Download or read book Harnessing Health Libraries written by Bruce Madge and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of evidence-based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence. Trying to find exactly the right article you are looking for can be vital especially when meeting a tight deadline or trying to find evidence for a particular treatment. This book from the Harnessing Health Information series shows the reader how to find the exact article quickly and efficiently. Fully referenced, it includes handy information such as acronyms with full descriptions and the available search tools. It looks at how novice users can find information in a straightforward and friendly way.
Download or read book Harnessing Health Libraries written by Bruce Madge and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text shows the reader how to find the exact article quickly and efficiently. Fully referenced, it includes acronomys with full descriptions and available search tools. It also looks at how novice users can find information in a straightforward and friendly way.
Download or read book Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Lives written by P. Cudd and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of people with disabilities are complex and various, and there are many situations where technology – particularly assistive technology – already makes a real difference. It is clear that smart phone and tablet computer based solutions continue to enhance the independence of many users, but it is also important that more traditional assistive technologies and services are not forgotten or neglected. This book presents the proceedings of the 14th conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE 2017) entitled: ‘Harnessing the power of technology to improve lives’, held in Sheffield, UK, in September 2017. This 4-day event about assistive technologies (AT) highlights the association’s interest in innovating not only technology, but also services, and addresses the global challenge of meeting the needs of the increasing number of people who could benefit from assistive technology. The 200+ papers in the book are grouped under 30 subject headings, and include contributions on a wide range of topical subjects, including aging well and dementia; care robotics; eHealth and apps; innovations; universal design; sport; and disordered speech. The breadth of the AAATE conference reflects people’s life needs and so the book is sure to contain something of interest to all those whose work involves the design, development and use of assistive technology, whatever the situation. The photo on the front cover illustrates the breadth of assistive technologies that can improve lives. Photographer: Simon Butler.
Download or read book Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis written by Marilyn James and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines.
Download or read book Harnessing the Power of Google written by Christopher C. Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative and practical book teaches how to get better and faster results from Internet searches and methods for maximizing the potential of the world's most popular search engine. Mastering Internet research skills is a must for today's information professionals and LIS students, as well as for educators and all high school and college students. But without specific instruction in how to conduct online research, people are destined to waste time in their Internet queries or to come up emptyhanded when the information they're seeking is, in fact, available. Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know offers simple strategies that streamline research and improve anyone's search results. It will specifically benefit information professionals, students, and academic researchers in disciplines like international studies, political science, and statistical research. Illustrated with helpful screen shots, this handbook will be an often-consulted desk reference and can serve as a workshop guide or supplementary reading in courses on online research skills. The book starts with a review of general guidelines for searching that covers topics like the difference between primary and secondary sources, determining authority, citing sources, indexing, and ranking before addressing Google's power-searching features, such as the ability to search by top-level Internet domain or file type. The book describes the history of information access over the past century, culminating in today's digital information archives and how Google now augments—not replaces—what libraries provide. The three Google interfaces that together comprise a powerful toolkit are covered in detail: Google Web for finding primary source materials; Google Scholar for full text searching of scholarly, peer-reviewed material; and Google Books for searching the full text of a very high percentage of books.
Download or read book Using Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare written by Stuart Tyrrell and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare professionals are required to use an increasing range of technologies in everyday healthcare. This jargon-free text presents a comprehensive, practical guide including topics on hardware, software, databases, security and local area networks (LANs).
Download or read book Information for Managing Healthcare Resources written by Sheila Bullas and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text identifies the principal sources of information in healthcare and analyses information use in relation to organisational culture. It also explains developments for those with no prior specialist knowledge and gives numerous practical examples.
Download or read book Harnessed written by Mark Changizi and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and can seamlessly absorb enormous amounts of information simply by hearing it. Surely we evolved this capability over thousands of generations. Or did we? Portions of the human brain are also devoted to reading. Children learn to read at a very young age and can seamlessly absorb information even more quickly through reading than through hearing. We know that we didn't evolve to read because reading is only a few thousand years old. In Harnessed, cognitive scientist Mark Changizi demonstrates that human speech has been very specifically “designed" to harness the sounds of nature, sounds we've evolved over millions of years to readily understand. Long before humans evolved, mammals have learned to interpret the sounds of nature to understand both threats and opportunities. Our speech—regardless of language—is very clearly based on the sounds of nature. Even more fascinating, Changizi shows that music itself is based on natural sounds. Music—seemingly one of the most human of inventions—is literally built on sounds and patterns of sound that have existed since the beginning of time. From Library Journal: "Many scientists believe that the human brain's capacity for language is innate, that the brain is actually "hard-wired" for this higher-level functionality. But theoretical neurobiologist Changizi (director of human cognition, 2AI Labs; The Vision Revolution) brilliantly challenges this view, claiming that language (and music) are neither innate nor instinctual to the brain but evolved culturally to take advantage of what the most ancient aspect of our brain does best: process the sounds of nature ... it will certainly intrigue evolutionary biologists, linguists, and cultural anthropologists and is strongly recommended for libraries that have Changizi's previous book." From Forbes: “In his latest book, Harnessed, neuroscientist Mark Changizi manages to accomplish the extraordinary: he says something compellingly new about evolution.… Instead of tackling evolution from the usual position and become mired in the usual arguments, he focuses on one aspect of the larger story so central to who we are, it may very well overshadow all others except the origin of life itself: communication."
Download or read book Using the Internet in Healthcare written by Stuart Tyrrell and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining each aspect of the Internet in a straightforward way, this text gives practical advice on how the Internet can aid doctors, nurses and managers in their daily work. With information for every level of understanding, this second edition reflects changes in the fast-moving field.
Download or read book Vision and Value in Health Information written by Michael Rigby and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK. It comprises a collection of key essays from eminent contributors on the innovative use and development of information in health care.
Download or read book Research and Development for the NHS written by Mark R. Baker and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition will be greatly welcomed by all researchers, managers, funders of research and development, postgraduate students, healthcare policy makers and implementers, as well as clinicians and academics. It is relevant for those in primary as well as secondary care. Fully updated and expanded, it gives a practical overview of the new NHS Research and Development Program. It incorporates the many changes since the previous edition including the programs on leadership and delivery. This new edition provides the comprehensive information and detailed sources required for anyone working in the NHS or in health services research.
Download or read book Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities written by Beth St. Jean and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together librarians, LIS students, educators, and researchers, to discuss the many ways that information professionals and libraries serve as agents of securing health information justice.
Download or read book Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries written by Jean P. Shipman and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health sciences librarians need to optimize collaborating with others in their institutions and beyond. An understanding of what leads to successful collaborations is beneficial and empowering. By using case studies of varieties of collaborations, Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries provides a framework and evidence about key factors to consider when thinking about building and sustaining successful collaborations. Readers of this book are encouraged to contact the chapter authors to obtain more details than those provided in the book. This connection between experts with collaboration experience and those seeking to understand successful collaborations is the key impact of this book. - Focusing on the positive aspect of collaboration in health sciences libraries, this book encourages others to form collaborations mutually beneficial to the library and the collaboration partner. - Through case studies, readers are exposed to new ideas and ways to enhance existing collaborations. - By contacting individual authors and learning more about their experiences, readers share ideas and connect with a network of librarians with collaboration expertise.
Download or read book Information Systems written by John Gallaugher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harnessing Social Media as a Knowledge Management Tool written by Chugh, Ritesh and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge is a valuable resource that must be managed well for any organization to thrive. Proper knowledge management practices can improve business processes by creating value, however, the available tools meant to aid in the creation, collection, and storage of information have drastically changed since the emergence of social media. By using this collaborative online application for engaging with information, organizations are able to precisely disseminate knowledge to the correct audience. Harnessing Social Media as a Knowledge Management Tool explores the usage of social media in managing knowledge from multiple dimensions highlighting the benefits, opportunities and challenges that are encountered in using and implementing social media. This publication endeavors to provide a thorough insight into the role of social media in knowledge management from both an organizational and individualistic perspective. This book elucidates emerging strategies perfect for policy makers, managers, advertisers, academics, students, and organizations who wish to effectively manage knowledge through social media.
Download or read book Harnessing the Power of Viruses written by Boriana Marintcheva and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harnessing the Power of Viruses explores the application of scientific knowledge about viruses and their lives to solve practical challenges and further advance molecular sciences, medicine and agriculture. The book contains virus-based tools and approaches in the fields of: i) DNA manipulations in vitro and in vivo; ii) Protein expression and characterization; and iii) Virus- Host interactions as a platform for therapy and biocontrol are discussed. It steers away from traditional views of viruses and technology, focusing instead on viral molecules and molecular processes that enable science to better understand life and offer means for addressing complex biological phenomena that positively influence everyday life. The book is written at an intermediate level and is accessible to novices who are willing to acquire a basic level of understanding of key principles in molecular biology, but is also ideal for advanced readers interested in expanding their biological knowledge to include practical applications of molecular tools derived from viruses. - Explores virus-based tools and approaches in DNA manipulation, protein expression and characterization and virus-host interactions - Provides a dedicated focus on viral molecules and molecular processes that enable science to better understand life and address complex biological phenomena - Includes an overview of modern technologies in biology that were developed using viral components/elements and knowledge about viral processes
Download or read book Crowdsourced Health written by Elad Yom-Tov and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What if the [online] data generated by our searches could reveal information about health that would be difficult to gather in other ways? In this book, Elad Yom-Tov argues that Internet data could change the way medical research is done, supplementing traditional tools to provide insights not otherwise available. He describes how studies of Internet searches have, among other things, already helped researchers to track side effects of prescription driugs, to understand the information needs of cancer patients and their families, and to recognize some of the causes of anorexia. Yom-Tov shows that the information collected can benefit humanity without sacrificing individual privacy"--Jacket.
