Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity
- 4h 56m
- Stephan P. Kudyba (ed)
- CRC Press
- 2010
Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity examines the complexities involved in managing resources in our healthcare system and explains how management theory and informatics applications can increase efficiencies in various functional areas of healthcare services. Delving into data and project management and advanced analytics, this book details and provides supporting evidence for the strategic concepts that are critical to achieving successful healthcare information technology (HIT), information management, and electronic health record (EHR) applications. This includes the vital importance of involving nursing staff in rollouts, engaging physicians early in any process, and developing a more receptive organizational culture to digital information and systems adoption.
Bridging the gap from theory to practice, it discusses actual informatics applications that have been incorporated by various healthcare organizations and the corresponding management strategies that led to their successful employment. Offering a wealth of detail, it details several working projects, including:
- A computer physician order entry (CPOE) system project at a North Carolina hospital
- E-commerce self-service patient check-in at a New Jersey hospital
- The informatics project that turned a healthcare system’s paper-based resources into digital assets
- Projects at one hospital that helped reduce excesses in length of stay, improved patient safety; and improved efficiency with an ADE alert system
- A healthcare system’s use of algorithms to identify patients at risk for hepatitis
Offering the guidance that healthcare specialists need to make use of various informatics platforms, this book provides the motivation and the proven methods that can be adapted and applied to any number of staff, patient, or regulatory concerns.
In this Book
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Healthcare Informatics—Improving Efficiency and Productivity
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Foreword
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Preface
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An Introduction to the U.S. Healthcare Industry, Information Technology, and Informatics
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Quality Time in Healthcare—Strategies for Achieving National Goals for Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology
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A Project Management Framework of Healthcare Informatics Initiatives
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Nursing Roles in the Implementation of Clinical Information Systems
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Architecting Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for Optimal Utilization
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Knowledge Translation and Informatics in Healthcare
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Self-Service Technology in Healthcare
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The World of Health Analytics
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Enhancing Data Resources and Business Intelligence in Healthcare
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Application of Healthcare Informatics to Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes—Learning from the Experiences of Trinity Health
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Data Mining in Healthcare
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Using Data Mining to Build Alerting Systems for Decision Support in Healthcare
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Data Mining Techniques to Enhance Healthcare Cost Savings through the Identification of Abusive Billing Practices and the Optimization of Care Enhancement Services
