Healthcare Information Systems (Best Practices Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849399637 ISBN 13: 9780849399633

Publisher: Auerbach Publications, 1999

Synopsis

Healthcare Information Systems focuses on being prepared for the challenges facing IT professionals in the healthcare industry. The move to manage medicine from the financial perspective, i.e., "managed care," has added huge layers of bureaucratic and administrative functions. The need to be able to track patient medical records and along with government legislation such as HEDIS and HIPAA. The move to a "universal" medical record and absolute patient portability seems a reasonable possibility in the not too distant future. All of these beg for IT solutions

Healthcare Information Systems approaches these challenges and opportunities as pieces of a complex puzzle. It not only brings you up-to-date on the technology involved but also explains how that technology interrelates and affects the healthcare arena. You get complete coverage of all aspects of information technology as it related to the healthcare industry, including:

An overview of healthcare systems

Disaster planning and system security

Standards and information security; quality, risks, and costs EMR and the data warehouse

Managing the healthcare community

The changing organization

Telemedicine and the Internet and

Emerging technologies.

Using IT to deal with increasing government regulation

In short, Healthcare Information Systems presents workable solutions to real problems you face, both today and tomorrow.

About this title

From the Publisher

CRC Press, LLC "Best Practices In" series

CRC Press, LLC presents the "Best Practices In" series. Auerbach publishing, a world-renowned leader in Information Technology and Information Systems, announces a bold new publishing program to serve the ever increasing needs of the IT professional. This series is designed to provide cutting-edge techniques and practices of leading IT organizations; these are "must have" reference works for any IT organization.

About this edition

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0849399637
• ISBN 13: 9780849399633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 582
• Editor: Phillip L. Davidson PH.D