Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states (open access)

Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states

This report describes the privacy protections in effect in seven selected states in the U.S., along with the extent of personal data collection in the states, with particular emphasis on "computer matching" at the state level.
Date: February 15, 1985
Creator: Smith, Robert E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace (open access)

Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "reviews current knowledge of hazards and suspected hazards to the reproductive health of American's working men and women and to the health and well-being of their children" (Foreword).
Date: December 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report Office of Technology Assessment, April 1 - June 30, 1985 (open access)

Quarterly Report Office of Technology Assessment, April 1 - June 30, 1985

Quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1985
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace (open access)

Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines three main topics: identification of occupational hazards, including the available data on injuries and illnesses; development of control technologies for reducing or eliminating workplace hazards; and the incentives and imperatives that influence decisions to control hazards" (p. iii).
Date: April 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (open access)

Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on "technological developments in the basic communication and information infrastructure of the United States that present new or changed opportunities for and vulnerabilities to electronic surveillance, not on the details of specific surveillance devices" (Foreward).
Date: October 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report Office of Technology Assessment, January 1 - March 31, 1985 (open access)

Quarterly Report Office of Technology Assessment, January 1 - March 31, 1985

Quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1985
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technologies To Benefit Agriculture and Wildlife: Workshop Proceedings (open access)

Technologies To Benefit Agriculture and Wildlife: Workshop Proceedings

A collection of papers prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "presents a broad range of papers on specific technologies that could benefit both agricultural production and wildlife habitat requirements on private lands" (p. iii).
Date: May 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scenarios of five federal agencies (1991-95) as shaped by information technology: a report to the Federal Government Information Technology Project (open access)

Scenarios of five federal agencies (1991-95) as shaped by information technology: a report to the Federal Government Information Technology Project

This report concentrates on the impacts of telecommunications and computer technology over the next ten years on the civil sector of the federal government.
Date: June 21, 1985
Creator: Hitchcock, Henry H.; Heinz, Lisa & Coates, Joseph F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues (open access)

Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines four specific areas of research as case studies: computer architecture, artificial intelligence, fiber optics, and software engineering" in light of their new role in the United States economy (p. iii).
Date: February 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000 (open access)

Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "assesses the consequences of the continuing and rapid introduction of information and telecommunications technologies in offices" (p. iii).
Date: December 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities (open access)

International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities

The findings of an assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) on "international cooperation and competition in civilian space activities" (p. iii).
Date: June 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum (open access)

Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "activities of the Veterans Administration (VA) regarding device development and procurement," specifically of medical devices (p. iii).
Date: February 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blood Policy and Technology (open access)

Blood Policy and Technology

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that assesses the bloody policy and technologies, specifically recent developments in the fields.
Date: January 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study (open access)

Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study

The objective of this report is to identify and explore conditions under which office automation has been successfully and productively implemented in New York city municipal offices.
Date: April 1985
Creator: Greenbaum, Joan M.; Pullman, Cydney & Szymanski, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology (open access)

Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "arrays the possible effects of PPS (prospective payment system) on the health care system and assesses the extent to which these effects can be measured" (p. iii)
Date: October 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library