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Information Technology for the Health Professions
ISBN: 9780130831996 | 0130831999
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000
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For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Computers in Health Technologies. This comprehensive survey of the interconnections of IT and health care is the only up-to-date text that teaches computer literacy AND introduces students to the uses of information technology in health care and its delivery. It familiarizes students with the basic vocabulary and concepts necessary in computer literacyincluding discussions of hardware and software, communications and networking, and ethical issues and privacy concerns introduced by the pervasiveness of computers in society. In addition, it discusses how IT is transforming every aspect of health care and its deliveryfrom administrative applications (such as the electronic medical record), to clinical systems involved in direct patient care, to special-purpose applications (such as simulation software used in the education of health care professionals). Section I provides a general introduction to computer literacy and information technologyat a level appropriate for health care students. Section II examines the impact of Information Technology on health carespecifically in the fields of radiology, telemedicine, surgery, medical devices, pharmacy, and informational resources.
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