Hospital information systems (HIS) have become integral tools in the management of a hospital's medical and administrative information. With illustrated case studies, this book emphasizes clinical information systems (CIS) and their use in the direct management of the patient. Topics include the medical record, security, resource amangement, and imopaging integration.

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in the series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to reflect the rapid evolution in the discipline now known as health informatics, the series will continue to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the field. In the series, eminent experts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovations in health informatics. Increasingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the role of information in influencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also incre- ingly focuses on peopleware and the organizational, behavioral, and so- etal changes that accompany the diffusion of information technology in health services environments.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Evolution of Health Information Systems.- Frameworks: A Collection of Business Objects.- Frameworks: A Collaboration of Objects.- The Patient Component.- The Activity Component.- The Health Record Component.- The Knowledge Component.- The Resource Management Component.- The Security Component.- Imaging Management and Integration.- AZ-VUB Clinical Information System.- HEGP Clinical Information System.- HCUG Clinical Information System.- VUMC Clinical Information System.