Description: The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Feb 26, 2011 The long-range vision is that computerized patient data is a step toward what… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Human Resources
When employees cross the line online
Description: Most everybody posts online these days. But in an age of conspicuous opinionation, how does an employer know when an employee has crossed the line? Source: Globe & Mail.com Date: Jan 31, 2011 The boundaries between work life and home life are dissolving, just as the difference between public and private communication is becoming… Read more »
IBM Moves Hertz’ IT Support To India
Description: Two years after winning a contract to provide IT services to Hertz, IBM has moved much of that work from the debt-laden car rental giant’s technology center in Oklahoma City to India. Source: Informationweek Date: Jan 24 , 2011 About 50 former IBM employees who worked on the Hertz contract in Oklahoma are now… Read more »
Exploring the anti-social side of social media
Description: The Public Isolation Project was born. As she literally X’s off the 30 days she is spending cut off from the world, Norine chronicles her experience through her blog http://www.publicisolationproject.com/. On the other side of the glass, Elliott is filming a documentary on their collaboration. They are not anti-technology, Elliott says, just hoping to inspire… Read more »
Tech-savvy put business intelligence to work
Description: They’re doing it using modern business intelligence, or BI. Analyzing large sets of data to rev up business operations is as old as arithmetic. Source: USA Today Date: Nov 17, 2010 Sitting in a cafe in Sydney awhile back, Danny Kennedy and Andrew Birch mused about all the valuable free data Microsoft and Google float out… Read more »
Labor board: Facebook vent against supervisor not grounds for firing
Description: The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against a Connecticut company for firing an employee after she posted critical, derogatory comments about her supervisor on Facebook. Source: CNN.com Date: Nov 10, 2010 The labor relations board argues that workers’ criticism of their bosses on social networking sites like Facebook is generally “a… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
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