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Health Management Information Systems: Methods and Practical Applications, Second Edition, supplies a thorough and timely overview of how information systems are being used in the entire health care industry today. Practicing and prospective clinicians and administrators can depend on this text for a solid working knowledge of the functions – as well as strengths and weaknesses – of the many information systems in current use.
The Second Edition comes as result of continued developments in the field, with a wide range of new information and format improvements:
• Increased emphasis on real-world, practical applications
• Each chapter opens with a case scenario
• New topics include: Telemedicine, Confidentiality-Privacy-Security, Internet-Intranet-Extranet, Data Storage, Community Health Information Networks (CHINs, Legal and Ethical Concerns, Developing Software and Hardware Technologies, Uses of Computers in Teaching and Learning, Virtual Reality Technologies, and Imaging and Telecommunications
• Incorporates important information on quality issues
With careful coverage of everything from a state-of the-art review of HIMS technology architecture to building virtual communities, this powerful text providers accurate and updated information you can really use.
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