Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource
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This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the vast technological changes in the field for 2-year or 4-year health management programs. This text focuses on health data, its collection and use. It emphasizes the deployment of information technology and the role of the HIM professional in the development of the electronic health record. Karen Patena This is a comprehensive text for the health information management profession, beginning with a historical review of healthcare delivery systems and the development of the HIM profession, and then building on the concepts of data as a resource, its transformation to information, and its future role in the computer-based patient record. Designed as a textbook, the focus is on four key areas: healthcare data; information management and use; management; and health information systems. It presents a fresh approach to today's fundamentals and future challenges of health information management practice. There is an emphasis on quality in practice throughout the text. Designed for health information management students and practitioners, it presents the expanded scope and domains of health information management practice today and in the future. It also informs other health professionals (administrators, information systems professionals, researchers) about the role of health information management professionals. The contributors represent the specialties of health information management, public health, and community medicine. The book is organized into six major sections. Each chapter begins with an outline, key words, abbreviations defined, and objectives. A glossary provides definitions of all keywords. There is a detailed table of contents and alphabetic index. Many two-color illustrations include tables, charts, examples of forms, and highlights of important points. The most useful point is that the book is accompanied by an assignment workbook, review manual, electronic test bank, and instructor's manual, which are outstanding. This extensive text for the health informationmanagement profession will probably become a classic for all educational programs in the field. It provides a much-needed update of the evolving field, stressing data and the technology, systems, and requirements to transform it to quality information essential to the future computer-based patient record. There is a great deal of material here, which some students may find overwhelming. The last chapter presents viewpoints of future health information management issues, written by experts, to stimulate discussion.
1Health Care Systems22The Health Information Management Profession463Patient and Health Care Data644Data Collection845Data Quality1326Data Access and Retention1787Coding and Classification Systems2148Registries2389Research, Statistics, and Epidemiology28010Quality Assessment and Improvement32011Health Law Concepts and Practices35812Principles of Management39613Human Relations43214Human Resources Management46815Financial Management51416Methods for Analyzing and Improving Systems54417Computer-Based Patient Records - A Unifying Principle57418Information Systems Life Cycle62219Viewponts668An Essential Technology669Thoughts on the Future674Future Directions in Clinical Information Management676Perspectives on the Health Information Management Profession681Health Care and the National Information Infrastructure685Public Health: Meeting Future Information Needs690Re-Engineering Medicine: Medical Decision Making and Information Tools for Medical Practice694The Health Information Management Profession in the 21st Century: Practice and Educational Implications698Health Information Management Professional Education700Glossary707Index731
