Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies
Editors: Einbinder, L., Lorenzi, N.M., Ash, J., Gadd, C.S., Einbinder, J. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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Clinical informatics is poised for a period of rapid growth and expansion. A confluence of forces and trends, including pressure to contain healthcare costs and simultaneously expand access and coverage, a desire to reduce medical error and healthcare disparities, the need to better understand and optimize our clinical interventions and delivery systems, the need to translate new knowledge into practice quickly and effectively, and the need to demonstrate the value of our services, all call for the application of the methods and techniques of our field.
Transforming Health Care Through Information contains the collected practical experience of the highly respected authorship and contributes to the evolving framework of understanding in this discipline. The Editors are all leaders in their field and have assembled a team of authors with an intimate understanding of the subject to create this rich collection. The book is organized around four major areas or domains of clinical informatics – Managing Change, Patient Safety, Organizational Impact and Evaluation, and Integration – and focuses on the people and organizational process of applied informatics, as well as evaluation, across a wide range of topics. It will be of considerable help to any practitioner in the field of clinical informatics, increasing understanding of the issues at hand.
- About the authors
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Nancy Lorenzi, PhD, is a professor of Biomedical Informatics and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Joan S. Ash, PhD, is a professor of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research at the Oregon Health and Science University Medical School, Portland Oregon.
Jonathan Einbinder, MD, MPH is Corporate Manager in Quality Data Management at Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Cindy Gadd, PhD is a professor in Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Laura Einbinder, MBA is a Consultant at Einbinder & Associates in Medfield, Massachusetts.
- Reviews
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From the reviews of the third edition: “This third edition of a useful overview of clinical informatics uses real life implementation cases and stories surrounding four major areas -- change management, patient safety, organizational impact and evaluation, and integration. … The book is intended for healthcare professionals who are leading the transformation of healthcare by using information and knowledge. It is valuable not only for informatics clinicians, but also for anyone in healthcare, whether executives, managers, consultants, or students.” (Katie Dejuras, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2010)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Back Breaking Work: Implementing a Spine Registry in an Orthopedic Clinic
Pages 7-13
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A RHIO Struggling to Form: Will it Get Off the Ground?
Pages 15-27
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A Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center
Pages 29-45
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Implementation of an Electronic Prescription Writer in Ambulatory Care
Pages 47-56
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Online Health Care: A Classic Clash of Technology, People, and Processes
Pages 57-68
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies
- Editors
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- Laura Einbinder
- Nancy M. Lorenzi
- Joan Ash
- Cynthia S. Gadd
- Jonathan Einbinder
- Series Title
- Health Informatics
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4419-0269-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-0269-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-0268-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-2544-1
- Series ISSN
- 1431-1917
- Edition Number
- 3
- Number of Pages
- XX, 196
- Topics