Healthcare Information Systems to Assess Influenza Outbreaks

Healthcare information systems outsourcing

Information systems (IS) outsourcing is a major decision for health care organizations. Analysis of outsourcing costs and benefits have to be made for the departmental or function-specific application of each system. Limited empirical studies have examined healthcare information managers preferences for IS outsourcing. In this paper we report findings from a national survey of more than 16,000 ...

Engineering Effective Responses to Influenza Outbreaks

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Healthcare Information Systems (HCIS) Curriculum

a framework for integrating distributed healthcare information systems

in the last two decades, the trend in healthcare information technology has been towards digital and multimedia concepts. the next generation of healthcare information systems will consist of a vast network of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed imaging scanners, hospital information systems (his), medical information from clinical departments such as radiology information systems (ris), ...

Methods to assess the safety of health information systems.

Research has shown that the introduction of health information systems (HISs) can reduce the likelihood of medical errors. However, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if it is not designed or implemented properly, a HIS can actually cause or induce health professionals to make medical errors (i.e., technology-induced errors). In order to maximize the benefits of HISs while d...