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Managing Information in Healthcare: Concepts and Cases

AORN Journal, Dec, 2004 by Cecil King

Managing Information in Healthcare: Concepts and Cases John Abbott Worthley 2000, 315 pp $42 hardcover

Information management is the effective, efficient, organization-wide planning, directing, and control of information within an integrated technology system. This book explains how information systems affect both patients and end users and presents strategies for managing health care information. The book's format is a combination of commentary, case studies, and articles reprinted from management and information technology literature.

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Upper-level managers (eg, directors, administrators) and those involved in selecting and planning for the purchase and integration of information systems will benefit most from this book. The book is extremely conceptual in its discussion. The author makes an excellent argument for the need to include a chief information officer at the administrative level of all health care organizations today. The chapters 1 found most useful were about managing organizational impact, user resistance, and maintaining security and privacy of information.

A major limitation of the book is that it was published in 2000 and, therefore, lacks a complete discussion of current Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards concerning privacy, security, and confidentiality issues in information management.

The chapter on social impact of information management within organization alludes to the inherent ethical issues that arise, but it falls short of adequately discussing what the ethical issues are and providing strategies for resolving them. Health care and information system administrators may find it more beneficial to use particular chapters as references than to read the book as a whole. Although the discussion and use of case studies are intellectually stimulating, the book lacks explications of actual information management skills.

This book is available from Health Administration Press, One N Franklin St, Chicago, IL 60606.

CECIL KING

RN, MS, CNOR

PERIOPERATIVE CLINICAL

NURSE SPECIALIST

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

MEDICAL CENTER

SEATTLE, WASH

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Managing Information in Healthcare: Concepts and Cases

AORN Journal, Dec, 2004 by Cecil King

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