Information Management in Health Services / Edition 1

by Keen

Overview

Health services are set on an inexorable drive for more and better information, and are spending millions of pounds on information technology in an effort to obtain it. But as the need for information becomes ever more pressing, serious problems have come into focus, ranging from the difficulties of collecting accurate routine data to understanding the role of information in management and clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335191161
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	01/02/1994
Series:	Health Services Management Series
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

Editorial Reviews

Unravels some of the knotty problems that are arising as health services expand their hunger for information and the vast sums they are spending to get it. After an overview of the situation in Britain, presents perspectives from practitioners, such as operational systems and nursing information, and from academics, such as the economics and politics of selling information and the future of information technology in the National Health System. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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