Lastly, although information recorded in digital format is desirable, most indicators could be calculated from a medical record audit, so data computerization is not a prerequisite.
We recommend that post-coding be done before data computerization.
The Iron Age changed agricultural practices, the Industrial Age ushered in mass production, and the economies of our Digital Age are based on information and computerization.
Nonetheless, some contemporary theorists believe that globalization has taken a particularly intense form in recent decades, as innovations in communication, transportation, and information technologies (for example, computerization) have generated stunning new possibilities for simultaneity and instantaneousness (Harvey 1989).
- Non-interference in the institution's policy on computerization of information systems.
Although some new technologies replace human labour by mechanization (as in clinical analysis or computerization of information), in general, advances in health technology have been labour intensive, and many new techniques do not replace work but rather create new things for doctors to do.
The following bills, introduced during the current session of Congress, are attempts to provide federal protection to health and medical information in an age of computerization.
The trend towards computerization of land information systems has only put focus on already existing formal land tenure arrangements, leaving out the informal social tenure arrangements.
However, despite of the massive government spending in developing some schools information systems, the effects of computerization of the school administrative and management process were found unsatisfactory.
In general, outpatient care is much more fragmented than inpatient care, and would likely benefit even more from computerization and communication of information than inpatient care.
