Performance Improvement Through Information Management: Health Care’s Bridge to Success (Health Informatics)

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Market Forces and the Environment....Pages 3-20 Market Structure....Pages 21-42 Strategy Analyses and Implications for Information Systems....Pages 43-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Planning for Performance....Pages 65-74 Enterprise Information Architecture....Pages 75-83 Process Design....Pages 84-97 Care Delivery and Care Management....Pages 98-109 Health Plan Operations and Marketing: The Emerging Network Manager Role....Pages 110-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Information Integration....Pages 121-133 Application Development....Pages 134-143 Application Integration....Pages 144-152 Technical Infrastructure: Power for the Enterprise....Pages 153-161 Emerging Technologies....Pages 162-172 Implications and Direction....Pages 173-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-204 Performance Improvement through Information Management highlights performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, focusing on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the text describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current context of health care and its transformation. This text will be an invaluable reference to the chief executive officers, chief information officers, senior executives, and board members who are shaping health care today and into the 21st century. Likewise, it will appeal to healthcare administrators and managers, healthcare systems specialists, and students in advanced healthcare professional and academic programs. "Performance Improvement Through Information Management describes both the strategies and tactics of using information technologies to enhance business and clinical performance in health care. Written by a team of experts with demonstrated success in dealing with the most pressing issues in healthcare process improvement and information management today, this book links the healthcare market environment and economic forces to transformational processes and the technologies that enable those transformations. The authors provide busy healthcare executives with the authoritative source of knowledge they need to achieve performance improvement through information management." "An invaluable practical reference for the leaders who are reshaping health care, this volume will also appeal to healthcare administrators and managers, healthcare information systems specialists, and students in advanced healthcare professions and academic programs."--BOOK JACKET Highlighting performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, this text focuses on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the book describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current context. It is thus an invaluable reference to the CEOs, chief information officers, senior executives, and board members who are shaping health care today and into the 21st century. It will equally appeal to healthcare administrators and managers, healthcare systems specialists, and students in advanced healthcare professional and academic programs.