Format:
xi, 232 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
978-1-449-30502-4
Content:
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry〉 This concise book provides a candid assessment of the U.S. healthcare system as it ramps up it use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government's meaningful use requirements. It's a tremendous opportunity for tens of thousands of IT professionals, but it's also a huge challenge: the program requires a complete makeover of archaic records systems, workflows, and other practices now in place. This book points out how hospitals and doctors' offices differ from other organizations that use IT, and explains what's necessary to bridge the gap between clinicians and IT staff
Note:
An anatomy of medical practice -- Medical billing -- The bandwidth of paper -- Herding cars : Healthcare management and business office operations -- Patient-facing software -- Human error -- Meaningful use overview -- A selective history of EHR technology -- Ontologies -- Interoperability -- HIPAA : The far-reaching healthcare regulation -- Open source systems
Language:
English
Subjects:
Computer Science
,
Medicine
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