Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Information Systems and Information Technology

• Author: Heikki Topi, Allen Tucker
• Language: English
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 3 edition (May 14, 2014)
• Pages: 1522
• Size:  12 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-10: 1439898545
• ISBN-13: 978-1439898543

Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Computer Science and Software Engineering

• Editor: Teofilo Gonzalez, Jorge Diaz-Herrera, Allen Tucker
• Language: English
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 3 edition (May 7, 2014)
• Pages: 2326
• Size:  21 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-10: 1439898529
• ISBN-13: 978-1439898529

Informatics and Communication Technologies for Societal Development: Proceedings of ICICTS 2014

• Author: Elijah Blessing Rajsingh, Anand Bhojan, J. Dinesh Peter
• Language: English
• Publisher: Springer; 2015 edition (September 9, 2014)
• Pages: 176
• Size:  3 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-10: 8132219155
• ISBN-13: 978-8132219156

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

• Author: Robert Wachter
• Language: English
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 1, 2015)
• Pages: 320
• Size:  6 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-13: 978-0071849463

From Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US
While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills.
But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital.
Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point?
Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . .
Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story.
"We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right."
This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.

Building Microservices

• Author: Sam Newman
• Language: English
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 20, 2015)
• Pages: 280
• Size:  5 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-13: 978-1491950357

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.

Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. You’ll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.

• Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organization’s goals
• Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system
• Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases
• Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration
• Examine the complexities of testing and monitoring distributed services
• Manage security with user-to-service and service-to-service models

Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures

Project Management Checklists For Dummies

• Author: Nick Graham
• Language: English
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (November 24, 2014)
• Pages: 304
• Size:  3 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN: 978-1118931431

Learn to:

• Develop projects with confidence
• Use checklists and self-check questions to save time in your projects
• Make sure all key actions and steps are carried out
• Complete vital project documents (with handy templates)

Your ready-made tool for project management success
Want to become a master of planning, organizing, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? Packed with handy checklists, this easy-to-use guide takes the pain out of project management, showing you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time – and headaches – in managing your projects effectively.

• Got projects? Check! – get expert guidance and find out how to use checklists in line with best practices and the ISO standard
• Sketch it out – get lots of checklists that will help you think a project through, from identifying the benefits and justification of the potential project to who should do what if the project goes ahead
• It’s a plan – use handy checklists and templates to develop the range of plans you’ll need in your project: resource, risk, quality, communications, stakeholder and procurement
• Be in control – discover helpful checklists for keeping control of your project through every stage of its lifecycle
• Master the miscellany – take over someone else’s project partway through or audit someone else’s project with ease and confidence

Open the book and find:

• How to use checklists and templates in projects
• The best way to kick off a project
• Checklists and templates for planning
• The importance of roles and responsibilities
• Time-tested project management techniques worth knowing
• Ten convincing reasons to use a method