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Chapter 34
Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
Systems used for different hospitals to keep patients laboratory results and previous diagnoses electronically.
Published in Chapter:
ICT in Healthcare Management, Developments, and Applications in Turkish Health Sector
Asli Suder (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) and Murat Durucu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch034
Abstract
Information and communication technologies are radically changing the way that healthcare is delivered with the development of e-Health among the most remarkable changes. It plays an increasingly important role in delivering healthcare. Information and communication technology has the potential to effectively support the complexities involved in the communication that takes place both amongst healthcare professionals and their patients in the developed and developing countries. The aim of the chapter is to analyze the recent situation in healthcare management and information communication technology applications in the health industry. This chapter examines the challenges involved in human interaction and a clinical information system and allows for richer communication between the patient and those involved in their health.
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Chapter 34
ICT in Healthcare Management, Developments, and Applications in Turkish Health Sector
Systems used for different hospitals to keep patients laboratory results and previous diagnoses electronically.
Published in Chapter: ICT in Healthcare Management, Developments, and Applications in Turkish Health Sector; From: Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
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Chapter 20
A Quality Assurance Approach to Healthcare: Implications for Information Systems
allows health care providers, patients and payers to interact more efficiently and in life-enhancing ways. It offers new methods of storing, manipulating and communicating medical information of all kinds, including text, images, sound, video and tactile senses, which are more powerful and flexible than paper based systems. The policy of governments appears to favour a national healthcare infrastructure with a longitudinal patient record covering a patient’s complete medical history from the cradle to the grave. (Rogerson, 2000)
Published in Chapter: A Quality Assurance Approach to Healthcare: Implications for Information Systems; From: Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies
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Chapter 19
A View of Health Information Exchange: Towards a Digital Health Community
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual.
Published in Chapter: A View of Health Information Exchange: Towards a Digital Health Community; From: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
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Chapter 20
A Quality Assurance Approach to Healthcare: Implications for Information Systems
allows health care providers, patients and payers to interact more efficiently and in life-enhancing ways. It offers new methods of storing, manipulating and communicating medical information of all kinds, including text, images, sound, video and tactile senses, which are more powerful and flexible than paper based systems. The policy of governments appears to favour a national healthcare infrastructure with a longitudinal patient record covering a patient’s complete medical history from the cradle to the grave. (Rogerson, 2000)
Published in Chapter: A Quality Assurance Approach to Healthcare: Implications for Information Systems; From: Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
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