Accounting Interactive Pre MBA 2000

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This 4-6 hour interactive program was developed by The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) as a review tool for students returning for their MBA. It is also an excellent support program for financial or intermediate accounting courses. The CD-ROM applies the accounting process across three distinctly different companies--a service organization, a retailer, and a manufacturer. The CD-ROM provides an introduction to the accounting process and financial statement analysis with self-directed learning.

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Managing More with Less is an innovative book linking a range of core management skills and re-interpreting them to meet current organizational needs. Aimed at managers in flat organizations, this book shows you how to deal with increasingly scarce resources to maintain a high level of productivity.

The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.

The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk.

Updates and merges project management, influencing and time management skills
Squarely aimed at managers in flat organizations
Published in association with the Industrial Society

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This book examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. It provides complete coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. Chapters discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, as well as facilitation of direct to consumer access. A case study section highlights critical lessons learned, while another portion of the work examines biostatistical methods including data mining, predictive modelling, and analysis. This book additionally addresses organizational, technical, and business challenges in order to successfully implement a computer-aided decision-making support system in healthcare delivery.

Computer Supported Risk Management (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

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Computer Supported Risk Management (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

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ASIN: 0792333721

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Advances in information technology provide opportunities for the development of computer systems that support risk managers in complex tasks. Leading experts report on the potentials and limitations concerning the use of computer systems in risk management. Their reports are based on many years of experience in their fields which include: risk analysis, systems engineering, geographic information systems, decision support systems, human--machine systems, and psychology.
The book addresses four major issues in computer supported risk management:

Conceptual aspects: the role, design, and use of computers in risk management
Planning and policy analysis: transportation, equity analysis, emergency management, group decision making
Operational decision making: nuclear power monitoring, emergency response, public safety warning, satellite tracking
Commercial applications: GIS from IIASA, InterClair from IAEA, EPA software, cleanup decision support software survey. This book is meant for researchers, who will find the emerging issues in risk management that are motivated by the encounter of new tasks and novel technology; practitioners who will have descriptions and references of the state-of-the-art models and software; and students who will learn the basic concepts needed to develop advanced information and decision support systems in risk management.

Evidence-Based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions

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Excellent Insight on The Finer Practice of Spine Surgery
Excellant companion book for practice development

Evidence-Based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions
J. A. Muir Gray
Manufacturer: Churchill Livingstone
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ASIN: 0443062889

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The evidence-based medicine movement has been one of the most important influences on medicine in the latter half of the 1990s. This textbook on evidence-based decision-making--basing clinical decisions on the best available evidence from systematic research--is ideal for healthcare, medical, and nurse managers. It explains how evidence-based decision making can be applied to health policy and management decisions about groups of patients and populations, rather than decisions about the treatment of individuals. Its first edition was well reviewed and highly successful, and this new edition builds upon the success of the first.

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Excellent Insight on The Finer Practice of Spine Surgery.......2007-01-30

This book starts off with the premise that the reader has basic knowledge of spine disorders and relevant treatment options. From then onwards, it takes off in a rich, descriptive style touching on current controversial issues and explaining the rationale for differing treatment stances. Evidence-based opinion is presented objectively without any nuances or bias, taking into depth all sides of an issue. I do recommend it to the student preparing for his subspecialty paper, to the Fellow researching for his academic presentation and to the spine surgeon wanting to keep abreast of current issues. I would also await the next edition enthusiastically.

Excellant companion book for practice development.......2000-04-05

This book is written in an accessible and practical format. It assumes nothing but at the same time treats the reader as an intelligent participant on the journey to understanding evidence based practice.

It is up to date and I was especially impressed with the web address it gives to ensure the reader is kept abreast of any changes since publication.

It systematically explains the need and use of 'evidence', how to find it (the search advice is comprehensive and includes details such as search terms and the best search engines aswell as web addresses) how to evaluate it and also how to act on it.

All in all this book was great, and I would reccomend it to anyone involved in evidence based healthcare practice as it will guide you through the thorniest problems.

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Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice (Health Informatics)

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Clinical Decision Support: The Road Ahead

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Clinical Information Systems: A Component-Based Approach (Health Informatics)

Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems (Health Informatics)

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Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics)

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Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

ASIN: 0387339140

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This book is designed to be 1) a resource book on clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists; 2) a textbook for teachers or students in health informatics or medical informatics training programs; and 3) a comprehensive introduction for clinicians, with or without expertise in the applications of computers in medicine, who are interested in learning about current developments in computer-based diagnostic systems. In recent years, it has become obvious that other health professionals, in addition to physicians, have needs for decision support and that the issues raised in this book apply to a broad range of clinicians. The book includes chapters by nationally and internationally recognized experts on the design, evaluation and application of these systems who examine the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based diagnostic tools.

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How about a few visual aids
Extremely brief discussion of many topics

Health Decision Support Systems

Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
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ASIN: 0834210657

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How about a few visual aids.......2000-02-10

The chapter entitled Graphics-Based HDSSs uses only verbal descriptions of graph types. It is ironic that a chapter that discusses the value of different types of graphs to facilitate cognition in different types of tasks imposes the extraordinary burden of making the reader visualize those paradigms unaided and making the reader hope that he correctly understands them.

Extremely brief discussion of many topics.......1998-06-27

This book is well written and easy to read but is much too basic. The book covers a variety of topics, but none of them in enough detail to be of assistance as a textbook in any but the most rudimentary of courses. For example, many of the major topics in healthcare decision support are discussed in less than one page.

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Clinical Decision Support Systems
Blackford Middleton
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Agent Technology and e-Health (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)

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Agent Technology and e-Health (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)

Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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ASIN: 3764385464

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Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In the last ten years there has been a growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care. Moreover, a growing European community of researchers interested in the application of intelligent agents in health care emerged as a result of the activities within the AgentCities.NET European network and the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on Healthcare Applications of Intelligent Agents. And specially in R&D projects funded during the FP6. Thus, this book reports on the results achieved in this area, discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains and society, and also to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality. Current topics of research include communication and co-operation betweendistributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from the Internet, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and diagnosis. A lot of methodological and technical problems are beginning to be discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few, there does not exist a universally accepted standard medical ontology, it is difficult to integrate new agent systems with legacy software, and these new agent-based systems should take into account rapidly changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security of the transaction of patient information between agents. The reader will find a comprehensive view of the field and up-to-date state-of-the-art of the research in this field in Europe.

A Benchmark Usability Study of the Tactical Decision Making Under StressDecision Support System

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A Benchmark Usability Study of the Tactical Decision Making Under StressDecision Support System

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423556674

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A450653. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This study evaluates the usability of a U.S. Navy Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS was developed to enhance the performance of tactical decision makers within a Navy Combat Information Center. The goals of this study were to test the DSS against usability criteria and objectives to track future redesign efforts and system improvements. The purpose of this analysis was to (1) assess the system's usability, (2) identify problems areas in the graphical user interface, (3) report trends in user feedback, and (4) provide recommendations addressing major usability issues encountered by participants. The study tested whether the DSS met the usability objectives of (a) 90% successful task completion, (b) ease of use ratings of somewhat easy or better, and (c) satisfaction ratings of somewhat satisfied or better. The DSS did not meet these usability objectives for task completion or ease or use, however the DSS did meet the usability objective for user satisfaction. All participants reported that they enjoyed working with the DSS and believed that it would be a significant step forward in information management. Based on the usability data gathered in the study, recommendations are provided to address the usability issues.

Computer-Based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004) (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)

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Computer-Based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004) (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)

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A Decision Support System for Effective Scheduling in an F-16 Pilot Training Squadron

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A Decision Support System for Effective Scheduling in an F-16 Pilot Training Squadron

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423502396

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A017514. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Scheduling of flights for a flight training squadron involves the coordination of time and resources in a dynamic environment. The generation of a daily flight schedule (DFS) requires the proper coordination of resources within established time windows, This research provides a decision support tool to assist in the generation of the DFS. Three different priority rules are investigated for determining an initial ordering of flights and a shifting bottleneck heuristic is used to establish a candidate DFS. A user interface allows a scheduler to interact with the decision support tool during the DFS generation process. Furthermore, the decision support tool provides the capability to produce a weekly schedule for short-term planning purposes as well as the entire flight training program schedule for long- term planning purposes.

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The impressive development of modern cosmology during the last decades is to a large extent due to its unification with elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, giving rise to the discipline of Astrofundamental Physics. The early universe is an exceptional (theoretical and experimental) laboratory in this new discipline.

This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and key issues in the early universe and the cosmic microwave background, in terms of both theory and observation. The genuine interplay between large-scale structure formation and dark matter is discussed, the central focus being the cosmic microwave background. Emphasis is on the precise interrelation between fundamental physics and cosmology in these problems, both at the theoretical and experimental/observational levels, within a profound, well-defined, interdisciplinary programme.

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