Information systems and healthcare enterprises

• Main Author: Rada, R. 1951-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Medicine > Data processing. > United States; Medical care > Data processing. > United States; Information storage and retrieval systems > Medicine > United States.; Information Systems > United States.; Delivery of Health Care > United States.; Health Care Sector > United States.; Information Storage and Retrieval > United States.
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"The United States' healthcare industry consumes roughly 20% of the gross national product per year. This huge expenditure not only represents a large portion of the country's collective interests, but also an enormous amount of medical information. This book examines the special issu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Software life cycle
• 3. Providers
• 4. Payers
• 5. Data and knowledge
• 6. Provider-payer transactions
• 7. Information networks
• 8. Regulation
• 9. Privacy
• 10. Security
• 11. Personnel
• 12. Vendors
• 13. Diffusion
• 14. Conclusion.