Designed to assist the physician in the application of computers in private medical practice, this comprehensive guide outlines where, why, and how this valuable tool can best be used. Integrating the mechanisms of computerization with the implications for health care, the authors draw on personal research and experience to describe models used effectively in the medical setting. Chapters cover administrative procedures, applications for marketing and quality assurance, and the link to an office-hospital application. Aslo included is information on software, hardware, database management,...
Designed to assist the physician in the application of computers in private medical practice, this comprehensive guide outlines where, why, and how th...
Highlighting performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, this text focuses on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the book describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current context. It is thus an invaluable reference...
Highlighting performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, this text focuses on business drivers and manage...
Like the three editions that preceded it, this new edition targets markets in health care practice and educational settings. It addresses practicing nurses and nursing students, together with nursing leadership and nursing faculty. It speaks to nursing informatics specialists and--in a departure from earlier editions of this title--to all nurses, regardless of their specialty, extending its usefulness as a text as noted below. In recognition of the evolving electronic health information environment and of interdisciplinary health care teams, the book is designed to be of interest to members...
Like the three editions that preceded it, this new edition targets markets in health care practice and educational settings. It addresses practicing n...
Changes in health care are at a breakneck pace. Regardless of the many changes we have collectively experienced, delivering health care has been, is, and will continue to be an enormously information-intensive process. Whether caring for a patient or a population, whether managing a clinic or a continuum, we are in a knowledge exchange business. A major task for our industry, and the task for chief information officers (CIOs), is to find and apply improved strategies and technologies for managing healthcare information. In a fiercely competitive healthcare marketplace, the pressures to suc-...
Changes in health care are at a breakneck pace. Regardless of the many changes we have collectively experienced, delivering health care has been, is, ...
Provides an in-depth review of the history of the development, use and continued importance of medical informatics to the professional involved. From hospital administrators to clinicians running their own practice, this book will reflect the story of health informatics to date and provide answers as to the whys and whens of the discipline
Provides an in-depth review of the history of the development, use and continued importance of medical informatics to the professional involved. From ...
