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What is Care Program

Chapter 133
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
A care program is a framework where organizations, professionals, and patients should comply with and is used for patient-centered organization of a well described target group. It integrates the activities between different disciplines, professionals, and departments (Berg, Schellekens et al., 2005).
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Planning and Control and the Use of Information Technology in Mental Health Care Organizations
I. J. Baars (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and G. G. van Merode (Board of Maastricht University Medical Center & Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch133
Abstract
This article reports the results of two studies on the use of standard care processes and IT for planning and control of mental healthcare processes. The results give insight in the needed functionalities of IT and planning and control of mental healthcare processes. The first study is a case study in a center for multidisciplinary (mental) youth care. This center implemented care programs and an automated planning tool. We studied the success of this implementation and particularly the fit between the care programs and the planning tool. In the second study we studied the characteristics of ambulant mental healthcare processes and the actual and preferable use of planning and control models and IT.
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