Information management in health services
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Information management in health services
（Health services management）
Open University Press, 1994
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Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB) Library , Kobe University図書
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780335191161
Description
Health services are set on an inexorable drive for more and better information, and are spending millions of pounds on information technology in an effort to obtain it. But as the need for information becomes ever more pressing, serious problems have come into focus, ranging from the difficulties of collecting accurate routine data to understanding the role of information in management and clinical practice.
This book sets out to clarify the nature of the problems surrounding information and IT, and point the way to practical solutions. It is divided into three sections: policy overview; views from within the health service; and the views of academic researchers.
Table of Contents
Hospitals in the market
information policy in the National Health Service
operational systems
managing development - developing managers' information management
clinical management
nursing information
contracts - managing the external environment
information for purchasing
the politics of information
a social science perspective on information systems in the NHS
information and IT strategy
evaluation - informing the future, not living in the past
IT futures in the NHS
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ISBN 9780335191178
Description
Health services are set on an inexorable drive for more and better information, and are spending millions of pounds on information technology in an effort to obtain it. But as the need for information becomes ever more pressing, serious problems have come into focus, ranging from the difficulties of collecting accurate routine data to understanding the role of information in management and clinical practice. This book sets out to clarify the nature of the problems surrounding information and IT, and point the way to practical solutions. It is divided into three sections: policy overview; views from within the health service; and the views of academic researchers.
Table of Contents
- Hospitals in the market
- information policy in the National Health Service
- operational systems
- managing development - developing managers' information management
- clinical management
- nursing information
- contracts - managing the external environment
- information for purchasing
- the politics of information
- a social science perspective on information systems in the NHS
- information and IT strategy
- evaluation - informing the future, not living in the past
- IT futures in the NHS.
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