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This book focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. It provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. Inspired by a Stanford University training program, it fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine. It meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. Completely revised and expanded, this work includes several new chapters filled with brand new material.
Increasingly more computer applications are becoming available to assist mental health clinicians and administrators in patient evaluation and treatment and mental health management, education, and research. Topics covered include: automated assessment procedures; MR-E (The Mental Retardation Expert); computerized assessment system for psychotherapy evaluation and research; computer assisted therapy of stress related conditions; computerized patient evaluation in a clinical setting; computerized treatment planning; the VA national mental health database; networks; managed care; DSM-IV diagnosis; quality management; cost control; knowledge coupling; telemedicine; the clinical library assistant; and monitoring independent service providers.
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Ready access to computer-stored med of subject matter and requiring varying Ever since the early 1960s, the medical ical records. Expert assistance in di levels of technical expertise. A typical world has awaited the promise of com agnosis and treatment selection will be issue might contain a review of an office puterization. Many of us were fasci as close as the nearest telephone, which practice management system-of in nated by the efforts of the pioneers: will provide an immediate link to the terest to the physician, nurse, and office Homer Warner's computerized diag office computer. practice manager. Next to it might be nosis system, Octo Barnett's medical found a detailed article about a...
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