"This book offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents an interdisciplinary, comparative, and competitive analysis of the thought processes and planning necessary for individual and corporate economic management"--Provided by publisher.

1. A Treatise on Rural Public Health Nursing -- 2. Assessment in a Computer-Based Nursing Documentation -- 3. Clinical Decision Support Systems in Nursing -- 4. Culturally Sensitive Healthcare for Newcomer Immigrants -- 5. Mobile Technology in a Developing Context: Impacts and Directions for...

"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings in the area of nursing informatics, critiquing fundamental concepts such as evidence based practice and examining possible applications of such concepts in the contemporary context of nursing...

"This reference investigates recent advances and undertakings in the financial industry to better equip all members of the world economy with the tools and insights needed to weather any shift in the economic climate, offering chapters on topics ranging from investment portfolios to credit...

This book provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as accounting software, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), and EDI. The effects of the Internet and ERP on accounting are classified and presented for each accounting cycle, along with a...

"This book presents a sampling of the many applications utilizing GIS in the field of health, including needs of less-developed countries in utilizing the concepts and technologies of mapping"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the main components of a GIS, how important...

In the healthcare field, there is limited literature published on the subject of global deployment, diffusion, adoption, use, and impact of information communication technologies in the context of health informatics and electronic healthcare applications. Due to a lack of such literature, those...

Grids are currently used in many sectors of life sciences, including basic sciences such as genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. This handbook brings together state-of-the art methodologies and developments of grid technologies applied in different fields of life sciences. It considers the...