The Strategic Application Of Information Technology In Health Care Organizations, Third Edition

"Thoroughly revised and updated, this book offers a comprehensive resource for understanding information technology (IT) strategic planning and implementation within healthcare institutions. Filled with illustrations and case studies, the book is written for leaders and high-level managers in healthcare organizations. New to this edition are updated concepts and practices, more illustrative examples of strategy as well as updated industry data and technology examples. The book also contains news chapterson IT asset and IT-centric organizational attributes and value and offers learning objectives, key terms, and discussions questions in each chapter."--Provided by publisher.

John Glaser, PhD, is chief executive officer of the Health Systems Business Unit at Siemens and is a board member of the National eHealth Collaborative and the eHealth Initiative (eHI). Dr. Glaser was previously vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and also served as vice president of information systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Glaser was the founding chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Claudia Salzberg, MS, is a researcher and analyst in the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice and the Division of General Medicine of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Currently she participates in research focused on analyzing the impact of health information technology on healthcare overall, and in particular patient safety, and in addition the impact of health policy approaches on these domains.