Strategies and Technologies for Healthcare Information

This book highlights the use of innovative healthcare information technologies as they perform information integration in varied health care settings. The book is divided into the following sections: The Technical Infrastructure; The Information Infrastructure; The Transformation Process; The New Healthcare Delivery Model.

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Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Section 1 The Technology Infrastructure.- 1 Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks.- 2 Data Warehouses and Clinical Data Repositories.- 3 Internet Technologies.- 4 Information System Integrity and Continuity.- Section 2 Information Management Issues For The Integrated Delivery System.- 5 Managed Care: Business and Clinical Issues.- 6 Integrated Delivery Networks.- 7 Information Strategies for Management Services Organizations.- 8 Health Plan Performance Measurement.- Section 3 Managing The Healthcare Information Enterprise.- 9 Meta-Planning: Solutions, Not Projects.- 10 Managing Vendor Relationships.- 11 Outsourcing.- Section 4 Maximizing the Value from Information Management Investments.- 12 Ensuring Value from Information Technology.- 13 Tactics for Optimizing Information Technology.- 14 The Clinical Workstation: Integrating an Academic Health Center.- 15 Process Redesign.- 16 Data Modeling.- Contributors.