implementation issues in their organization. An integrated KM framework that interconnects KM enablers, knowledge sharing process, and organizational performance derived from the literature is proposed and adopted in this study. Design/methodology/approach – The accountants working at the Accountant-General's Department (...

In IT industry, almost all employees use desktop/Laptop at their workplace. The average working hours per day on computer in call center and software development were more than 9 hrs and 8.3 hrs respectively. Some of the present study (1) shows that the magnitude of computer related problems were around 93 percentage. It can be concluded seeing the ...

Effective visual analysis of computer network defense (CND) information is challenging due to the volume and complexity of both the raw and analyzed network data. A typical CND is comprised of multiple niche intrusion detection tools, each of which performs network data analysis and produces a unique alerting output. The state-of-the-practice in the situational awareness of CND ...

Every country is unique in terms of geography, climate, economy, infrastructure, language, politics, and culture. Those factors affect not only our everyday life, but also our work. However, technical experts are rarely educated or prepared for facing such non-technical challenges. That is not an issue in their home countries, but when they move abroad for work, it often takes ...

This paper proposes using Service Responsibility Tables (SRTs) as a tool in analyzing e-service systems. First it discusses difficulties and deficiencies of using formal modeling languages such as UML in analyzing e-service systems. It proposes using SRTs as an informal language and lightweight analytical tool to be used by business professionals in analyzing e-service systems. SRTs are ...

Master in Computer Science programs (MS-CS) are critically important in producing competitive IT professionals and preparing students for doctorate research. A major challenge is how to integrate the latest computing technologies into MS-CS programs without compromising the computer science foundation education. This paper shares Pace University's study and experience in renovating its MS-CS program to address ...

The rapid growth of networks and services has introduces new complex environments. To cope with this complexity, IBM proposed autonomic computing. It allows systems to mange themselves instead of relying on IT professionals. On the other hand, overlay networks are getting a great attention due to the reliable and effective services that they provide. With the increased number of mobile ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of stressors (role ambiguity, role conflict, work-overload, work-family conflict), job stress, job satisfaction and organizational commitment on the information technology (IT) professionals' intention to quit their jobs in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – A structural equation modeling approach was employed to identify the variables that significantly affect the ...

This study uses a grounded theory research method to explore how IT professionals define and select a methodology to maintain existing software. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how standard methodologies are applied in software practice and the critical factors used by professionals when choosing an appropriate methodology for software maintenance activities. This research underscores the need for ...

Now at middle age, the field of Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) and its professionals have demonstrated a unique capacity to develop their own practice-based evidence (PBE) and professional standards to forge solutions to challenging professional practice dilemmas. This innovative capacity is no more evident than in designing and implementing individualized linkages among assessment/instruction/progress evaluation for all children, ...

Journal: European Journal of Information Systems - EJIS, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 87-102, 2011]]>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/51059180Mon, 20 May 2013 00:42:15 GMT51059180Hsin-Ke Lu, Chia-Hui Lo, Peng-Chun Linview publication

Content, evaluation, and applications of competence have been important issues in both academic and practical applications since the 1970s. On the one hand, studies on psychological assessment, human resources management and development have extensively discussed the definition and classification of competence; on the other hand, practical research on the competences of different occupations has attracted considerable attention. Previous studies have ...

IT is rapidly evolving, and IT professionals must continuously upgrade their skills to remain current. E-learning can help by providing continuing education in a convenient manner, as evidenced by academic programs at the University of Maryland University College.

Counselling psychology has always had an interest in exploring its professional identity. This may be due to diverse multidisciplinary influences on counselling psychology. While diversity and multiplicity can be considered a hallmark feature of the profession, it can also be a source of stress for doctoral students. This study explores counselling psychology doctoral students’ perceptions of their professional identities. It ...

This research aims to identify the critical factors that significantly influence the intention of IT professionals to accept and use the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm. The study uses an interpretive approach. A series of in-depth exploratory interviews was carried out involving IT experts using or considering using SOC in their professional work yielding interesting insights concerning the process ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore information technology (IT) professionals' perception towards shift-based work pattern used by globally distributed software development (GDSD) firms in Sri Lanka, in terms of the effects of shift work on them and strategies they used to cope with shift work. Design/methodology/approach – A self-administered survey questionnaire was chosen as ...

Purpose – The paper aims to gain an insight into the risk management tools practised in Islamic and commercial banks in Malaysia, and selected Islamic banks outside Malaysia. The study also examines the level of adequacy of risk management tools and systems of these banks. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs primary data collected using a questionnaire survey. Findings – There are ...

This paper explores the application of the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) to the formulation of strategies for sustainable development in regions and cities. SAM was created during the 90s in order to bridge the gap in terms of objectives, competences and culture between business and IT professionals. The present study applies SAM to align economic development and environmental sustainability and ...

Living in this age of technology, where knowledge and information are just a click away, the authors wish to present an e-book which would be used for teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at the College for Information Technology in Zagreb, Croatia. The article gives a detailed explanation of the idea and purpose of such a book. The contents ...

The CIO of a nationwide real estate company discusses the skill set IT professionals will need to succeed in the years ahead. The technology will change, but analytical, communication, and project management skills will remain essential.

This article examines refugee experiences of the Danish mandatory spatial dispersal policy, which requires that individuals and families agree to live for three years in an assigned community when accepted as refugees. The policy is based on the assumption that immersion in ethnically Danish local communities will facilitate integration. Ethnographic field research carried out in two rural municipalities shows, however, ...

We analyse whether there is a linkage between performance measures of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and earnings management. We find that earnings management decreases with the higher performance of ERP systems. The empirical result is as expected. We further analyse how the dimension of the DeLone and McLean model of information systems success affects earnings management. We find that ...

Researchers believe that Employer branding may be the most powerful tool a business can use to emotionally engage employees, maintain and retain the talented. It is essential to accurately measure whether the organization's values, systems, policies and behaviors work towards the objectives of attracting, motivating and retaining current and potential employees. This paper envisages examining empirically the Employer brand ...

Software development process management has been widely recognized as a critical domain for project success, both within and outside of the IT profession. Unfortunately, this process has been anything but smooth in practice. Many software projects are delivered with extremely high costs and painful delivery delays. Although IT professionals are now equipped with better development tools and management knowledge. Still, ...

This special issue on IT in Education provides perspectives from industry, government, and academia in terms of how we should educate IT professionals in the coming years. Keywords: Information technology, education, IT professional

Due to an urgent national need for more IT professionals, developing countries spawn academic IT programs at an increasing rate. Those programs are often replicated from similar programs in Europe and America. Students' preferences concerning their education are, however, rarely inquired. This research study explored and analyzed Tanzanian IT students' views of challenges in their studies, as well as their ...

Research indicates that a person’s behaviour and competency at work are related to that person’s personality and his emotional intelligence. These two parameters define a person’s ability to handle stress, work pressure etc. and help determine the performance levels and the sociability levels of the employee. An instrument for determining the emotional intelligence (EI) level of individuals at work place ...

Journal: It Professional, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 36-40, 2011]]>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/57346494Mon, 20 May 2013 00:41:58 GMT57346494Princely Ifinedo, Airi Ifinedoview publication

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight key information system (IS) issues in Estonian organizations for the mid-2000s. This research is a follow-up to an initial effort in the country in 1993, in which a similar theme was investigated. The primary objective of this present study was to compare and contrast the findings in the previous ...

Satisfaction is a key indicator of system success, and so has been the subject of much IS research. The nostalgia effect, whereby individuals feel satisfied or dissatisfied when thinking about past goal attainment or failure, has been observed to influence analysts’ decisions with respect to ongoing systems development. The Yield Shift Theory (YST) of Satisfaction offers an explanation for the ...

Security of information has become a major concern in today's digitized world. As a result, effective techniques to secure information are required. The most effective way is to incorporate security in the development process itself thereby resulting into secured product. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables security to be included in the software development process. The ...

In recent decades, IS researchers have collected and analyzed difference score data with regard to IS service quality research, system functionality and user interface features, as well as job- and career-related expectations of IT personnel. Despite the prevalence of difference scores in IS research, these methods have been criticized due to various theoretical and statistical anomalies. In this research ...

"Work smarter not harder", "Do more with less". These are phrases we all hear on a daily basis as we face difficult budgets. The CITES Help Desk at the University of Illinois took the opportunity to redesign itself to create efficiencies, provide better services without increasing the budget, and begin creating career paths for its IT professionals. To support new ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is explore career management strategies used by information technology (IT) professionals full-time employed in offshore outsourced IT firms in Sri Lanka; and to evaluate those against hierarchical plateau, job content plateau, firm size, and individual demographic characteristics that may predict the use. Design/methodology/approach – Survey methodology was used and a random sample ...

The research includes various constructs based on social exchange theory and social cognitive theory. This study mainly explored the relationships among organisational justice, trust, commitment and knowledge-sharing cognition and verified their mediating effects through two variables of trust and commitment. A survey utilising a questionnaire was used with 252 IT professionals from IT companies and departments in Taiwan. Structural ...

Rapidly increasing demand for technology support services, and often shrinking budgetary and staff resources, create enormous challenges for information technology (IT) departments in public sector higher education. To address these difficult circumstances, the author helped develop a network of IT professionals from schools in a community college system and a research university in the same geographic region into a community ...

The Semantic Web is one of the fastest developing fields within the Information and Communication Technology sector and, as such, under constant examination by scientists and IT professionals. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the applicability of Semantic Web tools and technologies in practice. This aim will be achieved by surveying the recommended and emerging W3C standards, ...

Over the last two decades, teachers in Australia have witnessed multiple incarnations of the idea of ‘educational accountability’ and its enactment. Research into this phenomenon of educational policy and practice has revealed various layers of the concept, particularly its professional, bureaucratic, political and cultural dimensions that are central to the restructuring of educational governance and the reorganization of teachers’ work. ...

The general problem of employee retention and the ability of an organization to influence and change actual turnover behavior are of great concern to employers, consultants, and academicians alike. This has been especially true in the IT profession. The growing need for IT professionals combined with a shrinking labor pool has made recruitment and retention of IT talent a top ...

At a time when demand for graduates in computing is increasing, the number of majors, particularly women, has significantly decreased. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that jobs in computer and mathematical sciences will grow "more than twice as fast as the average for all occupations in the economy" from 2008 through 2018 [1]. At the same time, studies ...

skills contest pulled close distance between the school and enterprise, improve the students' vocational ability. On the analysis of the common problems existing in students attend skills contest, combined with the actual work, on how to effectively develop the students' IT vocational ability, the traditional teaching methods, teaching methods have been reformed. Taken to the creation of scenarios, the introduction ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the IT professionals in a Hong Kong public transport company have a general perception of influence of the organisational defensive patterns on learning of ICT; and whether skilled incompetence, organisational defensive routines and fancy footwork are positively associated with each other in IT group of a transport company. Design/methodology/...

External expertise and adequate levels of internal computer skills and knowledge are essential factors that can contribute to the success of complex information technology (IT) systems, including enterprise resource planning (ERP). Studies examining the effects of external expertise and in-house or internal computer/IT knowledge on the success of ERP packages are rare. This present study was designed to ...

Facebook is the most popular social networking site, with more than 500 million active members. It has brought new opportunities for the learning and career development of students that live with technology and networked communications. This study explores the design of an e-mentoring Facebook application intended to bring together students, faculty, and Information Technology (IT) professionals as mentors and ...

All cloud services require the fundamental layer known as Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Clouds have the benefit of being cost effective, while improving productivity. This paper is focused on a proposed conceptual model for deploying Cloud IaaS in Higher Educational Institutions in Africa with Nigeria as a Case Study. As an IT professional working in the educational sector in ...

IT professionals must navigate an increasingly complex requirements landscape. Presented here is a process for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating requirements risks throughout the project life cycle. The authors illustrate its use in a case study for a mobile presence service.

Many developed nations' populations are aging. For workplaces, this has two important implications: organizations face an increasingly older workforce, at the same time that they experience a higher level of retirements. Both of these factors suggest some dramatic implications for those studying the workplace that must be considered. Regrettably, findings show that age-based research on older adults' experiences with ...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine the essential features of information literacy; what role it should play in university library user education; and how programs can be best implemented. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers systemically surveyed and reviewed publications related to information literacy and library user education. Findings – It was found that a well-designed information literacy ...

The shortage of IT professionals remains a critical concern today, with fewer IT students entering the workforce compared to IT professionals leaving or retiring. While research has examined factors contributing to the declining of IT enrollments, it is unclear why some IT students choose to go on to an IT career while others eschew IT. To address this gap, this ...

IT professionals often ask, "If I'm ethically responsible for any errors in the software that I develop, then how can I release any software to the public? After all, I can't be sure that it's perfect." This is a fair question for any computer ethicist. Reviewing the work of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle helps find the ...

This study assesses mainstream journalism’s diversity measures from the perspective of minority audiences. Specifically, it focuses on Latinas/os’ perceptions of the San José Mercury News, a paper highly regarded for its professional standards and its commitment to cultural diversity. Based on a multi-methodological approach, the study shows Latinas/os’ persistent distrust of the Mercury News and how that...

Journal: It Professional, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 44-48, 2011]]>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/56916226Mon, 20 May 2013 00:41:34 GMT56916226Chia-Chi Teng, Joseph J. Ekstromview publication

IT2008 specifically mentioned health care as an area of probable interest for "application domain classes". This paper documents our initial foray into providing a domain specific course in Health Information Technology (HIT) for Seniors in an IT Program. Many believe that IT can be a major contributor to improving efficiency of health care delivery. The increasing use of IT in ...