Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer

Softcover: 316 pages
ISBN 0977790339
978-0977790333
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
March 2007
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A HIMSS bestseller!

Information technology in healthcare is increasingly being applied at the hospital bedside at point-of-care, and at the physician s office, and in our homes no more than a click away.

With Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer, healthcare executives, managers and clinicians will learn when and how best to use this influx of new technology. Medical Informatics includes real-world examples illustrating how technologies such as electronic prescribing, personal health records, computerized practitioner order entry, identity management and electronic health records are changing the way healthcare is provided, and how they improve the quality and safety of patient care.

In addition, the book examines the business of medical informatics, with analysis on return on investment, strategy management for implementing an electronic health record, software selection and project management. Special features include:

case studies on electronic prescribing,
regional health information exchange,
the personal health record;
a glossary of medical informatics / HIT terms; and
an extensive bibliography.

Contributions include:

Electronic Prescribing By Janet Carr, MD; Computerized Practitioner
Order Entry and Patient Safety: Panacea or Pandora s Box? By Joseph Kannry, MD;
Identity Management in Healthcare By Jonathan Leviss, MD;
Certification in Healthcare Information Technology By Abha Agrawal, MD, FACP and Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD;
Ambulatory Electronic Health Record By Curtis L. Cole, MD;
Return On Investment Analysis By Dov Rothman, PhD;
Health Information Exchange By Mark Lipton, MD;
Nursing Informatics: Perspectives for Healthcare Executives By Leanne Currie, DNsc;
The Personal Health Record By Glenn Martin, MD;
Strategy Management: Getting to the EHR By Kenneth R.Ong, MD, MPH;
Software Selection By Kenneth R.Ong, MD, MPH;
Project Management By Janet Bowen, MBA;
Quality and Health Information Technology: Key Issues for Health Care Executives By Rachel Block
and many more!

Dr. Ong is currently the Director of Clinical Information Systems at the North Shore - LIJ Health System. Dr. Ong's past projects include developing and implementing the clinical decision support for the ambulatory EMR in the HIV clinic and the hospital pharmacy system; implementing web-based results review, and physician charge capture. Dr. Ong is the President of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); Past President of Medical Informatics New York; a member of the advisory board of the Doctors Office Quality IT (DOQ-IT) initiative of the Island Peer Review Organization (IPRO); and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He is a senior lecturer at Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health and his medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. He is a previous recipient of the AMDIS Award In Applied Medical Informatics and the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepard Science Award. Dr. Ong is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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