A Literature Review of:Has Electronic Health Records decrease Mortality Rates

In 2009 the United States Federal government put forth an act (HITECH Act) that encouraged healthcare facilities to move from paper records to Electronic Health Records (EHR). Since this act, the implementation of EHR systems has exponentially grown. From the time of 2010 to 2014 alone these systems have been implemented in 75.5% of hospitals across the United States. One of the main reasons for the push to install hospitals with these systems was to increase the outcomes related to the effectiveness of patient care. Which past studies have shown, has not worked. Time has passed now since this implementation period and these EHR systems have had time to mature and the workers themselves had time to familiarize themselves with them. Now the question is asked once again; Are EHR systems increasing outcomes? In this article, the question was proposed once more, but this time focusing on mortality rate. Data was collected from articles that were published within the past five years. These articles as well were looking at mortality rates. After synthesizing all the data, it becomes apparent that EHR systems are having a positive effect on mortality rate with most hospitals as a whole. The keyword is most, some hospitals are lagging behind, as well as some EHR vendors not producing effective and efficient systems. When the data was further analyzed, it is noticed when looking at specific diseases, EHR is not producing great numbers and in fact, lacking. This, in turn, proves why EHR systems still need to be probed and studied more to find the barriers that are making them ineffective. We still do not know why they are failing when looking at specific diseases as well as figuring out how to overcome certain barriers

Transferring Rhineland Capitalism to the Polish-German Border: Perceptions of Bank Governance and Practice in Zgorzelec-Görlitz

This article looks at the past development and potential of the Rhenish capitalist model. We discuss the origins and nature of the model and the model in crisis. Because, we contend, Rhineland capitalism’s future will be decided in East-Central Europe, we focus – using a survey questionnaire – on bank customers perceptions of bank governance and practice in the Polish-German city of Zgorzelec-Görlitz. The experience of Dresdner Bank is stressed as is the fact that the local people not long before lived under Communism. A control group in the UK is used to ascertain the presence of German management traditions as opposed to Anglo-American approaches to management in the context of retail bank markets.banking, corporate governance, UK, Poland, Germany, cross border services

New insights from cost accounting into British entrepreneurial performance circa 1914

This article takes issue with economic historians who have tried to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that the revisionist attempt to ground their case on cost, profit, and productivity calculations flounders because of an insufficient analysis of the factors involved in arriving at cost, profit, and productivity. The economic historian, preoccupied with recent European economic development could, therefore, improve his analysis by incorporating the science of management accounting into his methodology. A companion piece to this article will be published in the fall issue of the journal

Who Is In Charge Here? A Feminist Communicology Of Followership And Leadership In An Academic Organization

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008This feminist critical study explicates the ways that followership is conceptualized at an academic organization in the Pacific Northwest. Through the use of qualitative methods, stories were solicited providing descriptions of events that define the hegemonically masculine ways that followership is conceptualized, suggesting the need for a feminist critical analysis and revisioning. A number of themes emerged from conversational interviews including: conceptual verisimilitude, archetypes of leadership, alternative conceptions of followership, the role of action in leadership and followership, and the emergent organization. The capta gathered from this qualitative study suggest a revisioning of human organization and recognizes leadership and followership as existing in a reciprocally defining communicative relationship. Leadership and followership are found to be constructed in an existential exchange addressing a specific need within an organization and its immediate requirements. When viewed from this communicative perspective organizational members come to develop a more sophisticated, relational, and dialectic understanding of the construction of leadership and followership

Cost accounting: An institutional yardstick for measuring British entrepreneural performance, circa 1914

This article, like that published in the spring issue, again finds fault with recent attempts by economic historians to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that, since after 1880 cost accounting became a necessary technology for good entrepreneurial performance, the revisionist economic historians\u27 failure to consider institutional factors, like cost accounting, has led them to overlook elements essential to an appraisal of comparative entrepreneurial performance. The growing inferiority of British costing methods, as opposed to American and German, moreover, meant a relative British entrepreneurial failure

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Managerialism and the Demise of the Big Three

This essay is about the crisis of US automobile management and the difficulties that management educators and practitioners in America have had facing up to that crisis. It focuses on Detroit’s Big Three but it also looks at the role Japanese firms played in transferring JMS (Japanese Management Systems) to America, particularly the transfer of TPS (the Toyota Production System) to Georgetown, Kentucky. It opens (I) with a discussion of the triumph of a science-based “New Paradigm” in business school management education and in industry, with reference to its critics, in order to establish the institutional framework within which US automobile management expanded and operated after World War II; then (II) a more general discussion ensues in which U.S. managerialism and JMS are compared, and the pathways and barriers to the transfer of JMS to America both to US firms and to Japanese transplants are explored, before in the last part (III) the focus narrows to a specific case of transfer: H. Thomas Johnson’s analysis of Toyota’s successful alternative Production System (TPS) at Georgetown and how it supersedes in theory and practice the managerial methods of the Big Three.Japan, USA, auto industry, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Toyota, managerialism

MalStone: Towards A Benchmark for Analytics on Large Data Clouds

Developing data mining algorithms that are suitable for cloud computing platforms is currently an active area of research, as is developing cloud computing platforms appropriate for data mining. Currently, the most common benchmark for cloud computing is the Terasort (and related) benchmarks. Although the Terasort Benchmark is quite useful, it was not designed for data mining per se. In this paper, we introduce a benchmark called MalStone that is specifically designed to measure the performance of cloud computing middleware that supports the type of data intensive computing common when building data mining models. We also introduce MalGen, which is a utility for generating data on clouds that can be used with MalStone

Tabula Rasa and Human Nature

It is widely believed that the philosophical concept of 'tabula rasa' originates with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and refers to a state in which a child is as formless as a blank slate. Given that both these beliefs are entirely false, this article will examine why they have endured from the eighteenth century to the present. Attending to the history of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and feminist scholarship it will be shown how the image of the tabula rasa has been used to signify an originary state of formlessness, against which discourses on the true nature of the human being can differentiate their position. The tabula rasa has operated less as a substantive position than as a whipping post. However, it will be noted that innovations in psychological theory over the past decade have begun to undermine such narratives by rendering unintelligible the idea of an 'originary' state of human nature

Underwater glider observations and the representation of western boundary currents in numerical models

Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 30, no. 2 (2017): 88–89, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.225.Western boundary currents are important oceanic components of Earth’s climate system. In the subtropics, the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, East Australian Current, Agulhas Current, and Brazil Current contribute to poleward heat transport. Low-latitude western boundary currents, such as the Somali Current, Mindanao Current, and New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent, are key connections between the subtropical gyres and equatorial current systems. Western boundary currents are generally narrow (O(100) km wide) with strong currents (O(1) m s–1) and large property gradients, making them a challenge to both observe and simulate.Funding for Spray glider operations in the Gulf Stream has been provided by the National Science Foundation (OCE-0220769,OCE-1633911), the Office of Naval Research (N000141713040), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Observation Division (NA14OAR4320158), Eastman Chemical Company, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Oceans and Climate Change Institute, and the W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Chair for Excellence in Oceanography at WHOI (awarded to Breck Owens)