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Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency through Technology, Analytics, and Management supplies an understanding of the different types of healthcare service providers, corresponding information technologies, analytic methods, and data issues that play a vital role in transforming the healthcare industry. All of these elements are reshaping the various activities such as workflow and processes of hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and patient analytics, including hot spotting, risk stratif...

Winner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society‘s (HIMSS) 2015 Book of the Year Award Given the on-going changes and challenges faced by today‘s health care organizations, Organizational and Process Reengineering Approaches for Health Care Transformation provides a practical, leader-led and team-based approach for reengineering organizations and transforming leaders and teams while creating new processes in the health care industry. It supplies a framework for organizational...

Increasing costs and higher utilization of resources make the role of process improvement more important than ever in the health care industry. Management Engineering: A Guide to Best Practices for Industrial Engineering in Health Care provides an overview of the practice of industrial engineering (management engineering) in the health care industry.Explaining how to maximize the unique skills of management engineers in a health care setting, the book provides guidance on tried and true techniqu...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In the last several decades, international traffic volume has significantly increased, raising the risk of infectious diseases and their spread. In this important volume, the impact of health issues is explored in connection with travel. Not only does the book explore the risk of diseases such as H1N1 (otherwise known as swine flu), malaria, salmonella, and Legionellosis, it also addresses health regulations for travel to foreign countries...

Today, it is not uncommon for practices and hospitals to be on their second or third EHR and/or contemplating a transition from the traditional on-premise model to a cloud-based system. As a follow-up to Complete Guide and Toolkit to Successful EHR Adoption (©2011 HIMSS), this book builds on the best practices of the first edition, fast-forwarding to the latest innovations that are currently leveraged and adopted by providers and hospitals. We examine the role that artificial intelligence (AI) i...

This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years. Improving the delivery of healthcare through HIT is vital for both the economic success of healthcare organizations and the care of the patient, but most EMR systems do not have an integrated and architected approach. This book provides a detailed approach on how to leverage IT for transformation. It al...

Inverse problems in wave propagation occur in geophysics, ocean acoustics, civil and environmental engineering, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, biomedical ultrasonics, radar, astrophysics, as well as other areas of science and technology. The papers in this volume cover these scientific and technical topics, together with fundamental mathematical investigations of the relation between waves and scatterers.

This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains a wide range of research designs and other contemporary issues in applied health research. Focusing on learning outcomes, it takes the reader from underpinning epistemological, ontological and methodological considerations through to the key features of highli...

Der Einsatz elektronischer Datenverarbeitung in Krankenanstalten erfahrt in den letzten Jahren eine sturmische Entwicklung. War ursprunglich nur daran gedacht, mit Hilfe der Datenverarbeitung administrative Tatigkeiten zu vereinfachen, so wird nun bereits ein integriertes Krankenhausinformationssystem angestrebt. Daten sollen moeglichst am Ort ihrer Entstehung erfasst werden und die Weiterleitung dieser Daten an alle Stationen, Abteilungen und Leistungsstellen, die diese Daten benoetigen, sowie...

Work in the area of biomaterials and stem cell therapy has revealed great potential for many applications, from the treatment of localized defects and diseases to the repair and replacement of whole organs. Researchers have also begun to develop a better understanding of the cellular environment needed for optimal tissue repair and regeneration. Biomaterials and Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine explores a range of applications for biomaterials and stem cell therapy and describes recent resear...

This is a practical A4 workbook aimed at social work managers who need guidelines and positive examples of staff supervision. It is written by an author who has wide experience in training and management in social work, and provides information, exercises and supervision models. It offers practical models to aid implementation, emphasizes throughout an anti-discriminatory approach to supervision, and is written specifically for social work managers and trainers, and for voluntary agencies.

The Handbook of Healthcare Management is a comprehensive examination of key management practices for global healthcare organizations, arguing that insight into and implementation of these practices is essential for success and sustainability. Expert contributors analyze both existing methods and new developments in healthcare management, through topics including healthcare marketing and customer service, managing human resources and organizational stakeholders, strategic and business planning,...

The pace and sophistication of advances in medicine in the past two decades have necessitated a growing need for a comprehensive reference that highlights current issues in medicine. Each volume in the Current Issues in Medicine series is a stand‐alone text that provides a broad survey of various critical topics—all accomplished in a user-friendly yet interconnected format. The series not only highlights current advances but also explores related topics such as translational medicine, regulatory...

For any trustee or CEO involved with the demands of health care boards, we're pleased to present a series of insightful books developed exclusively to address your special concerns. In each of these four guides you'll find three informative workbooks previously published in Trustee, the magazine for governing board members of health care organizations. These resourceful guides cover a series of important topics and provide trustees and management with the proven strategies necessary to operate e...

Dieses Buch zeigt Wege auf, wie jedes Krankenhaus die vermeintliche Quadratur des Kreises loesen kann: zum einen noch bessere medizinische und pflegerische Leistungen zu erbringen, zum andern nachhaltig die Gewinnschwelle zu erreichen. Auch wenn deutsche Krankenhauser im internationalen Vergleich erstaunlich gut dastehen, so muss sich der gesamte Sektor weiterhin enormen Herausforderungen stellen: Rund die Halfte der Hauser schreibt rote Zahlen, Wirtschaftlichkeit und finanzielle Basis werden vo...

Project management skills are valuable for any healthcare project, not just technology projects. Non-technology activities that would benefit from project management skills include implementing a new policy housewide, updating training for use of the electronic health record (EHR), creating a new orientation program, quality assurance activities, submitting an article or presentation, writing a research proposal, or opening a new patient care unit. In addition, project management skills are not...