Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry
This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care. The work outlines the general problem of healthcare in the U.S. and then examines the possibilities and problems inherent in developing and implementing healthcare infostructures. Also provided are expert policy analyses comparing medical information systems in the U.S. with those in Japan and Europe. This book will be crucial to an understanding of the future potential of information systems in America's healthcare sector.
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Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry
This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care. The work outlines the general problem of healthcare in the U.S. and then examines the possibilities and problems inherent in developing and implementing healthcare infostructures. Also provided are expert policy analyses comparing medical information systems in the U.S. with those in Japan and Europe. This book will be crucial to an understanding of the future potential of information systems in America's healthcare sector.
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Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry

by The DIebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, Inc.
Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare Infostructures: The Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Healthcare Industry

by The DIebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, Inc.

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This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care. The work outlines the general problem of healthcare in the U.S. and then examines the possibilities and problems inherent in developing and implementing healthcare infostructures. Also provided are expert policy analyses comparing medical information systems in the U.S. with those in Japan and Europe. This book will be crucial to an understanding of the future potential of information systems in America's healthcare sector.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275951580
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/20/1995
Series: Development of Information-Based Infrastructures for the Hea
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.34(d)
Lexile: 1520L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
Healthcare Infostructures: Possibilities and Problems
Policy Analyses
Information-Based Medical Infrastructures in Europe
Information Systems in Japanese Healthcare
Appendix A: Selected Implementations of Healthcare Infostructures
Appendix B: The Jackson Hole Initiatives for a Twenty-first Century American Health System
Bibliography
Acronyms
Index

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