1st Edition

Integrating Healthcare with Information and Communications Technology

By Wendy Currie, David Finnegan Copyright 2009
286 Pages
by CRC Press

286 Pages
by CRC Press

This book sets out to answer the key question of how healthcare providers can move from a fragmented to an integrated provision, including how ICT be used to develop a market approach - variety and choice of service providers for patients - against a background of institutionalised and ingrained practices. A team of academic and practitioner experts with many years' healthcare and research... Read more
Part 1: Transforming Healthcare Services Using ICT. Integrating Healthcare. Information Systems (IS) Integration Approaches in Healthcare. Modernizing Healthcare really connecting for health? Integrating Healthcare with ICT. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT): Is there a better way? Part 2: Electronic Health Records. Electronic Records for Patient Centred Healthcare. Integrating Electronic Health Records. Socio-Technical Approaches to EHRs. Part 3: Global ICT Adoption and Implementation in Healthcare. New IT and the Kaiser Chiefs: EMR integration in the Aloha State. Some insights into the National Healthcare Systems of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Customer Value and Lean Operations in Healthcare.

Biography

Wendy Currie, David Finnegan