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Big data in healthcare is the electronic health data sets that are so complex and large as well as difficult neither to manage nor to be easily managed by traditional or common data management tools and methods. Big Data Creates Big Privacy Concerns and Big data analytics in healthcare: promise and potential are journals that describes the assurance and prospective of big data diagnostic in healthcare. Big data in healthcare analytics is connected to the following primary distinctiveness thus: velocity, volume and variety. Big data is overwhelming due to its volume nature and its management of speed. It includes characteristics such as variety, velocity, veracity and velocity. Health data is created and accumulates more resulting on large volume of data. Progress in data management, especially cloud computing and virtualization are aiding the improvement of platforms for more successful capture, storage and exploitation of large volumes of data (Roop, 2012).
Data is gathered in good time and at a quick velocity. The continuous flow of new data gathering at exceptional rates brings about new challenges. Just as the volume and variety of data that is collected and stored has changed, so too has the velocity indicates the rate data is generated thus the rate for retrieving, analyzing, comparing and making decisions on the basis of the output. Population and Individual data would enlighten a physician and his patient through the decision-making procedure and assist establish the most suitable treatment alternative for that specific patient. Analytical modeling lowers abrasion and generates a leaner, faster, and more targeted in drugs and devices. Health industry has huge amount of data determined by fulfillment, patience concerns, record keeping and rigid requirements. Big data analytics has the potential to change ways in which healthcare providers use complicated technologies to achieve insight from their medical and other data storage area and make conversant decisions.
As big data investigative becomes more conventional, problems such as safeguarding security, guaranteeing privacy, governance, establishing standards and persistently improving the tools and technology will get attention. Big data applications and analytics in healthcare are at an emerging stage of improvement, but quick advances in policy and tools can speed up their process of maturing. Data privacy in healthcare is a concern using the aspects of the HITECH Act in the HIPAA rule (Burghard, 2012).
Algorithms and statistical tools improves clinical trial plan and patient enrollment to match treatments better to individual patients, hence reducing trial failures and speeding new and better treatments to market. It also enables the analyzing of clinical trials and patient records so as to identify follow-on signs and find out unfavorable effects before products reach the market. Big Data is the basis of creating new levels of business significance. With incorporated storage, analytics, and function, Big Data helps drive effectiveness, value, and personalized products and services, create higher levels of customer satisfaction and occurrence. Marketing can be done to enable the products to reach customers and meet their requirements and needs by exchange of products and values. This is described as the science of delivering, identifying and creating, value and attaining target market and thus creating profit. The utilization of brand extensions should be estimated on the foundation of the compatibility of variety of products. In various markets, different brands strength competes against each other, thus the national and international brands. The national brands are more expensive compared to the regional and store brands
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Roop, E. (2012). For The Record. Big Data Creates Big Privacy Concerns, 24(16), 10-10.
Burghard C: Big Data and Analytics Key to Accountable Care Success. IDC Health Insights; 2012.
Living on-campus vs. living-off campus
Living on-campus or off-campus is an important thing for a student to think through properly and come up with a decision because both options have their pros and cons and they affect the student’s general life both directly and indirectly.
Living on-campus may be convenient as the student will have more time to get down on books, not really worried of how far its going to be to get to the library, classes, or even the computer laboratory and the resource centers situated on campus, because she will only have to walk to this venues unlike the one living off-campus and has to look for transportation to school everyday and may even be late for class if there is traffic jam (Friedman, 2005).
A student living on-campus also has an added advantage as she has an increased social life. She is in a better position to meet new people and of different backgrounds, Walker and Candace (2005) state that this is an easy avenue for her to make more friends unlike the student living off-campus as she may not have much time for interaction with other students. This relations also have their effects on the parties involved, and the student’s general academic performance may be adversely affected by the influence of their friends, that is, if they only choose to party and have fun not caring about classes.
The dorm or hostel-life may be simple and affordable since you do not have to think about the monthly rent payment, bills that you have to pay for when you stay off-campus, and even your meals are obvious or preplanned and they are comparatively cheap (Friedman, 2005). The disadvantage to this kind of life is the limited space and lack of privacy as you have to share the little rooms you are allocated with other students. The always busy campus compound will also rob you off a serene environment to study or unwind.
Living-off campus on the other hand also have great advantages and some disadvantages to a student as she will learn to be more responsible and take proper care of what she possess. Walker and Candace (2005) say that she will be in charge of all expenses and will have to pay all the bills as they come, and in addition will clean and prepare meals for herself unlike in school where you can get your food from cafeteria on campus. This aura of responsibility can cause isolation because of little time spent in your college and a sense of detachment from your college mates will crop up as you do not make as many friends.
Independence and privacy is assured when you live off-campus; you do not have to share your bathroom and many other essential facilities with so many people like for those staying on-campus. The student is in a position to do as she wishes whenever she wants because its her rules. There is enough room for anything one wants to keep or even buy to add to what she already own, better still the student will have enough space and assured calm environment for studying.
Friedman (2005) states that these are facts that explain conditions and situations that college students, especially the freshmen find themselves in and tend to get difficulty in decision making, but all in all, it will depend on an individual’s choice and preference. Given a chance as a student, i would prefer living on campus as its cost effective and convenient. Living on-campus enables a student enjoy his or her social life, some of the extracurricular activities like sports, dance groups, clubs and so on, come hand in hand with academics.
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Friedman, S. (2005). Bryn Mawr College College Prowler Off The Record.college prowler.inc
Walker, A.,Candace, M. (2005).Hampton University College Prowler Off The Record.amazon.com
MeathookedMcDonaldization
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I watched the VICE segment “Meathooked” and also read the excerpt from George Ritzer’s McDonaldization of Society, “An Introduction to McDonaldization,” before answering this paper. An introduction to McDonaldization discusses the effects of business on an individual and society. McDonald’s has transformed the manner the universe runs its businesses by the method he referred to as “McDonaldization.” He illustrates that McDonaldization affects early all aspects of our lives if we do not recognize its insinuations. The McDonaldization of Society signifies the increasing availability of the fast foodstuff business ideal in general social institutions. According to him, McDonaldization is made up of four key constituents: efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. He identifies these as four “alluring dimensions” to producer and consumer alike. All of these four dimensions has resulted in irreversible and beneficial changes in a broad variety of concerns.
The dimension of Ritzer’s idea of McDonaldization that I most clearly see is the dimension of calculability. It is this dimension that the character of the McDonald’s perception is best revealed. Calculability is one of the dimensions that is identified as “emphasis on quantitative aspects of products sold” (Ritzer, 16). Calculability is not as common in the business since consumers don’t notice it enough. The calculability of McDonald’s asserts that the “quality is equal to quantity.” Calculability entails an emphasis on kinds of stuff that can be counted, calculated, and quantified. Quantification denotes a propensity to put emphasis on quantity instead of quality. It results in a sense that quality is the same as certain, typically (but not each time) great quantities of things. By creating bigger portions of foodstuff “shows that the owners, not the consumers, get the finest deal” (Ritzer, 17). In the video of “Meathooked,” this dimension is evident in a way that there is greater availability of meat quantity than before. The availability depends less on geographical location or time. This wide variety of this product is obtainable to a much greater portion of the populace. Individuals are able to acquire what they need nearly instantaneously. In the video, we are in a crisis whereby it takes over 1800 gallons of water to generate 1 pound of meat, and the worldwide demand for meat is increasing so much. In addition to that, water is turning to be a scared product all over the universe. As the demand for inexpensive meat rises, the water demand also increases.
Irrational rationality functions as a dimension of McDonaldization. In the context of McDonaldization, the CSA model gives the impression to be somewhat irrational. And yet, the outcomes are unquestionably rational. Even though there have been many conveniences and benefits associated with this process of McDonaldization, there is a particular impression that these rational systems have a habit of turning in themselves to result in irrational results. This relates to the idea of accessibility versus variety. It outlines the irrationality of rationality as the fifth feature of McDonaldization. Ritzer gives an opinion that when our lives become McDonaldize, the subsequent result is normally one of irrationality. As we attempt to turn out to be efficient, calculable, predictable, and controlling, we normally end up with irrational, counterintuitive, and challenging outcomes. The irrational rationality is illustrated in the video in a way that industrial-scale meat production results in tremendous amounts of animal waste that can harm the environment. Fast food harms consumers’ health and makes poor eating habits in children. The rapid production of food also results in bacterial contamination that can sicken and kill individuals.
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Ritzer, George. “An introduction to McDonaldization.” McDonaldization: The Reader 2 (2002): 4-25.
Vice on HBO. Meathooked & End of Water
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/meathooked-and-end-of water/5786c5d032e0306802cd53d7?jwsource=cl