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Title

Managing health service information systems : an introduction / edited by Rod Sheaff and Victor Peel.

Publication

Buckingham, [Eng.] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sheaff, Rod
• Peel, Victor, 1947-

Description

xviii, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• This book has been written especially for health care workers and managers, including clinicians, who are required to have a working knowledge of health information systems, for practical or managerial purposes, but who have no previous experience in the area. It offers an overview of the main concepts of health informatics in the UK, and a critical explanation of the current state of development of health information issues.
• It looks particularly at the managerial and organizational implications of health information systems, focusing on the ways in which they can be used to benefit health care in the reformed NHS. While the case material and literature cited in the book are drawn from the British National Health Service in the main, the principles and practical lessons have a much wider application to social services and public welfare organizations around the world.

Subjects

• National health services > Great Britain
• Medical informatics > Great Britain
• Information Systems > organization & administration
• Medical Informatics Applications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-207) and index.

Contents

1. Informatics and health care / Rod Sheaff -- 2. Information management and technology strategy for health-care organisations / Victor Peel -- 3. Purchaser information systems / Rod Sheaff -- 4. Primary health care and general practice / Chris Mackintosh and Gina Shakespeare -- 5. Trust information systems / Norman Ambage -- 6. Information for quality assurance / Rod Sheaff -- 7. Implementing an information strategy at local level / Simon Aldridge -- 8. Health records / Lorraine Nicholson and Heather Walker -- 9. Classification and coding / Heather Walker -- 10. Manpower development for NHS information systems / Lorraine Nicholson and Victor Peel -- 11. Procuring health care information systems / Caroline Rea and Roger Dewhurst -- 12. The future of UK health informatics / Rod Sheaff.

ISBN

• 0335157033
• 0335157025 (pbk.)

LCCN

94027219

OCLC

• 30894786
• ocm30894786
• SCSB-4780219

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries