This classic text has been completely updated to reflect
today's challenges of managing information in a variety of healthcare
settings. It explains how to design and use information systems in
managed care and integrated delivery systems and identifies
opportunities of technological innovations. Includes new case studies
and illustrations.
The new edition covers:
* Managed care software applications
* The Internet and healthcare
* Computer-based patient records
* The role of information systems
* improved quality of care
* management decision making
* risk analysis
* financial forecasting
* outcomes measurement
Charles J. Austin, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of
Health Administration and Policy at the Medical University of South
Carolina. Stuart B. Boxerman, D.Sc., CHE, is Associate Professor and
Deputy Director of the Health Administration Program at the Washington
University School of Medicine.