Implementing Health Care Information Systems

By Helmuth F. Orthner

Subjects: Computer system performance, Information storage and retrieval systems, medicine, Medical records, Medicine, data processing, Data processing, Biology, Medicine

Description: This volume presents a collection of papers intended to provide developers and sponsors with insight into the very special problems involved with implementing health care information systems. Topics covered include the software process, design methods, issues unique to the health care environment, and examples of systems and environments used in this domain. The goal is to provide the reader with a better understanding of the process along with significant information to avoid the most common pitfalls and failures.