Healthcare Information Management Systems

This new edition of the classic textbook provides bold and honest descriptions of the current state of current US healthcare information technology as emerging technologies and novel practice and business models take central roles in the continuing quest to improve health, healthcare quality and to reduce costs. Many changes and innovations described herein have come to fore in response to challenges posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The contents of this volume have been updated, with timely coverage of many topics: · The mutual and evolving impact of health IT and healthcare needs with respect to costs, workforce training and leadership · The changing state of healthcare IT privacy, security, interoperability and data sharing through health information exchange · The rise and growing importance of telehealth/telemedicine in the era of COVID-19 · Innovations and trends in the development and deployment of health IT in public health, disease modeling and tracking, and clinical/population health research · Current work in health IT as it is used in patient safety, chronic disease management, critical care, rehabilitation/long-term/home-based patient care and care coordination · “Brave new world” visions of the future of healthcare and health IT, with forward-looking considerations of the impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning on healthcare equity and policy Building on the success of the previous editions, this 5th edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and Solutions provides healthcare professionals insights to new frontiers and to the directions being taken in the technical, organizational, business and management of health IT as it becomes central to achieving the goals of optimizing healthcare, cost, quality and universal health.