Healthcare Information Systems

by Kevin Beaver

Book Overview

The move to manage medicine from a financial perspective, i.e. managed care, has added huge layers of bureaucratic and administrative functions to healthcare. The need to have the ability to track patient medical records, mandated by government legislation such as HIPAA, is bringing new technologies and processes into the healthcare arena. A universal medical record system and absolute patient portability is a definite possibility in the not too distant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849314984
• ISBN13: 9780849314988
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.7"