Transforming Health Care Through Information / Health Informatics (PDF)

Introduction: Case Studies in Technological Change GEMINI: The Life and Times of a Clinical Information System.- Section I. Organizational Change.- The Web Center: A Case Study in Strategy and Power.- Computers for Kids: Not All Fun and Games.- Managing Change.- Managing Success: An Information System Dilemma at Great Plains Healthcare.- Section II. Implementation.- Developing an Emergency Department Information System.- Implementation of OpChart in West Medical Building.- The Development of the Scientific Computing Center at Vanderbilt University.- Early Implementation Problems of an Integrated Information System Within the White Mountain University Health System.- Implementation of a Web Based Incident Reporting System at Legendary Health System.- Managing Change.- Section III. Economics.- E3 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.- Catch 22: The Case of Utilization Management's Return on Investment Evaluation.- Antimicrobial Utilization Program at the University of Central State Medical Center.- CM Healthcare System: The Case of the Well-Aggregated Patient Data.- Building Consensus: Quality Improvement at Vesalius Health System (VHS).- Section IV. Leadership Issues.- Strategic Informatics: Planning for the Future of AtlanticHealth.- Fix Pharmacy!- Showdown in the Heart of Texas.- Mission Valley Medical Center Physicians Group Practice: The Rumor.- The DNA Donation Project.- Who's in Charge?- Section V. Organizational and Interpersonal Conflict.- The Chief Residents Dilemma.- Death of a Committee.- Whose Job is it Anyway?- Conflict and Leadership Change.- All for the want of a Plan.- Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail.- Founding Fathers Health Corporation: Idealism and the Bottom Line.