Research Catalog

Title

Strategies and technologies for healthcare information : theory into practice / Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas, David E. Garets, editors ; with a foreword by Larry D. Grandia.

Author

Ball, Marion J.

Publication

New York : Springer, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Douglas, Judith V.
• Garets, David E.

Description

xvii, 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book, a companion volume to Performance Improvement Through Information Management, offers wisdom from twenty-four healthcare practitioners who have worked with information systems in a variety of settings."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will help healthcare practitioners recognize the most valuable information technology applications, make sound decisions about management and implementation, and learn how to sidestep disastrous projects."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Health informatics series

Uniform Title

Health informatics.

Subject

• Electronic Data Processing
• Health services administration > Data processing
• Information resources management
• Information technology
• Public Health Administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Larry D. Grandia -- Sect. 1. The Technology Infrastructure. Ch. 1. Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks / David Dimond, Robert Burgess and James Marra. Ch. 2. Data Warehouses and Clinical Data Repositories / Alan Smith and Michael Nelson. Ch. 3. Internet Technologies / Jim Kazmer. Ch. 4. Information System Integrity and Continuity / Briggs T. Pille and Keith Ryan -- Sect. 2. Information Management Issues for the Integrated Delivery System. Ch. 5. Managed Care: Business and Clinical Issues / James R. McPhail. Ch. 6. Integrated Delivery Networks / Alyson Widmer and Joan Hovhanesian. Ch. 7. Information Strategies for Management Services Organizations / David Lubinski. Ch. 8. Health Plan Performance Measurement / Sharon Graugnard -- Sect. 3. Managing the Healthcare Information Enterprise. Ch. 9. Meta-Planning: Solutions, Not Projects / Philip M. Lohman and Pamela Mon Muccilli. Ch. 10. Managing Vendor Relationships / Joan Hovhanesian.
• Ch. 11. Outsourcing / David Pedersen -- Sect. 4. Maximizing the Value from Information Management Investments. Ch. 12. Ensuring Value from Information Technology / Alberta Pedroja. Ch. 13. Tactics for Optimizing Information Technology / Ray Bell and Bill Weber. Ch. 14. The Clinical Workstation: Integrating an Academic Health Center / Stanley Schwartz, Mary Alice Annecharico and Stephen Smith. Ch. 15. Process Redesign / David Beaulieu, William Krenz and Gara Edelstein / [et al.]. Ch. 16. Data Modeling / Dale Will.

ISBN

0387984429 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98030324 //r99

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries