A Data Processing System for State and Local Governments

Hearle, Edward F. R.

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“…MIS is formed largely by integrating and reorganizing data from eomputer applications primarily serving routine government operations [6,15]. The greater the degree and range of automation within the government, the broader the potential database from which management information can be generated.…”

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Management utilization of computers in American local governments

Dutton

Kraemer

1978

Commun. ACM

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Traditional concepts of management informalion systems (MIS) bear little relation to the information systems currently in use by top management in most US local governments.What exists is managementoriented computing, involving tbe use of relatively unsophisticated applications. Despite the unsophisticated nature of these systems, management use of computing is surprisingly common, but also varied in its extent among local governments. Management computing is most prevalent in those governments with professional management practices where top management is supportive of computing and tends to control computing decisions and where department users have less control over design and implementation activities. Finally, management computing clearly has impacts for top managers, mostly involving improvements in decision information.

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Management utilization of computers in American local governments

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Kraemer

1978

Commun. ACM

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“…But, although the problem of application of computers in medicine has been of pressing importance during the last few years, and although a number of special international and regional conferences were held on this topic -as e.g. the yearly Rochester Conferences on Data Acquisition and Processing in Biology and Medicine (since 1961), the yearly IBM Medical Symposia (since 1958), the Conference on the use of Automatic Data Processing in Public Health Organisation (Copenhagen, 1965), the Conference on Automatic Data Processing in Hospitals (Elsinore/ Denmark, 1966) et al -, we have found only a few papers discussing the possibility of using computer technics in public health management, as, e.g., (7,10,11,22).…”

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A Country-Wide System for Automatic Health Data Processing

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Methods Inf Med

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The technique of data processing offers very large possibilities for further considerable perfection of the organization and directing of public health service as well as its further development on a scientific basis. Therefore a united system for collecting, transporting and processing of medical and health information from all public health services on a country-wide scale is proposed. For that purpose at suitable spots in the country local computing centres for the data collection and primary processing for about one million inhabitants must be built. Every local centre should be connected by direct channels for transport of ordinary and express information with the national medical computing centre. Thus, the Ministry for Public Health could continuously dispose on actual and precise information about the health state all over the country, the development of epidemics and other diseases, the utilization of the hospital beds, the distribution and activity of the medical workers etc. It would further have a permanent feedback from and connection with all health services in the country resp. from selected parts of them using the channels for express information. An approximate estimation of the volume of such an activity is given on the basis of a population of ten millions.

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“…It is not intended to review Hearle and Mason's (1963) detail of data here. But it should be noted that much of the information described in Westin (1967) and Baran (1967) are included in the Hearle and Mason lists.…”

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“…"The first class contains data describing the environment in which these governments operate and for which they have some responsibility. The second class contains data relating to the internal operations of the government agencies themselves" (Hearle and Mason, 1963: italics in the original). This article is concerned with environmental data only, although there are many problems of confidentiality with regard to governments' internal operations also.…”

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Urban Information Systems and Invasions of Privacy

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1970

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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THE DEVELOPMENT of modern, high speed, remote access computers has created a revolution in the accumulation, storage, processing, analysis, retrieval, and transmission of data. Urban governments, while not in the vanguard of the computer revolution, have in recent years joined the computer age. In common with other governmental and private agencies, state, regional, and local governments are participating in the information revolution with the development of large numbers of urban information systems. By 1968 there were 188 urban information systems of one kind or another in various stages of implementation in the United States (see Dial, 1968: 1), and it was projected that &dquo;hundreds&dquo; more such systems would be developed during the current decade (Dial, 1968: 12).As the capabilities of computers increase, thought must be given to the social problems created by the new technology. Although the technological problems of urban computers have been the subject of a mass of literature, little has been written on the social implications of urban information systems. Specifically, the literature is almost devoid of commentary on the problem of potential invasion of the right of personal privacy, defined by Justice Louis D. Brandeis as &dquo;the right to be let alone-the most valuable of the rights of man and the right most valued by civilized men&dquo; (Olmstead vs. U.S.).2 Thus, Hearle and Mason's at The University of Iowa Libraries on July 3, 2015 uar.sagepub.com Downloaded from [250] seminal work (1963: 53-55) on urban information systems contains less than two full pages on the problem of confidentiality-and they do not consider it to be a problem. Even where the problem is recognized, little is said about it. Thus, Harold H. Haak (1967), discussing the evolution of a metropolitan data system for San Diego, California, raises the issue, but does nothing more than assert that it is a problem which &dquo;results from the fact that most of the laws regarding confidentiality were written long before anyone could have envisioned the capabilities of electronic data processing.&dquo; Similarly, Dennis G. Price (1967: 23), reviewing the use of computers by state and local governments, devotes one short paragraph to the question of privacy, in which he observes that if and when the problem of compatibility of information is solved, the problem of invasion of privacy arises. But Price says nothing more about it, even in the section of his article (1967: 23-24) concerned with &dquo;possible steps to solutions.&dquo;3There are several reasons why the literature on urban information systems is so sparse when it comes to discussion of the problem of privacy. First, the technical experts who design, improve, maintain, use, and write about such systems honestly do not consider it to be a problem. Thus, Hearle and Mason (1963: 55) conclude that &dquo;the Unified Information System involves no new problems of confidentiality. On the contrary, any required restriction on data access can be enforced more effectively in su...

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A Data Processing System for State and Local Governments

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Management utilization of computers in American local governments

Management utilization of computers in American local governments

A Country-Wide System for Automatic Health Data Processing

Urban Information Systems and Invasions of Privacy

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