The findings will shed some light on the social aspects of FLOSS-based computerization – including the role of FLOSS in social and organizational change in educational environments and the ways that the social organization of FLOSS are influenced by social forces and social practices.
The ICU computerization, including the medication order entry, resulted in a significant decrease in the occurrence and severity of medication errors in the ICU.
The use of the BPMN standard can also define a specific workflow, for the process under investigation, and its subsequent development including computerization, with resource management, and the definition of the actors involved.
They include more computerization and the consolidation of county properties, a move that he says will eventually pay for itself through the sale of surplus parcels.
The environmental health surveillance and response system included standardization, computerization and electronic transmission of data concerning environmental inspections of 17 site categories (restaurants, swimming pools etc) of public health interest, drinking and recreational water examinations and suggested corrective actions.
As computer pioneer Dan Bricklin recently noted, every generation of computer technology prior to the smartphone, including mainframes, minicomputers, and personal computers, focused on the computerization of paper forms.
It has brought about the computerization of a wide array of consumer products, including programmable microwave ovens, self-tuning television sets, and electronic games.
These included paranoid suspicions; the dangerous hostility of "seemingly innocent entities"; and "the mechanization of the environment and the computerization of political decision-making".
"If the rules don't go into effect," Mr. Swire said, "we will have the computerization of the health care industry without the privacy protections that were supposed to be included at the same time".
However, despite increasing national attention to the computerization of healthcare in ambulatory settings, several large studies examining IT usage among physicians did not include, or did not separately analyze, pediatricians [ 18, 19, 22].
