Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and Management

Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and Management

Christo El Morr

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 323

ISBN13: 9781466643215|ISBN10: 1466643218|EISBN13: 9781466643222

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4321-5

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Healthcare providers require timely and accurate information about their patients. As such, a great amount of effort and resources are spent to ensure that the right information is presented to the right people at the right time.

Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and Management focuses on the advancements of Health Information Science in order to solve current and forthcoming problems in the health sector. Managers, policy makers, researchers, and Masters and PhD students in healthcare related fields will use this book to provide necessary insight on healthcare delivery and also to inspire new ideas and practices to effectively provide patients with the greatest quality care.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

Informatics and Health Management Perspectives

Chapter 1

Decision-Making and Decision Support in Acute Care (pages 1-18)

Brett W. Taylor

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are information tools intended to optimize medical choice, promising better patient outcomes, faster care, reduced resource expenditure, or some combination of all three. Clinical trials of...

Chapter 2

Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice and the PARIHS Framework (pages 19-36)

Shahram Zaheer

Patients receiving healthcare are commonly exposed to harm that is systematic and often severe. Clinical decisions based on inaccurate sources of information can lead to medical errors, high treatment costs, and poor patient...

Chapter 3

Investing in a “Rehabilitation Model” to Improve the Decision-Making Process in Long-Term Care (pages 37-47)

Connie D’Astolfo

An aging population is a primary factor associated with escalating healthcare costs due to increased drug spending, chronic diseases and co-morbidities, physician visits, and hospital costs (TD Report, 2010). There has already been a...

Chapter 4

Making Quality Control Decisions in Radiology Department: A Decision Support System for Radiographers’ Performance Appraisal Using PACS (pages 48-61)

Valentina Al Hamouche

In the radiology department, radiographers’ performance appraisal cannot be performed continuously due to time pressure and the lack of objective performance indicators. The authors conducted an empirical study where they assessed...

Chapter 5

Using Case Costing Data and Case Mix for Funding and Benchmarking in Rehabilitation Hospitals (pages 62-78)

Grace Liu

The concern for Ontario hospitals in Canada is that the funding model has recently changed from global- to activity-based funding, which will affect hospitals’ operational budget and cost management. Hospitals will be reimbursed...

Chapter 6

Implementation of Case Costing with Ontario Case Costing Initiative (OCCI) (pages 79-88)

Thuy Thi Thanh Hoang

Over the past decade there has been a tremendous spread of computerized systems in hospitals. The advancement provided an opportunity for hospitals to gain access to computerized clinical, financial, and statistical data. Case...

Chapter 7

Informatics and Health Services: The Potential Benefits and Challenges of Electronic Health Records and Personal Electronic Health Records in Patient Care, Cost Control, and Health Research – An Overview (pages 89-114)

Nelson Ravka

Personal electronic health records are seen as a key component to improved health care for patients, empowering motivated patients by giving them access to their own records resulting in increased self-care, shared decision making...

Informatics and Health Policy Perspectives

Chapter 8

The Administrative Policy Quandary in Canada’s Health Service Organizations (pages 116-134)

Grace I. Paterson, Jacqueline M. MacDonald, Naomi Nonnekes Mensink

This chapter examines the process for administrative health service policy development with respect to information sharing and decision-making as well as the relationship of policy to decision making. The challenges experienced by...

Chapter 9

Towards Healthy Public Policy: GIS and Food Systems Analysis (pages 135-152)

Julie Yang

As an issue that affects a significant portion of the Canadian population, food security must be addressed in public health policy and research. Decision-making for food security is a complex task that needs to take into account a...

Chapter 10

Caring for our Aging Population: Using CPOE and Telehomecare Systems as a Response to Health Policy Concerns (pages 153-166)

Sama Al-Khudairy

An increasing senior population and national fiscal challenges affect the provision of healthcare in many ways. Keeping this in mind, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s recent release of the Ontario Action Plan for...

Informatics Challenges

Chapter 11

Normalizing Cross-Border Healthcare in Europe via New E-Prescription Paradigms (pages 168-208)

Alexander Berler, Ioannis Apostolakis

The 21st century started with some significant efforts globally in the e-health sector. This was mainly pushed as a generic strategy from many nations and international organizations in order to cope with issues such as ageing...

Chapter 12

Incongruent Needs: Why Differences in the Iron-Triangle of Priorities Make Health Information Technology Adoption and Use Difficult (pages 209-221)

Edward J. Cherian, Tom W. Ryan

Health Information Technology (HIT) has the potential to redefine the confines of traditional medicine. Yet, in over a decade, little has been shown in improvements from HIT investments. In order to understand the failures of health...

Chapter 13

Home Telecare, Medical Implant, and Mobile Technology: Evolutions in Geriatric Care (pages 222-237)

Vishaya Naidoo, Yedishtra Naidoo

With a rapidly expanding global aging population, alternatives must be developed to minimize the inevitable increase in acute and long-term care admissions to the health care system. This chapter explores the use of home telecare as...

Chapter 14

How Web 2.0 Shapes Patient Knowledge Sharing: The Case of Diabetes in Italy (pages 238-260)

Chiara Libreri, Guendalina Graffigna

Web 2.0 has totally changed the health communication world. In particular, it has reconfigured peer exchanges about health. These exchanges are important because they allow knowledge sharing and construction between patients, in...

Back Materials

Compilation of References

About the Contributors

Index

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