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    1. Data must be processed and organized into a database to produce meaningful information. Several approaches can be used to organize data, including sorting, classifying, summarizing, and calculating. 2. A database is an organized collection of related data that can be stored in different formats. Finding information depends on how the data is named, organized, and the size/complexity of the database. 3. Information systems process data into information. They include manual, automated, and human systems. The human brain is the most complex information system.

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    1. Data must be processed and organized into a database to produce meaningful information. Several approaches can be used to organize data, including sorting, classifying, summarizing, and calculating. 2. A database is an organized collection of related data that can be stored in different formats. Finding information depends on how the data is named, organized, and the size/complexity of the database. 3. Information systems process data into information. They include manual, automated, and human systems. The human brain is the most complex information system.

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    1. Data must be processed and organized into a database to produce meaningful information. Several approaches can be used to organize data, including sorting, classifying, summarizing, and calculating. 2. A database is an organized collection of related data that can be stored in different formats. Finding information depends on how the data is named, organized, and the size/complexity of the database. 3. Information systems process data into information. They include manual, automated, and human systems. The human brain is the most complex information system.

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    1. Data must be processed and organized into a database to produce meaningful information. Several approaches can be used to organize data, including sorting, classifying, summarizing, and calculating. 2. A database is an organized collection of related data that can be stored in different formats. Finding information depends on how the data is named, organized, and the size/complexity of the database. 3. Information systems process data into information. They include manual, automated, and human systems. The human brain is the most complex information system.

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    The key takeaways are that data needs to be organized and processed to produce meaningful information, and different approaches to organize data include sorting, classifying, summarizing and calculating.

    The different approaches to organizing data mentioned are sorting, classifying, summarizing and calculating.

    The three interacting parts of a functioning DBMS are the data, the DBMS configured software program, and the query language used to access the data.

    Data Processing

    HB Consad II
    Data
    • Data are raw uninterrupted facts that are without meaning.
    • When data are interpreted, information is produced.
    • Data are meaningless, information is meaningful.
    • For data to be interpreted and information produced the data must
    be processed
    • data are organized so that patterns and relationships between the
    data can be identified.
    Several approaches to organizing data
    • Sorting
    • Classifying
    • Summarizing
    • Calculating
    Database
    • A database is an organized collection of related data.
    • a database can be organized and stored in many different formats
    finding information in databases depends on
    several factors
    • How the data are named (indexed) and organized
    • The size and complexity of the database
    • The type of data within the database
    • The methodology or tools used to search the database
    Information systems
    • Information systems are used to process data and produce information.
    • The term “information system” is often used to refer to computer systems,
    but this is only one type of information system.
    • There are manual information systems as well as human information
    systems.
    • The most effective and complex information system is the human brain.
    • In healthcare, weare working with a combination of manual, automated,
    and human information processing systems. This offers both the
    advantages and disadvantages of each of these systems as well as a
    multitude of interface problems.
    Types of Data
    two primary approaches to classifying data in
    a database system
    1. they are classified in terms of how these data will be used by the
    user, sometimes referred to as the conceptual view of the data.
    Ex. financial data, patient data, or human resource data
    2. data are classified by their computerized data type
    Computer-Based Data Types
    • Alphanumeric data include letters and numbers in any combination;
    however, the numbers in an alphanumeric field cannot perform
    numeric function (ex. address, social security number)
    Numeric data
    • Numeric data are used to perform numeric functions including
    adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
    • Numeric data can be long integer, currency, or scientific.
    Logic data
    • Logic data are'data limited to two options.
    Examples: YES or NO, TRUE or FALSE, 1 or 2, and ON or OFF
    advantages of an automated information
    system
    • One of the major advantages of an automated information system is
    that each of these data elements can be captured once and used
    many times by different users for different purposes.
    Database Management Systems
    • DBMSs are computer programs used to input, store, modify, process,
    and access data in a database.
    • Before a DBMS can be used, the DBM software must first be
    configured to manage the data specific to the project.
    • The process of configuring the database software is called database
    system design
    • A functioning DBMS consists of three interacting parts.
    • These are the data,
    • the DBMS configured software program, and
    • the query language used to access the data.
    Advantages of Automated Database
    Management Systems
    • decrease data redundancy
    • increase data consistency
    • improve access to all data
    • Data redundancy occurs when the same data are stored in the
    database more than once.
    • data become inconsistent when the same data are stored in different
    manuals or automated databases
    Fields, Records, and Files
    Fields

    Records
    Types of Files
    • two basic types of files
    • data files
    • processing files
    Processing Files
    • Executable files consist of a computer program or set of instructions
    that, when executed, causes, the computer to open or start a specific
    computer program or function
    Data files
    • Data files contain data that have been captured and stored on a
    computer using a software program. Many times the extension for
    the file identifies the software program used to create the file.
    Database Models
    • A database system provides access to both the data in the database
    and to the interrelationship within and between the various data
    elements. Building a database begins by identifying these data
    elements and the relationships that exist between the data elements.

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