Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Einbinder, Laura. (Editor), Lorenzi, Nancy M. (Editor), Ash, Joan. (Editor), Gadd, Cynthia S. (Editor), Einbinder, Jonathan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Health Informatics,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical records > Data processing.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0269-6

Clinical informatics is poised for a period of rapid growth and expansion. A confluence of forces and trends, including pressure to contain healthcare costs and simultaneously expand access and coverage, a desire to reduce medical error and healthcare disparities, the need to better understand and o...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Managing Change
• Back Breaking Work: Implementing a Spine Registry in an Orthopedics Clinic
• A RHIO Struggling to form: Will it get off the ground
• Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center
• Implementation of an Electronic Prescription Writer in Ambulatory Care
• Online Health Care: A Classic Clash of Technology, People and Processes
• Section II: Patient Safety
• A Dungeon of Dangerous Practices
• Different Sides of the Story
• Barcode Medication Administration Implementation in the FIAT Health System
• H.I.T. or Miss: A Case Study
• Section III: Organizational Impact and Evaluation
• The Implementation of the Secure Messaging Feature in a Patient Portal and Clinicians Response to the Feature
• Who Moved My Clinic? Donnelly University Pediatric Rehabilitation: The Wheelchair clinic
• OncoOrders: The early years
• Implementing a computerized triage system in the Emergency Dept
• Medication Barcode Scanning: Code "Moo": Dead COW
• Section IV: Integration
• Project NEED: New Efficiency in an Emergency Dept
• Digital Radiology Divide at McKinly.