Health Management Information Systems: A Handbook for Decision MakersThis comprehensive text is aimed at both practitioners and students, and it relates to systems and management theories to applications found in health settings, and compares the best of international practice. It sets out the basic principles of health management information systems, and illustrates them with examples and case studies from a wide range of health care applications and from a number of different countries, including the USA, the UK, Germany and Australia. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
An Overview of Health Management Information Systems | 7 |
The Strategic Planning of Health Information Systems | 48 |
Corporate Information Systems in Health Care Organizations | 89 |
Primary Health Care | 127 |
Acute Care Health Management Information Systems | 167 |
Data Communications in Health Care | 211 |
Data Protection and the Health Consumer | 251 |
Intelligent Applications of Health Information Systems | 292 |
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Back cover | 349 |
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Health Management Information Systems: A Handbook for Decision Makers Jack Smith No preview available - 2000 |
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