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.
Author(s): Brian C. Drolet (auth.), Laura Einbinder, Nancy M. Lorenzi, Joan Ash, Cynthia S. Gadd, Jonathan Einbinder (eds.)
Series: Health Informatics
Edition: 3
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 196
Tags: Health Informatics
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 2-6
Back Breaking Work: Implementing a Spine Registry in an Orthopedic Clinic....Pages 7-13
A RHIO Struggling to Form: Will it Get Off the Ground?....Pages 15-27
A Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center....Pages 29-45
Implementation of an Electronic Prescription Writer in Ambulatory Care....Pages 47-56
Online Health Care: A Classic Clash of Technology, People, and Processes....Pages 57-68
Front Matter....Pages 70-72
A Dungeon of Dangerous Practices....Pages 73-81
Different Sides of the Story....Pages 83-84
Barcode Medication Administration Implementation in the FIAT Health System....Pages 85-96
H.I.T. or Miss....Pages 97-100
Front Matter....Pages 102-106
The Implementation of Secure Messaging....Pages 107-114
Who Moved My Clinic? Donnelly University Pediatric Rehabilitation: The Wheelchair Clinic....Pages 115-125
OncoOrders: The Early Years....Pages 127-133
Implementing a Computerized Triage System in the Emergency Department....Pages 135-153
Medication Barcode Scanning: Code “Moo”: Dead COW....Pages 155-160
Front Matter....Pages 162-165
Project NEED: New Efficiency in an Emergency Department....Pages 167-177
Digital Radiology Divide at McKinly....Pages 179-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-195