Based on case studies, this book illustrates the complex challenges faced by healthcare administrators when implementing changes in technology.

Zusammenfassung

-Based on case studies, this book will be a great tool for students or professionals in medical informatics and health administration.

-Released in 1995, the First Edition has sold 1,427 copies worldwide to date (1,110 US; 179 IC; 75 Bulk).

Inhalt
Case Studies in Technological Change.- GEMINI: The Life and Times of a Clinical Information System.- Organizational Change.- The Web Center: A Case Study in Strategy and Power.- Computers for Kids: Not All Fun and Games.- Managing Change.- Managing Success: An Information Systems Dilemma at Great Plains Health Care.- Implementation.- Bar Coding: It's Hard to Kill a Hippo.- Developing an Emergency Department Information System.- Implementation of OpChart in West Medical Building.- Development of the Scientific Computing Center at Vanderbilt University.- Early Implementation Problems of an Integrated Information System Within the White Mountain University Health System.- Implementation of a Web-Based Incident-Reporting System at Legendary Health System.- Managing Change: Analysis of a Hypothetical Case.- Economics.- E3 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.- Catch 22: The Case of Utilization Management's Return on Investment Evaluation.- Antimicrobial Utilization Program at the University of Central State Medical Center.- Central Medical Healthcare System: The Case of the Well-Aggregated Patient Data.- Building Consensus: Quality Improvement at Vesalius Health System.- Leadership.- Strategic Informatics: Planning for the Future of AtlanticHealth.- Fix Pharmacy!.- Showdown in the Heart of Texas.- Mission Valley Medical Center Physicians Group Practice: The Rumor.- The DNA Donation Project.- Who's in Charge?.- Organizational and Interpersonal Conflict.- The Chief Resident's Dilemma.- Death of a Committee.- Whose Job Is It Anyway?.- All for the Want of a Plan .- Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail.- Founding Fathers Health Corporation: Idealism and the Bottom Line.