Maximizing Healthcare Delivery and Management through Technology Integration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466694467 ISBN 13: 9781466694460

Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference, 2015

Synopsis

Improvements in health services require continual attention and dedication to ensure proper care and treatment for citizens. To support this endeavor, professionals rely more and more on the application of information systems and technologies to promote the overall quality of modern healthcare.

Maximizing Healthcare Delivery and Management through Technology Integration is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the integration of ICT within the health services sector. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a range of topics from technical and non-technical perspectives, this book is an essential reference source for IT specialists, professionals, managers, and students seeking current research on the growing relationship between technology and healthcare.

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About the Author:

Tiko Iyamu holds a PhD in Information Systems. He is currently a Professor of Information Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. He was a Professor of Informatics Tshwane University of Technology. Thereafter, he was a Professor of Informatics, Chair of Health Informatics at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia. He also serves as a Professor Extraordinaire at the Department of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. In 2013 and 2014, he was a visiting professor at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Prior to his fulltime appointment in academic in 2009, Professor Iyamu held several positions in both Public and Private Institutions in South Africa. He was System Analyst and Technologist at both Nedcor Investment Bank and Metropolitan Life, respectively. He became the Chief Architect at the City of Cape Town in 1999. Thereafter, he joined Old Mutual as IT Architect, from 2001 to 2008. Iyamus last corporate experience was at a MWeb, as Head of IT Architecture & Governance.

Iyamu is the author of books, such as Enterprise Architecture: From Concept to Practice (First and Second editions) and Application of Underpinning Theories in Information Systems. He has published widely, over seventy-four research articles in book chapters, journals and conference proceedings. Professor Iyamu is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI), USA.

Arthur Tatnall is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. In his PhD he used actor-network theory to investigate adoption of Visual Basic in the curriculum of an Australian university. Arthurs research interests include technological innovation, history of technology, project management, information systems curriculum, information technology in educational management and electronic business. Much of his research is based on the use of actor-network theory. Arthur is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and active in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) as Chair of IFIP WG9.7 History of Computing, Chair of IFIP WG3.4 ICT in Professional and Vocational Education and a member of IFIP WG3.7 Information Technology in Educational Management. He has published widely in journals, books, book chapters and conference proceedings and recently edited the Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications, and Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications for IGI Global. Arthur is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education and Information Technologies and Editor of the Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1466694467
• ISBN 13: 9781466694460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Iyamu Tiko, Tatnall Arthur