What have you learned about the rhetorical writing situation (genre, audience, purpose, persona, context and/or medium)? How did your thinking about any of these concepts impact your composing choices?

What have you learned about the rhetorical writing situation (genre, audience, purpose, persona, context and/or medium)? How did your thinking about any of these concepts impact your composing choices?

The rhetorical situation calls upon the writer to approach composition as a multi-faceted problem. The audience, genre, purpose, persona, context, and medium all present their needs at the same time. The composition process is, therefore, an attempt to address the requirements of each one of these concepts at the same time but in a manner than facilitates cohesion across all of them. Harmonizing these elements into a vivid, accurate, and informative piece of writing is, therefore, a challenge that must be deeply pre-meditated and approach carefully and with very refined objectives. Medium, context, and the purpose, in particular, are important because in my opinion, they house the persona, and even determine the audience. That being the case, I was particularly keen on purpose and medium; looking at purpose, context, and medium at the same time informs a key question: how did the purpose of writing and the context of the composition inform the selection of the medium? I have realized that the thematic concerns of the text determine the construction of the persona and the genre of the composition as well as the audience and how it is viewed by the composer.

How did you make decisions about what to write about, and how to develop your own persona as a writer for this project?

Science is essentially about prediction. Since successful prediction is mostly infeasible in the social realm the study of social phenomena cannot be scientific in the sense of the non-social sciences.Discuss.

1. ‘Science is essentially about prediction. Since successful
prediction is mostly infeasible in the social realm the study
of social phenomena cannot be scientific in the sense of
the non-social sciences.’ Discuss.
2. ‘The superiority of the causalist over the predictionist
account of science is clear once the real significance of
experimental activity in the non-social sciences is
appreciated’. Discuss.
3. ‘A substantial constraint on progress in social science,
particularly acutely felt in economics, is the tendency
among contemporary practising social scientists to deploy
methods without considering whether they are
appropriate to the phenomena studied’. Discuss.
4. Outline Keynes’s account of the volatility of stock market
prices that he sets out in Chapter 12 of the General
Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and consider
whether it conforms to a causalist account of the nature of
science.

What are some other emerging technology challenges that we will need to secure in the Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT) as it relates to care delivery?

Medical devices are growing at somewhere close to 20% per annum globally as care teams become ever more reliant upon connected devices to monitor, manage and alert on patient conditions or to diagnose or treat ailments. Surgical, pharmacy and delivery robots now play a critical role in hospitals. Connected Pyxis cabinets dispense medications to nursing staff to delivery to patients. HVAC, absolutely critical for ensuring negative air pressure for pandemic disease control, is now connected to the Internet so it can be monitored and managed from often hundreds of miles away as are elevator systems, also critical for hospital workflows. These and many more ‘Connected’ assets now make up three quarters of all systems attached to hospital networks yet are largely unmanaged by IT. The growth and inclusion of consumer and hospital owned medical wearables exacerbated by COVID and the need to treat patients from home, actually threatens to surpass the rapid growth in hospital connected medical devices, greatly expanding the threat surface further. Growing digitization and interoperability of systems employing increasing levels of AI and ML for medical imaging and clinical decision support further increases risks unless adequate security controls are put in place at the same time that these systems are deployed.

 

What are some other emerging technology challenges that we will need to secure in the Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT) as it relates to care delivery? What do you see as the future for Healthcare Risks/Security? Consider Joshua Corman’s “word game,” where he suggests “if it has software, substitute the word hackable and if it has a connection (to the internet), substitute the word exposed.” When considering the new healthcare capabilities, how prepared is healthcare IT to effectively protect patients and what do healthcare organizations need to do about the situation?