A proven working model of healthcare IT as a transformative clinical and business engine-from one of the world's leading healthcare organizations Exciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century. This visionary guide by Cleveland Clinic's esteemed CIO shows you how to design, implement, and maximize your organization's IT systems to deliver fully integrated, coordinated, high-quality care. You'll learn how to: ...

Reveals the stories behind 12 of the most astounding new technologies. Learn about the innovations that will forever change our everyday lives, from delivery drones to personal assistant robots.

"Reinventing the Wheel is equal parts popular science, history, and muckraking. Over the past hundred and fifty years, dairy farming and cheesemaking have been transformed, and this book explores what has been lost along the way. Today, using cutting-edge technologies like high-throughput DNA sequencing, scientists are beginning to understand the techniques of our great-grandparents. The authors describe how geneticists are helping conservationists...

"The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics and the amazing transformations that social media use is rendering in other political systems heretofore resistant to democratization and change....

Examines how new innovations in education are changing the way people learn in the world today, the way business is affected as a result of it, and the way businesses themselves must change in order to stay productive and successful in the future.

Telling the story of IDGs astonishing success and how it has been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs all around the world, this book reveals how you can apply its people-first principles, insights, and integrity to your own organization. --

Most technology startups never make it to the funding stage, and only a small percentage of those that are venture-backed generate a positive return for their investors. An even smaller number of startup founders enjoy a truly prosperous exit. Bernd Schoner cofounded his tech startup during the dot-com bust, navigated it through market crises and internal turmoil, brought it through the global financial meltdown intact, and eventually sold it to...

Provides information on the world transportation, including electric planes, flying cars, the building of transport tunnels, high speed trains, and more.

Unlock the secret to groundbreaking innovation with this game-changing guide Innovation means putting ideas to work. It is a discipline that can be learned, practiced, and leveraged to propel meaningful transformation and sustainable success, and it is proving to be the margin of difference in the largest concentrated sector of our economy: healthcare. This is where the stakes may be highest because the transcendent ideas that come from the patient...

"Learn about the exciting new technology behind e-textiles and find out how to create e-textile projects of your own"--