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Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems

Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems

Ton Spil (University of Twente, the Netherlands) and Robert Stegwee (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Release Date: July, 2000|Copyright: © 2001 |Pages: 232
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-878289-89-6
ISBN13: 9781878289896|ISBN10: 1878289896|EISBN13: 9781466665385
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Information technologies of the past two decades have created significant fundamental changes in the delivery of healthcare services by healthcare provider organizations. Many healthcare organizations have been in search of ways and strategies to keep up with continuously emerging information technologies, particularly Web-based driven technologies.

Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems provides an overall coverage of different aspects of healthcare information systems strategies and challenges facing these organizations. The book also provides solutions and remedies in utilizing information technologies in support of a strategic posture of healthcare organization in the new millennium.

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Ton A.M. Spil is assistant professor at the department of Technology & Management at the University of Twente. He is teaching in the area of Business Information Systems, mainly in project based education. In 1988 he finished his masterps in Computer Science and started his own company consulting big firms on strategic information systems planning. In 1996 he finished his PhD thesis on the effectiveness of these plans and after that he specialized in the application area healthcare and professional organizations. In 2000 he was project manager on a big e-health research project and chaired a track on HICSS 33.
Robert A. Stegwee is professor of Information Management and chair of the Business Information Systems department of the Faculty of Technology & Management at the University of Twente. He holds a masterps in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam and a doctorate in Organisation and Management from the University of Groningen. Within the Center for Telematics and Information Technology, one of the research institutes of the University of Twente, he is area leader for Electronic Process Interaction and Communication (EPIC). On several occasions he chaired an ICT in Healthcare Track at international conferences. With Cap Gemini Ernst & Young he gained practical experience through extensive consultancy work in ICT for the Healthcare Consultancy Group. He is member of the board of HL7 The Netherlands.
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