Effective Healthcare Information Systems

Downloadable Electronic Book (pdf)
Size: 10" x 7", 300 pages
ISBN B000066U5J
Idea Group Publishing / IRM Press
April 2002
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Health and medical informatics encompass a broad field that is rapidly developing in both its research and operational aspects. The discipline has many dimensions, including social, legal, ethical, and economic.

The wide variety of platforms, data, applications, and users poses an enormous challenge to information technology management in health care. This resource puts a special emphasis on issues dealing with the most recent innovations, such as: telemedicine, Web-based medical information, consulting systems, expert systems, and artificial intelligence. Among topics addressed are information architecture for:

health care information processing
application of interface and communication engines
standardization of information interchange
data administration and data ownership
advances in community health information networks planning, and
scheduling of patients and services in a hospital environment.

Also covered are:

internet and intranet applications, the use of information technology for medical quality assessment
government policies on health care information management
and privacy issues versus the availability of data in case of medical emergencies. (from the publisher)

Special attention is given to recent innovations such as telemedicine, Web-based medical information and consulting systems, expert systems, and artificial intelligence in this book on issues and challenges of information technology utilization and management in the healthcare industry around the world.

This book provides trends in healthcare information systems and communications technologies and gives practical guidance, research, and case studies describing the successes and pitfalls of technology use in the healthcare industry. Coverage includes technology-based marketing in the healthcare industry, an intelligent data mining system to detect healthcare fraud, and causes of information system failures.

(information from the publisher)

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