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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This book highlights innovative healthcare information technologies as they perform information integration throughout various health care settings. Contributors, representative of these settings, provide case studies citing active examples of technology systems at work, addressing critical success factors, documenting success in terms of improved quality and/or reduced cost. Each example will address the full range of issues associated with technological innovation in health care, from policy and clinical considerations, to business and operational issues.

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.