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ECA References and Links

One of the tricky things about blogging about an OU course is that you’re not allowed to publish your actual assignments (or their course materials, obviously!) But this is the list of references I used in writing the ECA report.  The ECA for my year was about using ebusiness technologies as part of a healthcare information management system for American-owned private birth centres in three locations in the UK.

References and Links:

American Association of Birth Centers (2008) AABC Uniform Data Set Features. [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.birthcenters.org/data-collection/features.php

BBC News (2008) Previous cases of missing data. [online, accessed October 2008] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449927.stm

Coiera, E. (2007) Editorial: Lessons from the NHS National Programme for IT. Medical Journal of Australia. Volume 186, Number 1. 1 January, 2007.

Gritzalis, D. (2003) A security architecture for interconnecting health information systems. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 73, Issue 3, Pages 305-309.

Heap, N (2008) Block 4, Part 4: Business Processes. In T320 E-business technologies: foundations and practice, course materials. Open University, 2008.

Making the Web (2008). Choosing Optimal MySQL Data Types. [online, accessed October, 2008] http://www.making-the-web.com/2008/04/27/choosing-optimal-mysql-data-types/

Martin, I and Einon, G (2008) Block 1, Part 6: The opportunities and challenges of e-business. In T320 E-business technologies: foundations and practice. Open University, 2008.

Moore, Michael (2007) MichaelMoore.com : SICKO : Michael Moore’s Health Care Proposal [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/health-care-proposal/

National Literacy Trust (2006). Literacy and education levels by ethnic group. 20 most common languages in London schools, 2006. [online, accessed October, 2008] http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/STATS/EALstats.html#20languages

NHS: NHS Choices Web Services. [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.nhs.uk/nhscwebservices/Pages/Webservices.aspx

NHS Connecting for Health, Guidance on Ethnic Naming Conventions.

Sack, K. (2008) Obama’s health care pledges come under scrutiny. International Herald Tribune. July 23, 2008. [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/23/america/health.php

UK Government Data Standards Catalogue (2002) NHS Number [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/html/frames/NHSnumber-2-0-Release.htm

UK Government Data Standards Catalogue (undated) Citizen Identification Types (XML Schema) [online, accessed October 2008] http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/schemas/CitizenIdentificationTypes-v1-4.xsd

Wikipedia. Body Mass Index [online, accessed October, 2008] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index