Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Einbinder, Laura (Editor), Lorenzi, Nancy M. (Editor), Ash, Joan (Editor), Gadd, Cynthia S. (Editor), Einbinder, Jonathan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Health Informatics,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health informatics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.

Clinical informatics is poised for a period of rapid growth and expansion. A confluence of forces and trends, including pressure to contain healthcare costs and simultaneously expand access and coverage, a desire to reduce medical error and healthcare disparities, the need to better understand and o...

Table of Contents:

• Managing Change
• Back Breaking Work: Implementing a Spine Registry in an Orthopedic Clinic
• A RHIO Struggling to Form: Will it Get Off the Ground?
• A Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center
• Implementation of an Electronic Prescription Writer in Ambulatory Care
• Online Health Care: A Classic Clash of Technology, People, and Processes
• Patient Safety
• A Dungeon of Dangerous Practices
• Different Sides of the Story
• Barcode Medication Administration Implementation in the FIAT Health System
• H.I.T. or Miss
• Organizational Impact and Evaluation
• The Implementation of Secure Messaging
• Who Moved My Clinic? Donnelly University Pediatric Rehabilitation: The Wheelchair Clinic
• OncoOrders: The Early Years
• Implementing a Computerized Triage System in the Emergency Department
• Medication Barcode Scanning: Code “Moo”: Dead COW
• Integration
• Project NEED: New Efficiency in an Emergency Department
• Digital Radiology Divide at McKinly.