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Created especially for Health Information Management students, this worktext helps to bridge the gap between content knowledge and actual on-the-job HIM principle application. Case Studies in Health Information Management scenarios are based on actual HIM situations and demand "thought" and "action" in order to answer the questions. This critical-thinking approach will help you move from classroom theory to real-life application and analysis of concepts.

This work sets out to enlighten - or even entertain - health service staff, professional advisers, and pharmaceutical representatives. The mysterious science of health economics is revealed as the catalyst for change in every aspect of health-care delivery. How should doctors, nurses, pharmacists and health-service managers interpret the barrage of information produced by the pharmaceutical industry? This work aims to find out.

This book examines the current status of mHealth development, regulations and the social background in Japan, South Korea and China, comparing it to the situation in the United States and the European Union and consider solutions to issues surrounding mHealth. The recent progress in mobile technology, represented by smartphones and smart watches, has been remarkable. A service called mobile health (mHealth), which uses such mobile technology to manage health, is also becoming a reality. Although...

This book is an economist's view of the health care sector with little economics jargon, accessible to the informed layperson as well as the professional. Knowledge of the basic economic concepts, however, will enable the reader to understand the recent tremendous changes in the U.S. health care industry. Excerpts from health industry antitrust litigations are featured at the end of many chapters, providing a real world understanding of how the health care marketplace behaves. Comparisons with t...

This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information and Technology Terms, Acronyms and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by a robust team of industry experts. The fifth edition of this dictionary serves as a quick reference for students, health information and technology (IT) professionals, and healthcare executives to better navigate the ever-growing health IT field. This valuable resource includes more than 3,400 def...

Digital healthcare is heterogeneous along the entire treatment pathway, ranging from monitoring applications and artificial-intelligence-based diagnostics, to support for virtual reality surgery. Since the introduction of the Digital Health Act in Germany in early 2020, there has been a push toward digital innovative solutions, especially in the outpatient sector. This book analyzes current digital health law from an economic perspective, combining theory with real-world applications. It examin...

Succeed in your health information management course and have fun with Studyware software! This dynamic resource is packed with interactive games, quizzes, and other resources that your mastery of key concepts in the corresponding chapter in your textbook.

Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Digital machines do many tasks orders-of-magnitude better, faster and more accurately than humans.Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better than machines, things like: understanding and using natural language; perceiving what is unexpressed; taking into account values, culture, ethics, and human relationships; touching and healing. For the fo...

First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being written in the earlier years of the twentieth century, the book will not only be of interest to medical students and practitioners, but also to historians.

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century is the follow-up to the highly successful, award-winning first edition. Published in 2006, the first edition was a critical resource in chronicling the huge historical shift in nursing linked to the explosion of EHR national strategies and health policies around the globe. This updated edition, co-published by AMIA, examines the revolution that has occurred in nursing and explores the role IT is playing in this transformation, with a thoughtful examin...

During this era of continuous improvement, healthcare organizations need to be staffed by engaged, motivated, and hard-working frontline employees. As these clinical and non-clinical personnel handle most of the important tasks in any organization and are often the people who directly interact with patients and customers, it's the job of managers to oversee and motivate their staff members. Using Lean management strategies, this easy-to-read book for leaders and managers provides useful, insight...

Krankenhäuser mit einer Bettenzahl von bis zu 200 Betten sehen sich ganz spezifischen strategischen und organisatorischen Fragen gegenübergestellt. Dieses Buch analysiert Herausforderungen und Lösungsstrategien von kleineren Krankenhäusern im ländlichen Raum aus betriebswirtschaftlicher und versorgungswissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Zunächst wird die aktuelle Situation des Krankenhauswesens in Deutschland mit Schwerpunkt auf kleineren Krankenhäusern im ländlichen Raum diskutiert. Anschließend we...

** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature. The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts. Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how...

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit den logistischen Grundlagen des Gesundheitsbetriebs, der Gestaltung, Planung, Normierung und Standardisierung von Behandlungs- und Pflegeleistungen, weist auf die Bedeutung des Einsatzes und der Bewirtschaftung von medizinischem Verbrauchsmaterial hin und zeigt die Einsatzbedingungen medizintechnischer Betriebsmittel im Gesundheitsbetrieb auf. Mit der Instandhaltung medizintechnischer Betriebsmittel werden beispielhaft logistische Besonderheiten in Gesundhei...

Die Innerbetriebliche Leistungsverrechnung ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Kosten-, Leistungs-, Erlös- und Ergebnisrechnung, denn über die Verrechnungsgrößen können unterschiedliche Preise generiert werden. Die Autoren stellen mit dem Zahlenmaterial eines Modellkrankenhauses verschiedene Herangehensweisen der Verrechnung dar, so dass der Praktiker entscheiden kann, welches Verfahren er für geeignet hält, sowohl kostenrechnerisch als auch managementorientiert eingesetzt zu werden. Diese Tran...