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Title Encyclopedia of healthcare information systems / Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Eliezer Geisler [editors]
Published Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), ©2008

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Description electronic texts (3 volumes (xxxvii, 1416, 11 pages) : illustrations, maps) : digital files
Contents V. 1. A-D -- v. 2. E-Mo -- v. 3. MRI-Z
Summary "This book provides an extensive and rich compilation of international research, discussing the use, adoption, design, and diffusion of information communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare, including the role of ICTs in the future of healthcare delivery; access, quality, and value of healthcare; nature and evaluation of medical technologies; ethics and social implications; and medical information management"--Provided by publisher
Analysis Business process redesign
Computerized medical records
Costs of healthcare delivery
Economic implications of IT in healthcare
Efficiency in the healthcare system
E-health
Equitability in healthcare
Ethics in healthcare
Evaluation of medical technologies
Future of medical informatics
Healthcare quality control
IT implications in healthcare
IT innovations
Knowledge management
Manufacturing of medical technologies
Medical information integrity
Medical information security
Medical technologies in academia
Medical technologies in government
Patient preferences, needs, and values
Patient safety
Patient-centered healthcare organizations
Pharmaceutical manufacturing
Physician-patient communication
Remote access to healthcare
Telehealth
Telemedicine
Total quality management
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed May 31, 2010)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available in print
Mode of access: Internet
Subject Medical informatics -- Encyclopedias
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Information Systems
information storage.
information retrieval services.
Medical informatics.
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
Geisler, Eliezer, 1942-
IGI Global.
LC no. 2007047456
ISBN 9781599048901
1599048906