data processing

Text and color illustrations explore several avenues for using information technology skills in the health and wellness industry.

A practical guide for collecting and using data in order to make critical choices for teaching and learning, with case studies, discussion questions, and school improvement template.

A guide to improve data management for school administration and to accelerate analysis into results.

Offers advice on how to link libraries serving children to software and CD-ROMs when operating on a limited budget by critiquing various programs and lists companies distributing inexpensive software over the Internet and commercial online services.

Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription you recently filled, your hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of your name but possibly with identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, patient dossiers become increasingly vulnerable to reidentification and the possibility of being targeted by identity thieves or hackers.

Examines the issues on word processing programs designed for children learning to write.

Discusses musical concepts in combination with historical narrative about pitch-class set theory in various social and cultural contexts, covering its role in how the music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernist composers is received and other topics related to computers and atonal music.

Provides an overview of the information network with advice on introducing the computer resource to students, faculty, and staff, and discusses how it can be used in school libraries and in specific content areas. Includes Internet access points, E-mail addresses, and transparency masters.