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Title

Strategic information management in hospitals : an introduction to hospital information systems / Reinhold Haux [and others].

Publication

New York : Springer, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Haux, R. (Reinhold)

Description

xxiii, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Health informatics series

Uniform Title

Health informatics.

Subjects

• Hospital Information Systems
• Information Management
• Information storage and retrieval systems > Hospitals
• Medical informatics
• Models, Theoretical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Reed M. Gardner -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Significance of information processing in hospitals -- 1.2. Progress in information and communication technology -- 1.3. Importance of systematic information management -- 2. Basic concepts -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Data, information, and knowledge -- 2.3. Information systems and their components -- 2.4. Hospital information systems -- 2.5. Health information systems -- 2.6. Information management in hospitals -- 3. What do hospital information systems look like? -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Hospital functions -- 3.3. Modeling hospital information systems -- 3.4. A metamodel for modeling HIS : 3LGM -- 3.5. Information processing tools in hospitals -- 3.6. Architectures of hospital information systems -- 3.7. Integrity and integration within hospital information systems -- 4. What are good hospital information systems? -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Quality of structures -- 4.3. Quality of processes -- 4.4. Outcome quality -- 4.5. Balance as a challenge for information management -- 5. How to strategically manage hospital information systems -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Strategic, tactical, and operational information management -- 5.3. Organizational structures for information management -- 5.4. Strategic planning of hospital information systems -- 5.5. Strategic monitoring of hospital information systems -- 5.6. Strategic directing of hospital information systems -- 6. Final remarks.

ISBN

0387403566 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003059129

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries