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Explaining each aspect of the Internet in a straightforward way, this text gives practical advice on how the Internet can aid doctors, nurses and managers in their daily work. With information for every level of understanding, this second edition reflects changes in the fast-moving field.
Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK. It comprises a collection of key essays from eminent contributors on the innovative use and development of information in health care.
The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years. This book explains to ordinary clinicians why they should be bothered with IT, and what their responsibilities are in making it work. This book provides an enlightening and reassuring read that dispels ignorance and suspicion. The user friendly style is helpful, and friendly panels with tips, warnings, reflective pauses and key points highlight important details. It is also suitable for use as a student textbook. The Clinician's Guide to Surviving I.T. is a must for every doctor, nurse and midwife in the NHS.
An examination of the range of sources of official statistics relevant to healthcare, and the benefits and potential pitfalls of using them in research and in everyday clinical work. It highlights the issues that need to be considered when accessing and using data, and shows how the reader can transform data from being on a system to something that is of practical use. The contributors include John Charlton, Steve Price, Sheila Anderson, Gillian Matthews and Colin Cryer.
Care pathways are being developed throughout the health service to track the progress of patients through the system and this guide looks at the potential of IT systems to help organizations and individuals use care pathways to improve the quality and effectiveness of care.
This text identifies the principal sources of information in healthcare and analyses information use in relation to organisational culture. It also explains developments for those with no prior specialist knowledge and gives numerous practical examples.
Contents: Benefits and burdens of the information age; Questioning and searching; Mapping; Mental health; Child health; Primary care; Care of the elderly; NHS Online? Coming to a screen near you!
Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines.
Book is unique in being written for people who want to be able to make sense of published studies, or embark on their own studies, without getting bogged down by the details of how to use specific methods.