Healthcare information systems and informatics research and practices /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Tan, Joseph K. H.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Medical informatics.; Information storage and retrieval systems > Medical care.; Health services administration > Data processing.; Medical Informatics.; Health Services Administration.; Healthcare information systems; Informatics; Information systems; Healthcare industry; Technology adoption; Healthcare diffusion; Healthcare acceptance; Healthcare cost benefits; Healthcare cost effectiveness; Healthcare investment
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This book compiles estimable knowledge on the research of information systems and informatics applications in the healthcare industry. It addresses organizational issues, including technology adoption, diffusion, and acceptance, as well as cost benefits and cost effectiveness, of advancing health in...

Table of Contents:

• Designing a M-health framework for conceptualizing mobile health systems / Phillip Olla, Joseph Tan
• Factors motivating the acceptance of new information and communication technologies in UK healthcare : a test of three models / Janice A. Osbourne, Malcolm Clarke
• An overview of the HIPAA-compliant privacy access control model / Vivying S.Y. Cheng, Patrick C.K. Hung
• The Internet and managing boomers and seniors' health / Christopher G. Reddick
• Data mining medical information : should artificial neural networks be used to analyze trauma audit data / Thomas Chesney ... [et al.]
• Diagnostic cost reduction using artificial neural networks : the case of pulmonary embolism / Steven Walczak, Bradley B. Brimhall, Jerry B. Lefkowitz
• Information technology in primary care practice in the United States / James G. Anderson, E. Andrew Balas
• A case study of health information systems adoption : an adaptive structuration theory approach / Dana Schwieger ... [et al.]
• Understanding physicians' acceptance of computerized physician order entry / Huigang Liang, Yajiong Xue, Xiaocheng Wu
• Entrepreneurial IT governance in a rural family practice residency program / Carla Wiggins ... [et al.]
• Telehealth organizational implementation guideline issues : a Canadian perspective / Maryann Yeo, Penny A. Jennett
• Computer usage by U.S. group medical practices 1994 vs. 2003 and type of usage comparison to IT practices in Taiwan / Marion Sobol, Edmund Prater
• Decentralization of the Greek national telemedicine system / Ioannis Apostolakis, Periklis Valsamos, Iraklis Varlamis
• Perceived level of benefits and risk core functionalities of an EHR system / Diane C. Davis, Minal Thakkar
• Using pocket PCs for nurses' shift reports and patient care / Karen Chang ... [et al.]
• Evaluation of a tool to enhance searching for useful medical information on the Internet / David Parry
• Applying personal health informatics to create effective patient-centered e-health / E. Vance Wilson
• The impact of certification on healthcare information technology use / Neset Hikmet, Anol Bhattacherjee
• The competitive forces facing e-health / Nilmini Wickramasinghe ... [et al.]
• From theory to practice : healthcare technology management (HCTM) conceptualization, measures, and practices / George Eisler, Joseph Tan, Samual Sheps.