Senin, 17 Desember 2012

Wow! eBook: Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare - 5 new eBooks

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Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:32 AM PST

Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare

Book Description

This book provides an extensive review of what innovation means in healthcare, with real-life examples and guidance on successfully innovate with IT in healthcare.

Huge amounts of are spent on record (EHR) and other healthcare information technology (HIT) systems each year, and the challenge is to ensure these systems are effective on every level. Simply recreating paper-based processes on these systems does not significantly improve quality, efficiency or the financial aspects of setting up these services.  While there are excellent resources available on healthcare IT and others that detail innovation strategies in healthcare, there is little material providing real life examples and explanations of combine these two powerful tools.

Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare thus serves to fill this gap by using real life cases to detail how information technology systems have been used in an innovative fashion to solve the types of problems faced every day in healthcare.  The Editors and their carefully selected group of contributors, ranging from multi-hospital organizations to small clinics, have assembled a book that describes successful cases covering EHR, Telemedicine and other IT experiences, in which brilliant and innovative uses of healthcare IT have improved quality, efficiency and value.  Each case chapter includes a story about the impact of these HIT innovations on patients,  an explanation on the origin of the innovation, details on how the innovation evolved from idea to reality, the results of the innovation and lessons learned along the way.  Additionally, each of these chapters conclude with thoughts on future HIT innovations from each contributor.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Healing Edge
Chapter 2. Mad for Method

Section I: You Have an EHR. Now What?!!?!
Chapter 3. The Inflection Navigator
Chapter 4. Making "Right" Easier
Chapter 5. Prevention Every Time
Chapter 6. Logic Rules!
Chapter 7. "All or None" Bundle Philosophy
Chapter 8. Automatically Getting Better

Section II: Meet You at 01100101
Chapter 9. The Connected Patient
Chapter 10. The Virtual Consult
Chapter 11. TeleVisit Keeps IT Local
Chapter 12. Mommy
Chapter 13. Every Language Now
Chapter 14. Rise of the ePharmacists

Section III: On the Edge of Edge
Chapter 15. The Smartest Room
Chapter 16. One EMR to Go Please
Chapter 17. , Right Care
Chapter 18. Dashboards 2.0
Chapter 19. The Patient Voice Amplified
Chapter 20. The Gaming Edge

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 2013 Edition (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1447143264
  • ISBN-13: 978-1447143260
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Foundation iPhone App Development

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:22 AM PST

Foundation iPhone App Development

Book Description

Taking a hands-on learning approach, Foundation App : Build An App in 5 Days with 6 SDK quickly enables existing programmers to become familiar and comfortable coding using Xcode 4.5, Storyboarding and the 6 SDK to create apps for the iPhone. Nick Kuh, an experienced, award-winning developer, will teach readers build an iOS 6 iPhone app from start to finish in 5 days.

During a 5-day process you will learn build a professional, custom-designed, object-oriented iPhone App. You'll start with a PhotoShop PSD design and an app idea. Then, throughout the remainder of the book, Nick will guide you through each stage of building the app. But it's you who will build the app. You will learn think like an app developer, turn an idea into a beautiful iPhone app.

In addition to the code and practices introduced, the book includes numerous tips, tricks and lessons learned to help new iPhone App developers succeed on the App Store: SEO, in-app approaches and how to win more 5 star reviews.

The 5-day learning process is divided into the following key stages:

  • Day 1 begins with the initial planning, paper prototyping and Photoshop design phases of an app idea. You'll learn how to provision your iOS apps for deployment to your iPhone. By the end of your first day you'll get to learn on the job, creating an Object-Oriented Black Jack that implements the Model View Controller paradigm in Objective C.
  • Day 2 is all about Storyboarding: creating and connecting all of the user interface views of our app.
  • Day 3 begins with table views and data population. By the end of the third day you'll be knee-deep in : building a data model and creating an editable, persistent data storage for your app.
  • By Day 4 you'll be learning how to communicate with Facebook using 's new Social framework introduced in iOS 6.
  • Day 5 kicks off with code and methods to add in-app social network to your app. With your completed app you'll then learn how to submit an App to Apple alongside numerous tips and tricks to improve your chances of success and visibility in this unique marketplace.

From start to finish, this book inherits Nick's tried and tested methods to build beautiful native iPhone Apps efficiently. After reading and using this book, you'll come away with a core iOS process and coding concepts that can be re-used and applied to your own iPhone app projects. Moreover, you'll gain an understanding of how to architect your own apps, write reusable code and implement best practices for faster productivity and maybe even make some money, too.

What you'll learn

  • How to develop with Xcode, write and work with the latest iOS SDK
  • Why and how to create Navigation Hierarchies and Table View Controllers, for making life easier
  • How to design, plan and develop an iPhone app from the initial app idea to App Store submission
  • How to Storyboard and implement a custom-designed User Interface
  • How to work with to build an offline caching
  • How to implement asynchronous HTTP calls to download and display images
  • How to use the new iOS Appearance APIs for custom design implementation and make beautiful apps
  • How to increase your app’s chances for success in the App Store

Who this book is for
This book is for existing programmers—programmers who have already mastered another object oriented language and wish to become proficient Objective C for writing iPhone Apps using Xcode.

Table of Contents
Day 1: Objective C, Xcode and iOS SDK Foundation work
Chapter 1. Design and Planning of our App:
Chapter 2. Provisioning our App for Development
Chapter 3. Setting Up Our Xcode
Chapter 4. Objective-C and Xcode: Developing a Blackjack

Day 2: Storyboarding the User Interface
Chapter 5. iPhone App Navigation, Views and View Controllers
Chapter 6. Views, Controls, , Action!

Day 3: Working with Data
Chapter 7. Table Views, Arrays and Dictionaries – Oh My!
Chapter 8. Data Persistence with Core Data
Chapter 9. iOS Skinning: Make Your Apps Lickable

Day 4: Importing Birthdays from the Address Book and Facebook
Chapter 10. Importing Birthdays from the Address Book
Chapter 11. Working with the Facebook SDK
Chapter 12. Settings and Local Notifications

Day 5: The Finishing Touches
Chapter 13. Before You Launch: Increasing Your Chances of App Store Success
Chapter 14. Submitting our App

Book Details

  • Paperback: 468 pages
  • Publisher: friendsofED (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430243740
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430243748
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Lawyers at Work

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:18 AM PST

Lawyers at Work

Book Description

Lawyers  reveals what it means and what it takes to be a satisfied, sane, and successful lawyer in today's tough legal marketplace. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a top legal headhunter gives the 3rd degree to 15 successful lawyers who run the gamut of the legal profession.

Practice areas represented in these profiles range from employment discrimination to corporate defense, from federal white collar prosecution to the legal structuring of complex derivative instruments, from antitrust in DC to trusts & estates in Florida, from divorce in New York to international mergers in Paris, from intellectual property in Silicon Valley to creeping expropriation in India, and from entertainment law in Hollywood to welfare rights in the Bronx. Law firm sizes range from one of the biggest in the world with over two thousand lawyers to a one-lawyer general practice. Career levels range from biglaw partners and courtroom superstars to mid-level associates and ex-lawyers.

Though many of the interviewees in Lawyers are generic adversaries, the interviewer brings out commonalities in their ways of working, methods of reasoning, and sources of personal motivation. Readers hear from the practitioner's own unbuttoned lips about their career formation, daily work grind, victories and setbacks, guiding principles, professional rewards, and practical advice for aspiring lawyers.

What you'll learn
Readers will learn:

  • what lawyers really do, why they're so expensive, and whether those stereotypes about them are warranted (if you are a client)
  • whether you really want to become a lawyer and match yourself to the right practice area (if you aspire to be a lawyer)
  •   manage and build your legal career for greater personal satisfaction (if you are already a lawyer)
  • how to leverage your skills into another practice area or profession (if you're an unhappy lawyer)

Who this book is for
Lawyers at Work appeals to a broad spectrum of readers: new and veteran lawyers of all types, prospective and actual law students, legal support staff, clients, professionals who work with in-house lawyers, and general readers who are fascinated by the complex roles and ambivalent stereotypes of lawyers in our society and culture.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Anne Vladeck (Employment)
Chapter 2. James Sanders (Corporate Defense)
Chapter 3. Jon Streeter (Federal Prosecution)
Chapter 4. Ken Kopelman (Financial Services)
Chapter 5. Nandan Nelivigi (India Practice)
Chapter 6. Jacalyn Barnett (Family Law)
Chapter 7. Peri Johnson (International Law)
Chapter 8. Kate Romain (Cross-Border M&A)
Chapter 9. Chris Sprigman (Antitrust/Intellectual Property)
Chapter 10. Wayne Alexander (Entertainment)
Chapter 11. Sean Delany (Nonprofit)
Chapter 12. David Whedbee (Civil Rights)
Chapter 13. Shane Kelley (Trusts & Estates)
Chapter 14. Arthur Feldman (Civil Litigation)
Chapter 15. Adam Nguyen (Corporate/Legal Technology)

Book Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430245034
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430245032
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How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:12 AM PST

How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers

Book Description

Want a great software team? Look no further. Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Team is a field guide and instruction manual for finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team, drive your success, and provide you with a competitive advantage. Focusing on proven methods, the book guides you through creating and tailoring a hiring process specific to your needs. You'll learn to establish, implement, evaluate, and fine-tune a successful hiring process from beginning to end.

Some studies show that really good programmers can be as much as 5 or even 10 times more productive than the . How do you find these rock star developers? Patrick McCuller, an experienced engineering and hiring manager, has made answering that question part of his life’s work, and the result is this book. It covers sourcing talent, preparing for interviews, developing questions and exercises that reveal talent (or the lack thereof), handling common and uncommon situations, and onboarding your new hires.

Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers will make your hiring much more effective, providing a long-term edge for your projects. It will:

  • Teach you everything you need to know to find and evaluate great software developers.
  • Explain why and how you should consider candidates as customers, which makes offers easy to negotiate and close.
  • Give you the methods to create and engineer an optimized process for your from job description to onboarding and the hundreds of details in between.
  • Provide analytical tools and metrics to help you improve the quality of your hires.

This book will prove invaluable to new managers. But McCuller's deep thinking on the subject will also help veteran managers who understand the essential importance of finding just the right person to move projects forward. Put into practice, the hiring process this book prescribes will not just improve the success rate of your projects—it'll make your work life easier and lot more fun.

What you'll learn
You will learn to:

  • Find and attract excellent developers that fit your needs.
  • Evaluate candidates effectively by resume, phone screen, and interview.
  • Create revealing technical interview questions and how to best evaluate answers.
  • Organize and optimize interviews and interview teams.
  • Work effectively with recruiters, sourcers, and the of the hiring bestiary.
  • Chart and track the hiring process so you can understand, customize, and improve it.
  • Understand the legal issues in hiring.

Who this book is for
This book is for technical managers who need to hire productive software engineers, from absolute beginners looking for a place to start to veterans looking for ways to optimize and hire more effectively. The audience includes software development managers, directors, CTOs, and entrepreneurs.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Talent
Chapter 2. Candidate
Chapter 3. Finding Candidates
Chapter 4. Resumes
Chapter 5. Interviews
Chapter 6. Interview Questions
Chapter 7. Hiring Decisions
Chapter 8. Offers
Chapter 9. A Great Start

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143024917X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430249177
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Deficit: Why Should I Care?, 2nd Edition

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:05 AM PST

Deficit: Why Should I Care?, 2nd Edition

Book Description

At the turn of this century, the American national debt stood at just under $6 trillion and the deficit at a “mere” $86 billion. Today, the national debt has topped $15 trillion, and the yearly deficit for 2012 is projected at a whopping $1.2 trillion. This new, second edition of Deficits: Why Should I Care? updates all the , charts, and forecasts, while adding a new chapter on how global economies now, for better or worse, affect the U.S. debt and the annual budget deficit. It also includes a new appendix detailing how the U.S. political parties view the debt issue.

According to the U.S. Treasury Department's Annual Report on the Public Debt, the debt is estimated to hit $19.6 trillion by 2015. The federal government has borrowed roughly 40 percent of its total budget for the last several years, a trend that could leave the U.S. in an crisis. Astronomical interest payments, a debt burden to your children and grandchildren, and an increased reliance on foreign creditors are just a few of the problems. Although the U.S. has experienced soaring unemployment, stagnant production, and a crippled housing market, foremost on many economists’ minds are rising deficits and ballooning debt. Others feel fears of the national debt are overblown or pale in comparison to today's problems.

This clear, concise book will give you the need-to-know on the debt. You will learn:

  • calculate deficits and the national debt
  • The history of U.S debt and its recent unparalleled growth over the years
  • How and why the government borrows
  • The arguments for, and against, accruing a debt
  • Could we become like Greece if we don’t cut our deficit?
  • The impact of the debt on interest rates and inflation
  • The impact of the debt on the value of the dollar and U.S. economic power

This book also answers key questions: Can the government go bankrupt? Why have there seemingly been no repurcussions of the large debt to date and is that likely to change? When the interest on the debt becomes higher than the revenue of the government, what happens? And many more practical insights into the government debt controversy. professionals, parents, retirees, and students are all concerned about the debt. This quick read will provide an understanding of the ramifications of the rising debt and what the consequences may be.

What you'll learn

  • Why the debt now could be a problem when people have been crying wolf about it for for the last 40 years
  • How the world economy affects the U.S. debt and deficit
  • What the government can do to reduce the debt and the implications—especially for such programs as Medicare and
  • The long-term implications of the debt
  • Methods and tactics for balancing the budget
  • When accruing a debt makes sense and when it does not
  • Action steps for monitoring the debt

Who this book is for
Deficit: Why Should I Care? is written for the busy professional, concerned parent, retired worker, or student. While academic and theoretical texts on the subject lack brevity, this book will help you understand the seriousness of the debt issue in a clear, concise format. This work has been condensed into eight need-to-know chapters, each containing the key points necessary for understanding this complex economic issue affecting the economic future of all Americans. Whether you are a businessperson concerned about the economy, a parent anxious about the debt burden of your children and grandchildren, a retiree fretful about programs like , or a student who needs additional information to supplement a textbook, this is the book for you. The appendix provides a website selection covering government agencies, economic sources, and academic sites to assist you in finding the most up-to-date information on the debt drama.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Crash Course on the National Debt
Chapter 2. A Huge Credit Card
Chapter 3.  Primer on the Current Global Economy
Chapter 4. Deficit and Debt Projections
Chapter 5. Do Deficits and the Debt Matter?
Chapter 6. Deficits Do Not Matter
Chapter 7. Deficits Do Matter
Chapter 8. Get a Handle on the National Debt

Appendix A. Voice Your Opinion on the Debt
Appendix B. Sites for Debt and Deficit Information
Appendix . Political Views of the Debt

Book Details

  • Paperback: 156 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 2nd Edition (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430248394
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430248392
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