Description: Information Technology for Integrated Health System offers practical advice on how health care organizations can apply new IT and IS strategies. The book thoroughly examines how IT and IS technology can help organizations achieve their business goals, and it explores the technology's long-term management. It discusses the emerging standards and offers numerous models that illustrates IT architecture, information flows, and organizational structures. Information Technology also enables health care executives to assess their strengths and anticipate future trends. It explores the human dimension of planning and implementation - including constructing the optimal IT organizational model - and helps organizations deploy this new technology. Here is an invaluable guide that includes an overview of the many historic changes that are occurring in the industry and explores the impact of new government mandates; offers proven techniques for using information systems to increase effectiveness and productivity; provides a complete framework for developing the business systems needed to meet changing organizational needs; supplies clear guidelines for planning and managing the information-gathering process.

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