Strategies and Technologies for Healthcare Information: Theory into Practice / Edition 1

by Marion J. Ball, L.D. Grandia, Judith V. Douglas, David E. Garets

Overview

Changes in health care are at a breakneck pace. Regardless of the many changes we have collectively experienced, delivering health care has been, is, and will continue to be an enormously information-intensive process. Whether caring for a patient or a population, whether managing a clinic or a continuum, we are in a knowledge exchange business. 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. In a fiercely competitive healthcare marketplace, the pressures to suc­ ceed in this undertaking-and the rewards associated with success-are enormous. While the task is still daunting, we can all be encouraged by progress being made in information management. There are documented successes throughout health care, and there is growing recognition by healthcare chief executive officers and boards that information strategies, and their deployment, are essential to organizational efficiency, quite pos­ sibly organizational survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387984421
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	06/03/1999
Series:	Health Informatics
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Ball, Marion J., EdD (Johns Hopkins Univ); Douglas, Judith V., MA, MHS (Johns Hopkins Univ); Garets, David E. (The Gartner Group)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jeffrey S. Rose, MD (Private Practice)
Description: This is a nice addition to the Springer Health Informatics Series covering health information technology (IT) infrastructure, and the use of information systems in healthcare.
Purpose: The purpose is to review fundamental elements of IT use in healthcare, and the potential impacts of clinical information systems to positively impact medical enterprises.
Audience: Although aimed at health practitioners, this is a very sophisticated collection of work most suited for more seasoned (not novice) healthcare business and IT professionals. It is nicely illustrated and accentuated with healthcare histories.
Features: Issues of IT infrastructure and important issues of information management in clinical business are covered in this text. The chapters that cover reaping benefits in IT expenditures are strong, and the whole book is nicely edited. This is a timely publication.
Assessment: This is a very nice, diverse, well-constructed, and broad approach to the fundamentals of IT in clinical settings. Balanced and beyond the simple introductory level, this book is an even-handed reference and a nice read. It is quite pertinent, and while not comprehensive, it is quite worthwhile for clinicians and managers seeking education in health informatics.

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3 Stars from Doody

This is a nice addition to the Springer Health Informatics Series covering health information technology (IT) infrastructure, and the use of information systems in healthcare. The purpose is to review fundamental elements of IT use in healthcare, and the potential impacts of clinical information systems to positively impact medical enterprises. Although aimed at health practitioners, this is a very sophisticated collection of work most suited for more seasoned (not novice) healthcare business and IT professionals. It is nicely illustrated and accentuated with healthcare histories. Issues of IT infrastructure and important issues of information management in clinical business are covered in this text. The chapters that cover reaping benefits in IT expenditures are strong, and the whole book is nicely edited. This is a timely publication. This is a very nice, diverse, well-constructed, and broad approach to the fundamentals of IT in clinical settings. Balanced and beyond the simple introductory level, this book is an even-handed reference and a nice read. It is quite pertinent, and while not comprehensive, it is quite worthwhile for clinicians and managers seeking education in health informatics.

Jeffrey Rose