1st Edition

Health Information Management Integrating Information and Communication Technology in Health Care Work

By Marc Berg Copyright 2004
252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

In almost all Western countries, concerted efforts are made to stimulate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care. Yet the number of success stories are few and the frustrations many. In this key textbook, readers are introduced to the challenges, the lessons learned and the new insights of health information management at the start of the twenty-first century.... Read more
Part 1: Starting Points Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Waiting for Godot 3. Health Care Work and Patient Care Information Systems 4. The Contextual Nature of Information 5. Meeting the Challenge 6. Designing Interactions Part 2: Information Strategy, Implementation and Evaluation 7. Information Strategy 8. Developing the Information Strategy 9. Implementing Information Systems in Health Care Organizations 10. Project Management of Innovative PCIS Implementations in Healthcare 11. Evaluation of Patient Care Information Systems

Biography

Marc Berg is Professor of Social-Medical Sciences at the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam.