Impact of healthcare informatics on quality of patient care and health services

This book examines various types of organizations, including nonprofit hospitals, for-profit hospitals, community health centers, and government hospitals. By doing so, it provides a comparative perspective of how different organizations adapt and use health information technology (HIT)

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sridhar, Divya Srinivasan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2013
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • HIPAA : stakeholder impacts and effects of provisions of the HITECH Act
  • Organizational culture : what is needed to adopt HIT across different types of hospitals?
  • Health economics : organizational finance and healthcare IT
  • Cost benefit analysis and funding EMRs
  • Analyzing the presence of EMRs across different health providers
  • EMR impacts on quality of care and cost to the patient
  • The physician and perceptions : medical malpractice and impacts from HIT usage
  • Reduction in bioterrorism through the usage of EMRs
  • The direction of health informatics and the future : the E-health industry